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Following a series of mostly brainless early ’80s sex comedies and first-love dramas, Risky Business surprised with its sexual sophistication and sharp commentary on the growing capitalist mania of the Reagan era. Tom Cruise offers a pure, embryonic dose of the singular charms that would define a decade.
“Muppet Babies Take MoMI presented by Bank of America” offers fun activities for families on June 21 and 22! Newly restored puppets, including three Muppet Babies, will be on view during a weekend of family-friendly Open Worlds activities.
Amidst the jazz scene in 1960s Paris, two musicians—a trombonist and aspiring composer (Paul Newman) and a saxophonist (Sidney Poitier)—dream of success as they hone their craft in nightclubs. The June 19 screening followed by a conversation with Louis Armstrong House Museum Historian Hyland Harris about Armstrong’s film performances, featuring a presentation of archival materials. Screening on 35mm.
See the beloved 1984 comedy musical directed by Frank Oz, introduced by Craig Shemin, president of the Jim Henson Legacy, featuring special behind-the-scenes footage!
Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of S. E. Hinton’s epochal young adult novel, set in 1960s Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a 1980s teen classic, breathtakingly acted by an astute cast of up-and-comers (including Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, and a young Tom Cruise) and directed with an unmistakable humanity. Screens 6/21 and 6/22 on 35mm.
See the beloved 1984 comedy musical directed by Frank Oz, introduced by Craig Shemin, president of the Jim Henson Legacy, featuring special behind-the-scenes footage!
Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of S. E. Hinton’s epochal young adult novel, set in 1960s Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a 1980s teen classic, breathtakingly acted by an astute cast of up-and-comers (including Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, and a young Tom Cruise) and directed with an unmistakable humanity. Screens 6/21 and 6/22 on 35mm.
Vincente Minnelli’s 1956 melodrama about a mild-mannered boarding school student mercilessly mistreated for possible homosexuality created a storm of controversy. Followed by a discussion with MoMI’s Senior Curator of Film Michael Koresky, and a signing of his new book Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness.
Embeth Davidtz makes an astonishing debut as director and screenwriter in her vividly textured and complex adaptation of Alexandra Fuller’s memoir about growing up in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) during the race and class conflicts during the war for independence that erupted in 1980. Followed by a Q&A with Davidtz.
In his Academy Award-winning performance in Martin Scorsese's film, Paul Newman reprises his role as Fast Eddie Felson, 25 years later and retired, who takes a brash young talent, played by an endearingly cocky Cruise, under his wing. Screens on 6/27 and 6/28.
Join local studio The Yoga Room for a free class in the beautiful MoMI Courtyard! Museum doors will open at 10:30 a.m. for check-in, and the class will begin at 11:00 a.m. Stick around after the class to enjoy a treat from the MoMI cafe, or visit the Museum galleries.
Denis Villeneuve’s visually astounding sequel, starring Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford, deepens and extends the original film’s philosophical inquiries and innovations. See it and hear the incredible sound design 6/28 as part of our Dolby Atmos Summer Saturdays.
Filmed in largely queer spaces and in his psychotic, almost cinéma vérité style, this manic melodrama from Andy Milligan is notable for showcasing a more caring, even sweet side of the director, a significant departure for the typically misanthropic and ghastly grindhouse guru.
In his Academy Award-winning performance in Martin Scorsese's film, Paul Newman reprises his role as Fast Eddie Felson, 25 years later and retired, who takes a brash young talent, played by an endearingly cocky Cruise, under his wing. Screens on 6/27 and 6/28.
Get ready for a night unlike any other! If you've ever wanted to party in the MoMI Courtyard and lobby after everyone else has gone home, now's your chance! Silent Disco takes over MoMI on 6/28 (open to ages 21+).
In this absurdly entertaining melodrama, Tom Cruise plays a business student turned strutting bartender whose formidable pouring skills prove to be no match for hard doses of reality after the mixologist gets mixed up in the unresolved life of his cynical bartender mentor (Bryan Brown), while also falling hard for Elisabeth Shue.
