On Friday, November 16, The Dallas Film Society presented its annual fundraising event, The Art...
On Friday, November 16, The Dallas Film Society presented its annual fundraising event, The Art of Film with celebrated actor, producer and director Val Kilmer. This historic event was held at the newly renovated Hall of State building in Fair Park. The cocktail attire event featured an elegant gathering for 350 patrons for a conversation with the honoree in The Margaret and Al Hill Lecture Hall followed by a seated dinner in the Great Hall.
On Saturday, November 17, we presented two of our Art of Film honoree’s most-loved films.
11:30 a.m. THE DOORS
R, 1991, 140 min.
Director: Oliver Stone
Screenwriter: Oliver Stone and Randall Jahnsson
Cast: Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan
2:30 p.m. BATMAN FOREVER
PG-13, 1995, 121 min.
Director: Joel Schumacher
Screenwriter: Lee Batchler, Janet Scott Batchler and Akiva Goldsman
Cast: Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman
VAL KILMER
Ranked as one of the “Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time,” Val Kilmer burst onto the Hollywood scene at age 24 as rock star Nick Rivers in the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker spy spoof, TOP SECRET. He starred in the cult classic REAL GENIUS, then rocketed to international stardom playing the “Iceman” in TOP GUN opposite Tom Cruise; rock legend Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone’s THE DOORS; and Doc Holliday in TOMBSTONE.
Other iconic roles include the title role in BATMAN FOREVER and Simon Templar in THE SAINT. He headlined Michael Mann’s classic crime drama HEAT with legends Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, channeled Elvis Presley in Tony Scott’s TRUE ROMANCE and costarred with Marlon Brando in THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU.
Who
Val Kilmer,
Actor, Producer and Editor
Honorary Chairman
Ruth O’Donnell Mutch
Event Chairmen
Jennifer Houser, Kate Rose Marquez & Mersina Stubbs
DFS Chairman of the Board
Lynn McBee
DFS President & CEO
Lee Papert
