Bruce Dern will give a free talk on October 10 at Lincoln Center about his latest film, Alexander Payne’s NEBRASKA
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater
144 West 65th St. between Broadway & Amsterdam Ave.
Thursday, October 10, free, 7:00
212-875-5600
www.filmlinc.com
Chicago-born actor Bruce Dern looks like he will finally be getting his due, gaining raves for his performance in Alexander Payne’s Nebraska, which earned him the Best Actor award at Cannes this year. The gruff seventy-seven-year-old Dern has appeared in some ninety movies, from Westerns and black comedies to psychedelic head trips and science fiction, from sports and horror flicks to gangster pictures and literary adaptations; among his myriad films are The Great Gatsby, The Trip, Silent Running, The Cowboys, The King of Marvin Gardens, That Championship Season, Bloody Mama, and Smile. The former husband of Diane Ladd and the father of Laura Dern, Dern received his lone Oscar nomination for 1979’s Coming Home. In Nebraska, Dern plays an old man going on a road trip with his son (Will Forte), believing that there is a pot of gold waiting for him at the end of the rainbow. Dern will participate in a free talk with Brian Brooks about the film on October 10 at 7:00 at Lincoln Center as part of NYFF51 Live, a series of public discussions that is a sidebar to the fifty-first New York Film Festival. Nebraska will have its final NYFF screening on October 12 at noon at Alice Tully Hall. NYFF51 Live, which previously had free talks with Isabelle Huppert, Steve McQueen, Claire Denis, Hirokazu Kore-eda, and agnès b., continues on October 10 at 7:45 with a short filmmakers panel and concludes on October 11 at 7:00 with producer and studio executive David V. Picker.