Staff Pick: Being John Malkovich (35mm)

  • Audience in a movie theater all holding up a John Malkovich face in front of their own

Gabby’s Staff Pick!

Have you ever wanted to be someone else? Or, more specifically, have you ever wanted to crawl through a portal hidden in an anonymous office building and thereby enter the cerebral cortex of John Malkovich for fifteen minutes, before being spat out on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike? Then director Spike Jonze and writer Charlie Kaufman have the movie for you. Melancholy marionettes, office drudgery, a frizzy-haired Cameron Diaz—but that’s not all! Surrealism, possession, John Cusack, a domesticated primate, Freud, Catherine Keener, non sequiturs, and absolutely no romance! But wait: get your Being John Malkovich now and we’ll throw in emasculation, slapstick, Abelard and Heloise, and extra Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich!

Director: Spike Jonze. Screenplay: Spike Jonze, Charlie Kaufman. Starring John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, John Malkovich, Catherine Keener, Ned Bellamy, Octavia Spencer, Mary Kay Place, Reginald C. Hayes, Charlie Sheen

Runtime
1h 53m
Year
1999
Director
Spike Jonze
Format
DCP
First Showing
November 19, 2024
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