Planet of the Apes (1968) - the classic sci-fi flick that started ten ape films! Nominated for 2 Academy Awards (Best Original Score, Best Costume Design) and winner of an Honorary Academy Award for special achievement in make-up, it stars the king of over-acting Charlton Heston (Academy Award winning best actor Ben Hur), Roddy McDowell (271 screen/TV credits), and Kim Hunter (Academy Award winning supporting actress A Streetcar Named Desire) in a complex sociological drama where three astronauts are marooned on a futuristic planet where apes rule and the humans are slaves! The stunned trio discover that the highly intellectual simians can not only walk upright and talk, but have established a class system and a political structure. The astronauts suddenly find themselves part of a devalued species, trapped and imprisoned by the apes. “Take your stinking paws off me. You damn dirty ape!”
Fogcutter Film Series hosted by Robert Mailer Anderson
Music Geeks Go Ape! Planet of the Apes
6:00 PM gramophone concert by DJ GrampaPhone
7:00 PM Q&A with film/TV compser David Russo
7:30 PM PLANET OF THE APES (1968)
Free wine and Fogcutter rye while supplies last!
David Russo, film and television composer (Gotham, Nikita, Sin City) will discuss Jerry Goldsmith’s (Academy Award winning and 18-time nominee) ground-breaking score for “Planet of the Apes”. In particular, the contribution of percussionist Emil Richards (430 film credits!). And the huge influence on Goldsmith and Richards by Oakland’s own, depression-era hobo-turned-composer, Harry Partch who was one of the first 20th century composers in the West to work systematically with microtonal scales and custom built his own instruments, many of which were used for the recording of the score to “Planet of the Apes.”
Robert Mailer Anderson, A native San Franciscan and 9th generation Californian, writer, producer, filmmaker, and activist, Anderson's most recent work is the graphic novel "My Fairy Godfather” - dedicated to The Castro Theater. He is also known as "DJ GrampaPhone” - spinning 78 records on his 110 year old gramophone.