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with director Kevin Smith moderating
NEW YORK -
July 29th - The Film Society of Lincoln Center celebrates
filmmaker John Hughes, who is associated with many of the most successful
films of the 1980s and early 1990s, including National Lampoon's
Vacation; Ferris Bueller's Day Off; Weird Science; The Breakfast Club;
Some Kind of Wonderful; Sixteen Candles; Pretty in Pink; Planes, Trains
and Automobiles; Uncle Buck; Career Opportunities; 101 Dalmatians; Home
Alone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York and Home Alone
3. When John Hughes died in August of 2009 at the age of 59,
it had been nearly two decades since he had sat in the director's chair,
and one since he had signed his own name to a screenplay. But despite his
self-imposed Hollywood exile, Hughes and
his films-iconic portraits of suburban American adolescence-continued to
loom large, for successive generations of teen moviegoers, and for the
filmmakers (including Judd Apatow, Kevin Smith, and Jason Reitman) openly
influenced by his work. Ironically, for all his popular success, Hughes
never won or was even nominated for any industry accolades. On the
anniversary of his untimely passing, we celebrate his eternal place in
the pop-culture firmament. On September 19th and 20th join the Film
Society in remembering Hughes, when six of his most popular titles will
screen including a very special 25th Anniversary screening of The
Breakfast Club with cast and peers from some of John's most memorable
films, who will gather to discuss their personal stories of working with
this true storytelling legend.
"Like a real-life Holden Caulfield who never turned into a grown-up
phony, John Hughes possessed a timeless understanding of the inner lives
of American teenagers, which helps explain why his films are now beloved
by the children of those who grew up watching them in the 1980s. His
impact on pop culture was enormous, as was his influence on a subsequent
generation of filmmakers," says, Scott Foundas, Associate Director
of Programming, The Film Society of Lincoln Center.
Sunday
September 19th fans will have an opportunity experience some of their
favorite characters back on the big screen, join Duckie, Ferris,
"The Geek", Jake Ryan, Samantha Baker, Kevin McCallister, and
don't forgetNeal & Del at the Film Society's Walter Reade Theater.
Then, on Monday September 20th, The Film Society's NEW WAVE Committee
will host a special 25th Anniversary screening of The Breakfast Club at
The Paris Theater, including a post-screening panel discussion, moderated
by director Kevin Smith, with Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson,
Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy, as well as a post-panel after-party.
Hughes was born in Lansing,
Michigan, to a stay-at-home
mother and father, John Hughes, Sr., who worked in sales. He spent the
first 12 years of his life in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.In 1962, the
Hughes's family moved to Northbrook,
Illinois. Graduating from Glenbrook North
High School in 1968, Hughes used
Northbrook and the adjacent North
Shore area for shooting
locations and settings in many of his films, though he usually left the
name of the town unsaid, or referred to it as "Shermer,
Illinois", Shermerville being the
original name of Northbrook. In high
school, he met Nancy Ludwig, to whom he was married from 1970 until his
death. Nancy and John had two sons, John Hughes III, born in 1976, and
James Hughes, born in 1979.
On Sale:
Thursday, August 5th 2010
For Sunday
September 19th screenings at the Walter Reade Theater
- Single
Screening Tickets & Day Pass
for Sunday, September 19th - visit www.FilmLinc.com for prices
For Monday,
September 20th Special 25th Anniversary Screening of The Breakfast Club
at the Paris Theater*
- $25 for a single ticket to the screening and
panel discussion
- $40 for a single ticket to the screening,
discussion, and party, with cash bar
- $65 for a single ticket to the screening, panel,
party, with bracelet for full open bar for minimum 2 hrs
In Person:
Walter Reade
Theater box office; Hours: Mon-Fri opens at 12:30pm, Sat/Sun opens 1/2 hr
before first public screening; closes 15 minutes after last public
screening, at 6pm when there are no public screenings.
All sales are final. No refunds or exchanges. All showings are subject to
change. Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of the management.
Walter Reade Theater at The Film Society of Lincoln Center
165 West 65th Street,
upper level
(between Broadway and Amsterdam
Ave.)
Subways: 1 train to 66th
Street Lincoln
Center
Buses: M5 M7 M104
More options available at nearby Columbus Circle
*The Paris Theater
4 West 58th Street
New York, NY
10019
About the
Film Society of Lincoln
Center
The Film Society of Lincoln Center was founded in 1969 to
celebrate American and international cinema, to recognize and support new
directors, and to enhance the awareness, accessibility and understanding
of film. Advancing this mandate today, the Film Society hosts two
distinguished festivals. The New York Film Festival annually premieres
films from around the world and has introduced the likes of Francois
Truffaut, R.W. Fassbinder, Jean-Luc Godard, Pedro Almod—var, Martin
Scorsese, and Wong Kar-Wai to the United States. New
Directors/New Films, co-presented by the Museum of Modern Art,
focuses on emerging film talents. Since 1972, when the Film Society
honored Charles Chaplin, its annual Gala Tribute celebrates an actor or
filmmaker who has helped distinguish cinema as an art form. Additionally,
the Film Society presents a year-round calendar of programming at its
Walter Reade Theater and offers insightful film writing to a worldwide
audience through Film Comment magazine. For more information,
visit: www.filmlinc.com
The Film Society receives generous, year-round support from
42BELOW, Audi, American Airlines, GRAFF, The New York Times, Stella Artois, The New York State
Council on the Arts, and The National Endowment for the Arts.