James Cameron’s generation-defining blockbuster screens on July 5 for the holiday weekend as part of our MoMI Loves series.
Tom Cruise gives an overwhelming dramatic performance in Oliver Stone’s mesmerizing biopic of Vietnam veteran and antiwar activist Ron Kovic. This intelligent and emotionally intense epic won Stone his second Best Director Oscar.
Rob Reiner’s fiery and compelling adaptation of Aaron Sorkin’s play about a green JAG Corps lawyer assigned to a troubling court martial case allows Cruise to sink his teeth into an array of courtroom dramatics.
Dustin Hoffman won an Academy Award for his portrayal of severely autistic Raymond Babbitt, but Tom Cruise is every bit his equal as his little brother Charlie. Barry Levinson’s tale of fraternal love struck a major nerve in 1988, grossing nearly 200 million dollars and winning Best Picture.
Tom Cruise gives an overwhelming dramatic performance in Oliver Stone’s mesmerizing biopic of Vietnam veteran and antiwar activist Ron Kovic. This intelligent and emotionally intense epic won Stone his second Best Director Oscar.
This free event will feature live salsa beats by DJ Cheeky Star, professional dance lessons, and an evening filled with Latin culture, rhythm, and community spirit.
Cameron Crowe’s endlessly quotable blockbuster rom com gave Tom Cruise a rare showcase for his considerable skills as a romantic hero. Screens 7/11 and 7/13.
This free Open Worlds: Science event on 7/12 includes short films, an urban soil health talk with Dr. Perl Engdorf, a mobile soil testing lab, a honey tasting and demo, and Astoria Food Pantry seed giveaway, and more! Learn about all the activities!
Be immersed in the out-of-doors, and feel inspired to touch grass in this screening of recent, garden-centric short documentaries.
One of the most narratively innovative and purely enjoyable action movies of the twenty-first century so far, Doug Liman’s Edge of Tomorrow is the Groundhog Day of sci-fi spectacle. Starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt.
See a program of silent cartoons from the pioneering animation studio presented with live musical accompaniment and followed by a discussion with contemporary animators Aaron Augenblick, Stephen DeStefano, Mark Newgarden, and J. J. Sedelmaier about Fleischer Studios' enduring legacy.
Tom Cruise made an unexpected and satisfying career pivot by taking the sought-after role of the vampire Lestat, made famous in Anne Rice’s bestseller, wearing blond locks and pining after handsome housemate Louis (Brad Pitt). Screening on 35mm July 12 & 13.
John Grisham’s best-selling novel about an idealistic young lawyer (Tom Cruise) fresh out of Harvard Law School who gets embroiled in the criminal machinations of a boutique law firm in Memphis, gets a full-bodied, gripping cinematic treatment from Sydney Pollack.
Tom Cruise made an unexpected and satisfying career pivot by taking the sought-after role of the vampire Lestat, made famous in Anne Rice’s bestseller, wearing blond locks and pining after handsome housemate Louis (Brad Pitt). Screening on 35mm July 12 & 13.
Cameron Crowe’s endlessly quotable blockbuster rom com gave Tom Cruise a rare showcase for his considerable skills as a romantic hero. Screens 7/11 and 7/13.
Filmed across São Paulo, Salvador, and Rio de Janeiro, the documentary traces the spiritual and artistic synergy between guitarist Baden Powell and poet-lyricist Vinícius de Moraes, capturing the essence of a collaboration that forever changed the country's musical landscape. Co-presented by Cinema Tropical and Brasil Summerfest and introduced by Brazilian music expert DJ Greg Caz.
Ari Aster joins us for a preview screening of his exhilarating new film set in a small New Mexico town at the inflection point of May 2020; starring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal.
As the New York Mets game director for SNY, John DeMarsico is receiving widely growing acclaim for the highly creative and always entertaining broadcasts he oversees on an almost daily basis during the baseball season. We are thrilled to welcome DeMarsico back to MoMI for a third annual visit—in what has become one of the Museum’s most popular and eagerly awaited programs.
This free event will feature live salsa beats by DJ Cheeky Star, professional dance lessons, and an evening filled with Latin culture, rhythm, and community spirit.
