Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty on a camel in Elaine May’s 1987 movie Ishtar.
Elaine May is a gifted American comic performer, screenwriter, and filmmaker. This month, Cinematheque (1131 Howe St.) is screening two films by May—including Ishtar, a feature that was a notorious bomb upon its release. Despite, or because, of the fact that she was one of the only women directing features in Hollywood in the 1970s and ’80s, both films happen to be buddy pictures.
Cinematheque is screening the two movies, both in restored versions, Sept. 13–15. Find out more about these two films, and May, below.
