[CS] Fwd: Film screening this Thursday: Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner

[Paula Harmon]

 From Ellie Siegel:
Award winning filmmaker Cindy Kleine screens her documentary, ANDRE 
GREGORY: BEFORE AND AFTER DINNER this Thursday night.


*ANDRE GREGORY: BEFORE AND AFTER DINNER*
7:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 13
Brand Screening Room
Liebling Center

A question and answer session with Cindy Kleine will follow the screening.


*Trailer: *
http://www.beforeandafterdinner.com/trailer.html


Kleine's film follows two threads: the life and work of André Gregory, 
avant garde theater director and cult film star of Louis Malle's MY 
DINNER WITH ANDRE (hence Kleine's title), and Kleine and Gregory's 
marriage.

André Gregory is an experimental theater director with an unusual m.o.  
Among other things, he rehearses his plays for a very long time--the 
latest, Ibsen's The Master Builder, for fourteen years. Decades ago I 
saw his stripped down, hyper-present, rambunctious, hilarious Alice in 
Wonderland (in rehearsal for just three years), and I was dumbstruck--it 
was totally alive. This film focuses on the whole arc of Gregory's 
directorial career, and it gives a wonderful introduction to who he is 
as an artist.  Theater is an ephemeral art, and Kleine gives a sense of 
Gregory's important legacy.

Other themes in ANDRE GREGORY: BEFORE AND AFTER DINNER include aging, 
art making, family, money, truth and storytelling--a joyful smorgasbord 
of Kleine and Gregory's lives and passions.   Filmmaker Kleine both 
narrates and appears on camera as subject.

Kleine is a truth teller--clear-eyed, funny and loving--and her films 
are instructive for students whose work engages personal narrative.  Her 
first full-length film, PHYLLIS AND HAROLD, is a courageous examination 
of her parents' angry and disappointing 59-year marriage.

She has received awards and fellowships from the American Film 
Institute, Iowa Independent Film Festival, Jewish Eye (Israel), 
MacDowell Colony, and New England Regional Fellowship Program. She has 
taught filmmaking at Boston College, Harvard University, the Museum 
School in Boston, and the New School for Social Research.


Kleine's films have been exhibited at international festivals including 
Telluride, Seattle, San Francisco, Boston, Vancouver, Santa Fe, and 
Provincetown and have shown at the Film Forum, Walter Reade Theater at 
Lincoln Center, Knitting Factory and Anthology Film Archives in NYC, The 
Music Hall in Los Angeles, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Institute of 
Contemporary Arts in London, and Center d'art Contemporain in Lyon, 
France. Her film /Doug and Mike, Mike and Doug/ was broadcast on PBS's 
POV Film Series.

  Warmly,

Ellie Siegel


*Stephen Holden, New York Times:*
http://movies.nytimes.com/2013/04/03/movies/andre-gregory-before-and-after-dinner-by-cindy-kleine.html?ref=movies&_r=0
*
Jeff Shannon, The Seattle Times*:
http://seattletimes.com/html/entertainment/2021566433_andregregorymoviexml.html



-- 
Paula Harmon, Administrative Assistant
School of Cognitive Science
Hampshire College
893 West Street Amherst, MA 01002
phone: 413.559.5502
fax: 413.559.5438
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