Extremely Hungary Honors Hungarians in Hollywood

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Parent Category: Film Festivals

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Published on Monday, 12 October 2009 17:34

Written by fftraveler staff

Extremely Hungary is a yearlong festival showcasing contemporary Hungarian visual, performing, and literary arts in New York and Washington, D.C., throughout 2009.

As part of this year's festival, BAMcinématek Movie Series is presenting Hungarians in Hollywood at BAM Rose Cinemas from October 7 to October 27, 2009. This program highlights the extraordinary contributions made by Hungarian artists to the history of American Film, from the Hollywood Golden Age to the New Cinema of the 70’s and the Independent 80’s. 

Included are films by: directors Michael Curtiz, André De Toth, Charles Vidor and George Cukor; producers Adolph Zukor, Alexander and Zoltan Korda; actors Bela Lugosi, Peter Lorre, Johnny Weissmuller, Ilona Massey and Zita Johann; writers Melchior Lengyel and Lajos Biró; cinematographers Vilmos Zsigmond and László Kovács; and composer Miklós Rózsa. Some of the films to be screened: 

Stranger Than Paradise (1984),directed by Jim Jarmusch, with John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson. Introduction by actress Eszter Balint.

Lisztomania (1975), directed by Ken Russell, with Roger Daltry. 

Beach Red (1967), directed by Cornel Wilde, with Cornel Wilde, Rip Torn.

Man in the Saddle (1951), directed by André de Toth, with Randolph Scott, Joan Leslie. A Cinemachat with film critic Elliott Stein will follow the 6:50pm screening.

Blow Out (1981), directed by Brian De Palma, with John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow.

Dracula and The Mummy Double Feature: Dracula (1931), directed by Tod Browning, with Béla Lugosi; screens with The Mummy (1932), directed by Karl Freund, with Boris Karloff, Zita Johann.

Five Graves to Cairo (1943), directed by Billy Wilder, with Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Erich von Stroheim. 

Passage to Marseille (1944), directed by Michael Curtiz, with Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michèle Morgan, Peter Lorre.

Extremely Hungary's festival reveals the roots of Hungary’s thriving contemporary culture and its impact on American society through a broad spectrum of events at leading cultural institutions in the two cities. Extremely Hungary is organized by the Hungarian Cultural Center in New York.

For more information:

extremelyhungary.org

The Hungarian Cultural Center
447 Broadway, NYC 10013
212.750.4450

BAM Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
Call 718.636.4100
or visit BAM.org

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