Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

When:
Monday, Aug 31, 2015 7:00p -
9:00p

Where:
The Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
24 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Admission:
$9.00 ($7.00 for students/members/seniors)

Categories:
Film, University

Event website:
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2015junaug/altman.html#come

Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean


Directed by Robert Altman. With Sandy Dennis, Cher, Karen Black
US 1982, 35mm, color, 109 min


After disappointing and disappearing studio relationships following the troubled HealtH and flopped Popeye, Altman left Hollywood for Broadway. His production of Ed Graczyk’s play led to a cable movie offer, which Altman eventually wrangled into limited theatrical release and, consequently, a more concise, poetic vision. Rather than the separate sets of the stage version, two identical Woolworth shops were constructed in front of one another, separated by a two-way mirror. Thus, the reuniting Disciples of James Dean seamlessly drift back-and-forth from the Fifties to the Seventies; yet for these lost dreamers stuck in a remote Texan town, the changes between eras are often imperceptible. An extra on Giant, Mona achieves minor celebrity as the supposed mother of James Dean’s son, and her static fantasy has for years been reluctantly maintained by a small group of friends who each have their own delusions to dissolve. The increasingly complex reflections bouncing between the spectrum of girlish personas exposes the restricting feminine—and masculine—ideals both maintained by and displaced onto the silver screen, an escapism Altman’s viewers are tenderly denied. 35mm restored print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive; restoration funded by The Film Foundation and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

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