[monsoon-list] [5/30] "AREN'T YOU EVEN GOING TO KISS ME GOODBYE?" with writer/director William Richert and star Meredith Salenger in person!

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	Event:	"AREN'T YOU EVEN GOING TO KISS ME GOODBYE?" with writer/ 
director William Richert and star Meredith Salenger in person!
        When:   5/30/2008
        Time:   7:00 pm to  am
        Where:  The Loft Cinema
                        3233 E Speedway Blvd
                        Tucson 85716
        Cost:   regular admission
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Friday, May 30th at 7:00 p.m.
Regular admission prices - tickets on sale now!

Meet writer/director William Richert (Winter Kills) and star Meredith  
Salenger (Dream a Little Dream) at the U.S. theatrical premiere of  
the "lost" River Phoenix drama, AREN'T YOU EVEN GOING TO KISS ME  
GOODBYE?.

"GOODBYE is a nifty little sleeper— funny, sad, heartfelt and true,  
with an adolescent angst that lingers." - Nathan Rabin, ONION AV CLUB

Discover the “lost” River Phoenix comedy/drama AREN’T YOU EVEN GONNA  
KISS ME GOODBYE? when writer/director WILLIAM RICHERT and star  
MEREDITH SALENGER visit The Loft to present the U.S. theatrical  
premiere of this digitally remastered Director’s Cut of Richert’s  
1988 film, A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon.

William Richert’s uniquely personal, semi-autobiographical film,  
originally released by 20th Century Fox in 1988 under the title A  
Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, stars the late, great River  
Phoenix (My Own Private Idaho) as the sensitive and brooding Jimmy  
Reardon, a young man looking for love and his place in the world. Co- 
starring Meredith Salenger, Ann Magnuson, Ione Skye, Louanne Sirota  
and a young Matthew Perry, Richert’s original version of the film  
(titled AREN’T YOU EVEN GONNA KISS ME GOODBYE?) was seized and  
severely re-edited by the studio (without the director’s approval),  
then released with a new, less melancholy title, and promoted as a  
teen exploitation film. When the film failed to connect with  
audiences in its newly bowdlerized state, the studio let the movie  
fade into cinema history, creating a cautionary tale of how studio  
interference can destroy an artist's vision.
Now, 20 years later, William Richert has rescued his original version  
of the film (based on his own autobiographical novel), inserted  
missing footage, reinstated the original title, and restored the  
opening credit song by Johnny Mathis and the original lost score  
composed by the legendary Elmer Bernstein (also cut from Fox’s  
version), as well as an original song written and performed by River  
Phoenix exclusively for the movie’s end credit sequence.
Darker, deeper and significantly more powerful than the teen-friendly  
version released by Fox in 1988, AREN’T YOU EVEN GOING TO KISS ME  
GOODBYE? reveals the “classic in the making” that was Richert’s  
original vision, and rescues a great “lost” performance by the late  
cult idol River Phoenix, whose fan base has steadily grown since his  
untimely death in 1993.
WILLIAM RICHERT has written and directed a long list of unique and  
idiosyncratic films, including the cult classic Winter Kills (1979)  
and Success (1980) starring Jeff Bridges, and starred with River  
Phoenix in Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho (1991).
MEREDITH SALENGER has starred in numerous films and TV shows, and is  
well-known for her work in such beloved 1980s teen films as The  
Journey of Natty Gann (1985) with John Cusak, and Dream a Little  
Dream (1989) with Corey Feldman and Corey Haim. She has also starred  
in numerous other films, including John Carpenter’s Village of the  
Damned (1995), and Lake Placid (1999), and guest-starred on such TV  
series as Dawson’s Creek, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Super Robot  
Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!. She was also recently named Maxim  
Magazine’s “Hottest Woman of the 80s.”
(William Richert, 2008, 90 mins., Not Rated)

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The Loft Cinema
3233 E Speedway Blvd
Tucson 85716


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