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From Ellie Siegel:<br>
Award winning filmmaker Cindy Kleine screens her documentary, ANDRE
GREGORY: BEFORE AND AFTER DINNER this Thursday night. <br>
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<b>ANDRE GREGORY: BEFORE AND AFTER DINNER</b><br>
7:00 p.m.<br>
Thursday, March 13<br>
Brand Screening Room<br>
Liebling Center</span><span
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<b>Trailer: </b><br>
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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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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
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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 <i>Doug and Mike, Mike and Doug</i>
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<span style="">Ellie Siegel<br>
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</span><font face="Geneva"><b>Stephen Holden, New York Times:</b><br>
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Jeff Shannon, The Seattle Times</b>:<br>
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