Lecture examines movies set in Utah

Robert Redford’s annual Sundance Film Festival in Park City puts a spotlight on Utah in the film industry, but the state’s influence on Hollywood extends beyond the annual screenings.

From the “High School Musical” trilogy to “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” hundreds of films have used Utah as a backdrop. The southern part of the state has played numerous roles, including foreign planets in “Galaxy Quest,” a pirate’s desert prison in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films and dozens of Western towns.

This week, renowned film scholar, curator and author James D’Arc will present “When the Movies Raised Kane in Kane County,” a lecture on Hollywood filmmaking in Utah. D’Arc will reveal Utah shooting locations and discuss the influence of Utah’s red rock on Hollywood filmmaking. The lecture will include clips from great Utah-shot films such as the 1999 comedy “Galaxy Quest” and the classic 1968 film “Planet of the Apes.”

The lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibit “The Continuing Allure: Painters of Utah’s Red Rock,” which showcases artistic representations of Utah’s landscape, including works by Maynard Dixon, Edgar Payne and Conrad Buff. The exhibition runs now through June 27.

The lecture is free and will be held Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Dumke Auditorium in the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. For more information on the presentation, the “The Continuing Allure” exhibit or the UMFA, visit www.umfa.utah.edu.

b.green@chronicle.utah.edu

 

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