Hanif Kureishi Film/Video TALES OF THE CITY: HANIF KUREISHI'S ROUGH GUIDE TO LONDON LONDON KILLS ME INTRODUCED BY DIRECTOR HANIF KUREISHI TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2001, 8 PM $6 ($4 WALKER MEMBERS) AUDITORIUM TALES OF THE CITY: HANIF KUREISHI'S ROUGH GUIDE TO LONDON SEPTEMBER: 5 | 12 | 19 | 21 | 25 | 27 | 28 | 29 Before Notting Hill was gentrified by the likes of Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant, it provided the setting for Kureishi's directorial debut, London Kills Me. A group of mostly unemployed ne'er-do-well twentysomethings attends parties, deals drugs, and sleeps on the streets or in abandoned flats. At the center of the story, Clint Eastwood (named after the reggae singer, not the actor) searches for a pair of respectable shoes so that he can become gainfully employed. His friends Muffdiver and Sylvie provide the proper bad influences to keep him astray. Kureishi's playful reworking of Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thief refuses to moralize about the youths' lifestyle or pander to gritty clichés so prevalent in drug movies. 1991, U.K., 35mm, color, 107 minutes. TALES OF THE CITY: HANIF KUREISHI'S ROUGH GUIDE TO LONDON IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM THE REGIS FOUNDATION. SPECIAL THANKS TO EMPIRE PICTURES, INC. (EDMONDO SCHWARTZ AND ED ARENTS) FOR PROGRAMMING SUPPORT.