Joker
A truly nightmarish vision of late-era capitalism - arguably the best social horror film since 'Get Out' - and Joaquin Phoenix is magnetic in it.
Joker
Director Todd Phillips' Joker centers around Batman's iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone fictional story not seen before on the big screen. Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Fleck, who is indelibly portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, is of a man struggling to find his way in Gotham’s fractured society. A clown-for-hire by day, he aspires to be a standup comic at night…but finds the joke always seems to be on him. Caught in a cyclical existence between apathy and cruelty, Arthur makes one bad decision that brings about a chain reaction of escalating events in this gritty character study.
Genre
Crime,
Drama,
Thriller
Runtime
122
Language
English
Director
Todd Phillips
Writer(s)
Todd Phillips,
Scott Silver
Cast
Joaquin Phoenix,
Robert De Niro,
Zazie Beetz,
Frances Conroy
Awards:
Nominee, Best Picture, Academy Awards
Nominee, Best Director, Academy Awards
Nominee, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Academy Awards
Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay, Academy Awards
Nominee, Best Cinematography, Academy Awards
Nominee, Best Costume Design, Academy Awards
Nominee, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Academy Awards
Nominee, Best Music (Original Score), Academy Awards
Nominee, Best Film Editing, Academy Awards
Nominee, Best Sound Mixing, Academy Awards
Nominee, Best Sound Editing, Academy Awards
Winner, Best Actor - Drama, Golden Globes
MOREFEATURED REVIEW
Xan Brooks, Guardian
Joaquin Phoenix provides a comic-book hero for the left behind with Joker, a brilliantly insurrectionist origins story that landed like a firecracker in the midst of this year’s Venice film festival. Playing the role of Cain to the sunny Abel of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Todd Phillips’s ...
Played at
Claremont 5 10.03.19 - 10.31.19
Glendale 10.03.19 - 10.31.19
NoHo 7 10.03.19 - 11.07.19
Monica Film Center 1.24.20 - 1.30.20
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