Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Molly Ringwald, and Anthony Michael Hall will reunite for twenty-fifth anniversary screening of THE BREAKFAST CLUB
Film Society of Lincoln Center
September 19, Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th St. at Amsterdam Ave.
September 20, Paris Theatre, 4 West 58th St., sold out
212-875-5601
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Last August, writer, director, and producer John Hughes died at the age of fifty-nine, leaving behind a cinematic legacy that came to encapsulate the 1980s. The Film Society of Lincoln Center is paying tribute to the Michigan native by screening five of his finest today, starting with HOME ALONE (Chris Columbus, 1990) and continuing with SIXTEEN CANDLES (1984), PRETTY IN PINK (Howard Deutch, 1985), FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (1986), and PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES (1987). Molly Ringwald will participate in a Q&A following the 5:00 screening of PRETTY IN PINK, while Jason Reitman will introduce the 7:30 showing of the seminal FERRIS BUELLER. But the biggest deal takes place on Monday night, September 20, when Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, and Ringwald will reunite for a panel discussion, hosted by Kevin Smith, following a special twenty-fifth anniversary screening of Hughes’s best, THE BREAKFAST CLUB, taking place at the Paris Theatre. The 1985 classic forever defined and redefined the teen movie and teens themselves, blasting conformity, stereotyping, and educational bureaucracy.