Name: The Great Gatsby at Speed Cinema
Start: 2025-05-17T11:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-05-17T14:00:00-04:00
Location: Speed Art Museum

The Great Gatsby
Directed by Baz Luhrmann
Saturday, May 17
11 am, cash bar in the Speed Cinema lobby with a Gatsby-inspired cocktail
12 pm, screening
$12 | $8 Speed members
“This is a film which takes classic source material and imbues it on screen with a sense of wonder commensurate to its prior form.” —Richard Larson, Slant Magazine
The Great Gatsby follows would-be writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, bootleg kings, and sky-rocketing stocks. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her philandering, blue-blooded husband, Tom Buchanan.
It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits. As Nick bears witness, within and without of the world he inhabits, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and high-octane tragedy, and holds a mirror to our own modern times and struggles. 2013, U.S./Australia, DCP, 143 minutes.