The Ludwig Van Picture Show.//Cotton Club

Third up in the month of May in the music and film series “The Ludwig Van Picture Show” is Cotton Club, a film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel with the same title by James Haskins,.
According to film critic Franco La Polla, “On one hand Cotton Club is a film deliberately ‘over the top’, a work built up through a continuous series of traditional cinema references, and, on the other, cinema that ‘fills a gap’, since – albeit bound by the limits of the objective concrete impossibility of resuscitating the past – it really does bring back to the stage showbiz and notorious faces and names in an attempt to drastically reduce the unbridgeable historical distance which other films set in the past (that particular past) had tackled by relying on less direct and more allusive conventions.”
With Diane Lane, Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins and Nicolas Cage, music by John Barry.
Free entrance