Flashdance
Director: Adrian Lyne
1983 / 95min / 4K DCP
Alex (Jennifer Beals), an 18-year-old working-class Pittsburgher, juggles shifts welding at a steel mill and dancing at a neighborhood watering hole, but she has her sights set on finer things, namely a career in classical ballet. The razzle-dazzle blockbuster that began the decade-long box-office dominion of “high-concept” producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, set to an irresistibly toe-tapping Giorgio Moroder score.
“Adrian Lyne is to blame for the amount of haze we pumped into every shot of Maddie’s Secret, whether it was narratively motivated or not. There is a real fantasy of clutter in his production design, shafts of golden light pump through every window. To me, he is the king of sweat and dust. He brings a real refinement to the crowd-pleasing psychosexual melodrama. I went to a screening of Flashdance with the cinematographer, production designer, and composer of Maddie’s Secret before we shot the movie, and we were shocked and humbled by how much it seemed to embody every aesthetic principle we had arrived at together. A gauzy, urban fairytale with a plucky ingénue and a disco heart.” —John Early
Distributor: Paramount
Introduction by Max Lakner, cinematographer of Maddie's Secret on Saturday, May 30th and Saturday, June 6th
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