Tribeca 2015: Pics and Video from Anesthesia PremierePosted by Wilson Morales
April 23, 2015
Last night, Blackfilm.com attended the world premiere of Tim Blake Nelson’s latest directorial film, Anesthesia at BMCC Tribeca.
The ensemble film stars Sam Waterston, Glenn Close, Kristen Stewart, Corey Stoll, Gretchen Mol, Michael K. Williams, K. Todd Freeman, J. Bernard Calloway, Tim Blake Nelson, Jessica Hecht, Ben Konigsberg, Hannah Marks, Yul Vazquez, Mickey Sumner, Rob Morgan and Gloria Reuben.
In actor-director Tim Blake Nelson’s drama, a well-loved Columbia University professor of philosophy, Walter Zarrow (Sam Waterston), is violently mugged on the doorsteps of an apartment building. Nelson delves into the chain of events that precipitates the attack, and the lives of the characters the incident brings together: his son (Tim Blake Nelson), daugher-in-law (Jessica Hecht), a troubled student (Kristen Stewart); a philandering husband (Corey Stoll), and a man fighting drug addiction (K. Todd Freeman). Glenn Close, Gretchen Mol, and Michael Kenneth Williams round out a stellar cast in this meditation of city life that examines the inextricable and unforeseen forces that bring a group of disparate individuals together in a world where many people are, as Professor Zarrow lectures, “beautifully, achingly alone.” — Brian Gordon
Here’s a clip from the film with Sam Waterson and Glenn Close
Following the screening, the cast, with the exception of Stewart, Williams and Stoll came on stage to do a Q & A.
