{"id":361478,"date":"2026-03-23T21:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T21:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/361478\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T21:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T21:22:11","slug":"jerry-schatzberg-harold-pinter-movie-reunion-returns-watch-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/361478\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Schatzberg-Harold Pinter Movie ‘Reunion’ Returns \u2014 Watch Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five years ago, then 94-year-old filmmaker Jerry Schatzberg<\/a> told IndieWire that he still intended to make one more feature film<\/a>. We\u2019re still waiting for that new movie from the director of \u201cThe Panic in Needle Park<\/a>,\u201d \u201cScarecrow<\/a>,\u201d and \u201cStreet Smart,\u201d but in the meantime, the next best thing is on the way: a North American theatrical release of Schatzberg\u2019s previously almost impossible-to-see 1989 drama, \u201cReunion<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scripted by the legendary Harold Pinter (\u201cThe Servant,\u201d \u201cThe French Lieutenant\u2019s Woman,\u201d \u201cThe Comfort of Strangers\u201d), \u201cReunion\u201d tells the story of a Jewish lawyer (Jason Robards) who returns to his hometown of Stuttgart after 55 years and flashes back on a youth spent during the Nazi party\u2019s rise to power. Working with production designer Alexandre Trauner (\u201cChildren of Paradise,\u201d \u201cThe Apartment\u201d), Schatzberg vividly recreates 1930s Germany in a film that was extremely well received (Jonathan Rosenbaum called it \u201ca story seldom told before with such feeling for detail and nuance\u201d) but barely seen \u2014 at least in the United States.<\/p>\n

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\u201cReunion\u201d was a hit in France after it premiered there at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival, but when it limped into U.S. theaters two years later, it came and went with little fanfare, despite positive reviews. \u201cIt opened on Friday and closed on Monday,\u201d Schatzberg said. The film then virtually disappeared for 35 years, with no release on any home video format or streaming platform and no television airings. Aside from occasional revival screenings like the one at last year\u2019s Museum of Modern Art Schatzberg retrospective, \u201cReunion\u201d has been unavailable.<\/p>\n

On April 3, Rialto Pictures<\/a> will give \u201cReunion\u201d the theatrical release it has long deserved, opening the movie at New York\u2019s Film Forum for a two-week run, followed by engagements at Laemmle\u2019s Royal and Town Center in Los Angeles on April 17 and a subsequent national roll-out. Whether or not we\u2019ll ever get that new Schatzberg film is anybody\u2019s guess, but a new \u201cold\u201d Schatzberg is cause for celebration. <\/p>\n

Watch the new trailer<\/a> for the re-release, an IndieWire exclusive, below.<\/p>\n

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