Webster University Film Series: Ishtar
Title: Ishtar
Showtime: Thursday, 1/29, at 7PM
Box Office: Opens at 6PM in front of the auditorium entrance
Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium, Webster Hall 1st floor, 470 E. Lockwood Ave., St. Louis, MO 63119.
Parking: Webster U. campus parking in front of Webster Hall (Lot B) and behind the building (Lot D) is free to patrons on nights we are showing movies!
Admission: $8 for general admission, $7 for seniors(60+), Webster alumni & students from other schools
(Elaine May, 1987, USA, 108 minutes)
Before titles like Showgirls, Cats, and The Room started to suck all of the “Worst Movie” oxygen from the room, a longtime standard bearer was Elaine May’s fourth and so far final feature film as director, 1987’s Ishtar. Upon reappraisal, what’s that, this isn’t a “so bad it’s good” situation like the above, but instead a “misunderstood in its time” type of deal, more along the lines of Heaven’s Gate than Valley of the Dolls. It follows two talentless New York-based singer-songwriters, Chuck (Dustin Hoffman) and Lyle (Warren Beatty), who get booked to play a Moroccan hotel and, in so doing, find themselves as pawns in the middle of a four-way cold war stalemate. Adjani, who was dating Beatty at the time, plays a woman they get tangled up with when she tries to get them to help her out of the country. With cinematography by the legendary Vittorio Storaro, the DP behind The Conformist, Apocalypse Now, and more.
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