Otto Preminger Centennial Tribute - Press Release
by Andre Soares
More on the Academy’s Centennial Tribute to Otto Preminger
I posted an article a few days ago about the Academy’s tribute to director Otto Preminger. Below is the official press release from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. (I just wouldn’t have described the pre-marital sex discussion in The Moon Is Blue as “sexual promiscuity.”)
Press Release:
Beverly Hills, CA — Academy Award®-nominated director Peter Bogdanovich will join actresses Carol Lynley and Eva Marie Saint for a centennial tribute to three-time Academy Award-nominated director and producer Otto Preminger on Thursday, November 2, at 8 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The tribute, hosted by Bogdanovich, will present a selection of film clips and onstage discussions with Hope and Victoria Preminger, the director’s widow and daughter, respectively, as well as Lynley and Saint.
Born in Vienna, Austria on December 5, 1906, Preminger worked as a stage actor and director throughout Europe, making his film directorial debut in 1931 with a German-language melodrama called Die Grosse Liebe (The Great Love).
Arriving in the United States in 1935 at the invitation of 20th Century-Fox, Preminger earned his first Academy Award nomination in 1944 for directing Laura and went on to direct a number of important films for the studio, including Fallen Angel, Forever Amber, Where the Sidewalk Ends and River of No Return.
Preminger delighted in challenging authority, a quality that often led to clashes with studio executives and censors. In the early 1950s, Preminger formed his own production company, and as an independent producer he became known for taking on controversial topics. He explored the themes of sexual promiscuity, heroin addiction and rape in such films as The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and Anatomy of a Murder. He also maintained his connection to theater by directing film adaptations of stage productions, including the black-cast musicals Carmen Jones and Porgy and Bess.
Preminger received his second directing nomination for The Cardinal in 1963; he was also nominated for producing Anatomy of a Murder.
As part of the centennial celebration, the Academy will also present a retrospective film series highlighted by recent restorations and newly made prints from the Otto Preminger Collection at the Academy Film Archive.
The screening series, to be held at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater, will feature:
Friday, November 3, at 7 p.m.
The Man with the Golden Arm
Premiering a new restoration by the Academy Film Archive
Laura
Featuring a new print by 20th Century Fox
Saturday, November 4, at 7 p.m.
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Premiering a new restoration by the Academy Film Archive and 20th Century Fox
Daisy Kenyon
Featuring a new print by 20th Century Fox
Friday, November 10, at 7 p.m.
The Moon Is Blue
Premiering a new restoration by the Academy Film Archive
Bonjour Tristesse
Featuring a recently restored print by Sony Pictures Entertainment
Saturday, November 11, at 7 p.m.
Whirlpool
Featuring a new print by 20th Century Fox
Bunny Lake Is Missing
Featuring a recently restored print by Sony Pictures Entertainment
Sunday, November 12, at 7 p.m.
Anatomy of a Murder
Featuring a recently restored print by Sony Pictures Entertainment
Tickets to A Centennial Tribute to Otto Preminger and for each screening in the accompanying film series are $5 for the general public and $3 for Academy members. Doors open at 7 p.m. for the tribute and 6 p.m. for the screenings. Seats are unreserved.
The Samuel Goldwyn Theater is located at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills. Free parking is provided in the garages located at 8920 and 9025 Wilshire Boulevard.
The Linwood Dunn Theater is located at the Academy’s Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study at 1313 North Vine Street in Hollywood. Parking is available behind the building through the entrance on Homewood Avenue. For additional information, call (310) 247-3600 or visit www.oscars.org/events.
Photos © A.M.P.A.S.
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Premminger surely deserves a tribute like this. One of his films I most like and think that should be mentioned everytime his name is being discussed or remembered is 1965 Bunny Lake Is Missing.
I mention how much I like “Bunny Lake Is Missing” in my previous article on the Otto Preminger tribute. I’ve seen it twice, and even though the second time around I knew from the beginning who had done what to whom I still found “Bunny Lake” an engrossing thriller.
Carol Lynley was excellent in it. She was an effective actress, and deserved to have landed better roles in better films than she usually did.
Dear Sirs,
otto preminger,one of his films wich should
always be mentioned was(The man wiyh Golden Arm)
staring Frank Sinatra And the most beautiful Kim
Novak.
Thank you
Fouad,
“The Man with the Golden Arm” is up there in the article. There’s a still of Frank Sinatra and Kim Novak.