Directed by Louis Malle • 1980 • France, Canada
Starring Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Michel Piccoli
Dreams die hard amid the boardwalks and casinos of the faded New Jersey gambling town where Sally (Susan Sarandon), a young waitress and aspiring blackjack dealer, meets Lou (Burt Lancaster), a washed-up former gangster living in the past. Drawn together by a drug deal gone bad, the two find themselves relying on each other in their mutual search for redemption. Featuring one of Lancaster’s greatest performances, this poignant drama from Louis Malle glows with a lovely, bittersweet human tenderness.
Directed by David Mamet • 1987 • United States
Starring Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Mike Nussbaum
The Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and screenwriter David Mamet sat in the director’s chair for the first time for this sly, merciless thriller. Lindsay Crouse stars as a best-selling author an...
Directed by Nina Menkes • 1991 • United States
Starring Tinka Menkes, Emmellda Beech
Nina Menkes’s entrancing dream vision of alienation on the margins of Las Vegas is one of the most radical and provocative independent films of the 1990s. Set amid the glittering casino lights and deteriorating ...
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson • 1996 • United States
Starring Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow
Paul Thomas Anderson made his feature debut with this coolly gripping neonoir, an expansion of his acclaimed short CIGARETTES & COFFEE. In one of his finest performances, Philip Ba...
