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Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides [2011] - Once called “the most natural and least self-conscious screen actor that has ever lived” by the über-critic Pauline Kael, Jeff Bridges has been plying his craft most of his life. With his first role as an infant in The Company She Keeps and a childhood television debut in his father Lloyd’s television series Sea Hunt, he burst onto the silver screen in The Last Picture Show in 1971 and was immediately recognized with a Best Supporting Actor nomination – the first of his five Oscar nominations. Bridges has created original and memorable characters in notable films, emblematic of every generation and genre. To name but a few – The Last Picture Show (1971), Starman (1984) , The Fabulous Baker Boys(1989), The Fisher King (1991), The Big Lebowski (1998) … and, of course Crazy Heart (2009). Featured in The Dude Abides are clips from these and several other Bridges’ films, including Against All Odds (1984), Tucker (1988), Texasville (1990), The Contender (2000), Tron Legacy and True Grit Helping to illuminate time and place in Bridges’ work are on-screen interviews with the directors Terry Gilliam, Taylor Hackford and Peter Bogdanovich; the actors Robin Williams, Robert Duvall, John Goodman and Stacey Keach; the actresses Cybil Shephard, Mercedes Ruehl and Karen Allen; the musicians T-Bone Burnett and Michael McDonald. Source: x264 / MKV / HDTV / 720p / (23h50m left)
