{"id":167534,"date":"2017-04-21T06:29:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T13:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=167534"},"modified":"2017-04-21T06:30:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T13:30:26","slug":"the-graduate-50th-anniversary-clips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2017\/04\/21\/the-graduate-50th-anniversary-clips\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch clips from THE GRADUATE for 50th Anniversary Theatrical Release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New York-based specialty distributor Rialto Pictures and Studiocanal will release Mike Nichols<\/a>\u2019 groundbreaking THE GRADUATE, starring Dustin Hoffman<\/a> and Anne Bancroft, in new 4K digital prints beginning in April.<\/p>\n

The 50 anniversary restoration had its World Premiere earlier this month at the TCL Grauman\u2019s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, as the centerpiece event of this year\u2019s TCM Classic Film Festival. The new GRADUATE restoration will play in over 700 movie theaters nationwide on April 23 and 26, as part of TCM and Fathom Events\u2019 monthly \u201cTCM Big Screen Classics<\/a>\u201d series.<\/p>\n

The new restoration will also screen at this year\u2019s Il Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bologna and will be released theatrically and as a special edition Home Entertainment release in all Studiocanal territories (France, Germany, U.K., Australia and New Zealand) throughout the summer.<\/p>\n

Hoffman, in his star-making, breakout role, is Benjamin Braddock, the college track star suddenly adrift after graduation, and ripe for seduction by an older, married woman: Bancroft’s coldly calculating friend-of-the-family Mrs. Robinson. When Ben ultimately falls for dream girl Elaine (Katharine Ross), who happens to be the Robinsons\u2019 daughter, it sets up a love triangle like no other in American films up to that time.<\/p>\n

Adapted from the Charles Webb novel by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham (which immortalized the word “plastics” in the lexicon of hip expressions), THE GRADUATE was the biggest box office surprise of the decade, nominated for seven Oscars and winning for director Nichols\u2019 sophomore effort. The classic \u201cTop 40\u201d score by Simon & Garfunkel started a new, youthful trend in soundtrack music as well.<\/p>\n