Rebecca Miller and
Daniel Day-Lewis | 
Vanessa Wingate and
Bingham Ray | 
Sam Rockwell and
Chris Messina | 
Amy Ryan and
Patricia Clarkson | 
Mark Langrish and
Emma Snowdon-Jones | GRAND CLASSICS
Daniel Day-Lewis, Rebecca Miller
Host Grand Classics Screening Story by Roger Webster
Photos by Joe Schildhorn/PMc  EBECCA MILLER and Daniel Day-Lewis hosted a Grand Classics Film Series screening of director Ken Loach’s 1969 film Kes, a powerful movie examining the themes of social and spiritual poverty through the story of a young boy who in a perpetual state of victimization. One day he finds a wild kestrel that leads him through a journey of self-discovery.
The Week and Hugo Boss sponsored the evening, to benefit the American Film Institute (AFI). It is the latest in film series, co-founded by Katrina Pavlos and Vanessa Wingate of Indyssey Entertainment to celebrate the power of film to inspire. Daniel and Rebecca personally chose Kes because it inspired their lives and work. “When I was 11 and 12 years old, two films appeared which utterly changed my life,” Daniel said. “In 1968, Lindsay Anderson’s If came out. In 1969 Kes came out. The film opened me up in a way that could never be taken away.” Enjoying the cocktail party in Manhattan’s posh Soho House, featuring Stoli Vodka, were thespians Sam Rockwell, Julia Stiles, Patricia Clarkson, Famke Janssen, Tom Hulce, Amy Ryan and Chris Messina, producers and directors Bingham Ray, Jim Deutch, Sofia Sondervan, Leopoldo Gout, cinematographer Ellen Kuras. Plus social types Emilia Fanjul Pfeifler, Tinsley Mortimer and her sister Dabney Mercer, Annie Churchill, Melissa Berkelhammer, Mark Langrish, Emma Snowdon-Jones, Nadine Johnson, Bobby Zarem, Euan Rellie, Susan Shin, Lionel Geneste, Mary Ellen Mills, Kim Hicks, designer Ashleigh Verrier, artist Charlotte Nicholson, and journalists Glenda Bailey, Sally Singer, Jillian Demling, Lucy Sykes Rellie and Glenn Kenny. |
