NYAB Event - Arthur Penn Film Program

Arthur Penn Film Program

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At Anthology Film Archives
Media: Film

One of the defining figures of sixties and seventies American cinema, and among the prime movers in the transformation-from-within that brought a new (and sadly brief-lived) energy and excitement to Hollywood filmmaking, Arthur Penn was a paradoxical artist – moving back and forth between theater, television, and film, he was an iconoclast who stood apart from the industry (both creatively and practically, continuing to live on the east coast for most of his career), while providing the New Hollywood, struggling to make the transition from the dying studio era, with several of its greatest successes (BONNIE AND CLYDE, ALICE’S RESTAURANT, and LITTLE BIG MAN). His fascinating and varied body of work combines the fluid formal and technical mastery of an earlier generation of great filmmakers, such as John Ford and Orson Welles, and the raw emotional complexity of John Cassavetes, Shirley Clarke, and other proponents of the burgeoning New American Cinema movement. Displaying a deeply-rooted concern with quintessentially American themes as well as a passion for the radical aesthetic innovations emerging from Europe, Penn helped redefine American cinema.
This retrospective coincides with the publication of ARTHUR PENN: INTERVIEWS, edited by Michael Chaiken and Paul Cronin, and published by the University Press of Mississippi.

***On Thursday, Nov 20. Arthur Penn will do a Q&A after the 6:45 screening of LITTLE BIG MAN ***