Jules Feiffer—the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, novelist, and playwright—wrote the play Little Murders in 1967; four years later it was adapted into the eponymous film directed by Alan Arkin and starring Elliott Gould. The story follows Patsy Newquist, 27 and blindly optimistic despite all the crime in New York City, and her new boyfriend, Alfred Chamberlain, whom she rescued from a mugging. To sum up their relationship: Newquist wants Chamberlain to “don’t worry be happy” but he’s too numb to even bother worrying. Things escalate absurdly when Newquist herself is randomly murdered, sending Chamberlain into a killing spree in a finale worthy of Quentin Tarantino. Nearly 60 years later, the cult classic still resonates in a world desensitized to violence. It is now reimagined in a new adaptation directed by Matthew Gasda. —Carolina de Armas