Session #396 - Being There

Name: Session #396 - Being There
Start: 2024-10-02T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-02T21:25:00-04:00
Location: Alamo Drafthouse DC Area (Ashburn)

Schedule

Wed Oct 02 2024 at 07:00 pm to 09:25 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Alamo Drafthouse DC Area (Ashburn) | Ashburn, VA

Trailer:

Tickets: https://drafthouse.com/northern-virginia/event/film-club-being-there
PETER SELLERS STARS IN HAL ASHBY'S BRILLIANT (AND TIMELY) SATIRE
In one of his most finely tuned performances, Peter Sellers plays the pure-hearted, childlike Chance, a gardener who is forced into the wilds of Washington, D.C., when his wealthy guardian dies. Shocked to discover that the real world doesn’t respond to the click of a remote, Chance stumbles into celebrity after being taken under the wing of a tycoon (Melvyn Douglas, in an Oscar-winning performance), who mistakes his protégé’s horticultural mumblings for sagacious pronouncements on life and politics, and whose wife (Shirley MacLaine) targets Chance as the object of her desire.
Adapted from a novel by Jerzy Kosinski, this satire, both deeply melancholy and hilarious, is the culmination of Hal Ashby’s remarkable string of films in the 1970s, and a carefully modulated examination of the ideals, anxieties, and media-fueled delusions that shaped American culture during that decade.