NOTE: The time of this event is TBD.
The Studio 35 Cinema & Drafthouse will partner with the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies to host a screening of Ivans Xtc starring Peter Weller. A Q+A with Peter Weller will follow the screening.
Ivans Xtc is a modern retelling of Anna Karenina set in Hollywood, following a high-powered agent whose life spirals after the overdose death of his colleague and friend Ivan Beckman. As Ivan’s world of ambition, addiction and moral compromise is revealed through flashbacks, the film critiques the excess and emptiness of the entertainment industry. Ultimately, it paints a stark portrait of Hollywood’s destructive pressures and the human cost behind its glamour.
Join us the day before on April 23 at the Columbus Museum of Art for a talk by Peter Weller on Classical-Medieval-Renaissance art's relationship to modern film.
Dr. Peter Weller is an Italian Renaissance art historian, actor and director. He received his PhD in Art History with a specialization in Italian Renaissance Art from UCLA. He is the author of “Donatello’s Bronze David in the Twenty-First Century,” 2012, an article on the Italian Renaissance sculptor Donatello, as well as an essay contribution on the Italian Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina (in Visualizing Sensuous Suffering and Affective Pain in Early Modern Europe and the Spanish Americas, Brill, 2018). He is also known as the star of the films Robocop (1987) and Robocop 2 (1990), The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai (1984), and Naked Lunch (1991). His more recent appearances (roles and guest roles) include Star Trek Into Darkness(2013), the TV series Dexter (2010), and 24 (2006). Dr. Weller is also a director, having directed numerous episodes of Sons of Anarchy (2011-2014), Longmire (2012-2017), and, most recently, Hawaii Five-O (2013-2019).
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