Late-night disco, opera at The Met, the evolving folk scene in 1960s Greenwich Village, and betrayal in the downtown jazz clubs – this month’s classic season celebrates four Manhattan movies where music is more than a soundtrack.
Starting with Whit Stillman’s wry comedy-of-manners The Last Days of Disco (starring Chloë Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale) and culminating in Alexander Mackendrick’s acerbic, jazz-inflected Hollywood noir Sweet Smell of Success, the season captures a few of The City’s distinct musical eras.
Our lineup also includes both the extended and theatrical versions of Kenneth Lonergan’s masterful character study Margaret (starring Anna Paquin), and as a perfect companion piece to the new Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis, a soulful journey through Greenwich Village’s folk music revival during the early 1960s.
FULL LISTINGS
The Last Days of Disco (1998)
Sunday 26 January 2.30pm
Wednesday 29 January 6pm
Margaret (2011)
Sunday 2 February 2pm (Extended Cut)
Monday 3 February 5.45pm (Theatrical Cut)
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
Sunday 9 February 3pm
Monday 10 February 6pm
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Sunday 16 February 2pm
Monday 17 February 6.15pm
Use the film links underneath to find out more information and to book your tickets.
Two college graduates hit the late night disco scene in 1980s Manhattan on the hunt for romance and adventure. Whit Stillman’s wry comedy-of-manners stars Chloë Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale at the height of their hipness.
A New York high school student becomes convinced that she unintentionally played a part in a tragic traffic accident that claimed a woman’s life in Kenneth Lonergan’s ambitious character study, now hailed as one of the finest films of the 21st century.
With no winter coat, no steady home, and a shrinking circle of allies, a folk singer in 1960s Greenwich Village finds himself cut adrift and left behind in the Coen Brothers’ melancholy exploration of the conflict between artistic idealism and commercial success.
Classic noir starring Burt Lancaster as a Manhattan reporter who hires a ruthless press agent (Tony Curtis) to tarnish the reputation of a jazz musician who is dating his sister – one of the sharpest films of Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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