Born in Hungary 100 years ago, one of greatest composers of Hollywood's
best years, Miklos Rozsa is about to have a festival of his films in San
Francisco's Castro Theater.
Acknowledged early in his career by Richard Strauss and Ernst von
Dohnanyi, Rozsa's contemporaries in Hollywood included Erich Korngold,
Elmer Bernstein, Alfred Newman, Dimitri Tiomkin, Franz Waxman, Victor
Young, Bernard Herrmann... Among the numerous composers Rozsa tutored:
Jerry Goldsmith. What an incredible (if incomplete) list! (Today's
roster would read: John Williams, Philip Glass, Danny Elfman - you don't
need to be nostalgia-bound to say that it's not like the good old days.)
Rozsa, who died in 1995, will be honored on his centennial by a
proclamation presented by the Hungarian Embassy on the Castro stage on
Dec. 29. Participating in commemoration: Rozsa's daughter, Juliet, and
film historian Steve Vertlieb.
The programs:
Dec. 26 - "Spellbound," 1945 (Hitchcock; Bergman, Peck); "Last Embrace,"
1979 (Demme; Margolin, Scheider)
Dec. 27 - "The Killers," 1946 (Siodmak; Gardner, Lancaster); "Dead Men
Don't Wear Plaid," 1982 (Reiner; Martin)
Dec. 28 - "The Strange Lives of Martha Ivers," 1946 (Milestone;
Stanwyck); "Madame Bovary," 1949 (Minelli; Jones, Heflin)
Dec. 29 - "Ben Hur," 1959 (Wyler; Heston)
Dec. 30 - "Ivanhoe," 1952 (Thorpe; E. Taylor, R. Taylor); "Knight of the
Round Table," 1953 (Thorpe; Garner, R. Taylor)
Dec. 31 - "Time After Time," 1979 (Meyer; McDowell); "Private Lives of
Sherlock Holmes," 1970 (Wilder; Lee)
Jan. 1 - "Double Indemnity," 1944 (Wilder; Stanwyck, McMurray); "The
Lost Weekend," 1945 (Wilder; Wyman, Milland)
Jan. 2 - "The V.I.P.'s," 1963 (Asquith; E. Taylor, Burton); "The Story
of Three Lives," 1953 (Minelli; Douglas)
Jan. 3 - "Lust for Life," Minelli; Douglas); "Julius Caesar," 1953
(Mankiewicz; Brando, Mason)
Janos Gereben
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