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Instagram: fb.com/Acting-The-First-Six-LessonsĪvocado Toast the series is an intergenerational sex comedy exploring the comforts and awkwardness of sex from age 25 to 69. Winner, Best Narrative Feature - Toronto International Women's Film Festival Winner, Best of Show: Docu-drama Feature - WRPN Women's International Film Festival Winner, Best Woman Filmmaker - Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards Winner, President's Innovation Award - Burbank International Film Festival Producer: David Shapiro, Beau Bridges, Emily Bridges, Casey BridgesĬast: Beau Bridges, Emily Bridges, Jeff Bridges, Lucinda Bridges, Jordan Bridges, Lloyd Bridges, Dorothy Bridges
A unique hybrid of narrative and documentary storytelling, Acting: The First Six Lessons brings Richard Boleslavsky’s 1933 novel to the screen for the first time as part of an intimate glimpse into the life and craft of a multi-generational acting family with interviews featuring Jeff Bridges, Jordan Bridges, Lucinda Bridges, and never before seen archival interview footage of Lloyd Bridges and Dorothy Bridges. The story of The Teacher and The Creature is nested within a larger conversation with three generations of The Bridges Family. The story unfolds in six lessons over the course of their relationship: Concentration, Memory of Emotion, Dramatic Action, Characterization, Observation, and Rhythm. Together they explore the craft of acting and evolve in their understanding and appreciation of life itself.
But the conversations were passionate and troubling and now, this weekend at the Music Box, they continue as the film makes its way around the world in its second, post-festival life.Acting: The First Six Lessons follows The Teacher and his student, The Creature, played by Beau Bridges and Emily Bridges. Those who saw it there, and remember the number of walkouts as well as the volume of applause as the credits rolled, knew it was not destined for mainstream U.S. The discussion around those issues, and the film itself (well worth seeing), began 14 months ago in Cannes, where "The Tribe" played in a sidebar competition slate. Some of its images, particularly those depicting an illegal abortion in real time, bring up questions of what is legitimate dramatization and what is dubious exploitation. There are no subtitles everything is signed by the performers and though nothing is translated, the actions, the milieu and the often excruciating developments need no translation. We follow a new resident as he falls in with the school's underground criminal element. Over at the Music Box there's a film opening called "The Tribe." It's a first feature from Ukranian director Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, set in a boarding school for the deaf. Newcomers to Chicago theaters this week, playing in limited release, include the Cannes festival alum "Amy" (the Amy Winehouse documentary, which is very good). A far more interesting Sundance 2015 launch, "Dope," remains in theaters this month, even with all the minions, nearing the $15 million mark in receipts. It's pretty good, and it's making decent money for a quirky seriocomedy starring nobody you know. The film deserves neither instant-classic status nor the label of "most aggravating indie in years" others have affixed to it. The big noise coming out of the 2015 Sundance festival, "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl," is doing all right, nearing the $5 million mark. In between Cinderella stories such as "Once" and disappearing acts such as "Grace is Gone," you have everything else. It proved roughly as popular as the war itself. theaters, and a tick over $1 million overseas. "Grace is Gone" ended up making a little less than $51,000 in U.S. The Weinstein Company paid $4 million to distribute it. The drama "Grace is Gone," starring John Cusack as the grieving husband of a female soldier killed in the Iraq war, premiered the same week as "Once," winning major awards at Sundance and provoking copious, cathartic weeping among its first-ever audiences. Other films coming out of Sundance tell a different story.
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