Slideshow
Preston Sturges’
SULLIVAN’S TRAVELSin 35mm
Sunday, September 7
3:00
Post-film conversation with Tom Sturges, son of director Preston Sturges, and Peter McCrea, son of star Joel McCrea. Moderated by Bruce Goldstein, Film Forum Repertory Artistic Director and curator of “Written and Directed by Preston Sturges,” our Houston Street theater’s opening repertory festival.
Sturges’ SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS and THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK opened the festival on September 7, 1990.
Following the event, Tom Sturges will sign copies of O Brother What Might Have Been (Sticking Place Books), a new collection of rediscovered Preston Sturges, available today at our concession.
U.S., 1941
Written and directed by Preston Sturges
Starring Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake
Approx. 90 min. 35mm.
Idealistic director Sullivan (Joel McCrea) wants to make O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?, while his bosses hold out for another ANTS IN YOUR PANTS OF 1939. Art vs... Commerce? So he sets out to explore Human Misery for himself, with a luxurious studio van in tow and peekaboo-hairdoed Veronica Lake along for the ride. Sturges' testament to the art of Hollywood moviemaking.
Presented with support from The Robert Jolin Osborne Endowed Fund for American Classic Cinema of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s
A UNIVERSAL PICTURES RELEASE
Reviews
“A brilliant fantasy in two keys.”
– James Agee
“A beautifully trenchant satire upon 'social significance' in pictures, a stinging slap at those fellows who howl for realism on the screen and a deftly sardonic apologia for Hollywood make-believe.”
– Bosley Crowther, The New York Times