Just Announced, Standby Only, Sneak Preview
All tickets have been distributed for this event. There will be a standby line for this sold-out screening. A special preview screening of MAESTRO, the acclaimed new film chronicling the life and career of legendary composer Leonard Bernstein.
Oscar-nominated director and actor Bradley Cooper brings his considerable talents to a dramatization of the public and private lives of legendary musician Leonard Bernstein. Constructed with sensitivity, visual ingenuity, and symphonic splendor—and brimming with the boundless energy of Bernstein’s runaway genius—Maestro transports the viewer back to a postwar New York, when Bernstein (Cooper) began his stratospheric rise to international fame while also first meeting Felicia (Carey Mulligan), the actress whom he would marry and spend his life with. A tour de force defined by tower performances from Cooper and Mulligan, Matthew Libatique’s stunning cinematography, and scored by the master himself, Maestro is a tender yet complex exploration of the different faces one wears when living in the public eye. [129 min; biography, drama; English]
This screening will be preceded by remarks from Dr. Alicia Kozma, Director of IU Cinema, and Dr. Abra Bush, the David Henry Jacobs Bicentennial Dean of the Jacobs School of Music.
"A bombastic aria of a biopic benefitting its central subject." — A.V. Club
"Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan make beautiful music together in Cooper's haunting Leonard Bernstein biopic." — Variety
"Not just a worthy tribute to one of the greatest figures in the American musical canon, but also one of the finest films of the year." — Rolling Stone
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