54: The Director's Cut Screening

FourTwoNine and The San Francisco International Film Festival present 54: The Director's Cut Screening at the Castro Theatre on Friday, April 24th at 9:30 PM Purchase your tickets before they sell out here: http://bit.ly/1ybPbPY Co-hosted by: Noah Cowan, Travis Mathews, Brian North, Matthew Kimball Shaun Saunders, Adam H. Sandel, Doug Waggener, David Suh, Brian Backus, Anthony Brichetto, Gen Alvarez, C. S. Acosta, Lonnie Haley, Mark Rhoades, Aubrey Brewster, Lindsay Stevens, Rachel Lena Esterline, Paul B. Tan, Van Hedwall, Vas Kiniris, Joel Corpus, Jenny Shears, Mark Schultz, Lisa Pidge, Patrick Gallineaux, Adam Sandel, Eric Phanngavong, Marcelo Acevedo, Sean Howell, Arun Apte The Film: The cut of the film released in theaters in 1998 removed more than 30 minutes of beautifully acted, Cabaret-like licentiousness in the form of amibisexual polyamory and rampant drug use at the Studio 54 nightclub and replaced it with 40 minutes of cloying romance in a bid to make the film palatable for mainstream audiences. With the original footage restored, the film now is a gritty masterpiece, a classic of bored excess and existential longing, framed by sweaty abs, jeroboams of quaaludes and the pulsing beat and recreated performances of music’s most celebrated and reviled era. Phillippe is Shane, an ambitious Jersey boy who Steve Rubell (Myers) admits to his club once he throws away his nasty rayon shirt. Thus begins his ascension from busboy to bartender, from ingenue to bisexual hustler and from beer drinker to drug dealer, casting aside friends Greg (Breckin Meyer) and Anita (Salma Hayek) in the process.