Hanif Kureishi Film/Video TALES OF THE CITY: HANIF KUREISHI'S ROUGH GUIDE TO LONDON MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE DIRECTED BY STEPHEN FREARS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 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 In 1985, Kureishi visited Pakistan, where the presumption of Britain's cultural tolerance and pluralism on the part of the locals made quite an impression on him. He returned home and wrote this incendiary story of Pakistanis and punks who inhabit the same London neighborhood and are mutually resentful of Britain's "tolerance." Nasser is a shrewd Pakistani businessman with a lust for money and redheads. His nephew Omar (Gordon Warneke) and stray white kid Johnny (Daniel Day Lewis) fall in love and go into business as proprietors of a refurbished laundromat. This made-for-television film premiered to such acclaim at the Edinburgh Film Festival that it was released theatrically. Stateside, it was greeted with protests by the Pakistan Action Front in New York and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay in Hollywood. 1985, U.K., 35mm, color, 93 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.