Film Forum

U.S., 1984/2017
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Based on The Cotton Club by James Haskins
Starring Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, Bob Hoskins, Lonette McKee, Nicolas Cage, Laurence Fishburne, Tom Waits
Approx. 139 min.

“The movie takes place in New York in the 1920s and 1930s, where Irish and Jewish gangsters battled the Italians for the rackets. Most of their intrigues were played out in public, in flashy settings like the Cotton Club, a Harlem nightclub that featured the nation’s most talented black entertainers on stage—playing before an all-white audience.” – Roger Ebert

Reviews

“This is a gorgeous, densely rendered period picture, full of virtuosic montages, which purposefully invoke ’30s movies, that catapult us through time and history, keeping us abreast of the broader forces shaping the characters’ lives.”
 – K. Austin Collins, Vanity Fair

“THE COTTON CLUB: ENCORE expands on what made the film great and in adding more numbers becomes one of the best American musicals of the 1980s.”
 – Caden Mark Gardner, MUBI