UO students, faculty, and staff are invited to a free screening of Diane followed by a Q&A with Writer and Director Kent Jones. 

Free Cinema Studies t-shirts to the first 30 attendees!

Wednesday, April 17, 2019
7:00 p.m.
EMU Redwood Auditorium
Free with UO ID.  UO ID required for admission.

Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.  
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

“Revelatory. Tender, wrenching, and beautifully made. Mary Kay Place is Remarkable.” –Variety

Winner – Best Feature, Best Cinematography, Best Screenplay – Tribeca Film Festival 2018
Official Selection – Locarno International Film Festival 2018
Official Selection – Chicago International Film Fesitval 2018

Photo Courtesy of IFC FIlms. An IFC Films Release.

Synopsis

For Diane (Mary Kay Place), everyone else comes first. Generous but with little patience for self-pity, she spends her days checking in on sick friends, volunteering at her local soup kitchen, and trying valiantly to save her troubled, drug-addicted adult son (Jake Lacy) from himself. But beneath her relentless routine of self-sacrifice, Diane is fighting a desperate internal battle, haunted by a past she can’t forget and which threatens to tear her increasingly chaotic world apart. Built around an extraordinary, fearless performance by Mary Kay Place, the narrative debut from Kent Jones is a profound, beautifully human portrait of a woman rifling through the wreckage of her life in search of redemption.

Written and directed by Kent Jones, Diane won Best Narrative Feature, Best Screenplay, and Best Cinematography at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival; and Kent Jones was also named one of Variety’s 10 directors to watch for 2019 for his work on the film.

Written and directed by Kent Jones.  2019 / 96 minutes

Photo Courtesy of IFC FIlms. An IFC Films Release.

One of Variety’s "10 Directors to Watch for 2019"

Kent Jones is an internationally recognized filmmaker, film critic, and festival programmer.  He was named one of Variety’s 10 directors to watch for 2019 for his debut fiction film, Diane (2019), which won Best Narrative Feature and Screenplay at the Tribeca Film Festival. One of the great thinkers on directors and cinema history, Jones wrote and directed the documentaries Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015) and Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (2007). He has collaborated on a number of film projects with Martin Scorsese–including A Letter to Elia (2010) and My Voyage to Italy (1999)–and was executive director of the World Cinema Foundation, a film preservation non-profit founded by Scorsese.  Jones is also known for his sharp and personal film criticism, collected in the 2007 book, Physical Evidence:  Selected Film Criticism. Since 2012, Jones has served as the director of the New York Film Festival, the premier showcase for international cinema in the United States.

Photo By Karloz Byrnison, CC BY 2.0. Adapted from this image.