Q&A with Adam Nayman on THE BIG LEBOWSKI | Stay-at-Home Cinema | TIFF 2020

The magic of filmgoing together, at home. On May 2 at 7pm EDT, TIFF Stay-at-Home Cinema hosts a Q&A with film critic Adam Nayman and TIFF's Cameron Bailey, before a screening of THE BIG LEBOWSKI. At 7:30pm EDT, hit “play” on Crave and live-tweet along with us using #TIFFAtHome!
We want to share the magic of filmgoing together while we watch from home. With this in mind, TIFF has curated a series from Crave’s extensive selection of titles, accompanied by conversations with special guests via Instagram. Learn more on TIFF.net/stayat....
No character in the Coen brothers’ loopy oeuvre looms as large as one-time idealist, full-time apathetic, and devoted bowler Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski (Jeff Bridges), whose blissfully aimless existence is rudely interrupted when he is mistaken for a millionaire of the same name by a posse of rug-pissing thugs. Egged on by his Vietnam-vet bowling buddy Walter (John Goodman), The Dude goes to see the “big Lebowski” (David Huddleston) to receive compensation for his soiled rug, and soon finds himself mixed up with a porn tycoon (Ben Gazzara), an eccentric modern artist (Julianne Moore), a gang of German nihilists (“That must be exhausting”), and a mysterious, Stetson-sporting stranger (Sam Elliott). Widely regarded as a frivolous diversion following the Academy Award-winning triumph of FARGO, THE BIG LEBOWSKI has since become the Coens’ most beloved and universally admired film, not least because of Bridges’ immortal performance as The Dude: a Hammett/Chandler private-eye knight errant for a post-’60s, pre-millennial America, emerging from a haze of bong smoke and White Russians to declare that this aggression will not stand.

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