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Reel Pieces with Annette Insdorf

Living: Conversation with Actor Bill Nighy and Director Oliver Hermanus

Dec 6, 2022


Please submit questions for the speakers in the Livestream chat starting on December 6 at approximately 9:30 pm ET.

Moderator Annette Insdorf will interview Bill Nighy and Oliver Hermanus about their new film, Living. Acclaimed at film festivals including Sundance and Telluride, it’s the touching portrait of a joyless civil servant in 1953 London — a magnificently understated performance by Nighy — whose dire diagnosis leads him to transformation. The screenplay by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day) is based on Akira Kurosawa’s film Ikiru.

Bill Nighy is perhaps best known as the aging rock star in Love Actually — for which he received a BAFTA Award as Best Supporting Actor — and has displayed an amazing versatility on stage and screen for the past 50 years. Among his films are The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Pride, Notes on a Scandal, and Valkyrie. He played vampire leader Viktor in three Underworld films, and did the performance capture and voice for Davy Jones in two Pirates of the Caribbean titles. He also won a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Miniseries for Gideon’s Daughter. His theater successes include David Hare’s Pravda, Skylight (with Carey Mulligan), and A Map of The World. On Broadway, he starred in the 2006 premiere of Hare’s The Vertical Hour, directed by Sam Mendes.

Oliver Hermanus received acclaim for Moffie, a 2019 war drama about gay recruits in the homophobic South African military of the 1980s. His other credits as writer-director include Shirley Adams, Beauty, and The Endless River, which premiered at the 72nd Venice Film Festival as the first South African movie invited to the main competition.

Living will be released by Sony Classics on December 23.

Annette Insdorf

Annette Insdorf is Professor of Film at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, and Moderator of 92NY’s Reel Pieces series …

Annette Insdorf

Annette Insdorf is Professor of Film at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, and Moderator of 92NY’s Reel Pieces series. She is the author of Francois Truffaut, a study of the French director’s work; two books about Polish filmmakers—Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski and Intimations: The Cinema of Wojciech Has; Philip Kaufman, and the landmark study, Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust (with a foreword by Elie Wiesel). Her latest book is Cinematic Overtures: How to Read Opening Scenes, and she received the Mel Novikoff Award from the 2018 San Francisco Film Festival.


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