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Stuart Klawans’ Left in the Dark: Film Reviews and Essays 1988 – 2001 is
a sharp and funny collection of his essays and film reviews, which have
appeared in The Nation, The New York Times, The Village Voice and Film
Comment. Join this "intoxicated movie goer" at the Walter Reade Theater
for a screening of MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO, directed by Gus Van Sant and
starring Keanu Reeves and the late River Phoenix, followed by a
conversation with the author and a book signing in the Furman Gallery of
the Walter Reade Theater.
Left in the Dark: Film Reviews and Essays 1988 – 2001 has a January 2002
publication date by Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books.
MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO
MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO was one of the highlights of the New York Film
Festival in 1991. If David Lynch's narratives are seductive, scary
hallucinations, Van Sant's are romantic quests for roots shot in dream
language. As Klawans points out in his review of the film, "everyone
seems to have a favorite image from MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO." Drifters and
hustlers, narcolepsy, sex and Shakespeare share the empty road and the
sleazy streetcorner. There are ample images to choose from.
Mon Feb 11: 7
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