LOVE, CECIL

Tue, Jun 19

7:30 pm Q&A

Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights (meaning arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating, the movie starts after midnite)!

Abrams Books & Nitehawk present a preview screening of the documentary LOVE, CECIL including a Q&A with director Lisa Immordino Vreeland. Copies of her new book of the same name - LOVE, CECIL - will be available for sale!

Director: Lisa Immordino Vreeland Run Time: 99 min. Format: DCP Rating: NR Release Year: 2018

Starring: David Bailey, Manolo Blahnik, Hamish Bowles, Susanna Brown, Leslie Caron, Peter Eyre. Narrated by Rupert Everett.

Oscar-winning set and costume designer, photographer, writer and painter Cecil Beaton was not only a dazzling chronicler, but an arbiter of his time. From the Bright Young Things to the front lines of war to the international belle monde and the pages of Vogue and then onto the Queen’s official photographer – Beaton embodied the cultural and political changes of the twentieth century.

In this tender portrait, director Lisa Immordino Vreeland (Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel, Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict) blends archival footage and photographs with voice over of Beaton’s famed diaries to capture his legacy as a complex and unique creative force. Dynamic and lyrical, LOVE, CECIL is an examination of Beaton’s singular sense of the visual, which dictated a style that set standards of creativity that continue to resonate and inspire today.

In celebration of her new film, copies of her book published by Abrams Books will be available to purchase and signed by Immordino Vreeland. There will also be a handful of copies we’ll give away in the theater!

About the book:

In Love, Cecil, Lisa Immordino Vreeland offers an evocative portrait of this talented whirlwind whose creative work captured many facets of the 20th century. Using photography, drawings, letters, and scrapbooks by Beaton and his contemporaries, along with excerpts from his sparkling diaries and other writings, Immordino Vreeland brings his spirit to life in a way that no previous book has been able to do.