IFI Celebrates Season of Jeff Bridges
12 Feb 2010 :
The Dude Tweet The IFI are celebrating the career of Oscar Nominee Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart) this month with a season of screenings of a variety of his films since his breakthrough performance in 1971 in ‘The Last Picture Show’. An IFI statement describes the ‘Big Lebowski’ actor as a “living embodiment of all that was cherishable about the pre-Star Wars American cinema in which he made his name.” The season will see Bridges’ performance alongside Clint Eastwood in ‘Thunderbolt and Lightfoot’ being screened on Friday, February 12th at 6.30pm. The role saw him clock up two early Oscar nominations. Following this, Saturday, February 13th marks the showing of ‘The Fabulous Baker Boys’ which features Jeff and his brother Beau Bridges as two pianists scraping together a living before encountering a fresh-faced former escort in the shape of a young Michelle Pfeiffer. Post-Vietnam film ‘Cutter’s Way’ shows on Monday, February 22nd and sees Bridges as the aging Beach Bum and John Heard as the horribly mutilated and paranoid Cutter. This is followed in the season by Terry Gilliam’s modern fairytale ‘The Fisher King’ on Thursday, February 25th. The season finale comes with the screening of the Coen Brother’s ‘The Big Lebowski’, probably the film for which Jeff Bridges is best known. Here Bridges plays Jeffrey Lebowski (aka The Dude) who finds himself caught up in an intricate Raymond Chandler-style kidnapping. Tickets for the screenings are available from the IFI Box Office in person, on the phone 01 6793477. For more information visit http://www.irishfilm.ie/cinema/season2_07.asp?SID=190 Free Industry Newsletter Subscribe to IFTN's industry newsletter - it's free and e-mailed directly to your inbox every week. Click here to sign up.

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