Archive for December 8th, 2005

“AL GORE AND TOMMY LEE JONES IN PERSON
‘THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA’
NEW YORK PREMIERE
At the Paris Theatre, 4 West 58th Street, Manhattan
Monday, December 12
6:30 p.m.
2005, 121 mins. Sony Pictures Classics. Directed by Tommy Lee Jones. With Jones, Melissa Leo, Barry Pepper, Dwight Yoakam.

The Museum is pleased to announce that Former Vice President Al Gore will co-host the New York premiere of Tommy Lee Jones’s The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. Gore was the Harvard roommate of Tommy Lee Jones, the film’s star and director. After the premiere screening, Jones will participate in a Pinewood Dialogue moderated by Chief Curator David Schwartz. The film will be released by Sony Pictures Classics on December 14th.

Jones’s critically acclaimed directorial debut, written by his longtime friend, screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga (Amores Perros, 21 Grams), won awards for Best Actor and Best Screenplay at Cannes. “Start learning to pronounce Mel-key-odd-ess right now, because eventually you may want to tell people you just saw the best movie of the year,” writes film critic Richard T. Jameson. Tickets are $18 public/$12 Museum members. Call 718-784-4520.”