As we pass the midpoint of the Festival, our Centerpiece program rings in a second full weekend of films and parties. Our featured film for the evening is director Michael Schroeder’s Man in the Chair, featuring Christopher Plummer’s latest big- screen performance. It’s another great role for Plummer, whose photo has recently been splashed across magazine and newspaper pages in celebration of a 2007 Tony Award nomination for his star turn in Broadway’s Inherit the Wind. Veteran of nearly 200 film and TV productions and a heralded master of Shakespearean theater, Plummer’s formidable presence, with his commanding voice, fierce intelligence and raconteur’s charm, makes every performance simmer, on both stage and screen. So it is with this brilliant portrayal of a character thankfully very far from his real life—a Hollywood retiree.
Thursday, October 11, 6:30 pm
Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center
Reception to follow at Gaylord India Restaurant
Invited guests: Michael Schroeder, Michael Angarano
CENTERPIECE AND RECEPTION $35
CENTERPIECE ONLY $15
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Man in the Chair | US 2006 109 MINS
Director/Screenwriter Michael Schroeder Producers Michael Schroeder, Randolf Turrow, Sarah Schroeder Cinematographer Dana Gonzales Editor Terry Cafaro Cast Christopher Plummer, Michael Angarano, M. Emmet Walsh, Robert Wagner, Joshua Boyd, Mimi Kennedy Print Source Outsider Pictures
The superb Christopher Plummer is Flash, a curmudgeon with a hankering for classic movies and booze. Cameron (Michael Angarano) is a volatile teen who commits grand theft auto just because the car is an exact replica from Christine. Their relationship is forged in the darkness of a movie theater and fueled by a mutual appreciation of rebellion and cinema. Cameron enters a student film contest, though he lacks the resources of his peers. Learning that Flash is a retired Hollywood gaffer—and the only surviving crew member from Citizen Kane—Cameron follows him to his home at the Motion Picture Residence for the Elderly, a colony of aging film folk set aside by the industry. A quirky fellowship develops, in which Flash and his friends help Cameron make his film, and, in doing so, change his life. Plummer is outstanding as the cantankerous cynic who becomes an ardent mentor.
Please join us for the Centerpiece screening of Man in the Chair, with special guests in attendance, including director Michael Schroeder. After the program, join us at one of Sausalito’s finest, Gaylord India Restaurant, featuring wines from Mark West Winery. A taste of India on the Bay, Gaylord is consistently rated one of the top ten Indian restaurants in the United States.
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