Diner

Special 35mm Presentation

Set in late '50s Baltimore, the Academy Award-nominated Diner is the debut film in writer/director Barry Levinson’s "Baltimore Films" tetralogy (which also includes Avalon), and represents a rose-tinted recollection of the pain and joy of coming to terms with adult responsibility, changing relationships, and the everlasting bonds of friendship. Part of the nostalgia-fueled hangout film canon alongside classics like American Graffiti and Dazed and Confused, this bittersweet meditation on friendship is particularly noteworthy for its outstanding ensemble cast — chosen from a pool of over 600 hopefuls — that launched the careers of Steve Guttenberg, Mickey Rourke, Daniel Stern, Kevin Bacon, Tim Daly, and Paul Reiser, who play the up-all-night buddies who work out the remnants of adolescence during ritual grazings at a busy steel-and-vinyl hangout in 1959 Baltimore. Stars, laughs, bragging rights and does Sinatra or Mathis croon the best makeout music, Diner is a lively and poignant tale of friends trying to recapture their lost innocence.

The special presentation will feature the attendance of writer/director Richard Shepard, who will introduce the film and participate in a Q&A after the film.