After partnering on the screwball What’s Up, Doc?, director Peter Bogdanovich and star Ryan O’Neal re-teamed for this deeply heartfelt tale of fathers and daughters, bringing along Ryan’s real-life daughter, Tatum. She would go on to be the youngest performer to ever win a competitive Oscar at the age of 10, a much deserved victory for a stunningly assured performance as Addie Pray, a child both hurt by the loss of her mother and an absent father, but confident enough to stick up for herself and join in on the family tradition of conning folks across the dusty countryside.

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.

“‘Paper Moon’ is many things: a road movie; a coming-of-age/getting-of-wisdom story; a caper comedy; an eye-level look at childhood, in all its wrenching disorientation and resilience, that manages to be both tough-minded and hopeful; and a tale about impoverished people in desperate times trying to make two and two add up to more than four. But one thing it refuses to be is an exercise in sentimentality.” ~ Mark Harris, Criterion

Screening 11/4 + 11/7

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