Filmworker

Tony Zierra
Part of

55th New York Film Festival

September 29 - October 15, 2017

Stanley Kubrick’s loyal, work-obsessed right-hand man Leon Vitali is chronicled in this fascinating portrait of awe-inspired devotion burning all the way down to the wick.

DIRECTOR
Tony Zierra
YEAR
2017
COUNTRY
USA
RUNTIME
94 minutes

Q&As with Tony Zierra and Leon Vitali following the screenings on 10/3 (joined by Elizabeth Yoffe) and 10/4

Leon Vitali was a name in English television and movies when Stanley Kubrick cast him as Lord Bullingdon in Barry Lyndon, but after his acclaimed performance the young actor surrendered his career in the spotlight to become Kubrick’s loyal right-hand man. For the next two decades, Vitali was Kubrick’s factotum, never not on call, for whom no task was too small. Along the way, Vitali’s personal life suffered, he drifted from his children, and his health deteriorated as he gave everything to his work. Filmworker is of obvious interest to anyone who cares about Kubrick, but it is also a fascinating portrait of awe-inspired devotion burning all the way down to the wick.

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