Friday Flashback: Annette Bening

Each week in our Friday Flashback series, we are offering all HamptonsFilm members access to a previously unreleased conversation from a past HamptonsFilm event. 

Join today for access to this conversation, and more in the weeks to come. We will send you this week’s password upon joining, and new videos and passwords each week in a special members-only email. We look forward to welcoming you to our member community.


At our 25th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival in 2017, we presented the East Coast Premiere of Paul McGuigan’s FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL, starring Annette Bening.

At HIFF25, the four-time Academy Award® nominee sat down with HamptonsFilm Board Member Bob Balaban for one of our signature conversations. The pair discussed her wide-ranging career, including THE GRIFTERS, AMERICAN BEAUTY, BEING JULIA, THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT, THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT, 20th CENTURY WOMEN, and so many more. Bening is also a gifted Theatre actress, receiving a Tony Award nomination for her role in Coastal Disturbances.

On this Flashback Friday, feel free to revisit FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOLavailable to rent on streaming platforms—or any of her other extraordinary work from the past thirty years.

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Please enjoy the film and the conversation, and join us next Friday for another Friday Flashback movie + conversation.