Film Screening:

Big Night

(Stanley Tucci & Campbell Scott, 1996, 107 min, USA, In English & Italian with English subtitles, Color, DVD)  

Primo and Secondo are two brothers who have emigrated from Italy to open an Italian restaurant in America. Primo is the irascible and gifted chef, brilliant in his culinary genius, but determined not to squander his talent on making the routine dishes that customers expect. Secondo is the smooth front-man, trying to keep the restaurant financially afloat, despite few patrons other than a poor artist who pays with his paintings. The owner of the nearby Pascal's restaurant, enormously successful (despite its mediocre fare), offers a solution - he will call his friend, a big-time jazz musician, to play a special benefit at their restaurant. Primo begins to prepare his masterpiece, a feast of a lifetime, for the brothers' big night.

"A feast of a film." -- Rolling Stone

-- Winner of screenwriting awards from Sundance, Independent Spirit Awards, and the Boston Society of Film Critics

-- Winner for Best First Film at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards

The Nasher Museum presents Dinner and a Movie, a film series to satisfy every appetite.

Join us in the museum café before 6 PM and enjoy ample parking, time to cool off, café dinner specials, and reserved film seating.

The free film begins at 7 PM in the lecture hall.

Reservations online or call 919-684-6032.

Cost: Free and Open to the Public!

Sponsors: The Nasher Museum of Art and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image