Double Feature: Angel Heart - Year of the Dragon December 14, 2008

Angel Heart, 1987, Sony Repertory, 113 min. Dir. Alan Parker. Private detective Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) is hired by an enigmatic client (Robert De Niro) to find a missing person, and before long everyone he talks to ends up dead, with Angel the primary suspect in their murders. Director Alan Parker creates an hallucinatory, chilling blend of horror and film noir in this atmosphere-drenched cult favorite. The film sparked controversy on its initial release due to a steamy sex scene with young co-star Lisa Bonet, something that went against her clean-cut image on TV's "The Cosby Show." Adapted from the novel Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg. "The movie's final revelations make a weird sense, once we figure them out. This is one of those movies where you leave the theater and re-run the plot in your head, re-interpreting the early scenes in terms of the final shocking revelations. ANGEL HEART is a thriller and a horror movie, but most of all it's an exuberant exercise in style, in which Parker and his actors have fun taking it to the limit." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times. Year Of The Dragon, 1985, Warner Bros., 134 min. New York police captain and Vietnam veteran Mickey Rourke takes on Chinese crime boss John Lone in this violent, riveting thriller scripted by Oliver Stone. Director Michael Cimino does some of his best work with his usual themes -- male friendships and betrayal, the importance of ritual and American-Asian cultural collision -- in this visually stylish and viscerally charged action film. "Cimino's eye for detail and insistence thereon has paid off in his impressive re-creation of Chinatown at producer Dino De Laurentiis' studios in North Carolina. Crammed with an array of interesting characters, including the extras in the background, DRAGON brims with authenticity." - Variety Ticket Prices: General Admission: $10 Student/Senior (with ID): $8 American Cinematheque Member: $7 Advance Tickets: www.fandango.com