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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Ron Howard to be feted at Austin Film Festival
Ron Howard — he who needs no introduction — is this year’s recipient of the Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking Award at the 16th annual Austin Film Festival and Screenwriters Conference. He’ll be handed his trophy Oct. 24 at a special ceremony at the Austin Club.
This means, besides all the unmoored adulation, Howard will speak during the festival and present one of his classic films and discuss it. (What will it be? “Splash”? “Apollo 13”? “The Da Vinci Code”?) It will be all Howard all the time.
Not really. Because the festival, as we’ve reported, has tapped Mitchell Hurwitz, creator of TV’s “Arrested Development,” as the Outstanding Television Writer Award recipient. He gets lovin’ too.
Read about both fellas and the fest HERE.
The Austin Film Festival runs Oct. 22 — 29.
Richie, er, Howie, um … Ron Howard!
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The forgotten ‘Chinatown’
This article in the Wall Street Journal has me wondering why no one, to the best of my knowledge, has ever released a DVD including a version of ‘Chinatown’ where you can hear Phillip Lambro’s original score, which has been described as ‘dissonant, weird, scratchy.’ Could it really alter the experience of seeing the movie as much as this piece suggests?
Update: Here’s an interesting discussion board about the Lambro score.
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