Film Forum

Actress, producer, director, author, and TV host Illeana Douglas will be interviewed onstage by NY Film Festival director/filmmaker Kent Jones (director of Hitchcock/Truffaut) about her never-dull life and career, in a special afternoon of conversation and film clips. Following the event, Ms. Douglas will sign copies of her new memoir I Blame Dennis Hopper (Flatiron Books) in Film Forum’s lobby. 

“Since it was all out of control, I began to think of my life as a movie.”  In her new memoir, I Blame Dennis Hopper, actress/producer/director Illeana Douglas (Cape Fear, Goodfellas, Ghost World, TV’s Six Feet Under, etc.) writes how her parents were transformed from middle-class squares into hippies after seeing Easy Rider, how she landed her first gig by doing a Liza Minnelli impression, how crooner Rudy Vallée taught her what is was to be a trouper, how her two-time Oscar winning grandfather Melvyn Douglas first brought her onto a film set (Hal Ashby’s Being There), and how Martin Scorsese’s heart melted after hearing her blood-curdling scream… along with stories of how the eponymous Hopper himself gave her a life-saving diagnosis and how she didn’t sleep with Marlon Brando. 

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