The screening on Saturday the 2nd of November will include a welcome by season programmer Alice Pember and an introduction to the film by film journalist Christina Newland.

A darkly subversive gangster film and an unsung masterpiece of American cinema, in Mikey and Nicky Elaine May brings audiences a career-best performance from writer-director John Cassavetes and one of the most devastating insights into American masculinity ever brought to the big screen. Set over the course of one night, this restless drama finds Nicky (Cassavetes) holed up in a hotel after the boss he stole money from puts a hit out on him. Terrified, he calls on Mikey (Peter Falk), the one person he thinks can save him. The product of a notoriously troubled production and rarely screened in the UK, we are pleased to bring May’s definitive final cut to Garden Cinema audiences this Autumn.

Timings:

20:30  Season welcome (Alice Pember)

20:35  Film introduction (Christina Newland)

20:45  Screening

22:45  Expected finish

Dr Alice Pember is an Assistant Professor in Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick. Her research interests include independent cinema, feminist film philosophy and dance and pop music on screen. Her research has appeared in Modern and Contemporary France, French Screen Studies and Film-Philosophy journals. She teaches across areas related to independent French, British and American cinema, film philosophy and queer and women's cinema. Her monograph The Dancing Girl in Contemporary Cinema will be published next year with Edinburgh University Press.

Christina Newland is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster on film and culture, with bylines at Criterion, BBC, Rolling Stone, MUBI, and others. She is the lead film critic at the i Newspaper and a contributing editor to Empire Magazine. Her newsletter, Sisters Under the Mink, on depictions of women in crime film and television, won a Freelance Writing Award in 2021, and her first book, an edited anthology called She Found It at the Movies: Women Writers on Sex, Desire and Cinema, was published in March 2020.