Slideshow
Frank Perry's
PLAY IT AS IT LAYS
Friday, March 7 – Thursday, March 13
NEW 4K RESTORATION
U.S., 1972
Directed by Frank Perry
Screenplay by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne
Based on the novel by Joan Didion
Starring Tuesday Weld, Anthony Perkins
Approx. 99 min. 4K DCP.
“If you were to imagine a celluloid ancestor to MULHOLLAND DRIVE’s Diane Selwyn, she’d probably look a lot like Maria Wyeth, the heroine of Frank Perry’s acerbic PLAY IT AS IT LAYS, based on Joan Didion’s merciless second novel. Brilliantly played by Tuesday Weld, Maria is rapidly unraveling, as is her marriage to her director husband... Didion’s book is extremely fragmented, [with] the point of view shifting abruptly between the third and first person. Perry’s film expertly translates this disjointed sense of time.” – Melissa Anderson, Film Comment. “Tuesday Weld is marvelous. Now is the time for her to get the raves that were withheld from her for her culturally unchic personae in LORD LOVE A DUCK, PRETTY POISON, and I WALK THE LINE.” – Molly Haskell
Presented with support from The Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film
A UNIVERSAL PICTURES RELEASE
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