28 March 2005
David Sedaris Plus Christopher Guest = We Can Now Die Happy!
David Sedaris at Purchase College
* Thursday, March 31
* The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College (735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY)
* Tickets: $20; $10 for Purchase faculty, staff and non-Purchase students (with ID); $5 for Purchase College Students
* Tickets available by phone at (914) 251-6200
* David Sedaris at Purchase website
* Directions to Purchase
Listen to David Sedaris on NPR.
Christopher Guest @ MoMA’s Great Collaborations
April 8–17, 2005
Christopher Guest is one of the most comically gifted and incisive American filmmakers working today. A true polymath—he acts, writes, directs, and composes—Guest has forged a distinctive style of fake documentary filmmaking that relies entirely on unscripted improvisations. Collaborating with an extraordinarily talented ensemble of comedians and musicians that includes Eugene Levy, Michael McKean, Catherine O’Hara, Parker Posey, and Harry Shearer (many of them veterans of SCTV and Second City), Guest creates pitch-perfect portraits of some of America’s daffier subcultures, from Hollywood’s smarmy movie industry in The Big Picture (1987) and smalltown amateur theatrics in Waiting for Guffman (1996) to high-stakes dog shows in Best in Show (2000) and folk-music reunions in A Mighty Wind (2003). These much-revered, oft-quoted films are presented in a mid-career retrospective that also features Rob Reiner’s This Is Spinal Tap (1984) and The Princess Bride (1987), Saturday Night Live sketches and films, rare television pilots, commercials, outtakes, and trailers. Guest introduces the opening night screening of Best in Show, and, as part of MoMA’s Great Collaborations series, performs live on April 9 with McKean and Shearer, followed by an onstage discussion with longtime collaborators Bob Balaban and Parker Posey. Read more here. (thanks ManicMess!)
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David Sedaris at Purchase College* Thursday, March 31
* The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College (735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY)
* Tickets: $20; $10 for Purchase faculty, staff and non-Purchase students (with ID); $5 for Purchase College Students
* Tickets available by phone at (914) 251-6200
* David Sedaris at Purchase website
* Directions to Purchase
Listen to David Sedaris on NPR.
Christopher Guest @ MoMA’s Great CollaborationsApril 8–17, 2005
Christopher Guest is one of the most comically gifted and incisive American filmmakers working today. A true polymath—he acts, writes, directs, and composes—Guest has forged a distinctive style of fake documentary filmmaking that relies entirely on unscripted improvisations. Collaborating with an extraordinarily talented ensemble of comedians and musicians that includes Eugene Levy, Michael McKean, Catherine O’Hara, Parker Posey, and Harry Shearer (many of them veterans of SCTV and Second City), Guest creates pitch-perfect portraits of some of America’s daffier subcultures, from Hollywood’s smarmy movie industry in The Big Picture (1987) and smalltown amateur theatrics in Waiting for Guffman (1996) to high-stakes dog shows in Best in Show (2000) and folk-music reunions in A Mighty Wind (2003). These much-revered, oft-quoted films are presented in a mid-career retrospective that also features Rob Reiner’s This Is Spinal Tap (1984) and The Princess Bride (1987), Saturday Night Live sketches and films, rare television pilots, commercials, outtakes, and trailers. Guest introduces the opening night screening of Best in Show, and, as part of MoMA’s Great Collaborations series, performs live on April 9 with McKean and Shearer, followed by an onstage discussion with longtime collaborators Bob Balaban and Parker Posey. Read more here. (thanks ManicMess!)
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