Adrian Wootton: Elvis: Enduring Icon 45 Years Later
In a year of milestones, MIFF staging its 70th edition is just one reason for cheer! Another is the return of former London Film Festival and British Film Institute director Adrian Wootton OBE, celebrating the 10th Melbourne instalment of his illustrious Illustrated Film Talks series.
Elvis made movies for more than a decade ( 31 of them!). In that time, broke box-office records, became the highest-paid actor in Hollywood, saved at least one studio from bankruptcy – and saved the musical itself from extinction while prefiguring MTV – and developed into a confident, naturally talented actor, who then took what he had learned into his relaunched, incendiary live-performance career.
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Elvis made movies for more than a decade ( 31 of them!). In that time, broke box-office records, became the highest-paid actor in Hollywood, saved at least one studio from bankruptcy – and saved the musical itself from extinction while prefiguring MTV – and developed into a confident, naturally talented actor, who then took what he had learned into his relaunched, incendiary live-performance career.