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Join Film Critic Jack Garner at
Writers & Books’ Screenplay Salon

Meeting the third or fourth Thursday of every month from 6-9 pm in the Verb Café

Once a month, movie-lovers will enjoy a screening of a selected film and a discussion of the screenplay.

Admission: $9 members, $12 non-members. No advance ticket sales. No pre-registration or reservations required. Pay at the door on the night of the screening.

Autumn 2004 Film Screenings

Thursday September 23

• Eight Men Out
• 1988, USA, 121 min., Color
• Directed and Screenplay by John Sayles
• All Movie Guide

Writer/director John Sayles' dramatization of the most infamous episode in professional sports — the fix of the 1919 World Series — is considered by many to be among his best films and arguably the best baseball movie ever made. This adaptation of Eliot Asinof's definitive study of the scandal shows how athletes of another era were a different breed from the well-paid stars of later years.

Thursday October 21

• Chinatown
• 1974, USA, 130 min., Color
• Directed by Roman Polanski
• Screenplay by Robert Towne
• All Movie Guide

In Chinatown, elected officials are the easily purchased pawns of corrupt power brokers whose appetites know no check or balance (ranging from simple greed to the violation of natural law through incest), and the closest thing we have to a honest and moral guide through this fallen world is a private detective — a man whose career dictates that his loyalty can be purchased for a relatively small fee.

Thursday November 18

• Great Expectations
• 1946, UK, 118 min., B&W
• Directed by David Lean
• Based on the novel by Charles Dickens
• All Movie Guide

This is the story of young Pip, a lad of humble means whose training as a gentleman is bankrolled by a mysterious benefactor. Along the way, Pip falls in love with the fickle Estrella, befriends the cheerfully insouciant Herbert Pocket, has memorable encounters with the escaped convict Magwitch and the lunatic dowager Miss Havisham, and almost (but not quite) forgets his modest origins as the foster son of kindhearted blacksmith Joe Gargery.

Previous Screenings

August 2004

• The Pawnbroker
• 1964, USA, 120 min., B&W
• Directed by Sidney Lumet
• Screenplay by Morton S. Fine and David Friedkin
• All Movie Guide

July 2004

• Chinatown
• 1974, USA, 130 min., Color
• Directed by Roman Polanski
• Screenplay by Robert Towne
• All Movie Guide

June 2004

• Amarcord
• 1973, Italy/France, 125 min., Color
• Directed by Frederico Fellini
• Original screenplay by Frederico Fellini and Tonino Guerra
• All Movie Guide

May 2004

• Mystic River
• 2003, USA, 137 min., Color
• Directed by Clint Eastwood
• Screenplay by Brian Helgeland, from the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane
• All Movie Guide

April 2004

• Henry & June
• 1990, USA, 136 min., Color
• Produced, directed by Philip Kaufman
• Screenplay adapted by Philip and Rose Kaufman from the diaries of Anaïs Nin
• Rated NC-17, No one under 18 admitted
• All Movie Guide

March 2004

• A River Runs Through It
• 1992, USA, 123 min., Color
• Produced and D irected by Robert Redford
• Screenplay adapted by Richard Riedenberg and Willian Hjortsberg from Norman Maclean’s novel A River Runs Through It
• All Movie Guide

February 2004

• Singin’ in the Rain
• 1952, USA, 103 min., Color
• Produced by Arthur Freed
• Directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
• Screenplay by Betty Comdom and Adolph Green
• All Movie Guide

January 2004

• Throne of Blood
• 1957, Japan, 105 min., B&W
• Directed, edited and produced by Akira Kurosawa
• Screenplay adapted by Akira Kurosawa et. al. from William Shakespeare’s MacBeth
• All Movie Guide

December 2003

• The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
• 1944, USA, 98 min., B&W
• Produced, directed and screenplay by Preston Sturges
• All Movie Guide

November 2003

• The Hours
• 2002, USA, 114 min., Color
• Produced by Robert Fox and Scott Rudin
• Directed by Stephen Daldry
• Screenplay by David Hare
• based on the book by Michael Cunningham
• All Movie Guide

October 2003

• Rear Window
• 1954, USA, 112 min., Color
• Produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcok
• Screenplay by John Michael Hayes
• All Movie Guide

September 2003

• Sunset Boulevard
• 1950, USA, 110 min., B&W
• Directed by Billy Wilder
• Screenplay by Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, D. M. Marshman, Jr.
• All Movie Guide

August 2003

• The Year of Living Dangerously
• 1982, Australia, 114 min., Color
• Produced, directed and screenplay by Peter Weir
• All Movie Guide

July 2003

• Of Mice and Men
• 1992, USA, 110 min., Color
• Produced and directed by Gary Sinise
• Screenplay by Horton Foote
• All Movie Guide

June 2003

• In Cold Blood
• 1967, USA, B&W, 113min.
• Directed and Screenplay Adapted by Richard Brooks
• Based on Truman Capote’s 1966 non-fiction novel In Cold Blood
• All Movie Guide

May 2003

• Adaptation
• 2002, USA, Color, 114min.
• Directed by Spike Jonze
• Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman (creators of Being John Malkovich)
• Loosely based on the book The Orchid Thief by Susan Orleans
• All Movie Guide

April 2003

• Il Postino (The Postman)
• 1994, Italy/Begium/France, Color, 116min
• Directed by Michael Radford
• Screenplay by Michael Radford, Anna Paignano, Furio and Giacomo Scarpelli, Massimo Troisi
• All Movie Guide

March 2003

• Do the Right Thing
• 1989, USA, Color, 120 min.
• Written, directed and co-produced by Spike Lee
• All Movie Guide

February 2003

• The Last Picture Show
• 1971, USA, B&W, 118 min.
• Directed by Peter Bogdonovich
• Screenplay by Peter Bogdonovich and Larry McMurtry
• All Movie Guide

January 2003

• Atlantic City
• 1980, USA/France/Canada, Color, 104 min.
• Directed by Louis Malle
• Screenplay by John Guare
• All Movie Guide

December 2002

• A Christmas Story
• 1983, USA/Canada, 95 min.
• Directed by Bob Clark
• Screenplay by Leigh Brown
• Based on the novel In God we Trust, All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepard
• All Movie Guide

November 2002

• The Accidental Tourist
• 1984, USA, 121 min.
• Directed by Lawrence Kasdan
• Screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and Frank Galati
• Based on the novel by Anne Tyler
• All Movie Guide

October 2002

• The Night of the Hunter
• 1955, USA, 93min., B&W
• Directed by Charles Laughton
• Screenplay by James Agee, Davis Grubb and Charles Laughton
• Based on the novel by Davis Grubb
• All Movie Guide

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