“Goes by like a fevered dream of love, but one you remember vividly, with profound pleasure.” - Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
“This is the best movie I've seen in a decade. For once it's no hyperbole to say, 'Unforgettable!'” - David Edelstein, Slate
Friday, February 14, 8:15 p.m. & Monday, February 17, 8:00 p.m. | In the enduringly excellent ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND, Joel (Jim Carrey) is heartbroken when he discovers his ex-girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winselt) has had her memories of their relationship erased. Desperate, he undergoes the same procedure, during which his memories of Clementine—the good, the bad, the ugly—fight to endure. Written by Charlie Kaufman (who won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay) and directed by the visionary Michel Gondry, who uses practical effects, handheld camerawork, and non-linear editing to deliver a melancholic, sci-fi, rom-com masterpiece about how we’re destined to find, and hurt, the ones we love.
Awards & Nominations
Winner - Best Original Screenplay, Academy Awards
Nominee - Best Actress (Kate Winslet), Academy Awards
Winner - Saturn Award, Best Science Fiction Film
Nominee - Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Actress (Kate Winslet), New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Persistence of Memory: Ten films (poetically, all quite memorable) that explore recollection, unreliable narrators and amnesiatic protagonists, ghosts real and imagined, the way others remember us (ouch), and the coming to terms with that, as much as we try to hold on to them, as time passes our memories shift and slip away. Read more
The Film Center is ADA accessible. This presentation will be projected without open captions. The theater is hearing-loop equipped. For accessibility requests, please email filmcenter@saic.edu