New York City - The eagerly anticipated Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF) is still months away, but a preview of one of its potential films was held at MOMA when actor and HIFF board member Alec Baldwin sat down with photographer/director Bruce Weber to talk about Weber's new documentary about legendary screen star and Hollywood bad boy Robert Mitchum.

HIFF Director of Programming David Nugent addressing the SRO crowd at the MOMA screening.

The lively Q&A was introduced by HIFF Director of Programming David Nugent which started with clips of Weber's new film, "Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast." The discussion was part of the Museum of Modern Art's Film Plus program, a new membership program which offers access to exclusive advance screenings of films. Also present at the screening was Weber's wife and agent Nan Bush, HIFF Chairman Stuart Match Suna and HIFF Executive Director Karen Arikian.

Filmed almost entirely in black & white with incredible archive footage of the reclusive actor, Weber has crafted a documentary that reveals a modest and shy man whose on stage persona as a tough guy and reputation as a difficult personality off screen just does not gel with the portrait Weber was able to capture.

Make no mistake about it, Mitchum was a man's man and despite his reputation as a ladies man, he was married for 57 years. Handsome with his signature clef chin and sleepy eyes, Mitchum embodied the film noir style of acting and defined the character of the anti-hero for generations of actors. Although dismissed three years later, in 1948 Mitchum was convicted of marijuana possession, which further helped to cement his Hollywood bad boy reputation, whether truly deserved or not.

In the making for over a decade, Weber revealed that he was able to get the reclusive actor to cooperate with the filming by sending beautiful women to his door with gifts. Narrated by recording artist Dr. John whose raspy voice is just perfect for the task, the film includes rare footage of Mitchum, a composer as well as an actor, in a recording session with Dr. John, Marianne Faithful and Rickie Lee Jones.

Baldwin did a superb job in the interviewer's seat keeping the conversation going with insightful questions that evoked some very witty, poignant and sometimes funny repartee.

The film also includes Weber's filmed interviews with Mitchum himself, his brother actor John Mitchum and numerous friends of the actor. Mitchum's flirtatious charms are revealed in a particularly provocative restaurant scene with the actor surrounded by beautiful women.

Along with a discussion of Mitchum and the film, Baldwin's conversation with Weber touched on the director's own substantial body of work as both one the world's most famous fashion photographers and Academy Award nominated documentarian for his film about the troubled and self-destructive jazz trumpet player Chet Baker called "Let's Get Lost." As usual Baldwin did a superb job in the interviewer's seat keeping the conversation going with insightful questions that evoked some very witty, poignant and sometimes funny repartee between the two gentlemen who are very familiar to all of us in the Hamptons.

Weber's "Nice Girls Don't Stay Breakfast" is a brilliant and beautifully shot film that will undoubtedly garner an entirely new generation of Mitchum fans, while shedding new light on the actor and his life for longtime devotees.