Metrograph presents Nicolas Uncaged, a ten-film retrospective for one of America’s most arresting and revered performers, beginning November 8 at Metrograph In Theater. Nicolas Uncaged runs from November 8 to Jan 2, with select encore screenings to follow. Titles include Adaptation, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Con Air, Moonstruck, National Treasure, Pig, Red Rock West, Vampire’s Kiss, The Wicker Man, and Wild at Heart.
Read More Metrograph presents Nicolas Uncaged, a ten-film retrospective for one of America’s most arresting and revered performers, beginning November 8 at Metrograph In Theater. Nicolas Uncaged runs from November 8 to Jan 2, with select encore screenings to follow. Titles include Adaptation, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Con Air, Moonstruck, National Treasure, Pig, Red Rock West, Vampire’s Kiss, The Wicker Man, and Wild at Heart.Heaped with praise and panegyrics as one of the finest screen actors of his generation, pilloried and parodied as an anything-for-a-paycheck hambone with a weakness for weird wigs and prostheses, Nicolas Cage is a one-man sideshow, a mixture of Marlon Brando, Robert Mitchum, Lon Chaney, and a stick of TNT who takes back serious thespian prestige whenever he wants to, dives into grindhouse material and Academy Award hopefuls with the same mad enthusiasm, and never seems to be having anything less than a total blast in front of the camera. From blockbuster