The Man Who Wasn't There

  • Wednesday, Jun 17

  • Thursday, Jun 18

Showtimes updated on Tuesday evenings
Legend
OCOpen Captioned
Special Content
35mm
SFSensory Friendly
Cinema Studies

The Man Who Wasn't There

Directed by Ethan and Joel Coen (No Country For Old Men) and gorgeously shot by cinematographer Roger Deakins (1917), this neo-noir tale of murder, crime, and punishment centers on Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thorton), a laconic, chain-smoking barber in a small California town. Dissatisfied with his life and aware of his wife Doris’ (Frances McDormand) infidelity, Crane endeavors to blackmail his wife’s boss and lover Big Dave Brewster (James Gandolfini), only for his plan to go terribly wrong.

In celebration of the JBFC’s 25th Anniversary, these screenings will feature our original 2001 pricing.

"The most engrossingly eccentric American movie of the year."
Glenn Kenny, Premiere Magazine
"The Coens have resurrected a hardscrabble California of wooden porches and gravel driveways, of rolling, oak-wreathed hills and one-lane roads, and of a restless people whose meager dreams are wrecked the moment money, sex or a bottle get in the way. Never has the past seemed so familiar."
Steve Mikulan, L.A. Weekly

This film is part of the Time Capsule 2001 series.



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