Stuart Wurtzel to be Honored by Art Directors Guild
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Stuart Wurtzel
Wurtzel, whose credits include Hannah and Her Sisters and Angeles in America, will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Production designer Stuart Wurtzel best known for his work on
Hannah and Her Sisters and
Angels in America will receive the Art Directors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award during the 25th ADG Awards, which will be presented during a virtual ceremony on April 10.
Wurtzel received an Oscar nomination for his work on Woody Allen’s
Hannah and Her Sisters, following his design of Allen’s
Purple Rose of Cairo. He was the production designer on three Peter Yates films:
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The first time I entered Yonah Schimmel’s Knish Bakery on Houston Street, I was greeted, across from the signs selling cherry-flavored cream cheese knishes and egg creams, by the poster for Joan Micklin Silver’s
Hester Street (1975). I’d just moved from Los Angeles to New York City, unsure of where to go or what to do for paid work, and was spending a lot of hours milling about the Lower East Side, browsing bookshops. On the walls of Yonah Schimmel’s I would pore over the strips of yellowed newspaper clippings, which told stories of the local Yiddish theater players who’d come there in the ’20s to unwind over a knish after a night of performances, and who would stay talking into the next morning. When I finally sat down with a black-and-white egg cream, I made sure to face that
LOS ANGELES: Joan Micklin Silver, who forged a path for female directors and independent filmmakers with movies including Hester Street and Crossing Delancey, has died.