GEORGE STEVENS: A FILMMAKER’S JOURNEY (1984)
WORLD PREMIERE RESTORATION
40TH ANNIVERSARY PRESENTATION
Memorializing his father’s many achievements was a voyage of discovery for George Stevens Jr., who produced, directed, wrote, and narrated this documentary. Along with clips from his iconic films—such as Woman of the Year (1942), A Place in the Sun (1951), and Giant (1956)—and interviews with his father’s frequent collaborators like Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, Stevens Jr. accessed his father’s letters, journals, and home movies. They provide an intimate look at a multifaced man who, in addition to his work as both a director and a cinematographer in Hollywood, filmed the D-Day landing and the liberation of Dachau during World War II and took a stand against the Hollywood blacklists of the 1940s and ‘50s. Mining the treasures of film history is nothing new to Stevens Jr., whose distinguished career as a producer, an author, and a founder of the American Film Institute and the AFI Life Achievement Award have earned him this year’s Robert Osborne Award. GEORGE STEVENS: A FILMMAKER’S JOURNEY will be preceded with the awarding of The Robert Osborne Award to George Stevens Jr.
d. George Stevens Jr., 112m, DCP
4K DCP courtesy of Janus Film. Restoration funding provided by Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw, Heather Reisman and Gary Schwartz, Martin Scorsese and The Film Foundation.