By David Poland poland@moviecitynews.com
Reeler Screening Series Starts Tonight at Pioneer Theater
Consider this your last call to drop by tonight’s first installment of the Reeler Screening Series at the Pioneer Theater, where my bloggish colleagues Lawrence Levi and Karina Longworth will join me in welcoming filmmaker Lodge Kerrigan for a discussion/Q&A of his 2004 classic Keane. The show starts up at 6:30 and should nicely disintegrate into a beer- and pizza-fueled orgy of cinephilia (for ticketholders only!) immediately following our chat.
Check out the jump for a film synopsis and full program details–this should be a great night, and I look forward to seeing you there.
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The Reeler presents KEANE
Director Lodge Kerrigan in person!
(dir. Lodge Kerrigan, 100 mins)
Tues. May 30; 6:30 p.m.
Pioneer Theater, 155 East 3rd Street (near Ave. A)
This is a Tuesdays@7 program, generously sponsored by Magic Hat. Every Tuesday at 7pm features special guests presenting their film, and is followed by a beer and pizza reception for ticket holders.
Few recent American films possess the dueling austerity and rawness evident in Lodge Kerrigan’s masterpiece Keane. Damian Lewis portrays the title character, a schizophrenic lost in a panicked, squalid quest to find a young daughter who ostensibly vanished in the tumult of Port Authority. At the motel he calls home, he acquaints himself with single mother Lynn (Amy Ryan) and her own little girl, Kira (Abigail Breslin), both of whom embrace Keane out of a necessity as tactical as it is emotional.
While Keane‘s subject matter recalls Kerrigan’s 1994 breakthrough Clean, Shaven, the filmmaker reprises the earlier film’s ache and chill without resorting to its singular horror. Rather, an astonishing turn by Lewis and (literally) unflinching camerawork by John Foster reveal a man awash in crisis and catharsis, on the verge of genuinely knowing something. Like its namesake, Keane is a discovery worth making.
Join The Reeler editor S.T. VanAirsdale and friends Lawrence Levi (Looker) and Karina Longworth (Cinematical) for a post-screening, talk-show style discussion with filmmaker Lodge Kerrigan. The chat will be podcast around the globe on www.thereeler.com, so bring your critical A-game and tell New York and the world what you think.