Screening times:
Saturday, March 7, 8:30 PM

Martin Scorsese | USA | 1985 | 97m

Throughout March we fondly remember late, great Canadian actor and comedian Catherine O'Hara (1954-2026) with a diverse range of films screening on Saturday nights. We look back at O'Hara's career via an early role in Martin Scorsese's neo-noir comedy After Hours (1985), to her iconic turn in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice (1988) and a lead part in Christopher Guest's ensemble mockumentary Waiting For Guffman (1996).

Shining in one of her earliest film roles, O’Hara plays an ice cream truck driver in this neo-noir cult classic.

In a Manhattan café, word processor Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) meets and talks literature with Marcy (Rosanna Arquette). Later that night, Paul takes a cab to Marcy's downtown apartment. His $20 bill flying out the window during the ride portends the unexpected night he has. He cannot pay for the ride and finds himself in a series of awkward, surreal and life-threatening situations with a colorful cast of characters. He spends the rest of the night trying to return uptown.

Bursting with frantic energy and tinged with black humor, After Hours is a masterful - and often overlooked - detour in Martin Scorsese's filmography.

"The dreamlike anxiety owes something to Kafka, a resemblance Scorsese himself contrived, but the cynicism could put you in mind of a dark Viennese romp by Arthur Schnitzler (whose Traumnovelle was transplanted to New York by Kubrick as Eyes Wide Shut). A peculiar, potent film." - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

Best Director - Cannes Film Festival, 1985
Best Feature, Best Director - Independent Spirit Awards, 1985

Tickets $12 ($11.40 at the door if available)