LAB CLASSICS: AFTER HOURS (4K RESTORATION)
Following its world premiere at Berlinale, the stellar new 4K restoration of Martin Scorsese’s cult classic After Hours will return to our cinema April 1st. This free-for-all odyssey set in the heart of SoHo sees New York’s own Scorsese take a darkly comic look at his favourite city; a film that energised him during a tumultuous period in his career.
Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman (Rosanna Arquette). So begins the wildest night of his life, as bizarre occurrences—involving underground-art punks, a distressed waitress, a crazed Mister Softee truck driver, and a bagel-and-cream-cheese paperweight—pile up with anxiety-inducing relentlessness and thwart his attempts to get home. With this Kafkaesque cult classic, Martin Scorsese—abetted by Michael Ballhaus’s kinetic cinematography and scene-stealing supporting turns by Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr, Catherine O’Hara, and John Heard—directed a darkly comic tale of mistaken identity, turning the desolate night world of 1980s SoHo into a bohemian wonderland of surreal menace.
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