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Laura Dern Returns to Omaha

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Omaha, Nebraska (June 24, 2008) Film Streams Announces "Laura Dern" Series
by Casey Logan

It's with great excitement that we welcome back to Omaha Laura Dern, whose contributions to cinema over the past quarter-century exemplify film as art. Hers has been a career lined with un-safe choices '- moving from challenging literary drama (SMOOTH TALK) to Lynchian mind-blower (BLUE VELVET) to Nebraska-based satire (CITIZEN RUTH), back to Lynchian mind-blower (INLAND EMPIRE) '- and backed up by consistently brilliant performances.

In addition to being our special guest for Film Streams' first annual fundraiser event, Feature 2008 on Sunday, July 13, Laura has also generously helped to curate this special repertory series featuring seven of her own pictures and two movies that have influenced her work in film.

Films In This Series


Smooth Talk 1985

Laura's first leading role and a Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winner, based on a short story by Joyce Carol Oates, about a teenager's sexual awakening and a predatory stranger.


Rambling Rose 1991

Both Laura Dern and her mother Diane Ladd earned Oscar nominations for their performances in this film, set in 1930s Georgia, about a promiscuous caretaker and the genteel family that employs her.


Citizen Ruth 1996

Laura stars in this spot-on satire about an irresponsible drug-abuser whose very public pregnancy becomes the battleground for the debate about abortion. Film was written, directed, and shot in and around the Omaha area.


Network 1976

Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall, and William Holden star in Lumet's prescient Oscar-winning picture about a TV network that watches its ratings boom when a venerable anchor melts down on air.


We Don't Live Here Anymore 2004

The lives of two married couples and friends (Laura Dern, Mark Ruffalo, Naomi Watts, and Peter Krausse) are thrown upside down when an affair comes to light.


La Strada 1954 (Laura's Pick)

The very first Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film went to this classic by Fellini about a young woman (Giulietta Masina) sold to a travelling circus strongman (Anthony Quinn).


Wild at Heart 1990

A love-on-the-run story told in full Lynchian mode, meaning surreal situations, bizarre characters, and inspired performances by Nicolas Cage, Laura, and her real-life mother Dianne Ladd as her hitman-hiring matriarch. Palm d'Or Winner.


Blue Velvet 1986

A happened-upon severed ear turns out to be the most normal thing about this murder mystery and cult classic featuring Laura as a young innocent alongside Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, and a beyond-disturbing Dennis Hopper.


INLAND EMPIRE 2006

Fantasy and reality blur together for an actress (Laura) whose life starts to imitate her latest role in a production she's beginning to suspect is cursed.


I can't wait; a new theater for the arts was opened this year just for events like this. The manager is a big David Lynch fan.
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