Starring: Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, James Gandolfini, Gina McKee

Introduction and post-screening book sales and signing by Jason Bailey, author of the new biography Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend

James Gandolfini displays his impressive but unappreciated flair for comedy in this 2009 political satire from director Armando Iannucci. Spinning off of his British television smash The Thick of It, and including several of that show’s funniest characters (particularly the Prime Minister’s Director of Communications Malcolm Tucker, played with foul-mouthed zeal by Peter Capaldi), Iannucci skewers relations between the U.S. and the U.K. in the run-up to the Iraq War. The film would serve as the bridge between The Thick of It and Iannucci’s U.S. hit Veep, featuring several of the latter show’s stars as well (including Anna Chlumsky, Mimi Kennedy, David Rasche and Zach Woods). The Academy Award-nominated screenplay was penned by Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong (who would go on to create Succession), Simon Blackwell (Peep Show) and Tony Roche.