The Landlord
Jul 01 - Jul 02, 2008
Hal Ashby, USA, 1970, 35mm, 112 min
Tuesday 9:30pm screening introduced by Bobcat Goldthwait!
A devastating satire, THE LANDLORD is Ashby’s outrageous debut, a film that still feels daring, both stylistically and politically. Beau Bridges buys a row house in a New York City ghetto, planning to remodel the home once he has evicted its tenants - but finds all of his preconceptions tested once his and their lives are intertwined.
"THE LANDLORD remains one of the funniest social comedies of the period, as well as the most human." -J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE