SCARFACE (1983)

Directed by Brian De Palma
Starring Al Pacino

(1983)  35mm. Approx. 170 min.
3:55, 9:00

“A DIZZINGLY LURID COKE MELTDOWN… The throbbing id of many criminal fantasies since.”
– Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out

“AS INDELIBLE AS A CARTOON, from Pacino’s dementedly hammy performance to the bevy of quotable lines, almost none of which are clean enough to be quoted here.”
– NPR

“One of those special movies that is willing to take a flawed, evil man and allow him to be human... ‘Scarface’ understands this criminal personality, with its links between laziness and ruthlessness, grandiosity and low self-esteem, pipe dreams and a chronic inability to be happy.”
– Roger Ebert

“The most stylish and provocative – and maybe the most vicious – serious film about the American underworld since Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Godfather.’ ‘Scarface’ is a relentlessly bitter, satirical tale of greed, in which all supposedly decent emotions are sent up for the possible ways in which they can be perverted.”
– Vincent Canby, The New York Times

SCARFACE (1932)

Directed by Howard Hawks
Starring Paul Muni

(1932) X marks the corpses as they drop in garages, lunch room, and bowling alleys: Paul Muni’s thinly-disguised Al Capone wastes his boss and takes over his moll, aided by coin-flipping cohort George Raft, but his – extremely possessive – heart belongs to sister Ann Dvorak. 35mm. Approx. 90 min.
7:05

“By far Hawks’ most visually inventive and tonally anarchic movie.”
– Richard Brody

“Howard Hawks’s masterpiece is a dark, brutal, exhilaratingly violent film, blending comedy and horror in a manner that suggests Chico Marx let loose with a live machine gun. The film is a symphony of body shapes and gestures, functioning dynamically as well as dramatically.”
– Dave Kehr

“UNMISSIABLE - if only as the first film in which George Raft flips a dime...”
– Time Out (London)