Tue Nov 10 · 7pm

Permanent Vacation / Variety (1983)

directed by Jim Jarmusch, 1981, and Bette Gordon

The Brattle Theatre · Harvard Square · Cambridge

A double bill from the Brattle’s Location Location Location: 80’s NYC series. Jim Jarmusch’s rarely screened first feature, Permanent Vacation (1981), shown on 35mm, follows an aimless young drifter (Chris Parker) around Downtown Manhattan. Bette Gordon’s Variety (1983) follows a woman (Sandy McLeod) who sells tickets at a Times Square porn theater and grows obsessed with its patrons; the LA Weekly called it “A feminist Vertigo.”