Film Facutly Annette Insdorf at Walter Reade Theater
Celebrating Philip Kaufman
Lincoln Center Walter Reade Theater
Screening of The Wanderers, reception, book signing with Faculty Annette Insdorf
July 16, 6:00pm
Tickets: $13 General Public, $9 Students & Seniors, $8 Members
On the occasion of her new book-length study, Philip Kaufman (University of Illinois Press), Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater is pleased to welcome acclaimed author and Faculty Annette Insdorf to present a special screening of Kaufman’s The Wanderers, followed by a book signing.
A true American maverick, Philip Kaufman is hard to pin down: a visual stylist who is truly literate, a San Franciscan who often makes European films (like Henry & June and The Unbearable Lightness of Being), an accessible Hollywood storyteller with a sophisticated touch (from co-creating Indiana Jones to his masterful astronaut saga The Right Stuff).
The Wanderers (Director’s Cut)
Philip Kaufman, 1979
USA | Format: 35mm | 113 minutes
Philip Kaufman, 1979
USA | Format: 35mm | 113 minutes
Fresh from the success of his 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Kaufman shifted gears for this lyrical, serio-comic adaptation of Richard Price’s acclaimed debut novel, about an Italian-American greaser gang coming of age on the streets of The Bronx in the early 1960s. In his charismatic film debut, future Wiseguy star Ken Wahl plays Richie, the proverbial leader of the pack, while Linda Manz (Days of Heaven) nearly steals the film out from under him as the pint-sized girlfriend of a Hercules-sized rival gang leader. Rumbles aplenty ensue in this latter-day West Side Story—arguably the best of the late 1970s explosion of gang pictures—with Leonard Bernstein replaced by the jukebox hits of the era, including "Do You Love Me," "Soldier Boy," "Wipe Out" and "Tequila." Co-starring a pre-Raiders of the Lost Ark Karen Allen as the nice girl from the right side of the tracks.
