perfecting his aging makeup techniques for 175-year-old Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid), experimenting with methods he would bring with him to MGM’s film adaptation just three years later, with Frid reprising his iconic role. A self-proclaimed perfectionist, Smith was intent on developing his techniques not just for himself, but also to share with the next generation of makeup artists, to what he acknowledged was the entire industry’s mutual benefit. DIRECTED BY: Dan Curtis. WRITTEN BY: Sam Hall, Gordon Russell. WITH: Jonathan Frid, Joan Bennett, Grayson Hall, Kathryn Leigh Scott. 1970. 97 min. USA. Color. English. Rated PG. 35mm.
THE HUNGER (1983)
The Hunger with House of Dark Shadows Thu, Aug 17 | 7:30pm | TMT The Hunger
To realize the rapid aging of David Bowie’s John Blaylock, a vampire promised immortality but not eternal youth by the exponentially more powerful Miriam (Catherine Deneuve), director Tony Scott called upon the legendary talents of advanced-age makeup expert Dick Smith, credited here for his “makeup illusions,” to gradually turn the mid-30s actor-musician into a desperate, 200-year-old insomniac over the course of a six-stage deterioration. Trained in miming techniques by Marcel Marceau protégé Lindsay Kemp, Bowie employs his experience with physical performance to convey John’s devastating plight beneath multiple layers of prosthetics. DIRECTED BY: Tony Scott. WRITTEN BY: Ivan Davis, Michael Thomas. WITH: Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon, Cliff De Young. 1983. 97 min. UK/USA. Color. Scope. English. Rated R. DCP.
AMADEUS (1984)
Amadeus Thu, Aug 24 | 7:30pm | TMT
Winner of eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Makeup for Dick Smith and Paul LeBlanc ( Black Swan ), Amadeus chronicles the rivalry between composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce) and Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) in the court of Emperor Joseph II. Unanimously revered for Smith's makeup depicting the weight of time on Salieri’s face, the authenticity also found in the masquerade party scenes as well as the day-to-day looks of the 18th century Viennese ruling class make the pair’s contributions to this beloved epic integral to the film’s verisimilitude. DIRECTED BY: Milos Forman. WRITTEN BY: Peter Shaffer. WITH: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow. 1984. 158 min. USA. Color. Scope. English. Rated PG. 35mm. New print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS (1970)
House of Dark Shadows It was during his tenure on the wildly popular ABC television series Dark Shadows in 1967 that Dick Smith began
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