Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Egyptian Theatre, Los Angeles
### **ABOUT THE FILM:** John Cassavetes’ love letter to the art of theater, inside a neo-noir take on the sleazy ‘70s Southland! In what other film would a waitress from famed post-hippie L.A. restaurant The Source take her morning break next door to audition for Ben Gazzara’s bizarro performance-art strip club? When his high-flying lifestyle owes debts to a sinister syndicate (led by Seymour Cassel and a wonderfully mushy Timothy Carey), he’s given a tough choice: knocking off a Chinese “bookie” or losing his beloved theatre. Cassavetes renders all of this with a hallucinatory eye, subverting genre conventions with his unsettled rhythms and a sweetly absurdist tone. Likewise, Gazzara perfectly embodies the fractured, contradictory persona of a character as much filled with frailty and vice as he is with ambition and integrity. FORMAT: DCP DISTRIBUTOR: USA COUNTRY: USA