The Sound of Music screens at the UPV Cinematheque this Week

Cinema Exmundo and the UPV Cinematheque presents a screening of the 1965 highly beloved musical masterpiece "The Sound of Music" this coming April 19, 2015 Sunday, 1:30 PM at the UPV Cinematheque, U.P Visayas, Iloilo City Campus, Infante Ave., Iloilo City. The event will be RSVP to confirm your seats, please send them an e-mail at cinemaexmundo@gmail.com or a text message at 09086790363 if you intend to go and watch it. [hit the jump to continue]

Produced and directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, "The Sound of Music" was actually an adaptation of the 1959 Broadway musical The Sound of Music, composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Based on the memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp, the film is about a young Austrian woman studying to become a nun in Salzburg in 1938 who is sent to the villa of a retired naval officer and widower to be governess to his seven children. After bringing love and music into the lives of the family through kindness and patience, she marries the officer and together with the children find a way to survive the loss of their homeland through courage and faith. [check out the 50th anniversary trailer below]

"The Sound of Music" left a grand and lovely legacy. In 1966, American Express created the first Sound of Music guided tour in Salzburg. Since 1972, Panorama Tours has been the leading Sound of Music bus tour company in the city, taking approximately 50,000 tourists a year to various film locations in Salzburg and the surrounding region. Sing-a-long Sound of Music revival screenings began in London in 1999, leading to a successful run at the Prince Charles Cinema. During the screenings, audience members were encouraged to sing along to lyrics superimposed on the screen. In July 2000, Sing-a-long Sound of Music shows opened in Boston and Austin, Texas. Some audience members dressed up as cast members and interracted with the action shown on the screen. The film began a successful run at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City in September 2000, with the opening attended by cast members Charmian Carr (Liesl), Daniel Truhitte (Rolf), and Kym Karath (Gretl). Sing-a-long Sound of Music screenings have since become an international phenomenon. In 2001, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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