An Evening With Al Pacino: Wilde Salomé & Salomé Wed March 28, 6.45pm at the Quad

Join us for the New York premiere of Al Pacino's documentary-drama Wilde Salomé and its companion piece Salomé followed by an hour-long conversation with Pacino on March 28

Plus filmmakers Harold Becker and Hugh Hudson join Pacino for screenings of Sea of Love and Revolution on March 29

New York's first Al Pacino retrospective, Pacino's Way, starts March 14!

An Evening with Al Pacino:
Wilde Salomé & Salomé

Wed March 28, 6.45pm

Premiere double feature followed by an hour-long conversation with Al Pacino
Al Pacino, 2011/2013, U.S., 88m/81m, DCP
Banned from public performance in the UK for 40 years, Oscar Wilde’s wildly controversial 1891 one-act play Salomé has been a long-standing obsession for Al Pacino. After holding a reading in 2003, Pacino brought the play to the stage in 2006 (with a cast including then-newcomer Jessica Chastain in the title role and Pacino himself as King Herod) and shot this electrifying film version. Wilde Salomé goes behind the scenes and explores the actor/director’s ongoing fascination with the play and its author. Together, these two films—screening here in their first-ever NYC engagements—create a fascinating diptych and provide a window into the artistic mind and process of one of our greatest performers.

Exclusive New York engagement

Sea of Love

Thurs March 29, 6.30pm — With Al Pacino and Harold Becker in person
Harold Becker, 1989, U.S., 113m, 35mm
A more romantic variant of the “intimate jeopardy” subgenre in which the titular song by Phil Phillips with the Twilights serves as a killer’s calling card while setting the tone for lonesome cop Pacino’s unprofessional involvement with prime suspect Ellen Barkin. As he covertly investigates whether she’s behind a series of lonely-hearts murders, the actors’ chemistry is to die for.

Revolution

Thurs March 29, 9.00pm — With Al Pacino and Hugh Hudson in person
Hugh Hudson, 1985, UK, 115m, DCP
An English armada heads for NYC to quash an uprising—but as the date is July 4th, 1776, things will not go precisely as planned. Swept up in the turbulent events are apolitical trapper Pacino (whose son and boat are pressed into service for the UK by odious Donald Sutherland) and society daughter-turned-freedom fighter Nastassja Kinski. The eclectic cast includes Steven Berkoff, Joan Plowright, Richard O’Brien (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), and Annie Lennox.

We are screening the director’s cut finessed by Hudson with new narration recorded by Pacino in 2009.