WILD AT HEART

ABOUT THE EVENT: 7:00pm | WILD AT HEART 9:04pm | Q&A with author and screenwriter Barry Gifford 9:34pm | NELSON ALGREN LIVE Start times are approximate. There will be brief (approximately 5-10 minute) intermissions between films. Ticket includes entry to both films. ABOUT THE FILMS: WILD AT HEART, 1990, Dir. David Lynch, 124 Mins, Universal, USA Blending elements of THE WIZARD OF OZ and CINDERELLA with a catalog of film noir subplots, director David Lynch leads us on an intoxicating, bizarrely perverse Southwestern odyssey with romantic ex-con and Elvis fan Sailor (Nicolas Cage) and his teen girlfriend Lula (Laura Dern) as they flee psycho matriarch Diane Ladd (Dern’s real-life mom). With an unforgettable Willem Dafoe as demonic slimeball Bobby Peru. Also starring Harry Dean Stanton and Isabella Rossellini. Based on the novel by Barry Gifford. FORMAT: DCP NELSON ALGREN LIVE, 2016, Dir. Oscar Bucher, 107 Mins, USA One of the most neglected American writers and also one of the best loved, novelist Nelson Algren wrote about the dark underbelly of post-war America before it was ever fashionable to do so. Best known for the novel The Man with the Golden Arm , Algren was a bard of the down-and-outer, writing about Chicago—his Chicago—boldly depicting the life of the city’s drunks, pimps, prostitutes, drug addicts, corrupt politicians, and hoodlums. On what would have been his 100th birthday, a group of actors and writers gathered at the acclaimed Steppenwolf Theater to premiere NELSON ALGREN LIVE—an onstage reading and celebration of Algren’s life and work in his own words. Barry Gifford seamlessly steps into Algren’s voice like he’s putting on an old coat, while Willem Dafoe’s stunning performance of a punch-drunk prize fighter ignites a newly unearthed story. FORMAT: DCP