The 50th-anniversary presentation of Car Wash at The Independent Picture House uses a new 4K restoration. The day-in-the-life cult comedy follows friends working at Sully Boyar’s Car Wash in Los Angeles as they meet eccentric customers, including a smooth-talking preacher, a wacky cab driver and an ex-convict, while trading politically incorrect jokes over a disco and funk soundtrack. Some of the workers find romance as the day moves along, but most are just happy to get through another shift. A talkback with Felix Curtis, Programmer of the “Classic Black Cinema Series” at the Harvey B. Gantt Center, follows the screening. Michael Schultz directs; the cast includes Franklyn Ajaye, George Carlin, Professor Irwin Corey, Ivan Dixon, Antonio Fargas, Jack Kehoe, Clarence Muse, Lorraine Gary, The Pointer Sisters and Richard Pryor. The film is rated PG.
Car Wash 50th
Anniversary Talkback
When
Sunday, 6 December
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The Independent Picture House, Charlotte
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