Picture House hosts advance screening of ‘Charlie Says’ with director Mary Harron on Tuesday
Editor’s note: the following press release was provided by Amy Cole, director of communications and outreach at The Picture House.
On Tuesday, May 7th at 7:30 p.m. The Picture House Regional Film Center (TPH) will host an advance screening of Charlie Says (104 mins, R) followed by a Q&A with the director Mary Harron. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 2, 2018 where it was nominated for Best Film, and will have its theatrical release on Friday, May 10th. Harron is most notable for her films, I Shot Andy Warhol, and American Psycho.
Charlie Says is a biographical drama based on the life and crimes of Charles Manson and his followers. Years after the shocking murders that made the name Charles Manson synonymous with pure evil, the three women who killed for him — Leslie Van Houten (Hannah Murray), Patricia Krenwinkel (Sosie Bacon), and Susan Atkins (Marianne Rendón) — remain under the spell of the infamous cult leader (Matt Smith). Confined to an isolated cellblock in a California penitentiary, the trio seem destined to live out the rest of their lives under the delusion that their crimes were part of a cosmic plan — until empathetic graduate student Karlene Faith (Merritt Wever) is enlisted to rehabilitate them.
After the film, TPH critic-in-residence Marshall Fine will moderate a discussion and Q&A with the director Mary Harron. Harron started her career as a music journalist in the punk era and then worked in television in Britain, making documentaries and short films for the BBC and Channel Four. Her first film was I Shot Andy Warhol in 1996, followed by American Psycho in 2000, The Notorious Bettie Page in 2006, The Moth Diaries in 2011, and Charlie Says in 2018. She has also worked extensively in television, doing episodes of Six Feet Under, Big Love, the L Word, and many other shows. Recently she directed all six episodes of the Netflix series Alias Grace, adapted by Sarah Polley from Margaret Atwood’s novel (2017). Harron’s next project is a film on the last years of Salvador Dali, written with her husband, writer/director John C. Walsh.
Tickets to the advance screening and discussion are $15/general admission, $12/students, seniors, and members and are
available at www.thepicturehouse.org or at the box office, 175 Wolfs Lane, Pelham, NY 10803.
