Looking for Mr Goodbar

A New York drama of promiscuity which audiences may find disturbing for its sexual violence.

  • Director

    Richard Brooks

  • With

    Diane Keaton, Richard Gere, Tuesday Weld, Tom Berenger

  • USA 1977. 136min

  • 35mm

  • Certificate

    18

Rarely screened, Mr Goodbar is a New York-set drama of promiscuity, featuring a striking central performance by Diana Keaton and an early screen appearance by Richard Gere. It featured in a double bill with Variety at the Scala to mark the cinema’s third anniversary in King’s Cross.

Contains disturbing scenes of sexual violence.

35mm print courtesy The Cinema Museum London

+ Dick

USA 1989. Director Jo Menell. 13min

One of the Scala’s favourite shorts, in which women comment on the male sexual organ.

Contains scenes of full frontal male nudity.

See Looking for Mr Goodbar with intro by season curator Jane Giles on Saturday 13 January.

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