Thursday, October 15, 7:00 pm
Tribute and Reception - Ticket Code: $75 TRIB15P
Please note there are no Tribute Only tickets available for this event
Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center
Reception to follow at Tiburon Grill
Woody Harrelson will participate in an onstage conversation about his career and will be presented the MVFF award. Following the screening of The Messenger, Harrelson will be joined by director/co-writer Oren Moverman for a Q&A with the audience. Directly following the program don’t miss the reception at Tiburon’s hottest new restaurant, Tiburon Grill, featuring wine, cocktails and a delicious array of fresh, contemporary cuisine.
A basketballer who can’t jump but can sure shoot (White Men Can’t Jump); a free-speech-obsessed pornographer magnate (The People vs. Larry Flynt); and a gleaming cowboy assassin (No Country for Old Men) are a testament to the ambitious range of the larger-than-life roles Woody Harrelson has brought to the big screen. Capable of oozing playful bravado one moment and tapping his reserve of deep humanism the next, this American icon has endeared himself to a public hungry for Harrelson’s brand of toothsome antics blended with a generosity of spirit. His skill for endowing the big-hearted buffoon with realistic dimensions is rooted in early years spent in the theater, and a long-standing gig as Woody Boyd on the sitcom Cheers. In his latest, the Oren Moverman–helmed romantic wartime drama The Messenger, Harrelson re-engages a fascination with the ethics of war that he first poignantly explored with another breakout performance in The Thin Red Line. –Ilya Tovbis
THE MESSENGER (US 2009 112 mins)
Woody Harrelson is a by-the-book soldier assigned to the US military’s Casualty Notification Office in a film that examines the complexity of grief, pain and loss as gently as a kiss, with a message like a punch in the gut.
Woody Harrelson will be presented with the MVFF award, designed by celebrated artist Alice Corning.
