Every Tuesday night during the months of March and April, a film starring John Travolta is followed by one starring Nicolas Cage, culminating on May 3 with “Face/Off,” at the Somerville Theatre.
, 108-year-old movie palace in Davis Square. Every Tuesday night during the months of March and April, a film starring John Travolta is followed by one starring Nicolas Cage, culminating on May 3 with “Face/Off,” director John Woo’s delirious 1997 action extravaganza in which the actors literally wear each other’s faces for most of the running time, doing spot-on impersonations of one another in a madcap, meta-movie hall of mirrors and balletic gunplay.
John Travolta and Karen Gorney dance in a nightclub scene to disco music in the 1977 release of "Saturday Night Fever." Travolta was a sex symbol, but not in the aloof, standoffish manner of say, Richard Gere but in a clumsier, more endearing fashion. The tension and excitement were in how his uncouth characters, so often lacking in basic table manners, could suddenly move with such exquisite grace, suggesting the possibility perhaps that he could be housebroken.
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