
Ishtar
Elaine May / US, 1987 / 105 min.
Black comedy about two talentless musicians – Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman – who become entangled in a conflict between Moroccan revolutionaries and the CIA. A huge flop at the time, but now re-evaluated as a parable about the imperialist actions of the US during the 1980s.

The stories surrounding the making of Ishtar are as epic as those of the privations suffered by the cast and crew during the shooting of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now.
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Director
Elaine May
Production year
1987
Country
US
Original title
Ishtar
Length
105 min.
Language
English
Subtitles
NONE
Format
DCP
Part of
Feat or Failure
Magnum opus or flawed masterpiece? No film divided opinion at the last Cannes film festival as much as Francis Ford Coppola's latest epic, Megalopolis. To accompany the première, Eye is screening a selection of other films that turned out to be way ahead of their time – in spite of not being well understood in their own era.



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