The famous director will accept the award at the 74th Locarno Film Festival in Piazza Grande, Switzerland, on August 13, before the screening of National Lampoon’s Animal House.
For the last 30 years the Locarno Film Festival’s Pardo d’onore has been awarded to masters of contemporary cinema and Landis will finally received his.
The Film Festival will recognised his work and contribution to the cinema world but also to pop culture with Eddie Murphy’s ‘Trading Places’ and Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’.
Incidentally, Landis will be accompanied by his wife Deborah Nadoolman Landis. She is professor emeritus and director of costume design at the UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television at the University of California in Los Angeles and she is the one who created the ‘Thriller’ red Jacket.
She will give an open masterclass on costume design for the audience. As a costume designer, she has worked for Indiana Jones in “Raiders of the Lost Ark” by Steven Spielberg (1981); she has also curated the exhibition “Hollywood Costume” (2012) at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
It is to note that the Locarno Film Festival has no issue to mention Michael Jackson throughout their documentation.
“He brought cinema into Michael Jackson’s music and soul into ‘80s American film”
Congratulations John Landis!
Also to mention that Landis directed Michael Jackson’s ‘Black or White’ short film:
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To mark the occasion of the Pardo d’onore Manor award for John Landis on the evening of 13 August, three classic titles from his filmography will be screened during the Festival (4-14 August) in the unique atmosphere of Locarno:
- National Lampoon’s Animal House, John Landis – USA – 1978, presented in Piazza Grande on the evening of Friday 13 August
- Trading Places, John Landis – USA – 1983
- Innocent Blood, John Landis – USA – 1992
On Saturday 14 August, John Landis will also meet the Festival audience during a panel conversation at the Forum @Rotonda by la Mobiliare, the Festival’s talk venue.
SOURCE: Locarno Film Festival
