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CHARLES COLEMAN
Film Programmer for Facets Cinémathèque

Read his feature in the Chicago Reader

October 2010

The Facets Cinémathèque is located at 1517 W. Fullerton Ave. in Chicago. For more information on films playing in the Cinémathèque, please call 773-281-4114. To order advance tickets online, visit the TicketWeb website by clicking here.


40th ANNIVERSARY PRESENTATION OF AN AMERICAN CLASSIC!

35MM RESTORED PRINT!

Chicago Theatrical
Revival

NOMINATED Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay Academy Awards

WINNER Best Film Best Director Best Supporting Actress NY Film Critics Circle Awards

FIVE EASY PIECES

Undeniably one of the finest and most influential films made in Hollywood during the glorious 70s, Bob Rafelson's modern classic – lovingly restored for its 40th anniversary – also boasts what is probably Jack Nicholson's greatest performance. Five Easy Pieces, made in 1970, is thoughtful, complex and Jack Nicholson is brilliant as the misfit Bobby Dupea. This was Nicholson before his star persona was fully set and alongside his trademark brashness, there is a vulnerability and uncertainty here that you do not find in his later performances. In the early scenes, he is a blue-collar roustabout working on an oil rig, picking up women at the bowling alley and treating his waitress girlfriend (Karen Black) with contempt. Only when we see him playing an upright piano on the back of a truck, during an early morning traffic jam, do we realise that he is not the working-class everyman he seems to be.

The screenplay, by Carole Eastman and Bob Rafelson, deals in subtle and insightful fashion with class, family ties and the burden of adult responsibility. Long-time Nicholson pal Carole Eastman credited as Adrien Joyce expanded on three sketches by director Rafelson (Head, The King of Marvin Gardens and creator of The Monkees!), ultimately basing the character of Dupea on both Nicholson and her brother, with scenes inspired by actual events.

Directed by Bob Rafelson, U.S.A. 1970, 35mm, 98 mins.





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Showtimes:
Fri., Oct. 1 at 7 & 9 pm
Sat.-Sun., Oct. 2-3 at 3, 5, 7 & 9 pm
Mon.-Thurs., Oct. 4-7 at 7 & 9 pm



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