Shoot The Moon

Director: Alan Parker

1982 / 124min / DCP

The end of a marriage—and its effects on children—has rarely been explored with as much sensitivity and lacerating emotionality as it is in Parker’s film from a razor-sharp screenplay by Bo Goldman (“You look pretty” / “You seem surprised”), starring Albert Finney and Diane Keaton as an unhappily disintegrating couple living in a restored farmhouse in Marin County, California, and Viveka Davis, Dana Hill, Tracey Gold, and Tina Yothers as their four daughters. “There isn’t a scene in… Shoot the Moon that I think rings false… It touches on many things without seeming to address them directly. It’s like a person with many sides.” —Pauline Kael, The New Yorker

The end of a marriage—and its effects on children—has rarely been explored with as much sensitivity and lacerating emotionality as it is in Parker’s film from a razor-sharp screenplay by Bo Goldman (“You look pretty” / “You seem surprised”), starring Albert Finney and Diane Keaton as an unhappily disintegrating couple living in a restored farmhouse in Marin County, California, and Viveka Davis, Dana Hill, Tracey Gold, and Tina Yothers as their four daughters. “There isn’t a scene in… Shoot the Moon that I think rings false… It touches on many things without seeming to address them directly. It’s like a person with many sides.” —Pauline Kael, The New Yorker

Introduction from filmmaker Azazel Jacobs on Sunday, October 27th