Men, By Women: Point Break — Carbon Arc

Saturday, August 8, 8:30 PM Kathryn Bigelow | USA | 1991 | 122m Men, By Women is our August Retrospective Series, screening Saturday nights at 8:30 PM. Masculinity perceived, portrayed and perforated by female directors! Serving up: Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow), Beau Travail (Claire Denis) and You Were Never Really Here (Lynn Ramsey). After a string of bizarre bank robberies in Southern California, with the crooks donning masks of various former presidents, a federal agent, Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves), infiltrates the suspected gang. But this is no ordinary group of robbers. They’re surfers – led by the charismatic Bodhi (Patrick Swayze) – who are addicted to the rush of thievery. But when Utah falls in love with a female surfer, Tyler (Lori Petty), who is close to the gang, it complicates his sense of duty. Absurd, over-the-top, and wildly entertaining, Point Break is here to show you that the human spirit is still alive. “A near-perfect action film directed by Kathryn Bigelow with frenzied intensity, and it never seeks to patronise its own material or its audience.” – Kevin Maher, The Times (UK) “The script is so lame it achieves a sort of magnificence, and the stunts are superb.” – Nell Minow, Movie Mom “Bigelow is an interesting director for this material. She is interested in the ways her characters live dangerously for philosophical reasons. They aren’t men of action, but men of thought who choose action as a way of expressing their beliefs. That adds an intriguing element to their characters, and makes the final confrontation in this movie as meaningful as it can be, given the admittedly preposterous nature of the material.” – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times Tickets $12 ($11.40 at the door if available) Saturday, August 8, 8:30 PM tickets Tagged coming soon