Time & Location
26 Jul 2024, 20:40 – 27 Jul 2024, 00:40
Watershed, Bristol, 1 Canon's Rd, Bristol BS1 5TX, UK
About the Event
A rare chance to experience this classic of New Hollywood, which pierces straight to the heart of American darkness, on 35mm on its 50th anniversary.
Faye Dunaway and Jack Nicholson smoulder against the backdrop of late 1930s Los Angeles, depicted as a hotbed of corruption in a narrative firmly grounded in historical reality. Robert Towne was a central screenwriter at the heart of the New Hollywood’s sharp socially-alert scripts. He was tuned into the dramatic cultural changes going on in America and could pull together tightly plotted cinematic stories with authentic dialogue.
Credited or uncredited, Towne was involved in most of the groundbreaking films of the era such as The Last Detail, The Parallax View and Shampoo. His Oscar®-winning script for Chinatown was a more personal project born of his love of 1930s LA architecture and interest in the history of the city, which he channelled through the classic pulp…