Weekend Movie Forecast: The Informant! Vs. Jennifer's Body

Starting tonight through October 1st, Film Forum's screening a new 35mm restored print of John Huston's 1972 film Fat City, about two boxers; one on the way up: 18-year-old Jeff Bridges, bound for the pros via an intro to manager Nicholas Colasanto (later Coach on Cheers); and one on the way down: "pushing-30 ex-pro Stacy Keach, mortified by pulling a muscle in his first workout after a two-year layoff." Mike Hale at the Times says it "has many of the markers of the classic boxing film: the aging fighter who could have been champ; his young, unspoiled counterpart; their gnarled and nostalgic trainer; the women who distract them; and the menacing outsider — in this case a Mexican former champion — who must be faced...Yet it manages to avoid most of the genre’s clichés."