| John Mitty Friday, December 7, 2012 |
Academy Award Winner Christopher Plummer stars in his most astonishing performance ever, an unforgettable portrayal of legendary actor John Barrymore, a man of colossal talent and contradictions and one of the greatest Shakespearean actors of all time. “Barrymore”, a new film based on the play by William Luce will screen twice, on Friday, December 14 at 7pm and Sunday, December 30 at 12 noon at Cinema Arts Centre, 423 Park Ave, Huntington 631-423-7610www.CinemaArtsCentre.org
$15 Members / $20 Public / Includes reception. Tickets can be purchased online, www.CinemaArtsCentre.org at the box office during theatre hours or by calling Brown Paper Tickets at1-800-838-3006
Barrymore is an unforgettable portrayal of legendary actor John Barrymore, a man of colossal talent and contradictions and one of the greatest Shakespearean actors of all time. Set in 1942, the final year of John Barrymore’s life, Barrymore takes place on the stage of a Broadway theatre, where the actor is struggling to recreate his performance in the title role of Shakespeare’s Richard III. It leads him to look back on the highs and lows of his stunning career and remarkable life. Directed, and adapted for the screen, by Érik Canuel (Bon Cop, Bad Cop), Barrymore stars Christopher Plummer in the tour de force film performance of his career.
Barrymore will be followed by a special bonus making-of documentary Backstage with Barrymore featuring Helen Mirren, Julie Andrews and Zoe Caldwell.
"Christopher Plummer really deserves a Best Actor Oscar for Barrymore… it’s the role—and the performance-- of a lifetime, and he plays every color, nuance, mood shift and variety of vocal power and body language in his enormous range. The artistry leaves you with your mouth wide open... stunned and cheering. So bring out the Oscar. "-- Rex Reed
“Christopher Plummer grew up idolizing John Barrymore as both a ham of genius and a self-destructive lush. He managed to arrest his own downward spiral, but in 1997 had a chance to channel Barrymore’s in William Luce’s play “Barrymore”. Revived in 2010, it’s now a dandy film directed by Erik Canuel. It takes place in a theater in which the ravaged, ruined alcoholic rehearses for a comeback that will never come—all while boozing, declaiming Shakespeare, and trading insults with an offstage prompter. God, I love Plummer’s performance—the twiddling fingers, the tipsy sway of the head, the reverberating roar, as well as the pathos of a man who can’t stop acting long enough to hear the cry of his own soul. The best part is last: Plummer as Barrymore as Richard III—raising goosebumps and, I’m almost sure, the dead.”- David Edelstein,New York Magazine
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