Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind at the Mayan

Join the Mayan retrospective series for Eternal Sunshine on the big screen. Truly a lovely film with a minimum of Jim Carey-ness in what I find to be his best performance.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d. — Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”

It’s one thing to wash that man right outta your hair, and another to erase him from your mind. “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” imagines a scientific procedure that can obliterate whole fields of memory — so that, for example, Clementine can forget that she ever met Joel, let alone fell in love with him. “Is there any danger of brain damage?” the inventor of the process is asked. “Well,” he allows, in his most kindly voice, “technically speaking, the procedure is brain damage.”
The movie is a labyrinth created by the screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, whose “Being John Malkovich” and “Adaptation” were neorealism compared to this. Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet play Joel and Clementine, in a movie that sometimes feels like an endless series of aborted Meet Cutes. That they lose their minds while all about them are keeping theirs is a tribute to their skill; they center their characters so that we can actually care about them even when they’re constantly losing track of their own lives. (“My journal,” Joel observes oddly, “is … just blank.”) (Roger Ebert)

Tickets available online at Fandango and the Mayan website
https://www.landmarktheatres.com/events/10359-retro-replay-festival-cinemas-august-2025/

Parking in the lot behind the theater as well as the Mayan lot on the East side of Lincoln across from Walgreens parking

Not sure what our options are for after event, but if people are interested we will make it work!