FESTIVAL OF JOHN HUSTON CLASSICS, Part II

Author-filmmaker Peter Josyph pays tribute to one of America’s most esteemed and prolific directors by screening six of the great John Huston cinema masterworks. This second series of three films includes The African Queen, adapted from a novel by C. S. Forester, and starring Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, and Humphrey Bogart, who won the Oscar for Best Actor; The Misfits, written by Arthur Miller for his then wife Marilyn Monroe, who co-stars with Eli Wallach, Montgomery Clift, and Clark Gable in his favorite—and last—performance. The series closes with John Huston’s final gem, a wistful and loving adaptation of James Joyce’s The Dead, with an Oscar-nominated screenplay by his son, Tony Huston, and starring his daughter, Anjelica Huston. A lively discussion will follow each screening.