In Martin Scorsese’s absurdist black comedy and downtown cult favorite, Griffin Dunne plays Paul Hackett, a mild-mannered computer entry worker who sets out for a night in New York’s Soho for what seems to be a promising date. But when the date falls apart, a moneyless Paul inadvertently stumbles into one anxiety-inducing mishap after another, encountering an ensemble of bizarre and often antagonistic strangers along the way. As the night seems to never end, the increasingly paranoid Paul does everything he can to try to get back home to his upper-east side apartment with his life—and mind—intact. Never has Dunne’s Buster Keaton-esque everyman skills been put to better effect—he’s all alarmed eyebrows, akimbo limns, and double-takes for days—and no film has better captured the city that never sleeps at a moment when it most exemplified that reputation.
Tickets (9/15): $20 (members), $25 (nonmembers)
Tickets (9/17): $11 (members), $16 (nonmembers)
