Avedon

  • Monday, Nov 30

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Avedon

Q&A with director Ron Howard

From world leaders to pop culture icons, and international supermodels, Richard Avedon’s influence helped create the blueprint for our image-driven world. His photographs didn’t just reflect culture, they shaped it.

Ron Howard’s Avedon traces the life and legacy of an artist who used photography to reinvent the world around him. Drawing on unprecedented access to his personal archives—never-before-seen stills, intimate behind-the-lens footage, and new interviews with his closest collaborators—the film explores how his singular eye both reflected and reshaped the visual language of the 20th century, and why even the most iconic image is only half the story.

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"[Avedon] embraces the complexities of a man who turned artifice into a kind of superpower, whether he was dreaming up scenarios for fashion spreads or confronting an America as far removed from haute couture Manhattan as you could get."
Sheri Linden, Hollywood Reporter
"Howard and editor Andrew Morreale... strike an elegant balance between providing context for [Avedon's] innovations and letting the work do the talking, resulting in one of the more entertaining art documentaries that this critic has ever seen."
Christian Zilko, IndieWire

SPECIAL EVENTS

Q&A with Ron Howard

Q&A with Ron Howard

Monday, Nov. 30 2026, 7:00

  • Ron Howard is one of this generation’s most popular directors. From the critically acclaimed dramas Cinderella Man and Apollo 13 to the hit comedies Parenthood and Splash, he has created some of Hollywood’s most memorable films. Howard directed and produced A Beautiful Mind starring Oscar winner Russell Crowe, which earned Howard an Oscar for Best Director and also won awards for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress. He received his first Best Director of the Year award from the DGA for Apollo 13. The true-life drama also garnered nine Academy Award nominations, winning Oscars for Best Film Editing and Best Sound. Howard’s more recent films include Rush, The Beatles: Eight Days a Week, Pavarotti, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Rebuilding Paradise, Hillbilly Elegy, We Feed People, Thirteen Lives, and Eden.

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