ONLINE! Great Comic Moments in the Movies
Code: SL42002
Dates: October 1, 2020
Meets: 5:45 PM to 7:00 PM
Sessions: 1
Course Fee: $35.00
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Viewing hilarious clips from nearly every decade from The Silent and The Sound Eras, quickly discover that film humor can elicit laughs from audiences regardless of age or cultural background. From highbrow “Masterworks of Comic Cinema” to moments of excruciatingly-zany screwball comedy, explore the unadulterated (and oftentimes adulterated) humor generated from the idiosyncratic minds of uproarious filmmakers like Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick, Mel Brooks, Mike Nichols, Harold Ramis, Rob Reiner, Greta Gerwig and others.
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