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman are unforgettable in the final masterpiece by Stanley Kubrick, now rightly recognized as one of the great works of modern cinema—as mysterious and perfectly unsettled as ever. See it as part of Tom Cruise, Above and Beyond, in 35mm.
The dazzling Oscar-winner for Best Animated Feature introduces Miles Morales, a 13-year-old living in Brooklyn, hanging out with friends. What they don’t know is that he is training to be the new Spider-Man.
In this presentation of some of Henson's rarest works. Jim Henson Legacy President Craig Shemin will screen a collection of commercials, industrials, short films, early guest appearances, and other neat stuff on 7/19.
Doris Wishman was one of the most prolific women filmmakers in the history of America cinema, exploitation or otherwise. These two selections show her flair for creating surrealist works, from bleak themes to radical editing.
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman are unforgettable in the final masterpiece by Stanley Kubrick, now rightly recognized as one of the great works of modern cinema—as mysterious and perfectly unsettled as ever. See it as part of Tom Cruise, Above and Beyond, in 35mm.
Join us for Laylat Hob (A Night of Love)! Organized by MoMI Neighborhood Council member Daleelah Saleh, this event celebrates Arab culture across mediums and diasporas, featuring work by New York–based SWANA (Southwest Asia and North Africa) artists; a talk about storytelling as representation and preservation with Laith Zuaiter, Zina Louhaichy, and Ahmad Al-Wahidi; henna; and music by DJ Fatin remixing classics and modern hits.
Set in a future where U.S. citizens can be arrested for crimes they have not yet committed, Spielberg's film raises questions of guilt and innocence that seem eerily prescient. Screens 7/25 and 7/27 on 35mm.
Steven Spielberg’s masterful update of the epochal 1957 stage musical is an explosion of color, movement, balleticism, and unabashed emotion, with a brilliant, meticulously updated script by Tony Kushner, reconceived yet faithful to the show’s original story and essential power. Screens in Dolby Atmos on 7/26.
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
With a shock of white hair, Tom Cruise expertly inhabits one of his true unambiguously villainous characters in Michael Mann's slick action thriller. Screens 7/26 and 7/27.
The festival presents a curated program of narrative, animated, and experimental short films made by artists using unique processes to tell singular and engaging stories.
One of the first major American movies to explicitly reference the tragedies of 9/11 and a world undone by terrorism (and the American response to it), Spielberg's genuinely scary box office smash starring Tom Cruise is an astonishing memento mori.
One of the first major American movies to explicitly reference the tragedies of 9/11 and a world undone by terrorism (and the American response to it), Spielberg's genuinely scary box office smash starring Tom Cruise is an astonishing memento mori.
The Junk Dump Film Festival highlights emerging and underrepresented filmmakers working at the intersection of video art and storytelling, presenting a curated program of narrative, animated, and experimental short films made by artists using unique processes to tell singular and engaging stories.
Set in a future where U.S. citizens can be arrested for crimes they have not yet committed, Spielberg's film raises questions of guilt and innocence that seem eerily prescient. Screens 7/25 and 7/27 on 35mm.
Ragtag draws from more than 300 film noirs from the 1940s and 1950s to reveal the intoxicating dreamlike nature of the genre, and Desire draws from melodramas from around the world. Giuseppe Boccassini will appear in person for a conversation about his work, along with Tom Gunning via Zoom.
With a shock of white hair, Tom Cruise expertly inhabits one of his true unambiguously villainous characters in Michael Mann's slick action thriller. Screens 7/26 and 7/27.
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
Stanley Kubrick’s mysterious and profound sci-fi epic—“the ultimate trip”—is about nothing less than the beauty and the banality of civilization. Screens 7/31-8/24.
From the 1920s through the early 1940s, the Fleischer Studios' cartoon shorts were immensely successful, their popularity and cultural ubiquity rivaling those of Walt Disney. In 2022, spearheaded by Max Fleischer's granddaughter, Jane Fleischer Reid, a restoration effort began for the Fleischer Studios cartoons. This program includes Dizzy Dishes (1930), featuring the first appearance of a character who would come to be known as Betty Boop. Also on view are Somewhere in Dreamland (1936) and the classic Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936); both shot in Technicolor.
