Ishtar

Directed by Elaine May, 1987
PG-13; 107 minutes
Pay-what-you-can tickets, available here

As part of the "Elaine May in May" series, the Fort Worth Film Club presents Ishtar.

Two terrible lounge singers (Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman) get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar (a fictional country), and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime. Also starring Isabelle Adjani, Charles Grodin, and Carol Kane.

The Fort Worth Film Club partnered in 2022 with the Reel House Foundation after the closing of Fort Worth’s lone art house theater: the Grand Berry Theater. Continuing what the Grand Berry started, the newly branded Fort Worth Film Club's goal is to build a community in Fort Worth around a shared love of film. The Fort Worth Film Club hosts free monthly screenings aiming for films with cultural and local importance. These screenings are open to the public and are followed by a moderated discussion.