Down With Love / High-Brow/Low-Brow/Uni-Brow

Down With Love / High-Brow/Low-Brow/Uni-Brow

It's camp, it's comedy, it's romance, it's aesthetics. It's Sarah Paulson and David Hyde Pierce being iconic as ever.

By Stray Cat Film Center

Date and time

Wednesday, June 11 · 7 - 10pm CDT.

Location

Stray Cat Film Center

1662 Broadway Boulevard Kansas City, MO 64108

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event

About this event

  • Event lasts 3 hours

dir: Peyton Reed - 2003 - 1 hr 40 min

Before LALA LAND, before BARBIE, the director of BRING IT ON and the 90s straight-to-TV remake of THE COMPUTER WORE TENNIS SHOES cashed in all his chips to make one of the most self-aware, campy romcoms of the modern era that maybe 5 people saw. Aspiring writer Barbara Novak (Renee Zellweger) arrives in New York to promote her new book, Down with Love, advocating for women to enjoy sex without commitment and freedom from men. But when men's magazine writer Catcher Block (Ewan McGregor) decides to prove her wrong, the two engage in a battle of wits, assumed identities, and AUSTIN POWERS-esque visual gags to hilarious results. Beautifully shot and costumed in the style of early 60s romantic comedies, Peyton Reed uses anachronistic sexual politics to comment on modern romance and snide skewering of romcom tropes.

Also, did we mention Sarah Paulson and David Hyde Pierce are in this?

High-Brow/Low-Brow/Uni-Brow is a monthly film series programmed by Andrew Linn dedicated to exploring films from every corner of taste and seeing what they have to say with each other.


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Stray Cat Film Center

Stray Cat Film Center is an artist-run, non-profit micro-cinema. Organized by volunteer programmers, We screen everything from to documentaries to video art to cult films and is open to the entire range of moving image expressions – independent, activist, underground and bizarre. We are a space that supports all of KC’s cinematic communities and celebrates diversity of expression, fun & radical art.

$9.31