ISHTAR

USA | 1987 | DCP| 107 mins.
Director: Elaine May
Cast: Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani
Hoffman and Beatty are inept songwriters who find themselves embroiled in a C.I.A.-engineered spy plot in the Middle East. Before this terrific satire on Reagan-era foreign policy had been seen by anyone, audiences had their minds made up for them by the “info-tainment” press corps who relentlessly reported the high production costs and portrayed the gifted May as a filmmaker-out-of-control. She sadly hasn’t directed a film since.