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Michael Deeley: A Producer Masterclass
Sun 5 October 2008
The Deerhunter
Sunday 5 October at 12 noon
Curzon Mayfair, London W1
In association with Curzon Cinemas, we’re delighted to welcome Oscar-winning film producer, Michael Deeley (Blade Runner, The Deer Hunter, The Italian Job), to London to discuss his career with journalist and author Matthew Field in a conversation illustrated with clips from an incredible body of work.
Don't Look NowIt is hard to imagine that one man links Ridley Scott’s visionary sci-fi classic, a searing study of lives ruined by the Vietnam War, and a much-loved British caper that made an icon of Michael Caine. But Deeley, an urbane Englishman who scaled the heights of Hollywood, had to fight wars to get all three of these movies on to cinema screens at all. His many other challenges have included: defending the legendary sex scene of Nic Roeg’s Don’t Look Now; ordering the controversial cutting of Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man; trekking up a New Mexico mountainside with David Bowie to realise The Man Who Fell To Earth; and seizing control of Convoy from a cocaine-ridden Sam Peckinpah.
Blade Runner
This lunchtime conversation will explore the behind-the-scenes machinations of international big studio production, and, with Deeley as former MD of British Lion Films, president of EMI Films Inc. and founding member and deputy chair of the British Screen Advisory Council, will give an insight into how the British industry itself has changed.
Deeley will be in conversation with Matthew Field, author of The Making of The Italian Job and Michael Caine, You’re A Big Man. Matthew is also a journalist and producer-writer-director of numerous cinema documentaries.
Tickets priced £12 (£9 Script Factory Members) are on sale now from 0871 7033 989 or by going to www.curzoncinemas.com (please note that Members discount price is not available online and can only be secured by telephone booking or buying tickets in person).
BLADE RUNNERS, DEER HUNTERS AND BLOWING THE BLOODY DOORS OFF: My Life in Cult Movies by Michael Deeley with Matthew Field is out on 2 October 2008, priced £18.99.
With thanks to Faber, and Curzon Cinemas.
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