THE AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE SCREENS THE LOST CITY OF CECIL B. DeMILLE
The award-winning film directed by Peter Brosnan and co-produced with Daniel Coplan will be screened at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday September 23. The screening will be followed by a question-and-answer session with Mr. Brosnan, Mr. Coplan, and Peter Bernstein, son of composer Elmer Bernstein, who scored DeMille’s 1956 version of The Ten Commandments.
For his 1923 biblical epic The Ten Commandments, director Cecil B. DeMille re-created ancient Egypt on the central California coast with one of the biggest movie sets of the silent era, which was buried after the film was completed.
Director Peter Brosnan’s thirty-year quest to unearth the site – and, through numerous interviews, its secrets – makes for one of the most fascinating behind-the-scenes documentaries ever.
“For anyone who cares about Hollywood history – or, for that matter, California history – The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille is an irresistible detective story, told with a sense of wonder, a sense of humor and a mild exasperation over the ‘permit people,’ as Brosnan wryly calls them.” – Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter.