APRIL MOVIES AT ATLANTIC CO.: THE DRINKING LIFE: CLASSIC MOVIES ABOUT BOOZING IN THE BIG APPLE
TUESDAYS - 8:30p
Tuesday 4/2: THE LOST WEEKEND (1945, director Billy Wilder)
Billy Wilder's classic is the Best Picture Winner of 1945, and the first time Hollywood looked at alcoholism... as well as a striking portrait of post-war NYC.trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-tefK9hkuM
Tuesday 4/9: ON THE BOWERY (1956, director Lionel Rogosin)
Stunning, recently rediscovered quasi-documentary starring the lost souls and wayward drunks of skid row, when the Bowery was still skid row. A forgotten NYC masterpiece.trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHuYXEwCk_U
Tuesday 4/16: ARTHUR (1981, director Steve Gordon)
The smash comedy hit from 1981 starring Dudley Moore in his signature role as a happy-go-lucky lush of a millionaire wooed by Liza Minnelli.trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH3tG5t9cN0
Tuesday 4/23: BAD LIEUTENANT (1992, director Abel Ferrara)
Absolutely savage and disgusting Harvey Keitel as the eponymous bad cop on an epic bender, and maybe the road to redemption, in hellish early 90s NYC.*Rated NC-17 for everything bad you can imagine.trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFvGeMDW7bw
Tuesday 4/30: special beer club screening
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