Making The Wrestler Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at 7pm
The Closing Night selection at this year’s New York Film Festival and the Golden Lion winner at Venice returns to the Film Society for a one-night-only screening and onstage conversation with producer Scott Franklin, writer Robert Siegel, cinematographer Maryse Alberti and editor Andrew Weisblum. Join us as we dig deep into the making of this extraordinary new film.
On the filmlinc blog: The Ram is back! Learn all about the making of Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler
The Wrestler
Darren Aronofsky, USA, 2008; 109m
“With his hearing aid and graying hair, pro wrestler Randy “The Ram” Robinson may be past his prime, but Mickey Rourke has never been better than he is in the title role of Darren Aronofsky’s seriocomic, existentialist wrestling drama. When a brush with mortality relegates him to working a supermarket deli counter, The Ram tries to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) and settle down with his on-again, off-again stripper girlfriend (an excellent Marisa Tomei). But like any old vaudevillian, he pines for the roar of the crowd, especially when the prospect of a high-profile rematch with an old nemesis presents itself. Owing more to John Osborne’s The Entertainer than to pugilistic hallmarks like Raging Bull and Fat City, this is a poignant, thoroughly unexpected and occasionally ultra-violent movie about performance, self-worth and the satisfying thwack of a folding chair to the back.”—46th New York Film Festival
Buy Tickets Tue Dec 9: 7
Admission:
$15 public
$13 senior (62+)
$12 Film Society members & students (with ID)
Please note: there is a $1.25 service charge per ticket ordered online and cash only transactions at the box office. No passes accepted to this event.
