ADG to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of PLANET OF THE APES this Sunday, June 24

The Art Directors Guild (ADG, IATSE, Local 800) Film Society and American Cinematheque present the Oscar-nominated Planet of the Apes, celebrating its 50th Anniversary as a science-fiction classic, with a screening followed by a special tribute to the original Production Designer William J. Creber, ADG. The 2018 ADG Film Society Screening Series entitled "Production Design: Designers on Design" is sponsored by The Hollywood Reporter.

A conversation with Planet of the Apes Oscar-nominated Production Designer William J. Creber, ADG (The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno) will follow the movie exploring the making of the cult film and its TIMELESS designs, moderated by Film Society Founder John Muto, ADG.

Creber is virtually the last of the Golden Age Production Designers, trained and nurtured by the famed Hollywood Studio system. He received additional Oscar-nominations for his designs for The Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure and The Greatest Story Ever Told, and an Emmy®-nomination for Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

Planet of the Apes garnered two Oscar-nominations and is one of the greatest modern sci-fi films, a combination of apocalyptic action and evolutionary parable. It became a critical and commercial hit, and has spawned three sequels, a television show, a 90's remake, three acclaimed re-imaginings and a myriad of product tie-ins. The film was scripted by Rod Serling (The Twilight Zone), directed by Oscar-winner Franklin J. Schaffner (Lionheart, Papillon, Patton), and stars Charlton Heston, Kim Hunter, Roddy McDowall, and Maurice Evans.

In Planet of the Apes, Astronaut Charlton Heston finds himself and his team stranded on a strangely familiar planet dominated by highly intelligent gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans. Finding their way to a lush valley, they encounter a tribe of mute, backward humans, but are suddenly attacked by a human hunting party of fierce, rifle-carrying gorillas. Heston is injured in THE ATTACK and rendered mute. He is taken to a nightmarish Ape City and thrown into a human zoo. Surrounded by apes walking upright and speaking English, he is befriended by a sympathetic chimpanzee scientist, whom he hopes might help him escape.

Representing the Art Directors Guild are Film Society Founder and Co-Chair John Muto ADG, Co-Chair Thomas A. Walsh ADG, John IacovelliADG, Michael Allen Glover ADG, and Debbie Patton, ADG Director of Awards and Events. Working with them are the American Cinematheque's Gwen Deglise, Margot Gerber and Grant Moninger. General admission: $12. American Cinematheque members: $8. Students/Seniors with valid ID: $10. All screenings start at 5:30 PM; 24-hour information is available at 323-466-FILM (3456).

For Information about the 2018 ADG Film Series click here.

For ticket information, go to American Cinematheque.

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