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LETTERS FROM ELIA--4 Films By Kazan (SERIES PASS)
NOTE: PRO-RATED PASSES AVAILABLE FOR REMAINDER OF SERIES!
The SERIES PASS includes admission to all 4 evenings of the series which includes:
The Atlanta Premiere of Martin Scorsese's A LETTER TO ELIA
Elia Kazan launched the careers of Marlon Brando, James Dean, Eli Wallach, Eva Marie Saint and Warren Beatty. He inspired a generation of filmmakers from Sidney Lumet and John Cassavetes to Arthur Penn and Woody Allen. He favored real locations over sets, unknowns over stars, and realism over convenient genres. He pioneered the use of the "method" in film — bringing sensitivity and understanding of the acting process. Producer George Stevens, Jr. concludes that Kazan's films "changed American moviemaking."
Martin Scorsese, who presented Kazan with his life achievement OSCAR®, counts himself among Kazan's greatest fans. His personal documentary tribute to Kazan, A LETTER TO ELIA, initiates this series of 35mm prints of four Elia Kazan classics.
DOUBLE FEATURE!!
September 13, 7:30 PM
A LETTER TO ELIA (dirs. Martin Scorsese and Kent Jones, U.S., 2010, color and b&w, 60 min. digital)
Martin Scorsese and Kent Jones' A LETTER TO ELIA is a heartfelt declaration from one great American filmmaker to another, as Scorsese speaks candidly and passionately about one of his formative filmmaking influences: the late Elia Kazan. Utilizing precisely chosen clips from Kazan's signature films, and interview footage of the director himself, Scorsese and Jones recount the director's tumultuous journey from the Group Theatre to the Hollywood A-list to the thicket of the blacklist. But most of all, they make a powerful case for Kazan as a profoundly personal artist working in a famously impersonal industry.
VIVA ZAPATA! (dir. Elia Kazan, U.S. , 1952, b&w, 113 min., 35mm)
Novelist John Steinbeck wrote the screenplay for this biopic of Mexican Revolutionary Emilano Zapata. Marlon Brando, recognized as Best Actor at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival stars in the title role of the modest but determined hero of the revolution, and Anthony Quinn, who earned a Best Supporting Actor ACADEMY AWARD®, co-stars as Emilano 's hard-living brother, Eufemio. Despite his efforts to give the film authenticity—Kazan reportedly studied Agustin Casasola's period photographs—the film contains such historical inaccuracies as depicting Zapata as illiterate.
September 20, 7:30 PM
A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN (dir. Elia Kazan, U.S., 1945, b&w, 128 min., 35mm)
Dorothy McGuire and James Dunn and Peggy Ann Garner star as an impecunious Irish tenement dwelling family in early twentieth century Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. Alternatively heartwarming and heartbreaking adaptation of the best-selling novel by Betty Smith, Kazan's motion picture directorial debut immediate established his reputations as an "actor's director" as James Dunn earned a Best Supporting Actor OSCAR® for his depiction of Jonny Nolan, the charming patriarchal dreamer whose alcoholism and inability to find steady work condemn his family to poverty.
September 27, 7:30 PM
GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT (dir. Elia Kazan, U.S., 1947, b&w, 118 min., 35mm)
Gregory Peck stars as Philip Schuyler Green, a journalist who agrees to go undercover as a Jew to report on anti-Semitism in postwar America. This topical film proved controversial throughout its production (Samuel Goldwyn and other Jewish film executives approached producer Darryl Zanuck and asked him not to make the film, fearing that it would "stir up trouble"; Peck's agent advised him not to take the role fearing it would endanger his career; the film upset the House Un-American Activities Committee, which led to Kazan being called to testify before the committee.) Despite the controversy, the film earned the ACADEMY AWARD® for Best Picture and garnered Kazan his first OSCAR® for Best Directing.
October 4, 7:30 PM
WILD RIVER (dir. Elia Kazan, U.S., 1960, color, 110 min., 35mm)
In the early 30's, Montgomery Clift, an idealistic young field administrator for the Tennessee Valley Authority comes to a small town to enforce the clearing of the land to be flooded by a new dam on the Tennessee River. He encounters opposition from Jo Ann Fleet, an elderly woman who refuses to sell her land to the government and others who object to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Notable for Ellsworth Fredrick's riveting Cinemascope landscapes—shot on location in the Tennessee Valley—the film's dramatic arch links the relationship of Nature with the role of the individual in the United States.
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LocationPlaza Theatre
1049 Ponce De Leon Avenue Northeast
Atlanta, GA 30306
United States
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