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JOHN HUGHES: WE CAN'T FORGET ABOUT HIM
Detailed
Program and Schedule Information
*All programming shown at the Film Society's Walter Reade Theater unless
denoted
The Breakfast
Club
Special 25th anniversary screening
John Hughes, 1985, USA;
97m
*The Paris
Theater - 4 West 58th Street,
New York, NY
10019
Hughes's second feature as director assembles five students
from five disparate walks of high-school life for movie history's most famous
detention session. With his typical incisiveness, Hughes takes this
cross-section of tried-and-true personality types-the tough guy (Judd
Nelson), the jock (Emilio Estevez), the brainiac (Anthony Michael Hall),
the neurotic (Ally Sheedy) and the prom queen (Molly Ringwald)-and
reveals the unique, complex individuals underneath, struggling to define
themselves in the adolescent maelstrom. Q&A with Anthony Michael
Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy, moderated by Kevin
Smith to follow screening.
Monday, September 20 7:00pm
25th Anniversary
DVD available from Universal Home Entertainment on August 3rd
Ferris
Bueller's Day Off
John Hughes,
1986, USA; 103m
Hughes's fondly quoted comedy is a pop anthem to playing hooky and a
self-proclaimed "love letter to Chicago." The adventures of
impossibly confident wisenheimer Ferris (Matthew Broderick) play out the
teenager's outsized fantasy of independence. In Hughes's hands, the
school-skipping, the Ferrari (property of Ferris's neurotic friend's Dad...),
and the unforgettable parade make for something sincerely and unabashedly
fun, without losing the smart-aleck sarcasm that is Ferris's stock in
trade.
Sun Sep 19: 7:00
director Jason Reitman to introduce
Home Alone
Chris Columbus,
1990, USA; 103m
With more than $500 million at the worldwide box-office, Hughes's biggest
hit is a spring-loaded wind-up machine of comic mayhem starring
10-year-old newcomer Macaulay Culkin as the youngest member of a
sprawling Chicago brood, who gets left behind when his parents and
siblings jet off for a Christmas holiday in Paris. Soon, he finds himself
defending the homestead against a couple of bungling burglars (played by
Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern). Culkin's increasingly complex, Rube
Goldberg-esque punishment delivery systems are a delight to behold, as
are Hughes and director Chris Columbus's many tips of their hats to The
Three Stooges, Tom & Jerry, and other paragons of slapstick
perfection.
Sun Sep 19: 12:45
Planes,
Trains & Automobiles
John Hughes, 1987, USA;
93m
Steve Martin and John Candy star in Hughes's uproarious trip through
holiday traveling hell. After a blizzard preempts their arrival in Chicago, hapless
shower curtain ring salesman Del Griffith (Candy) and uptight marketing
guy Neal Page (Martin) lead each other further astray from their
families. Beyond being comedy gold, it's also a rare take on average-guy
travails that also achieves what innumerable odd-couple comedies continue
to flub. With Kevin Bacon committing a classic urban no-no.
Sun Sep 19: 9:45
Pretty in
Pink
Howard Deutch, 1985, USA;
96m
In addition to directing, Hughes left his unmistakable stamp through his
extremely productive writing output. Class tensions, high school cliques,
and New Wave fashion collide in Hughes's female-driven story. Molly
Ringwald stars as Andie, a shabby-chic record store clerk who is torn
between her crush on one of the preppy boys at her high school and her
equally scruffy bestie, Duckie. Hughes's grasp of the high-school rush of
pressures and emotions--particularly Andie's final revelation of
strength--makes this much more than a nostalgic classic.
Sun Sep 19: 5:00
Sixteen
Candles
John Hughes, 1984, USA;
93m
Hughes' directorial debut stars Molly Ringwald as one of his most beloved
characters-Samantha, a modern-day Cinderella who discovers, first to her
disbelief and then to her horror, that her family has forgotten her
sixteenth birthday during the frantic preparations for her elder sister's
wedding. To make matters worse, she's got a crush on an airbrushed jock
who doesn't know she exists, can't evade the clumsy romantic overtures of
classmate Farmer Ted a.k.a. The Geek (Hughes alter-ego Anthony Michael
Hall), and is forced to attend a school dance in the company of goofy
exchange student Long Duk Dong. But sometimes, Prince Charming is lurking
where you least expect him.
Sun Sep 19: 3:00
JOHN
HUGHES: WE CAN'T FORGET ABOUT HIM
Schedule at a
Glance
Sunday, September 19 - The Walter Reade Theater
12:45pm
HOME ALONE
3:00pm
SIXTEEN CANDLES
5:00pm
PRETTY IN PINK
7:15pm FERRIS
BUELLER'S DAY OFF
9:45pm
PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES
Monday, September 20 - The Paris Theater
7:00
pm THE
BREAKFAST CLUB
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