Name: ADAM NIMOY IN PERSON with a screening of FOR THE LOVE OF SPOCK
Start: 2024-11-24T14:30:00-05:00
Location: Cinema Arts Centre

ADAM NIMOY IN PERSON with a screening of FOR THE LOVE OF SPOCK

ADAM NIMOY IN PERSON
with a screening of his documentary, For the Love of Spock, and a discussion of his new memoir, The Most Human: Reconciling with My Father, Leonard Nimoy
Sunday, November 24th at 2:30 PM
$48 Public with book | $42 Members with book
$28 Public film & discussion only | $22 Members film & discussion only
Join director and author Adam Nimoy, the son of legendary actor Leonard Nimoy, best known for his role as Spock in Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek franchise, at a screening and discussion of his acclaimed documentary film, For the Love of Spock, and new memoir The Most Human: Reconciling with My Father, Leonard Nimoy. Tickets include film screening, interview with audience Q&A, and book signing reception with live musical entertainment. Copies of his new memoir, The Most Human: Reconciling with My Father, Leonard Nimoy, are available to bundle with the film program or at the box office.
FILM: For the Love of Spock
Adam Nimoy is the son of the legendary Leonard Nimoy, who most notable played Spock innumerable times in Star Trek and its many spinoff blockbuster movies. But as his truly remarkable documentary, For Love of Spock, reveals, Leonard Nimoy’s life and nearly seven-decade career was far more multifaceted than most are aware, including that of director and superb stage actor, as represented with particular poignance by his role as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof.
With stunning expertise as a director and storyteller as well as with a love that transcended a sometimes fraught relationship, Adam Nimoy deftly interweaves innumerable fascinating clips with a vast array of insights offered by such figures as William Shatner, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Zachary Quinto, George Takei, Chris Pine, Jim Parsons, Zoe Saldana, Nichelle Nichols, J.J. Abrams, Walter Koenig, Simon Pegg, Mayim Bialik, Jason Alexander and Jeffrey Katzenberg, as well clips with others he acted with or directed, including Angelina Jolie, Liam Neeson, Jason Robards, Jeffrey Hunter, Diane Keaton, Winona Ryder and Ricardo Montalban. But Leonard Nimoy’s culturally influential character of Spock remains at center – with his iconic salutation, inspired by the Jewish Kohanic priestly blessing, reminding us that Nimoy the man was not just a Mensch, as his colleagues say, but “the Mensch of Mensches.” (Dir. Adam Nimoy, 2016, 1hr 51min)

BOOK: The Most Human: Reconciling with My Father, Leonard Nimoy
Like his legendary father, Adam Nimoy’s career is multifaceted, as a storyteller in film and TV, photography, books, memoirs and teacher – the latter not only at the NY Film Academy, but as a recovering addict at the Beit T’Shuvah treatment center, where the residents kept him on the straight and narrow. As the latter might suggest, while Star Trek fan publications portrayed the Nimoys as a “close family,” to his son Adam, Leonard Nimoy was a total stranger - as inscrutable as the iconic half-Vulcan science officer he portrayed on Star Trek. Adam’s poignant and widely praised memoir explores their complicated relationship and how it informed his views on life. Despite their differences, both men ventured down parallel paths: marriages leading to divorce, battling addiction, and finding recovery. Most notably, both men struggled to take the ninth step in their AA journey: to make amends with each other. In The Most Human, Adam Nimoy reveals how the son of Spock learned to navigate this tumultuous relationship—from Shabbat dinners to basement AA meetings—and how he was finally able to reconcile with his father—and with himself.