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Independent filmmaker Bette Gordon will discuss the challenges of directing, breaking into the film industry, and her latest film, Handsome Harry, noon Friday, Nov. 20, in Pardee Hall room 320A.
The film, which stars Jamey Sheridan and Steve Buscemi, will be screened 7 p.m. Nov. 19 in Oechsle Hall room 224 and 10 a.m. Nov. 20 in Limburg Theater in Farinon College Center. The events are free and open to the public. They are sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Film and Media Studies Committee.
Handsome Harry was an Official Selection at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival. It features Sheridan as Harry, a divorced father and former Navy man who lives a simple life. When his dying best friend (Buscemi) sparks his drive to confront the past, buried secrets surface and force him to deal with painful memories. Aidan Quinn, John Savage, and Campbell Scott also star in the film.
Gordon is a New York-based filmmaker best known for her feminist-oriented independent films. She was part of the groundswell of downtown independent cinema in New York City, including The Collective For Living Cinema, an exhibition space run by a collaborative group of young filmmakers dedicated to making and exhibiting non-mainstream films. She is active as a director in both film and television, and teaches directing in Columbia University’s graduate film program. She directed Variety (1983), a film about voyeurism.