Larry Karaszewski Presents: Double Feature: LENNY, SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE, March 7, 2013

Thursday, March 7 – 7:30 PM
Larry Karaszewski Presents: Double Feature: LENNY, 1974, Park Circus/MGM, 111 min. Dustin Hoffman plays legendary stand-up comic Lenny Bruce in director Bob Fosse's ambitious biopic. Fosse, aided by gorgeous black-and-white camerawork by Bruce Surtees, provides an impressionistic portrait of a comedian as troubled as he was brilliant and controversial, with standout performances by Hoffman and Valerie Perrine as Lenny's wife, Honey Harlowe. {35mm}
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE, 1972, Universal, 104 min. Director George Roy Hill and screenwriter Stephen Geller (TV’s "Mission: Impossible") adapt Kurt Vonnegut’s sardonic exploration of the timeless madness of human existence, from wartime atrocity to middle-class mediocrity to interplanetary euphoria. Middle-aged optometrist Billy Pilgrim (Michael Sacks) simultaneously exists in the past as a young POW in a German prison camp and in the far future as an elderly resident in a zoo on the planet Tralfamadore (where he is memorably pampered by Valerie Perrine as the libidinous starlet Montana Wildhack). Discussion between films with actress Valerie Perrine, moderated by Larry Karaszewski. {35mm}
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvlZtlBfCi0

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