Bob Roberts Revisited: The 1992 Film That Showed Where We Were Headed

Agenda
Doors open: 6:30 pm
Screening: 7:00 pm
Panel: 9:00 pm

Tim Robbins’ 1992 mockumentary Bob Roberts imagines the rise of a guitar-playing stock trader who runs for U.S. Senate as a populist political candidate, using music to cultivate a rabid, reactionary, and racist following. A biting satire and an ingenious body of original film music that stands the folk of Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan on its head — think Spinal Tap, but sinister — the film is also a startlingly accurate prediction of our political present.
Join Nora Guthrie, daughter of Woody Guthrie and NYU Alumni; CDI Professor Jeff Peretz, a member of Tim Robbins’ Gob Roberts band; and Tisch Cinema Studies professor Michael Gillespie for a special screening and discussion as part of programming around the Spring exhibit, , hosted by the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music and sponsored by NYU’s Arts & Impact initiative.

Watch the original trailer here.
Cast includes: Tim Robbins, Giancarlo Esposito. Jack Black, Gore Vidal, John Cusack, Alan Rickman, Susan Sarandon, James Spader

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