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White Wall Cinema: THE GREAT GATSBY (1974)
100TH ANNIVERSARY OF GATSBY
September 19 @ 6:30 pm – 10:30 pm
*Please note – doors open at 6.30pm for fizz in the garden. Please try to allow extra time to get seated prior to the performance start time of 7.40pm. There will usually be no admittance from 20 minutes after the films stated start time. No hot food or alcohol from outside the premises is allowed. All alcoholic drinks consumed on the premises must be purchased from the bar as per the conditions of the venue’s licence.
White Wall Cinema returns for the first event of it’s new season (and our 10th year) with a screening marking 100 years of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s much celebrated iconic novel The Great Gatsby. We will also be throwing a small garden party before with a free glass of fizz (because what would Gatsby’s 100th birthday be without it?)
Infamously tricky to bring to the screen, the 1974 adaptation is perhaps the most faithful to Fitzgerald’s novel, while wisely becoming its own distinct cinematic vision. Scripted by Francis Ford Coppola (of The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, and more), reworking an earlier draft by Truman Capote, and directed by Jack Clayton (Room at the Top, The Innocents), this version plays Gatsby as a kind of ghost story.
A world away from Baz Luhrmann’s brash and violently lurid 2013 take, this 1974 film is all billowing curtains, haunted silences, and humid, regret-laden tension, draped in authentically lavish sets, rich period detail, and gorgeous opulent Oscar winning costumes — with a dazzling cast to match.
Still a byword for the glittering allure of the Jazz Age, a century after its publication, this version of The Great Gatsby properly explores the dark compulsive contradictions of American wealth, fantasy, and delusion. So join us — for a glass of fizz and a hauntingly beautiful film — to mark 100 years of Fitzgerald’s enduring masterpiece. After all, no one throws a party like Gatsby… do they, old sport?
- DOORS, DRINKS FROM: 6.30pm*
- SCREENING START TIME: 7.40pm*
- FILM RUN TIME: 146mins
- CERT: 12A (Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult)
