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UNDER THE SIGN OF FINCHER David Fincher on the Making of Benjamin Button Sunday, January 4, 2009 at 7:30pm Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of at Jazz at Lincoln Center The filmmaker joins Kent Jones on stage to discuss his work, with a special emphasis on the technical processes behind the creation of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. On Sunday, January 4 at 3pm there will be a screening of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button at the Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center. SPECIAL TICKET OFFER! Buy a ticket to David Fincher on the Making of Benjamin Button and get $3 off one full price ticket to the 3pm screening of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button at the Walter Reade Theater. Present proof of purchase at the Walter Reade Theater box office to redeem. Limited availability. Please note: discount does not apply to member, senior or student tickets for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button screening. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button David Fincher, USA, 2008; 180m F. Scott Fitzgerald’s clever, arch short story about a man born old who grows physically younger has been moved from Baltimore to New Orleans, pushed ahead 50 years and expanded into a 20th century epic. It has also been re-fashioned by Fincher and screenwriter Eric Roth into a quietly heartbreaking meditation on time and aging. The younger Benjamin (Brad Pitt) gets, the older he becomes. Somewhere between his rowdy New Orleans youth, his years as a sailor, his settled life as the heir of a button factory and his itinerant “childhood,” he finds a brief, golden interval with the woman he loves (Cate Blanchett). Fincher’s craft here is remarkable. The technical wizardry of the director and his team is strictly at the service of the storytelling, and as Dave Kehr wrote in The New York Times, the use of computer-generated imagery is “so deft and so sophisticated that, after a few minutes, it no longer seems remarkable.” In a film with so many lasting images and moments, the most moving are of Benjamin himself, as he contemplates the passing of time through his own peculiar looking glass.