Art House Theater Day: Putney Swope
1969, 84 minutes, Digital 4K Restoration, R
USA
Language: English
Director: Robert Downey Sr.
Distributor: American Genre Film Archive
Join us in celebrating Art House Theater Day as we bring the 2014 Maryland Film Festival selection Putney Swope back to Baltimore with this 50th anniversary 4k restoration. On this special occasion, our member price is available to everyone, meaning tickets are just $8!
An unforgettable masterpiece of late-’60s counterculture, Robert Downey Sr.’s Putney Swope remains a vital provocation on race, pop culture, and America.
Putney Swope, the only African-American exec at his advertising firm, is unexpectedly elected its president and turns the industry on its ear through a series of outrageous, taboo-busting TV commercials (strewn throughout the film like comedic landmines.) As Swope becomes the Generalissimo of Madison Avenue, Downey takes no prisoners and skewers the entire political spectrum. Essential viewing.
Restoration by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation, with funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation.
Selected for inclusion on the National Film Registry
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