Face/Off

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Face/Off

Presented on 35mm

Join Zach Schonfeld, author of How Coppola Became Cage, for a post-screening conversation about the film and his new book.

Obsessed with bringing terrorist Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage) to justice, FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) tracks down Troy, who has boarded a plane in Los Angeles. After the plane crashes and Troy is severely injured—possibly dead—Archer undergoes surgery to remove his face and replace it with Troy’s. As Archer tries to use his disguise to elicit information about a bomb from Troy’s brother, Troy awakes from a coma and forces the doctor who performed the surgery to give him Archer’s face.

"Scenes of high-voltage action vie with wild hilarity as two guys with guns switch faces and identities."
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"Watching John Travolta and Nicolas Cage square off and literally exchange roles brings back the old-fashioned pleasure of astutely judged movie star pairings in a major way."
Todd McCarthy, Variety

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Q&A with Zach Schonfeld
Tuesday, Nov. 28 2023, 7:00
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  • Zach Schonfeld is a freelance writer, journalist, and critic based in New York. He writes about culture for Pitchfork, Vulture, Spin Magazine, and many other publications. He was formerly a senior writer for Newsweek, where he was on staff for five years. His first book, Ghetto: Misfortune’s Wealth, was published in 2020 as part of the 33 1/3 series. How Coppola Became Cage is his second book. He grew up in Northern Westchester and enjoyed many formative moviegoing experiences at the Jacob Burns Film Center.
  • In How Coppola Became Cage, author Zach Schonfeld traces Cage's rise through the world of independent cinema and chronicles the stories behind his career-making early performances, from the method masochism of Birdy to the operatic torment of Moonstruck and abrasive expressionism of Vampire's Kiss, culminating with the astonishing pathos of Leaving Las Vegas. Drawing on more than 100 new interviews with Cage's key collaborators -- including David Lynch, Martha Coolidge, John Patrick Shanley, and Mike Figgis -- How Coppola Became Cage offers a revealing portrait of Cage's wildly intense devotion to his performances behind the scenes and his creative self-discovery as he drew on influences as far-flung as silent cinema and German Expressionism. Brimming with previously untold stories and insights, How Coppola Became Cage both revels in and demystifies Cage's onscreen eccentricities. No other modern actor has explored such profound creative extremes while bending the boundaries of good taste. Here is the origin story of an actor who truly is wild at heart and weird on top.
Copies of How Coppola Became Cage will be available for purchase after the screening, courtesy of The Village Bookstore.


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