Dinner and a Movie: Vegan Glory + Night Tide (at the Silent Movie Theatre)

Friday, July 23, 2010 6:00 PM

A reprisal of our successful dinner and movie series. We'll go to an early dinner at Vegan Glory then head down the street to the Silent Movie Theatre for Dennis Hopper's Night Tide.

Here's the summary from the Silent Movie Theatre site:

Hopper has never been more innocent or likable than in Curtis Harrington's beatnik fairy tale Night Tide; a surprisingly sweet turn for those more familiar with Blue Velvet, or even Easy Rider. Playing a young lovelorn sailor, Hopper falls under the spell of a carnival mermaid named Mora who might also be a lunar-cycle killer in this eerie early 1960s black-and-white dark fantasy. Night Tide marked Hopper’s first starring role after seven years of playing wildly diverse film and TV parts, and his unusual charisma shines through clearly as he wanders the piers of Venice and Santa Monica, all under the sure hand of first-time director Curtis Harrington, whose art film instincts and occult interests (honed after collaborating with childhood friend Kenneth Anger) are firmly in evidence. This dreamy, spaced-out riff on Cat People (complete with a freaky score by the great David Raksin) is absurdly difficult to see on the big screen -- especially in this newly restored print by AMPAS -- so don’t miss your chance to see one of our favorite film mavericks just as he was getting his sea legs.
Dir. Curtis Harrington, 1961, 35mm, 84 min. (Night Tide was restored in 2008 by the Academy Film Archive with support from The Film Foundation and Curtis Harrington.)

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