Join us for a night of discussions and dance featuring legendary DJ Rekha’s Bollywood Disco on Friday, August 1. Classic numbers, live performances, film favorites, and disco grooves are remixed into bangers that will keep you dancing the night away.
Stanley Kubrick’s mysterious and profound sci-fi epic—“the ultimate trip”—is about nothing less than the beauty and the banality of civilization. Screens 7/31-8/24.
Explore one of the world’s most important inventions through the lens of cinema. Cinematographer Mia Cioffi Henry joins us in a conversation about the art and science of cinematography and film lighting, with a focus on the impact of Black innovations in the field.
The action spectacle of summer ’22 took audiences by storm and surprise with its old-fashioned storytelling vigor and brilliantly orchestrated stunt work that demands to be seen on a big screen.
This portrait of African American inventor, engineer, poet, artist, and American Civil War veteran Lewis H. Latimer is told through the experiences of his wife, Mary, on the eve of Lewis's historic modification to the incandescent lightbulb. Following the screening, join us for an Artists’ Conversation with Let There Be Light director Jon K. Jones and lighting designer Quincy Drane who has created a cinema-inspired light installation on the Museum’s first floor, “Magic Hours.” Lewis Latimer House executive director Ran Yan will moderate the conversation.
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
After last summer's smash success, we're pleased to bring back the world's #1 cat video festival. Each year, across the country, local theaters partner with nearby cat-focused charities, animal welfare associations and shelters alike—a portion of ticket proceeds from every show goes directly to local cats in need.
A box-office smash and cultural touchstone of Reagan-era America, the original Top Gun was, and remains, an unapologetic turbo-engined Hollywood spectacle. 70mm print featuring a rare 6-track magnetic soundtrack!
Writer, director, and star Eva Victor—in an auspicious triple-threat debut—upends the way we usually tell stories of trauma in this unabashedly frank and transcendently funny portrait. Screening introduced by cinematographer Mia Cioffi Henry.
Stanley Kubrick’s mysterious and profound sci-fi epic—“the ultimate trip”—is about nothing less than the beauty and the banality of civilization. Screens 7/31-8/24.
A box-office smash and cultural touchstone of Reagan-era America, the original Top Gun was, and remains, an unapologetic turbo-engined Hollywood spectacle. 70mm print featuring a rare 6-track magnetic soundtrack!
After last summer's smash success, we're pleased to bring back the world's #1 cat video festival. Each year, across the country, local theaters partner with nearby cat-focused charities, animal welfare associations and shelters alike—a portion of ticket proceeds from every show goes directly to local cats in need.
The action spectacle of summer ’22 took audiences by storm and surprise with its old-fashioned storytelling vigor and brilliantly orchestrated stunt work that demands to be seen on a big screen.
Stanley Kubrick’s mysterious and profound sci-fi epic—“the ultimate trip”—is about nothing less than the beauty and the banality of civilization. Screens 7/31-8/24.
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
Tony Scott brings his virtuosic talent for hyper-real sound and image to the NASCAR stadium in this summer 1990 flashback from Simpson-Bruckheimer, which reapplies the Top Gun template to the world of auto racing with verve and style, casting Tom Cruise as a hotshot young racer.
This August, the Caribbean American Center of New York is teaming up with MoMI’s Neighborhood Council for a festive celebration of Caribbean culture, music, and cuisine.
After last summer's smash success, we're pleased to bring back the world's #1 cat video festival. Each year, across the country, local theaters partner with nearby cat-focused charities, animal welfare associations and shelters alike—a portion of ticket proceeds from every show goes directly to local cats in need.
One of this year’s most accomplished and wildly popular films, Ryan Coogler’s beautifully crafted, multilayered genre mashup traces a gripping, unpredictable story about Black folklore, cultural inheritance, the legacy of popular music, and, yes, vampires.
