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tickets 877.874.6833 TRIBUTE TO UMA THURMAN SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY 2009 Motherhood 2007 The Life Before Her Eyes 2005 The Producers 2004 Kill Bill Vol. 2 2003 Kill Bill Vol. 1 2002 Hysterical Blindness 2000 The Golden Bowl 1999 Sweet and Lowdown 1997 Gattaca 1994 Pulp Fiction TRIBUTE TO UMA THURMAN Saturday, October 10, 6:00 pm Tribute and Reception $100 TRIB10P Tribute Only $30 TRIB10R Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center Reception to follow at Frantoio Ristorante & Olive Oil Co. Join us for the Tribute program of clips and conversation with Uma Thurman, screening of Motherhood and presentation of the MVFF award. Afterward, the evening continues with a lovely dinner at Frantoio Ristorante & Olive Oil Co., one of our favorite places to have a party. Wines provided by Cameron Hughes Wine and Wine 2.0. Uma Thurman will be presented with the MVFF award, designed by celebrated artist Alice Corning. 1993 Even Cowgirls Get the Blues 1990 Henry & June 1988 Dangerous Liaisons TRIBUTE CO-SPONSORED BY MOTHERHOOD US 2009 90 MINS Ever had one of those days, only to realize they’ve actually stacked up into years? Welcome to Motherhood, embodied with frazzled grace by a luminous Uma Thurman as a once-promising writer desperately trying to conquer it all and then some. See page 96 for complete fi lm information. 53
A WALKING MODIGLIANI by Zoë Elton In conversations about Uma Thurman, words like luminous, breathtaking, iconic, beautiful, soulful, sensitive, eclectic abound. Uma Thurman: who as a teenager shone as Venus in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen; captivated as Cécile in Dangerous Liaisons; brought layers of subtlety and insight to her portrayal of June in Henry and June. Whose films with Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill: Vol. 1 & Vol. 2, are destined for an elevated place in the annals of cinema. And whose performances in the likes of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, The Truth about Cats & Dogs, Gattaca, Hysterical Blindness and the recent My Super Ex- Girlfriend proved her abilities in multiple genres: What other actors of her generation tackle romantic drama, comedy, sci-fi , action, thrillers with equal aplomb? In her work, she personifies some intriguing elements of the psyche: KILL BILL VOL. 1 She’s as much a goddess as she is a working-class girl looking for love; she’s as much a gangster’s moll as she is a samurai; she’s as much an embodiment of power—whether sexual, emotional or physical—as she is an embodiment of human frailties and needs and vulnerabilities. I spoke recently with writer-director Katherine Diekmann about working with so protean an artist. Diekmann’s new fi lm, Motherhood, stars Thurman as a woman trying to keep all the parts of her life and her family’s life together while desperately—and often hilariously— attempting to regain her sense of self. While the role represents something of a departure from Thurman’s work to date, a woman juggling the multiple and simultaneous needs of her family and her own life is, perhaps, not so far from home. I began by asking Diekmann about the fi rst time she saw Thurman on screen. She chuckled at the memory. “Baron Munchhausen! And Dangerous Liaisons. I remember being struck by how great she was. She’s an amazing creature, you know. She’s like a walking Modigliani, . . . really mannerist looking.” A walking Modigliani; mannerist—interest- 54 UMA THURMAN WRITER-DIRECTOR KATHERINE DIEKMANN TALKS ABOUT WORKING WITH UMA THURMAN ing. Thurman’s look, her sensuous, sinewy, statuesque poise does invite comparison with high art. Is it just coincidence she starts her career by emerging from the Botticelli-shell as Venus in Munchhausen? The image remains in our minds long after other details of the fi lm have receded. And of course there’s Pulp Fiction. “In that she really leapt off the screen.” Leapt off the screen, indeed. Or better, perhaps, to say danced off it: Her pas de deux with John Travolta remains one of the screen’s great “show-stoppers.” Thurman’s Mia Wallace was famously inspired by Anna Karina, and as Karina is to Godard, so Thurman is to Tarantino—there’s an extraordinary understanding in their work together. About working with Tarantino, Thurman points to the artistic freedom it allows her. “His movies always switch from one feeling to another very quickly,” she has said. “He has an incredibly sensitive pulse in his fi lms, and so it gives you a lot of confi dence to try crazy things and do one thing very funny and the next scene very intense and to believe that the director actually encompasses enough tonal range that that actually would work in one movie, which is really unusual.” mvff.com
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