The Cinema Arts Centre will host a special Long Island LitFest talk with legendary film producer and director Irwin Winkler on Monday, April 29 at 7:30 p.m.
Winkler produced many of the biggest films in a career spanning more than 50 years, including “Rocky,” “Goodfellas,” “Raging Bull,” “De-Lovely,” “The Right Stuff,” “The Wolf of Wall Street,” and “Creed.” His films have garnered 12 Academy Awards and 52 Oscar nominations, and he is the only producer honored with three films on the American Film Institute’s list of Top 100 Films.
Winkler’s latest production, “The Irishman,” directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Ray Romano, and many other leading actors, will be released later this year. Scenes in the movies were filmed at Hildebrandt’s, the soda shop and ice cream parlor in Williston Park that dates back to the 1920s.
Winkler’s autobiography, “A Life in Movies: Stories from 50 Years in Hollywood” (May 7; Abrams Press), tells the stories of his career through his many films as a producer and then as a writer and director, charting the changes in Hollywood over the past decades. Winkler started in the famous William Morris mailroom and made his first film starring Elvis Presley in the last days of the old studio system.
Beginning in the late 1960s, and then for decades to come, Winkler produced a string of provocative and influential films, making him one of the most critically lauded, prolific, and commercially successful producers of his era. Filled with tales of legendary and beloved films, as well as some not-so-legendary and forgotten ones, “A Life in Movies” takes readers behind the scenes and into the history of Hollywood.
Tickets to the event are $35 for the general public ($30 for CAC members) and include a copy of “A Life in Movies,” an audience Q&A and book signing.
The Cinema Arts Centre is located at 423 Park Ave. in Huntington.
