Saturday, January 21, 2023, 7:30 p.m., Dryden Theatre
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Boogie Nights (1997)
(Paul Thomas Anderson, US 1997, 155 min., 35mm)
P. T. Anderson’s breakout film follows Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg) from his days as a young dishwasher and then intrepid porn superstar in California’s San Fernando Valley in the 1970s to his fall to rock bottom in the 1980s. Philip Seymour Hoffman is heartbreaking as the conflicted homosexual boom operator Scotty J., secretly in love with Dirk but confused about how to express himself. Hoffman’s biggest role to date, here he is in the company of some of the greats of our time: Don Cheadle, William H. Macy, Julianne Moore, John C. Reilly, and Burt Reynolds.
Supported by James Declan Tobin on behalf of the Sumner Roy Kates Charitable Trust.