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RETURN TO OZ 40th Anniversary in 35MM
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MOViES FOR MANiACS is thrilled to return to The Castro with an extremely rare archival 35mm screening of Walt Disney’s underrated cult classic Return to Oz (1985). This special event will celebrate the film’s 40th Anniversary alongside the writer/director Walter Murch”” who will be IN-PERSON to discuss the film and his illustrious career in a post-screening Q&A, hosted by curator Jesse Hawthorne Ficks.
SF/Arts Curator Insight
MOViES FOR MANiACS returns to the Castro trumpeting an archival 35mm print of Walt Disney’s 1985 surreal cult favorite, its special effects courtesy of the Jim Henson Company. Walter Murch, the film’s Bolinas-based writer/director and sound designer eminence (“The Conversation,” “Apocalypse Now”), will be on hand to discuss his extraordinary career and his movie, adapted from the follow-up novels to “Wizard of Oz.”
Sura Wood
Contributing Writer, Film
Emphasizing dismissed, underrated and forgotten films for over 24 years
Emphasizing dismissed, underrated and forgotten films for over 24 years