New 4K Restoration of Frank Perry’s 1972 classic based on Joan Didion’s 1970 novel. Burned-out B-movie actress Maria (Tuesday Weld), depressed and frustrated with her loveless marriage to an ambitious film director, numbs herself with drugs and sex with strangers. Only her friendship with a sensitive gay movie producer, B.Z. (Anthony Perkins), offers a semblance of solace. But even that relationship proves to be fleeting amidst the empty decadence of Hollywood.
After the film, join New York Times Film Critic Alissa Wilkinson for a Q&A about her new book We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine. With bylines spanning six decades, Joan Didion’s legacy towers over the landscape of American letters. Although she launched her career in New York City, she soon struck out for Los Angeles, where the nation’s dreams were manufactured—and every aspect of her work reflected what she saw there, whether she was writing on politics, society, or herself.
Copies of Alissa’s new book will be available for sale after the screening courtesy of The Village Bookstore.
