For a party at the Museum of Modern Art following the premiere of The Interpreter—on opening night of the Tribeca Film Festival—Universal Pictures senior vice president of special projects Hollace Davids and event producer Patricia Michaels of Jhada of New York kept the look spare and clean to reflect the film’s modern-looking setting inside the United Nations headquarters. After three different screenings (at the Paris, the Ziegfeld, and MoMA's screening room), 1,700-plus guests included Nicole Kidman, who plays an imperiled U.N. translator, and costars Sean Penn and Catherine Keener, director Sydney Pollack, festival co-founder Robert De Niro, and U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan.
The understated dining tables featured green linens and natural-colored chair cushions from Party Rental Ltd. DeJuan Stroud created simple floral centerpieces with pink peonies and white tulips, and accented the bars and buffets with tall cherry blossom branches, in a nod to a series of garden scenes in the film.
Abigail Kirsch’s hearty buffet menu included sirloin beef with Peter Luger steak sauce, Moroccan spiced chicken, porcini-dusted wild salmon, corn pudding soufflé, and thick-cut onion rings.
In the museum’s garden, simple lanterns sat atop cocktail tabletops. “We were very concerned about the weather, and we’d had four canopies on hold,” Michaels said, but the breathtakingly perfect spring night rendered them unnecessary, and guests were free to mingle outdoors.
—Alesandra Dubin
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The understated dining tables featured green linens and natural-colored chair cushions from Party Rental Ltd. DeJuan Stroud created simple floral centerpieces with pink peonies and white tulips, and accented the bars and buffets with tall cherry blossom branches, in a nod to a series of garden scenes in the film.
Abigail Kirsch’s hearty buffet menu included sirloin beef with Peter Luger steak sauce, Moroccan spiced chicken, porcini-dusted wild salmon, corn pudding soufflé, and thick-cut onion rings.
In the museum’s garden, simple lanterns sat atop cocktail tabletops. “We were very concerned about the weather, and we’d had four canopies on hold,” Michaels said, but the breathtakingly perfect spring night rendered them unnecessary, and guests were free to mingle outdoors.
—Alesandra Dubin
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