American Cinematheque and The Art Directors Guild Tribute Henry Bumstead with a screening of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' October 28 at The Aero Theater October 28, 2007

The American Cinematheque and the Art Directors Guild will continue its year-long monthly screening series, heralding the work of the Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame’s legendary Production Designers and Art Directors with Robert Mulligan’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) October 28 at 5:30 PM at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica. Following the screening, the Art Directors Guild will host a presentation on the career of Henry Bumstead with an introduction by Norman Newberry and Bob Boyle. Plus a special event at Every Picture Tells A Story prior to the screening.
Henry “Bummy” Bumstead (1915-2006) passed away in 2006, designing after a 70-year career and more than 100 movies. He had just concluded work on two still unreleased Clint Eastwood movies—Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima. “Bummy” designed a total of 13 films for Eastwood. He received Oscars® for recreating rural Alabama of the 1930s in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and for his sets of Depression-era Chicago in The Sting (1973). He received Academy Award® nominations for Eastwood’s 1992 western Unforgiven and for Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller Vertigo. The Art Directors Guild honored him with their Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998. “Bummy” worked on three other Hitchcock films—The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Topaz (1969) and Family Plot (1976). His association with Clint Eastwood began with the 1972 western Joe Kidd. His first job as an Art Director was in the 1948 Paramount film Saigon. Other credits include The Great Waldo Pepper, Slap Shot, The Front Page, Cape Fear, Mystic River and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Bumstead was inducted into the ADG Hall of Fame in 2007.
To Kill a Mockingbird, 1962, Universal, 129 min. Hollywood pro Robert Mulligan pulls off the rarest of hat tricks with this adaptation of Harper Lee's classic novel: he brings a great book to the screen and improves upon it. Gregory Peck is superb as a small town lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape. But what distinguishes the film is director Mulligan's deft use of subjective camerawork to approximate the point of view of the children who struggle to understand the case. Peck, screenwriter Horton Foote, and a team of art directors that included the legendary Henry Bumstead deservedly won Oscars for their work on this timeless classic.
General Admission is $10; $7 Cinematheque; $9 Seniors (65+ years) and students with valid ID card. For 24-Hour ticket information please call 323.466.FILM.

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