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Friday, November 6, 2015

FSLC Announces Free Ron Howard Talk For "In the Heart of the Sea" November 22




 THE FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER CONTINUES THE 2015 FREE TALKS
WITH OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTOR RON HOWARD FOR HIS NEW FILM
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA, NOVEMBER 22


New York, NY (November 6, 2015) – The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today the next of the popular FREE Film Society Talks with director Ron Howard at 5:00pm on Sunday, November 22 timed to his new film In the Heart of the Sea. Talks are sponsored by HBO and include a combination of clips, trailers, and extended conversations with questions from the audience. Additional fall talks to be announced.

Ron Howard began his career as an actor, playing beloved television roles such as Opie on The Andy Griffith Show and Richie Cunningham on Happy Days before transitioning into film with American Graffiti (1973). He made his feature directorial debut with Grand Theft Auto in 1977 and amassed a body of work that includes Splash (1984), Cocoon (1985), Parenthood (1989), Apollo 13 (1995), The Da Vinci Code (2006), Frost/Nixon (2008), and A Beautiful Mind (2001), which earned him the Oscar for Best Director.

On November 22, the director will sit down and discuss his career in front of and behind the camera, as well as the making of this new film, In the Heart of the Sea. The film is set during the winter of 1820 when a New England whaling ship was assaulted by a whale of mammoth size and will, stranding its crew at sea for 90 days. In the Heart of the Sea reveals the encounter’s harrowing aftermath as the ship’s surviving crew is pushed to their limits to stay alive. This real-life disaster inspired Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, and the film stars Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy, Tom Holland, Ben Whishaw, and Brendan Gleeson, and opens in theaters December 11. A presentation of Warner Bros. Pictures, in association with Village Roadshow Pictures, a Warner Bros. Pictures release.


Free tickets will be distributed at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center box office (144 West 65th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam) on a first-come, first-served basis starting one hour prior to the talks. Limit one ticket per person, subject to availability. For those unable to attend, the talk will be featured on our podcast and YouTube channel at a later date.


ABOUT FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER
Founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international cinema, the Film Society of Lincoln Center works to recognize established and emerging filmmakers, support important new work, and to enhance the awareness, accessibility, and understanding of the moving image. The Film Society produces the renowned New York Film Festival, a curated selection of the year’s most significant new film work, and presents or collaborates on other annual New York City festivals including Dance on Camera, Film Comment Selects, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, New York African Film Festival, New York Asian Film Festival, New York Jewish Film Festival, Open Roads: New Italian Cinema and Rendez-Vous with French Cinema. In addition to publishing the award-winning Film Comment magazine, the Film Society recognizes an artist's unique achievement in film with the prestigious Chaplin Award, whose 2015 recipient was Robert Redford. The Film Society’s state-of-the-art Walter Reade Theater and the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, located at Lincoln Center, provide a home for year-round programs and the New York City film community.

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