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
After last summer's smash success, we're pleased to bring back the world's #1 cat video festival. Each year, across the country, local theaters partner with nearby cat-focused charities, animal welfare associations and shelters alike—a portion of ticket proceeds from every show goes directly to local cats in need.
From acclaimed action filmmaker, stunt performer, and stunt coordinator David Leitch and Kelly McCormick’s 87North Productions—whose kinetic action films include See It Big: Stunts selections Atomic Blonde and The Fall Guy—Ilya Naishuller’s viscerally violent Nobody features Bob Odenkirk as family man Hutch Mansell. Amidst a barrage of fists, gunfire, and squealing tires, Hutch must save his wife and son from a dangerous adversary—and ensure that he will never be underestimated again.
With its humane, clear-eyed portrayal of alcohol addiction, dynamic soundtrack, and emotional star performances by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, this spectacular successor to the durable story screens with Dolby Atmos surround sound on 8/9.
After last summer's smash success, we're pleased to bring back the world's #1 cat video festival. Each year, across the country, local theaters partner with nearby cat-focused charities, animal welfare associations and shelters alike—a portion of ticket proceeds from every show goes directly to local cats in need.
Hollywood self-parodies are a dime a dozen, but Ben Stiller’s pleasingly tasteless takedown of the industry—from egomaniacal actors to grotesque producers to the clichéd big-budget products themselves—is a riotous pleasure throughout.
Stanley Kubrick’s mysterious and profound sci-fi epic—“the ultimate trip”—is about nothing less than the beauty and the banality of civilization. Screens 7/31-8/24.
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
Lars von Trier’s brilliant, polarizing drama starring Nicole Kidman subverts cinematic conventions about small-town American values. Screens 8/15 as part of Eddington City Limits.
The Safdies' electrifying crime thriller about Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler), a charismatic Diamond District jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score, features a brilliantly anxiety-provoking, multi-layered sound design.
One of this year’s most accomplished and wildly popular films, Ryan Coogler’s beautifully crafted, multilayered genre mashup traces a gripping, unpredictable story about Black folklore, cultural inheritance, the legacy of popular music, and, yes, vampires.
The peak of Altman’s prolific career was this panoramic view of American life circa 1975, set in the nation’s country-music capital, featuring terrific original songs and an unforgettable ending. With Ari Aster in person on 8/17.
Before they became the heroic, inseparable duo of the Mission: Impossible franchise, producer-star Tom Cruise and writer-director Christopher McQuarrie collaborated on this invigorating action thriller in which Cruise headlines as a taciturn, ex-U.S. Army major and Military Police Corps investigator.
Stanley Kubrick’s mysterious and profound sci-fi epic—“the ultimate trip”—is about nothing less than the beauty and the banality of civilization. Screens 7/31-8/24.
Director-writer Ethan Coen and writer-producer-editor Tricia Cooke’s latest collaboration, Honey Don't! is a dark comedy about a small-town private investigator named Honey O’Donahue (Margaret Qualley), who delves into a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church. Followed by a Q&A with Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke.
With the playfully unlikely casting of anti-heartthrob Gould as private eye Philip Marlowe, The Long Goodbye is both a satire of and an homage to the world of Raymond Chandler, a neo-noir classic that transplants the novelist’s languid vision of Los Angeles to the 1970s. Introduced by Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke.
Hitchcock's breathless, almost improbably entertaining suspense thriller is his ultimate “wrong man” movie, with Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill, an unassuming advertising executive on the run from a dastardly group of spies who have mistaken him for a government agent.
The yellow brick road has lost none of its allegorical power—or visual splendor—nearly ninety years later. The Wizard of Oz is particularly overwhelming as a big-screen experience, its fantasy world thrilling in its magical details, its teenaged leading lady overwhelming in her emotional magnetism.
Hitchcock's breathless, almost improbably entertaining suspense thriller is his ultimate “wrong man” movie, with Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill, an unassuming advertising executive on the run from a dastardly group of spies who have mistaken him for a government agent.
At the height of his cinematic powers, Oliver Stone got this miraculously personal studio film green-lit—a feat that now feels all but unthinkable. This free-wheeling, brilliantly constructed head-trip feels awfully prescient in its “there is no bottom” perspective on American history and conspiracy.
