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Cinema Society’s Detachment Premiere: Sad Film Leads to Happy Drinking with Adrien Brody

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By Drew Grant 3/14/12 11:37am

To Do Wednesday: George Lois, Esq.

  • Premiere of Tribeca FilmÕs DETACHMENT hosted by American Express & The Cinema Society
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    Last night The Cinema Society, along with American Express, hosted Tribeca Film’s dark drama, Detachment. The movie, starring Adrien Brody, James Caan, Lucy Liu, Marcia Gay Harden, Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, and breakout teen Sami Gayle, marks the first major non-documentary by director Tony Kaye since American History X (which he famously tried to take his name off of because of his fight with New Line Cinema).

    As befitting a film about substitute teachers, the movie has been described (positively) as “incredibly depressing.” This marks a 180 departure for the trio of young producers of Paper Street Films, whose last movie was the incredibly uplifting HappyThankYouMorePlease.)

    So after such a heavy screening, what was there to do but party incredibly hard at The Standard, East Village. While attendees mingled with the famous and a not-to-be-named socialite/model complained about the bar’s lack of Red Bull (“If I just drink red wine, I’ll get sleepy!” she proclaimed, making us think for a minute she planned on mixing a Merlot with the energy drink), the party extended to an after-after-party at Acme on Great Jones Street for some 80s dancing and Patron shots.

     (Photos via PatrickMcMullan.com)

  • Back Forward Premiere of Tribeca FilmÕs DETACHMENT hosted by American Express & The Cinema Society

    Premiere of Tribeca FilmÕs DETACHMENT hosted by American Express & The Cinema Society

  • Back Forward Adrien Brody

    Adrien Brody

    "Still kind of a yo-boy," confessed a source who worked on the film with the actor. Everyone at the party agreed it was his finest performance since The Pianist, which means they obviously hadn't seen The Brothers Bloom.

  • Back Forward Yan-Lin, Tony Kaye

    Yan-Lin, Tony Kaye

    The film's director had gold teeth, while his date wore a belt with a fish on it made entirely out of diamonds. Cute couple.

  • Back Forward Kelly Bensimon

    Kelly Bensimon

    It's not a party for a somber look at society's injustices until a former Real Housewife shows up.

  • Back Forward Sami Gayle

    Sami Gayle

    Great dress, great performance, great everything. And she's 16 with braces, so go ahead and feel real creepy now.

  • Back Forward Tony Danza, Sami Gayle

    Tony Danza, Sami Gayle

    Yeah, that's Tony Danza. We were surprised as you were.

  • Back Forward Isiah Whitlock Jr.

    Isiah Whitlock Jr.

    Clay Davis Jr. from The Wire took one look around and then asked his date if there was anywhere quieter they could go.

  • Back Forward Lea Thompson

    Lea Thompson

    We wanted to tell Lea Thompson that we loved her dress, but realized she might think we were mocking her.

  • Back Austin Stark, Bingo Gubelmann, Benji John

    Austin Stark, Bingo Gubelmann, Benji John

    The film's producers, Paper Street Films (named after the block in Fight Club), spent a good portion of the evening trying to explain to us what they actually do. We were under the impression it involved handing over big sacks with dollar bills signs on them, but apparently being a producer is much harder than that.

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