Film
Contagion
- 7PM
Steven Soderbergh’s star-studded cast steals the show in this achingly relevant virus-thriller. When Beth (Paltrow) returns home from Hong Kong after a business trip—and illicit liaison—she blames her illness on jet lag. But when she dies two days later she becomes the focal point of understanding a fast-moving global pandemic that forever changes the lives of her illness-immune husband (Damon), a loathsome blogger (Law), a calm CDC Leader (Fishburne)—and the world. A pioneer of modern independent cinema, Soderbergh’s work holds up in our current endemic reality.
Join us after the screening for a conversation with Steven W. Thrasher and New York Magazine film critic Bilge Ebiri, followed by a signing of Steven's book The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide.
Leadership support for BAM Access Programs provided by the Jerome L. Greene Foundation.
Leadership support for BAM Film provided by the Ford Foundation and The Thompson Family Foundation
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