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September 7 – 8, 2010

THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK: Film Screening, Discussion & Reception

Tuesday, September 7 at 7:30pm
In Person: Star MILLIE PERKINS

George Stevens’ life-altering experience of witnessing the death camps after WWII was doubtless responsible for his desire to adapt the famed diary of the teenaged Jewish girl, brilliantly played by Millie Perkins. Released around the world between 1959 and 1960, The Diary of Anne Frank was the first significant film to inscribe the devastating impact of Nazi Germany’s persecution and mass murder of Europe’s Jews into popular consciousness – years before the term “Holocaust” itself came into common use. Relying on Anne Frank’s uncanny skills as a born writer with a keen understanding of human nature, the film conveys the real life drama of two families—the Franks and the Van Daans—hiding precariously from the Gestapo for years with the help of Dutch friends, packed together in a secret attic hidden behind a bookshelf in an Amsterdam factory. USA, 1959,, 180 min.

Millie Perkins was already an internationally famous model when director George Stevens cast her in the iconic title role in The Diary of Anne Frank. Her later performances include Wild in the Country with Elvis Presley, Monte Hellman’s classic westerns starring Jack Nicholson: The Shooting and Ride the Whirlwind, the cult classic Wild in the Streets, and Oliver Stone’s Wall Street.

Ms. Perkins will be interviewed by Foster Hirsch, author and pioneer in the establishment of academic film criticism.

Members $15 • Public $20

For more info: 631-423-6711 or http://cinemaartscentre.org/010/010Mayo/CAC-SpecialGuests.html#AnneFrank

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