Essential Cinema: On Our Way to Where: Women of ’70s Cinema
LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR
Directed by Richard Brooks
USA, 1977, 2h 16min, 35mm
AFS Cinema
6406 N I-35 Suite 3100 Austin, TX 78752
Pricing
$13.50 evening / $11 matinee (available M-F for shows before 6 PM)
$4 discounts for AFS MAKE & WATCH members. Free for LOVE & Impact Circle members.
Discounts for AISD educators and local high school & college students are available at the box office with a valid school ID.
Accessibility
See more about the venue’s accessibility here.
“What makes the film so fascinating and repellent at once is precisely the confusion and anxiety it articulates about women’s sexual freedom.”
—The Village Voice
“It’d be wrong to suggest that LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR is an easy watch, but it’s nonetheless worthwhile.”
—Sight and Sound
Diane Keaton turns in a risky performance as an inner-city schoolteacher, dedicating her days to her students and her nights to increasingly dangerous encounters with strangers. Bored by nice guys and at odds with her reserved older sister (Tuesday Weld in an Oscar®-nominated performance), she succumbs to the uneasy allure of a menacing new lover (Richard Gere). Richard Brooks’ chilling dissection of the sexual revolution — pitched between liberation and condemnation — adapted from Judith Rossner’s novel. In 35mm.
