“Enthralling theater and television… This is dramatized legal history of the best kind,” said New York Times reviewer Ginia Bellafante of Friday's film, Thurgood, 7:30 p.m. at Page Hall, 9/20.
Bellafante approaches this piece of filmed theater skeptically at first, but is wildly enthusiastic by the end of her review:
"As a form the teleplay is mired in its own noble pedantry, which is why the arrival of “Thurgood” on HBO on Thursday initially seems dubious — especially so, perhaps, because it is a one-man enterprise even more heavily prone to the sensibility of tutorial."
Full review here: http://tv.nytimes.com/2011/02/24/arts/television/24thurgood.html?_r=0
Full Classic Film Series schedule here: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/programpages/cfs.html
Thursday, September 19, 2013
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Joy Harjo: A Poem to Get Rid of Fear
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Raising Renee Premieres Tonight on HBO 2/22/2012
If you missed our screening of Raising Renee back in October 2011 (and the talkback with Oscar-nominated filmmakers Steve Ascher and Jeanne Jordan), you can still catch the premiere on HBO 2 tonight at 8PM.
The story of acclaimed artist Beverly McIver and her promise to take her sister Renee (who is mentally disabled) when their mother dies — a promise that comes due just as Beverly's career is taking off.
"In a notable fusion of subject and film, the same themes that fuel the artist’s distinguished body of work—race, class, family, disability—propel this cinematic portrait. Both are a testament to the transformative power of art. " -- Full Frame
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Friday, January 13, 2012
HBO Loves Literary Fiction
Novels by February 2011 visitor Karen Russell, November 2012 visitor Tom Perrotta, and October 2003 visitor Jennifer Egan are under development for HBO series.
Read articles about the forthcoming adaptations: Swamplandia!, The Leftovers, and A Visit from the Goon Squad.
And let's not forget Bored to Death, by March 2006 visitor Jonathan Ames, cancelled after its third season in December 2011.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Oliver Stone Filming "The Power Broker" for HBO
Oliver Stone is making an HBO film based on Robert Caro's biography of New York urban planner Robert Moses, The Power Broker.
Caro will appear at the Egg on Monday, December 5.
From ArtInfo on the Huffington Post:
"Every robber baron is probably green with envy for the late Robert Moses, a powerful and polarizing force who shaped New York as we now know it, because Oliver Stone just signed on to direct a movie about him...." More.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Tom Perrotta's New Novel To Be HBO Series
HBO is developing a series based on author Tom Perrotta's upcoming novel "The Leftovers."
Hourlong drama explores the Rapture and how the sudden disappearance of loved ones in a suburban town affects everyone left behind. Perrotta, who is writing the pilot, will exec produce with Ron Yerxa and Albert Berger.
The author has Hollywood connections, having written "Little Children" and then adapting the screenplay for the Kate Winslet-Patrick Wilson starrer. Earlier in his career, Perrotta wrote the novel "Election," which was turned into Alexander Payne's feature starring Reese Witherspoon. Both pics were Oscar nominated. More in Variety.