Live improv! Classic movies! Joan Mother-effing Chen! Come hear the legendary actress Joan Chen recount the first time she saw BODY HEAT in a theater, and see a short set inspired by her stories from some of San Francisco’s favorite improvisers— from shows like Your Fucked Up Relationship (Endgames), Bad Art (All-Out), and Forever Improv! Then we’ll all watch the movie together—just you, us, and a packed house of your new trauma-bonded best friends.

I LOST IT OVER…
is a new series hosted by filmmaker Alice Wu (Saving Face, The Half of It) where a Bay Area luminary picks a cult/classic film they saw in a theater that blew their mind. Combining the magic of cinema and improv, I LOST IT OVER… is a love letter to cinemas, live theater, and a reminder that some of life’s most memorable experiences can only be had in a dark room with total strangers.

with special guest
Joan Chen

Joan Chen began her film career at the age of 14 in Shanghai. Her performance in Little Flower (小花) catapulted her to fame in China. For her performance in the title role, Chen became the youngest recipient of the Best Actress Award at the One Hundred Flowers Awards. In 1981 Chen left China to study filmmaking in the United States. She has since acted or directed in over forty film and television roles, with some of the most notable ones being in Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor, David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, Oliver Stone’s Heaven and Earth, Alice Wu's Saving Face, and Sean Wang's Didi.

BODY HEAT

With his debut feature, acclaimed writer-director Lawrence Kasdan brilliantly updated the conventions of 1940s film noir for the 1980s, resulting in one of the steamiest and most influential erotic thrillers ever made. On the sultry South Florida coast, lawyer Ned Racine (William Hurt) is drawn into a torrid affair with unhappily married housewife Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner, in a star-making performance)—and it’s not long before they’ve hatched a scheme to murder her wealthy husband. Featuring ingenious plot twists, memorable hard-boiled dialogue, and an atmosphere so evocative you can practically feel the humidity, Body Heat is a languorously seductive tale of greed and desire, one that paved a new path for American crime cinema.

DOORS at 7:30 PM | SHOW at 8:00 PM | MOVIE at 9:00 PM