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Poster for Pilgrim, Farewell

Pilgrim, Farewell

Dates with showtimes for Pilgrim, Farewell
  • Tue, Feb 18

Run Time: 100 min.

Tuesday, February 18

Brain Dead Studios

611 N Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036

West Coast premiere of a new 4K restoration courtesy of The Film Desk

In recent years, Michael Roemer’s five features “have endured the curse—which is also something of a blessing—of not being fully appreciated until decades after they were made” (Melissa Anderson, 4Columns). Roemer’s 1982 feature, which premiered at Venice and was originally broadcast on PBS’ American Playhouse, is an emotionally explosive melodrama, featuring performances so searingly volatile that it approaches something like an American Ingmar Bergman film. As summer ebbs near a Vermont lake, a widow (Elizabeth Huddle) and her lover (Christopher Lloyd in one of his first onscreen roles) try to come to terms with her terminal cancer — complicated by a pregnant sister and an estranged daughter (Laurie Prange). A cinematic poison pen letter with the range and depth of Cassavetes, PILGRIM, FAREWELL should cast no doubt on Roemer’s growing reputation as among the great regional American filmmakers.

“I can think of few films as emotionally chaotic.” -Melissa Anderson, 4Columns

“A little mega-watt masterwork.” – Financial Times

“Huddle and Prange generate an intensity that verges on being frightening.”

The New York Times

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