Criterion Club: Moonstruck

Join John Anzalone film professor/history buff/raconteur for a lively presentation, scene analysis and Q&A after watching the movie at home.

“Moonstruck” is a romantic comedy founded on emotional abandon and poignant truth. Not content with one romance, it involves five or six, depending on how you count, and conceding that some characters are involved in more than one. It exists in a Brooklyn that has never existed, a Brooklyn where the full moon makes the night like day and drives people crazy with amore, when the moon-a hits their eyes like a big-a pizza pie. The soundtrack is equal parts “La Boheme” and Dean Martin, and Ronny Cammareri’s feelings are like those of an operatic hero, larger than life and more dramatic.
In a career of playing goofballs, Cage has never surpassed his Ronny Cammareri. Who else could bring such desperation to his speech when he declares his love? “Love don’t make things nice. It ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren’t here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die.

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Free parking on the street and adjacent lot

No after event is planned