Following a five-week run at New York City's Film Forum, a 90th-anniversary "tribute"
to United Artists will go on the road beginning Friday, when the Brattle Theater
in Cambridge, MA screens 20 restored UA films that Film Forum described as "some
of the most entertaining, adventurous, and Oscar-laden American (and foreign)
movies of the last nine decades." While UA was founded in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin,
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, the films being screened were mostly produced
during the last half of the 20th century. They include Dr. No (1962), the
first James Bond movie, starring Sean Connery; the original Pink Panther film,
starring Peter Sellers; Some Like It Hot (1959), starring Jack Lemmon, Tony
Curtis and Marilyn Monroe; the fight films Raging Bull (1980) and Rocky (1976);
and the political dramas The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and Judgment at
Nuremberg (1961). The restored prints are scheduled to make a cross-country road-show
tour over the next year.
29/04/2008
