Corporate Thrillers

“Greed is good … ”

In the 80s, filmmakers turned their cameras toward the metastasis of American capitalism as the culture made icons of corporate raiders and celebrities of shady deal makers. Spanning from the crest of the financial boom to the crash of the Great Recession, this series spotlights some of Hollywood’s most mythic white-collar villains: Michael Douglas’ Gordon Gekko, George Clooney’s conscience-pricked fixer Michael Clayton, and, of course, Christian Bale as Manhattan’s most terrifying finance bro, plus many others. We hope you’ll join us for a week of easy money and moral bankruptcy as cinematic greats offer us a peek at American corporatism run amok.