The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents BEING THERE
Schedule
Thu Sep 19 2024 at 07:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, United States, Tennessee 38104 | Memphis, TN
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Crosstown Arts presents Being There in Crosstown Theater. Crosstown Theater
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Tickets: $5 at the door
Doors at 6:30 pm | Film begins at 7:00 pm (sharp!)
Hal Ashby / 1979 / 130 minutes / Rated PG
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.
The Crosstown Arts Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground, and documentary features.
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Where is it happening?
1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, United States, Tennessee 38104Event Location & Nearby Stays:
