Television Program 4: Basements

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Held on Sun, Jan 11, 2015, 2:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

Both digital video presentations courtesy the Robert Altman Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive

The Dumbwaiter. 1987. USA. Directed by Robert Altman. 60 min.

Screenplay by Harold Pinter. With John Travolta, Tom Conti. Altman’s adaptation of the playwright’s early “comedies of menace” was originally broadcast as the first half of a Pinter double-bill titled Basements. Two British hitmen wait in the kitchen of an old mansion for an unseen employer to provide their next assignment.

The Room. 1987. USA. Directed by Robert Altman. 49 min.

With Linda Hunt, Annie Lennox, Julian Sands, Donald Pleasance. In the second half, an adaptation of Pinter’s first play, paranoia and violence result when a series of unwanted visitors intrude on an eccentric woman’s claustrophobic living space.

This film accompanies Robert Altman.

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