Jeff Wall Presents Fat City
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Director: John Huston, John Houston
1972 / 100min / DCP
Adapting Leonard Gardner’s 1969 boxing novel of the same name, describing the dreams and desperate, dilatory delusions that proliferate at the lower rungs of the Sweet Science, onetime California lightweight hopeful—and longtime Hollywood black sheep—Huston dug deep into his bruised gut and pulled out this rueful masterpiece, one of the finest boxing films ever made, concerning a dipso has-been (Stacy Keach) and his shoddy mentorship of a never-will-be (Jeff Bridges).
“Made more than 50 years ago by Huston, Fat City could also be thought of evolving from Neorealism, but in an American context, and in the hands of major Hollywood figures. Conrad Hall’s work here is one of the best examples of 1970s cinematography, that ‘old school’ period before any new technologies made their appearance.” —Jeff Wall
Pre-screening presentation by artist Jeff Wall on Saturday, November 9th
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