Hitchcock's breathless, almost improbably entertaining suspense thriller is his ultimate “wrong man” movie, with Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill, an unassuming advertising executive on the run from a dastardly group of spies who have mistaken him for a government agent.
Stanley Kubrick’s mysterious and profound sci-fi epic—“the ultimate trip”—is about nothing less than the beauty and the banality of civilization. Screens 7/31-8/24.
Peckinpah’s masterpiece is at once classical and revisionist, an exemplar of the very genre it so brilliantly subverts, building towards a famously violent climax that seemed to all but put a fork in the genre.
See a newly restored 2009 anime feature from Mamoru Hosoda, the Academy Award–nominated director of Belle and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Critically dismissed at the time of its release, Spielberg’s grand folly is a lavish spectacle that has attracted a major cult following. A slapstick behemoth on a massive, budget-busting scale, 1941 charts the fictional pandemonium that ensues among a group of frenzied Los Angelenos after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The ninth film from Quentin Tarantino revisits Los Angeles at the tail end of the 1960s, when the Hollywood studio system was fading and hippie subversion was ascendant.
At the height of his cinematic powers, Oliver Stone got this miraculously personal studio film green-lit—a feat that now feels all but unthinkable. This free-wheeling, brilliantly constructed head-trip feels awfully prescient in its “there is no bottom” perspective on American history and conspiracy.
See a newly restored 2009 anime feature from Mamoru Hosoda, the Academy Award–nominated director of Belle and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Peckinpah’s masterpiece is at once classical and revisionist, an exemplar of the very genre it so brilliantly subverts, building towards a famously violent climax that seemed to all but put a fork in the genre.
See a newly restored 2009 anime feature from Mamoru Hosoda, the Academy Award–nominated director of Belle and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
What is the role of the filmmaker in scientific research and conservation? Expedition films show us the work of scientists in the field and document important behavior. But does adding more humans to the scene disrupt animal activity or damage the environment? Join us for a screening of Ivohiboro: The Lost Forest, followed by a conversation about fieldwork and the collaboration between scientists and filmmaking teams.
In fall 2023, Dr. Patricia Wright—renowned primatologist, MacArthur Fellow, and pioneer in rainforest conservation—led a team of young scientists on a daring 30-day expedition into this Ivohiboro, a pristine tropical forest reigning over the rugged plains of Southeast Madagascar.
A portrait of the budding artist as a young boy, told completely from inside the child’s mind, The Long Day Closes is Terence Davies’s exquisitely beautiful work of autobiographical fantasia. Followed by book event celebrating the reissue of Terence Davies’s novel Hallelujah Now.
Terence Davies’s first three shorts are among the most accomplished debuts in film history, profoundly personal in theme and with a preternatural grasp of cinematic grammar. Consisting of Children (1976), Madonna and Child (1980), and Death and Transfiguration (1973), the films together form nothing less than the complete scope of a man’s earthly existence, set in the Liverpool of Davies’s youth.
Terence Davies broke through on the international cinema scene after his debut feature stunned audiences at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. The film illustrates with abstraction, beauty, and occasional horror Davies’s memories of his family in 1950s Liverpool.
Davies’s first film after an eight-year hiatus following The House of Mirth was his sole feature documentary, an archival-rich yet typically personal rumination on place and time. Autobiographical elements are fused with evocative, inescapably haunting images (still and moving) of Liverpool as it changed and mutated over Davies's life.
Based on John Kennedy Toole’s celebrated Depression-era novel, The Neon Bible is Davies’s first American film, yet still fully of a piece with his nostalgia-suffused filmography. David is a young man growing up in a small Southern Bible Belt town in the 1940s. When his aunt Mae (Gena Rowlands) a former club singer, comes to stay in the threadbare home he shares with his parents, she soon becomes his sole companion.
In this aching, unorthodox historical drama, Davies tells the story of the pacifist poet and veteran Siegfried Sassoon, whose experiences fighting in the First World War forever transformed him.
