If Bingham Ray’s two-and-a-half-hour memorial February 10 at Manhattan's Paris Theater had been a movie, Ray would have said it was too long. His audience, however, disagreed. Friend after friend took the stage to recall moments with the indie pioneer and newly appointed director of the San Francisco Film Society, who died in Utah on January 23. An ensemble led by bass player and Ray’s high school buddy, Frank Canino, warmed up the crowd with selections from the Flying Burrito Brothers and the Grateful Dead. “Bingham was a Deadhead,” noted Tim Jensen, a schoolmate from Scarsdale who said he'd known Ray for 50 years. Oliver Platt and Patricia Clarkson hosted the event. They were the stars of "Pieces of April," a film Ray made at United Artists before he lost that job. Platt remembered that Ray had a flair for overstatement, even when fighting losing battles with studio executives. "He recognized in me a fellow deviant.
- 2/10/2012
- Indiewire
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