Rachel Kushner! Robert Frank! Naughty, naughty boy band! Get your tickets quick, as this will sell out soon (see bio) Reposted from @mezzaninefilm : Just announced! MUBI presents: Robert Frank’s C***SUCKER BLUES (1972) Selected and introduced by writer Rachel Kushner August 26, event at 8pm @2220arts. 7pm doors. Tickets now on sale via link in bio. We are thrilled to present a rare screening of one of the most infamous rock-and-roll documentaries ever made. In 1972, the Rolling Stones came to the United States to promote EXILE ON MAIN ST., their first time in the country since the 1969 Altamont tragedy. Iconoclastic filmmaker and photographer Robert Frank, along with DP and sound recordist Danny Seymour, were given unprecedented access to the Stones’ backstage antics, resulting in a controversial fly-on-the-wall portrait that portrays the Stones at their most uninhibited, as well as their most alienated. Amid rip-roaring live performances, Frank and Seymour’s montage presents a brash, fragmented portrait of hedonism that serves as “a meditation on the disconnected nature of fame” (The New York Times). Never officially released due to a lawsuit from the band, the film led to a court order dictating that it screen only with Robert Frank in attendance. This rare event will mark the first Los Angeles screening since Frank’s passing in 2019. Special thanks to Marian Luntz and Tracy Stephenson (Museum of Fine Arts Houston). This screening would not be possible without generous support from MUBI (@mubiusa). “An indelible look at a rock band on the road. Frank unflinchingly records the rough sexuality and substance abuse of the Stones’ entourage...like the Exile LP, it has a bleary, disoriented, 3 AM feeling.” -Chicago Reader “Poses the Orphic question of just how far an artist can go too far. Today, with the private lives of heralded artists laid out as open books...it’s worth wondering whether that scrutiny will have an effect on the kinds of energies that get expressed and embodied in art. The existence—and the suppression—of C***SUCKER BLUES is a primordial moment in this historic shift. “ -Richard Brody, The New Yorker