Screening this week in L.A.: 'Oldboy' at 20, a Cormac McCarthy tribute with 'The Counselor,' two by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina, and more
Directed by Ridley Scott, the movie was the first original screenplay by the celebrated author to be produced. It was also a notorious flop, despite a cast that included Michael Fassbender, Cameron Diaz, Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt.
Fassbender plays a slick Texas lawyer who gets in way over his head when he tries to profit from a drug deal. Everyone he meets tries to talk him out of it, but he thinks he knows better and the results are disastrous in ways he could never imagine. The film has a bold visual style, an air of existential dread and a flair for the outrageous, such as the perversely memorable scene in which Diaz seduces Bardem by writhing on the windshield of a Ferrari.
The Cinematheque will be showing the theatrical cut, which is a bit more discombobulated, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing considering that one of the film’s strengths in both versions is how destabilizing it is to a viewer, plunging one headlong into a pitiless universe. Though the film has had its ups and downs, as Ridley Scott said on the DVD commentary, “It’s nice after all that effort to think somebody likes it.”Joel and Ethan Coen’s Oscar-winning adaptation of McCarthy’s novel of the same name that also features Bardem — with a wild hairstyle.
The series opens with a pair of documentaries: “No Ordinary Man,” about trans jazz musician Billy Tipton; and “Chavela,” about the lesbian Mexican singer Chavela Vargas. Other titles in the program include the documentary “Southern Comfort,” Cary Cronenwett’s “Maggots and Men,” and Dee Rees’ “Pariah.
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