Artful Watching: Night Tide

The final Artful Watching screening of the calendar year will follow our monthly gathering - a Happy Hour Pot Luck - You can join us at 5:00 for sips and snacks, or just for this under-rated and frequently over-looked classic, “Night Tide.”

"It's 1961 in Santa Monica. A side-show mermaid/siren and a sailor fall in love on the pier." Join us for director Curtis Harrington’s story of young and dishy Dennis Hopper as sailor-on-leave Johnny Drake, who falls in love with mermaid/siren, Mora (Linda Lawson.) The story unfolds with touches of horror, camp, grand guignol, tarot, implied witchcraft and a good deal of the Santa Monica Pier merry-go-round we all love. Historian Jim Harris (author of “Santa Monica Pier: America’s Last Great Pleasure Pier” will join us to share conversational bon mot! *Spoiler Alert: Tarot cards welcome for impromptu post-screening community readings to honor Madame Romanovitch’s (played by Marjorie Eaton) enlightening scene with Johnny.

“Night Tide” trailer: https://youtu.be/ZfuM8TAoKAw?si=Y7PVCmEaYOSycejj

ACCESSIBILITY: Our gallery and event spaces are fully accessible, with ground level entrances with no steps. Upon requests for assistance, we will make programmatic aspects of our projects available in accessible alternative formats.