The Melbourne Cinémathèque & ACMI present
25th Hour
When
Wed 8 Jul 2026
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In post-9/11 New York, a drug dealer (Edward Norton) moves through his final day of freedom, surface swagger giving way to regret and reckoning. Norton’s typical narcissism is perfectly utilised by Lee, who buttresses him with a stacked ensemble – Philip Seymour Hoffman, Brian Cox, Rosario Dawson, Anna Paquin – helping generate pathos for an unlikeable man through the reactions and empathy of those around him.
Lee’s feel for street-level detail, sudden bursts of anger and the raw, unsettled mood of a city whose confidence has been shattered, transforms David Benioff’s occasionally ranting screenplay into a bruised, strangely tender hymn to New York’s endurance.
35mm print courtesy of the National Film and Sound Archive, Australia.
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