ONLINE! Several Essential Films With Truly Great Writing
Code: SL41009
Dates: May 6, 2021
Meets: 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
Sessions: 1
Location: ONLINE
Course Fee: $35.00
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You don’t need to be an aspiring screenwriter to notice and appreciate extremely well-written screenplays. Outstanding films are spawned from such scripts whose narrative construction, character chemistry, sinuous plot-lines and compelling dialogue make them especially memorable. In this presentation, Yale Film Professor Marc Lapadula will show and discuss powerful and entertaining movie clips that showcase great writing. Clips will include: Sullivan's Travels, Gentleman's Agreement, Chinatown, Heaven Can Wait, The Verdict, Running on Empty, A Few Good Men, The Devil Wears Prada, Winter's Bone.
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Marc Lapadula
Marc Lapadula is a Senior Lecturer in Film And Media Studies at Yale University where he runs and teaches the screenwriting program. He is a playwright, screenwriter and an award-winning film producer. In addition to Yale, Marc has taught at Columbia University’s Graduate Film School. He also created the screenwriting programs at both The University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins where he won Outstanding Teaching awards. He has been invited to lecture on a wide range of classic and contemporary films across America as well as in cities in Canada, England and Mexico. His acclaimed presentations have been at many notable venues like The National Press Club, The Smithsonian Institution, The Guthrie Theater, The Commonwealth Club, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Toronto Jewish Film Festival, The New York Historical Society and The Festival of Ideas in Mexico City to name only a few. He produced ANGEL PASSING, starring Hume Cronyn and Teresa Wright. The film premiered at The Sundance Film Festival and won, among many other awards, the grand prize at Worldfest Houston. Other movies he produced include MENTOR, starring Rutger Hauer, which premiered at The Tribeca Film Festival.N/A
