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Note by Academy Museum Senior Director, Film Programs Bernardo Rondeau. DIRECTED BY: Mitchell Leisen. WRITTEN BY: Talbot Jennings. WITH: Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Córdova, Basil Rathbone. 1944. 110 min. USA. Color. English. DCP. 4K restoration by Universal Pictures in collaboration with The Film Foundation. 35mm 3-Strip Nitrate Original Cut Picture Negative provided by UCLA Film & Television Archive. Restoration services conducted by NBCUniversal StudioPost. JANUARY/FEBRUARY: JOHN WILLIAMS John Williams may be the only film composer since Henry Mancini who can truly be called a “household name.” He began his career in music as a jazz musician, an orchestrator, and a session musician for film composers. He scored his first feature film in 1958, and in the decades since he has earned five Oscars and received 52 Academy Award nominations, making him second only to Walt Disney as the most nominated individual in Academy history. Williams has written some of the most popular and instantly recognizable themes in film history, including Jaws (1975), Star Wars (1977), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Superman (1978), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Jurassic Park (1993), and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001) . Williams has announced that following Steven Spielberg’s upcoming The Fabelmans (2022) and the fifth Indiana Jones film, he will retire from film scoring. To honor his extraordinary career and his upcoming 91st birthday, we are screening seven of the films that earned him Oscar nominations. Programmed and notes by Robert Reneau.
Valley of the Dolls Sun, Jan 8 | 7:30pm | TMT Jacqueline Susann’s bestselling potboiler about the misadventures of three young women in the entertainment industry became a lavish big-screen melodrama under the direction of Mark Robson ( Peyton Place ). Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, and Sharon Tate are the innocents who run afoul of men and “dolls” (pills), and Oscar-winner Susan Hayward plays Helen Lawson, a temperamental star modeled after Judy Garland (and almost played by Garland herself). André and Dory Previn wrote the film’s original songs, including the Dionne Warwick hit “Theme From Valley Of The Dolls,” and John Williams received his first Oscar nomination for the film’s score, in the category Music (Scoring of Music—adaptation or treatment). DIRECTED BY: Mark Robson. WRITTEN BY: Helen Deutsch, Dorothy Kingsley. WITH: Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Sharon Tate, Susan Hayward. 1967. 123 min. USA. Color. Scope. English. Rated PG-13. DCP. Close Encounters of the Third Kind Sun, Jan 15 | 7:30pm | TMT Steven Spielberg followed Jaws (1975) with his own screenplay about a family man whose life is changed by an encounter with a UFO, and the end result is a genuinely awe-inspiring moviegoing experience. Richard Dreyfuss plays the everyman hero and Melinda Dillon became the first performer nominated for a Spielberg film for her supporting performance. John Williams’s nominated score ranges from the atonal to the symphonic, his five-note theme a key part of the film’s storyline. The film received eight nominations and won for Vilmos Zsigmond’s rapturous cinematography, with Frank E. Warner winning a Special Achievement Award for his sound effects editing. DIRECTED BY: Steven Spielberg. WRITTEN BY: Steven Spielberg. WITH: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon. 1977. 134 min. USA. Color. Scope. English. Rated PG. 4K DCP.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind Sun, Jan 15 | 7:30pm | TMT
DIRECTED BY: Christine Choy, Renée Tajima. 1988. 82 min. USA. Color. English, Taishanese. DCP. Restored by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation, in association with the Museum of Chinese in America. Restoration funding provided by the Hobson/ Lucas Family Foundation, with additional support provided by Todd Phillips. The Cardinal Sun, Dec 11 | 7:30 pm | TMT | Los Angeles Restoration Premiere Otto Preminger independently produced and directed this adaption of the best-selling novel by Henry Morton Robinson. The lavish production, with location photography in Rome and Vienna, earned six Academy Award nominations, including Cinematography (Color) for Leon Shamroy, Art Direction (Color) for Lyle R. Wheeler and Gene Callahan, Film Editing for Louis R. Loeffler, and Costume Design (Color) for Donald Brooks. Preminger himself was nominated for Directing, and John Huston for Supporting Actor (which went that year to Melvyn Douglas for Hud ). It also features the last screen appearance of Dorothy Gish. Note by Academy Film Archive Preservation Officer Joe Lindner. DIRECTED BY: Otto Preminger. WRITTEN BY: Robert Dozier. WITH: Tom Tryon, Romy Schneider, Carol Lynley, John Huston. 1963. 175 min. USA. Color. English. 35mm. Photochemical preservation by the Academy Film Archive in 2012. Frenchman’s Creek Sun, Dec 18 | 7:30pm | TMT | Los Angeles Restoration Premiere Joan Fontaine stuns as the noblewoman Dona St. Columb who leaves her husband and children for a charming French pirate (Mexican star Arturo de Córdova) and his band of misfits. But their plundering adventures along the coast of Cornwall are challenged by the meddling of Lord Rockingham (Basil Rathbone). Mitchell Leisen helms this adaptation of a novel by Daphne du Maurier ( Rebecca ) rendered in glorious three-strip Technicolor by George Barnes ( The War of the Worlds ).
DECEMBER: PRESENT PAST Presented in conjunction with our month-long celebration of newly restored films, the films screening in December are Los Angeles restoration premieres of Oscar-winning or nominated films. Programmed by K.J. Relth-Miller and Bernardo Rondeau. Credits for notes can be found with each film.
The Poseidon Adventure
The Poseidon Adventure Sun, Jan 1 | 7:30pm | TMT
Who Killed Vincent Chin?
An ocean-going New Year’s Eve party is literally turned upside down when a wave capsizes a passenger liner in this Irwin Allen-produced classic. Gene Hackman is the priest who challenges God to save a group of imperiled passengers, played by a host of familiar faces including Supporting Actress nominee Shelley Winters. John Williams had previously worked with Allen on such TV classics as Lost in Space, and his tense music earned him an Original Score nomination. The film received nine nominations and won for the original song “The Morning After” as well as a Special Achievement Award for its Visual Effects. DIRECTED BY: Ronald Neame. WRITTEN BY: Stirling Silliphant, Wendell Mayes. WITH: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters, Leslie Nielsen. 1972. 117 min. USA. Color. Scope. English. Rated PG. 35mm.
Who Killed Vincent Chin? Sun, Dec 4 | 7:30pm | TMT | Los Angeles Restoration Premiere In 1982, a Chinese American man named Vincent Chin was beaten to death after his bachelor party by two auto- workers during a time of anti-Asian hate as Japan was blamed for the downturn in the US auto industry. This powerful documentary, nominated for the Documentary (Feature) Oscar, explores the lives of Chin and his killers, the outrage over the sentence the perpetrators received, and the cultural context in which the killing occurred. Note by Robert Reneau.
The Witches of Eastwick
The Witches of Eastwick Sun, Jan 22 | 7:30pm | TMT
George Miller directed this adaptation of John Updike’s bestselling novel about three friends in a Rhode Island village who explore their affinity for the supernatural, only to find an unexpected challenge from the new man in town. Cher, Susan Sarandon, and Michelle Pfeiffer make a delightful trio of witches, and Jack Nicholson is at his most impishly charismatic as the devilish Daryl Van Horne. Nominations were earned for the film’s sound (Wayne
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