Screening this week in L.A.: Beyond Fest storms in with another year of must-sees, a documentary on producer Jeremy Thomas, 'Ishtar,' 'Fair Play' and more.
the unfair reputation as an artistic failure following the brutal coverage of its production and initial underperformance at the box office. The film can now be seen as a marvel of comedic structure and performance, satirical sensibility, political savagery, emotional intensity and all-around madcapness. That May, now 91, has never directed a narrative film since is the only real lingering failure from the film’s aftermath.
Hoffman and Beatty star as Chuck Clarke and Lyle Rogers, two aspiring songwriters and performers in New York City who take a booking in Morocco and find themselves inadvertently caught up in political intrigue in the neighboring country of Ishtar, becoming unwitting pawns of the CIA. As the lyric goes to one of Chuck and Lyle’s songs — actually written by master tunesmith Paul Williams — “Telling the truth can be dangerous business, honest and popular don’t go hand in hand.
“I hope that this film starts conversations,” she added. “I hope it starts debates. And it would be great if people are fighting about this movie in the parking lot. I’m not here to make safe movies. I’m here to stir the pot. And I’m interested in why people are angry about it, why people get upset about it.”
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