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In-Person Q & A Sessions At Film Linc Today

Sunday, July 24th, 2011

princeofthecity

As part of its on-going Sidney Lumet retrospective, The Film Society Of Lincoln Center is hosting two in-person/Q&A events today:

Actors Armand Assante and Paul Calderon, as well as Judge Edwin Torres will attend and participate in a Q & A following the 4:00 pm screening of Q & A (the actual title of the movie is “Q & A” — confusing, I know)

Lumet returned to a favorite subject—corruption inside the New York City Police Department—for this blistering adaptation of the novel by Carlito’s Way author (and New York Supreme Court Justice) Edwin Torres. The result is his best film of the 1990s. In a towering performance, Nick Nolte stars as Lt. Mike Brennan, an openly racist NYPD cop under questioning for the purportedly “justifiable” homicide of a Latino drug dealer in the line of duty. Leading the charge is an idealistic assistant DA (Timothy Hutton), whose investigation leads him to a serpentine underworld of lurid New York nightlife, a flamboyant drug dealer (Golden Globe nominee Armand Assante) and the insidious conspiracies of those who deem themselves above the law.

Actor Treat Williams and former NYPD narcotics detective Robert Leuci will be in attendance at the 7:15 pm screening of Prince Of The City.

Based on the experiences of NYPD narcotics detective Robert Leuci, Lumet’s epic examination of corruption and compromise, set against a teeming portrait of 1970s New York, is one of his most arresting and accomplished pictures. When an idealistic cop (Treat Williams) agrees to tell the Feds about departmental malfeasance, he receives a guarantee that he won’t have to rat on his partners—but as the stresses and dangers of being an informer wear him down, he finds himself turning against those closest to him.