About The Event
Film screening of Cool Hand Luke directed by Stuart Rosenberg. “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.” On the chain gang for decapitating parking meters, Paul Newman takes on Top Con George Kennedy (Best Supporting Oscar), enjoys the view as a voluptuous blonde washes her car in full view of the entire gang, bets he can eat 50 hard-boiled eggs, and keeps trying to escape, prompting Captain Strother Martin’s legendary comment, until… Post-film conversation with Melissa Newman, daughter of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, and film historian Foster Hirsch.
About The Organizer
Film Forum began in 1970 as an alternative screening space for independent films, with 50 folding chairs, one projector and a $19,000 annual budget. We present two distinct, complementary film programs – NYC theatrical premieres of American independents and foreign art films, programmed by Cooper, Mike Maggiore, and Deputy Director Sonya Chung; and, since 1987, repertory selections including foreign and American classics, genre works, festivals and directors’ retrospectives, programmed by Bruce Goldstein, assisted by Elspeth Carroll. Our third and fourth screens are dedicated to extended runs of popular selections from both programs, as well as new films for longer engagements.
Please Note
Paul Newman's posthumously published memoir The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man (Knopf) will be available at our concession.
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