Wise to Attend Tribute to His 60 Years in Films

The American Cinematheque will present June 11-13 “Set-Up in Paradise City: A Tribute to Robert Wise In-Person,” marking the director’s 60th anniversary in films. Wise spent his early career at RKO, working as an editor before turning director in 1944. Wise’s films have won 19 Oscars.

The tribute at the Directors Guild, 7920 Sunset Blvd., begins June 11 at 7 p.m. with “The Haunting” (1963), starring Russ Tamblyn, who will appear with Wise. There will be a double feature at 9:30 p.m. of “The Set-Up” (1949), a boxing story with Robert Ryan, and “Odds Against Tomorrow” (1959), a crime drama starring Ryan, Harry Belafonte, Gloria Grahame and Shelley Winters, who is scheduled to appear.

On Saturday, a 10 a.m. symposium with Wise will be followed at 1 p.m. with “The Sound of Music” (1965). The rarely shown 1948 noir Western “Blood on the Moon,” with Robert Mitchum, Robert Preston and Barbara Bel Geddes, screens at 5 p.m. Wise’s first film, “The Curse of the Cat People” (1944), with Simone Simon, screens at 7:15 p.m. and will be followed at 9:15 p.m. with “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (1959), a landmark sci-fi film starring Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal and Billy Gray (who will be present).

A new documentary, Robert J. Emery’s “The Films of Robert Wise” will screen Sunday in the guild’s Video Theater at 1 p.m. The 1953 war film “Destination Gobi” screens at 3 p.m., and the tribute concludes with the 5 p.m. screening of “I Want to Live!” (1958). Information: (213) 466-FILM.