Cinema and Conservation
Michael Barker, Neda Armian, Marc Platt, Anne Hathaway, Jenny Lumet, and Mather Zickel at The Cinema Society and Lancome's screening of Rachel Getting Married. Oscar, Oscar, Oscar. It’s that time of year when the film studios release their potential Oscar contenders and one of the first this season to be receiving a heap of awards buzz and accolades is Rachel Getting Married. The Cinema Society and Lancome teamed up for a glitzy screening of the much-ballyhooed film.
Directed by Academy Award winning Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia), and first-time writer Jenny Lumet, it is a heartfelt family portrait, about a fresh-out-of-rehab woman (Anne Hathway) who returns home for the wedding of her sister Rachel, reviving a long history of personal crisis, family conflict and long-simmering tensions.
Hathaway, Lumet and co-stars Debra Winger, Mather Zickel, Sebastian Stan, Derrick Williams, and Dorian Missick, all joined Cinema Society founder Andrew Saffir for the screening and supper (with food by caterer-to-the-stars Mary Giuliani) which followed at the brand new and hip Cooper Square Hotel.
It was another Cinema Society starry night indeed -- Sidney Lumet, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Cumming, Bobby Cannavale, Matthew Modine, Jill Hennessy, Dean Winters, Arliss Howard, Melora Hardin (“The Office”), Steve Guttenberg, Heather Matarazzo, Zach Galligan, Beth Ostrosky, Georgina Chapman, Bee Shaffer, Fab 5 Freddy, Au Revoir Simone, Sister Carole East, Derrick Williams, Amy Sacco, Rob Wiesenthal, Rachel Roy, Nigel Barker, Kelly Bensimon, Dennis Basso, "Project Runway’s" Christian Siriano, Maggie Rizer, Sam Shaffer, Meredith Melling-Burke, Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss, Daniel Benedict, Irina Pantaeva, Olivia Palermo, Derek Blasberg, Eleanor and Jon Ylvisaker, Peter Davis, Bettina Zilkha, Michael and Eleanora Kennedy, Lancome’s Serge Jureidini and Kerry Diamond, producers Neda Armian and Marc Platt, and Sony Pictures Classics’ Co-Presidents Michael Barker and Tom Bernard.