The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today that the closing night of the complete John Huston retrospective, Let There Be Light: The Films of John Huston (December 19 - January 11), will include a screening of Prizzi's Honor at 7PM on Sunday, January 11, followed by a conversation with Academy Award®-winning actress and director Anjelica Huston. Tickets are on sale now; visit filmlinc.com for more information.
Huston continues her renowned family's film legacy, which began with her grandfather, Walter Huston, and her father, John Huston. Throughout her career, Huston has received a multitude of awards for her work, including a Best Supporting Actress Oscar® for her role as Maerose Prizzi in the black comedy Prizzi's Honor. Huston stars in the film opposite Kathleen Turner and Jack Nicholson, who gives one of his finest performances as a beloved, longtime hit man employed by a New York mob family, but he's nearly upstaged by his two co-stars: Turner as the savvy, beautiful West Coast mob killer he all-too-successfully courts, and Anjelica, as his spurned ex-lover.
Huston's work in television and behind the camera have garnered tremendous critical praise, a Golden Globe Award, and several Emmy nominations. She is also a New York Times best-selling author, with her memoir Watch Me just published, and will appear on Broadway in A.R. Gurney's Love Letters, opposite Martin Sheen in January 2015.
The previously announced retrospective Let There Be Light: The Films of John Huston will span five decades of Huston's iconic works, mostly as director, but also as screenwriter and actor. In addition to discovering, or rediscovering, some of his most popular films as well as his rarely seen works on the big screen, fans can also extend their knowledge and take homeFilm Comment magazine's Digital Anthology: John Huston and the limited-edition John Huston by Lillian Ross, essays from The New Yorker, newly collected in one volume.
Readers can access all of Film Comment's coverage of John Huston over the years with an 88-page digital anthology available now at filmlinc.com/HustonAnthology for $2.99. From Sam Spade to Annie, the anthology includes multiple interviews, set visits, and appreciations of his diverse career. Also being sold exclusively at the Film Society is John Huston by Lillian Ross, seven
New Yorker essays that report on Huston in New York beginning in 1949, through the Brooklyn shoot of Prizzi's Honor in 1984, with a stop in Rome for the making of The Bible in 1965.
THE COLLECTION concludes with a piece on Anjelica Huston from the set of her directorial debut, Bastard Out of Carolina, reminiscing about her father. It will be available for purchase at the Film Society beginning December 12 for $10, and can be pre-ordered now at www.thefilmdesk.com.
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LINCOLN Center works to recognize established and emerging filmmakers, support important new work, and to enhance the awareness, accessibility, and understanding of the moving image. The Film Society produces the renowned New York Film Festival, a curated selection of the year's most significant new film work, and presents or collaborates on other annual New York City festivals including Dance on Camera, Film Comment Selects, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, NewFest, New York African Film Festival, New York Asian Film Festival, New York Jewish Film Festival, Open Roads: New Italian Cinema, and Rendez-Vous with French Cinema. In addition to publishing the award-winning Film Comment magazine, the Film Society recognizes an artist's unique achievement in film with the prestigious Chaplin Award. The Film Society's state-of-the-art Walter Reade Theater and the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, located at
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