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Director/Producer Michael Pressman
Michael Pressman (director, The Guardian, Boston Public, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II...
check him out on www.imdb.com) spoke to students on Monday, April 18, 2005.
Download the flyer here.
News Coverage:
FILMMAKER MICHAEL PRESSMAN RETURNS TO
PITTSBURGH FOR OAKS THEATER MOVIE PREMIERE
Oakmont, PA, April 2005
Filmmaker and Emmy Award-winning television
director Michael Pressman will appear live, in-person
next Monday, April 18, to entertain audience questions
following a premiere screening of his new feature
film, Frankie and Johnny Are Married
(
www.frankiejohnny.com), the critically-acclaimed
romantic comedy showing April 15-21 at The Oaks
Theater, in Oakmont.
The charming, engaging and versatile Michael
Pressman began his career as an actor, studying
theater at Carnegie-Mellon University, who then
continued onto filmmaking, directing such features as
Those Lips, Those Eyes, with Tom Hulce,
Doctor Detroit, starring Dan Aykroyd, and To
Gillian on Her 37th Birthday, featuring Michelle
Pfeiffer, based on the play by Michael Brady. Most
recently, Mr. Pressman has directed on several
acclaimed television dramas, including Chicago
Hope, Law & Order, and The Guardian, where he filmed
on location in downtown Pittsburgh.
Michael Pressman will return to Pittsburgh on
April 18 for a 7:30pm Monday Night Discussion
screening of his film at The Oaks Theater, followed by
an opportunity for audience questions. Five
autographed mini-posters will also be raffled off at
the show. Admission is $7.00; Senior citizens 65 and
over, children 18 and under, and students with valid
I.D. pay $5.00 for tickets all the time. Tickets to
this special screening event go on sale at the box
office at 6:30pm. The Oaks Theater's Monday Night
Discussion series is a weekly tradition allowing
audiences a fun and informal opportunity to rant,
rave, or row about films alongside fellow movie-lovers
and a different host each week. The Oakmont Bakery
provides donuts for the event.
Frankie and Johnny Are Married, tells the
story of Michael (played by Michael Pressman), a
successful film and television director/producer, and
Lisa Chess (played by real-life wife Lisa Chess), a
talented struggling actress, who are married and
decide to mount a stage production of Frankie and
Johnny at the Clair de Lunea in equity-waiver in Los
Angeles with the hopes of bringing some life and joy
back into their marriage. What starts off as a simple
idea to revitalize the relationship turns into an
utter nightmare, as the lead actor becomes insanely
difficult and the marriage becomes even more strained
as the entire process becomes a tense and explosive
ordeal. Riding close on the success of
Sideways, Vanya on 42nd Street, and Woody
Allen's very best stories of absorbing adult
relationships, Frankie and Johnny Are Married
allows intimate access to one couple's strife,
strain and mutual development, allowing for genuine
sentiment and full-bodied characters to possess the
screen, while engrossing the audience in the process.
An official selection at the Seattle
International Film Festival, the California Wine
County Film Festival, as well as festivals in
Sarasota, Venice, Fort Lauderdale and Montreal, The
Toronto Star describes Frankie and Johnny Are
Married as Two touching love stories of a
husband for his wife, and an artist for the
theater. Leonard Maltin calls it "A fresh and
funny film about marriage, career, life in Hollywood,
and the power of theater, and the Village Voice
declares that the film successfully amalgamates
ego-skewering satire and a measured understanding of
the kinship between love and risk.
The Oaks Theater, a gloriously refurbished
430-seat single-screen movie house, presents the best
in current, classic, and non-traditional cinema
entertainment, specializing in community-based event
programming that preserves its long-standing history
as a unique, public-oriented neighborhood theater
venue. Call (412) 828-6311 for recorded schedule
information, or visit online at
www.theoakstheater.com.
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