SYRFILMFEST ’12
Presents OPENING NIGHT with karen black
Thursday, October 11
Starting at 7 p.m.
Palace Theatre
Maria My Love
by Jasmine McGlade Chazella
Skype Q&A with Karen Black
Come Back to the Five and
Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy
Dean by Robert Altman
Tickets $10/$8 AARP memberswith valid ID
Reception at 9:30 p.m., $10
Karen black has
this way of sort of getting around. She has done over 150 movies, 5
Broadway and many off -Broadway shows, managed to get 5 of her
screenplays made into movies. She’s also a playwright and a
songwriter.
Her movies include Bob Rafelson’s Five Easy Pieces, for which she received an Academy Award nomination and won a Golden Globe, Jack Claytyon’s The Great Gatsby for which she won another Golden Globe, John Schlessinger’s Day of the Locust for which she received a Golden Globe nomination, Robert Altman’s Nashville, for which she was nominated for a Grammy, Jack Smight’s Airport 75, Alfred Hitchcock’s, Family Plot, Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider, and Altman’s Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean.
In the theater, Karen created the role of Joanne in Five and Dime… when it opened on Broadway. Also, for Broadway, she did All in the Family starring Patrick Magee, and Happily Never After. She was nominated for a Drama Circle Critics Best Actress Award for Mary Drayton’s The Playroom. Karen wrote the book for the musical, Missouri Waltz with songwriter Harriet Shock that ran at the Blank theater, Los Angeles and Capitol, Macon, Georgia.
Karen starred in two plays at the Edgemar theater in Santa Monica: Tanna Frederick’s production of Claire Chafee’s Why We have a Body, and Henry Jaglom’s Just 45 Minutes from Broadway. Ellen Malaver’s comedy Moses Supposes played at the Zephyr theater in Los Angeles starring Karen with David Proval and directed by Lee Sankowich.
Karen received 2 best actress awards for her work in Angela Garcia Combs Nothing Special (2010). She won rave reviews for Russell Brown’s The Blue Tooth Virgin (2008) which won the Jury Prize at The Seattle Film Festival. Jasmine McGlade’s Maria My Love (2011) opened at the Tribeca Film Festival. Film Journal hailed her portrayal as
“miraculous”. Karen starred in Jaime Hook’s Vacationland (2011)
which opened the Maine International film festival. She also starred in Jack Perez’s new comedy thriller Some Guy Who Kills People (2011) along with Kevin Corrigan, and Barry Bostwick. The film is set for a major release by Anchor Bay.
Her movies include Bob Rafelson’s Five Easy Pieces, for which she received an Academy Award nomination and won a Golden Globe, Jack Claytyon’s The Great Gatsby for which she won another Golden Globe, John Schlessinger’s Day of the Locust for which she received a Golden Globe nomination, Robert Altman’s Nashville, for which she was nominated for a Grammy, Jack Smight’s Airport 75, Alfred Hitchcock’s, Family Plot, Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider, and Altman’s Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean.
In the theater, Karen created the role of Joanne in Five and Dime… when it opened on Broadway. Also, for Broadway, she did All in the Family starring Patrick Magee, and Happily Never After. She was nominated for a Drama Circle Critics Best Actress Award for Mary Drayton’s The Playroom. Karen wrote the book for the musical, Missouri Waltz with songwriter Harriet Shock that ran at the Blank theater, Los Angeles and Capitol, Macon, Georgia.
Karen starred in two plays at the Edgemar theater in Santa Monica: Tanna Frederick’s production of Claire Chafee’s Why We have a Body, and Henry Jaglom’s Just 45 Minutes from Broadway. Ellen Malaver’s comedy Moses Supposes played at the Zephyr theater in Los Angeles starring Karen with David Proval and directed by Lee Sankowich.
Karen received 2 best actress awards for her work in Angela Garcia Combs Nothing Special (2010). She won rave reviews for Russell Brown’s The Blue Tooth Virgin (2008) which won the Jury Prize at The Seattle Film Festival. Jasmine McGlade’s Maria My Love (2011) opened at the Tribeca Film Festival. Film Journal hailed her portrayal as
“miraculous”. Karen starred in Jaime Hook’s Vacationland (2011)
which opened the Maine International film festival. She also starred in Jack Perez’s new comedy thriller Some Guy Who Kills People (2011) along with Kevin Corrigan, and Barry Bostwick. The film is set for a major release by Anchor Bay.
Thursday, October 11
Starting at 7 p.m.
Palace Theatre
Maria My Love
by Jasmine McGlade Chazella
Skype Q&A with Karen Black
Come Back to the Five and
Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy
Dean by Robert Altman
Tickets $10/$8 AARP memberswith valid ID
Reception at 9:30 p.m., $10
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