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Program 59
ArcLight Hollywood • 5:00 p.m.
 
Director In Focus: WAYNE WANG
SMOKE
(USA, 1995) Dir.: Wayne Wang, Paul Auster; Scr.: Paul Auster
The plot of this movie, like smoke itself, drifts and swirls ethereally. Characters and subplots are deftly woven into a tapestry of stories and pictures which only slowly emerges to our view. In Auggie’s New York smoke shop, day by day passes, seemingly unchanging until he teaches us to notice the little details of life. Paul Benjamin, a disheartened and broken writer, has a brush with death that is pivotal and sets up an unlikely series of events that afford him a novel glimpse into the life on the street which he saw, but did not truly perceive, every day. Finally, it’s Auggie’s turn to spin a tale....
35mm, 112 min., color, Narrative

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