Special Topics: Cinematheque Gerry Peary
BU Cinematheque is a for-credit course open to both undergraduates ands graduates, and scheduled for Thursday and Friday evenings in the Fall 2009.The course is an opportunity for students to meet first-hand and up-close with prominent filmmakers, who show a movie and talk about working in the movie business: the art, the financing, the nuts-and-bolts of getting films made and show n. Over the years, the BU Cinematheque has brought many famous talents, i.e. directors Errol Morris, Paul Schrader, David Gordon Green, Tom Tykwer, editor Thelma Schoonmaker, cinematographer Gordon Willis, actors Sarah Polley, Eliza Dushku, screenwriter Budd Schulberg. Just as important, the Cinematheque brings young filmmakers with their first works: Andrew Bujalski, Joe Swanberg, etc.Note this key point: though the Cinematheque meets Thursdays and Fridays, the total number of classes is EXACTLY THE SAME AS FOR OTHER COURSES. The class meet s 15 times in the semester. Sometimes the class will meet both Thursday and Friday, sometimes only Thursday, some weeks not at all. But 15 will be the final number. Why both Thursday and Friday? For necessary flexibility. Sometimes, the same filmmaker will show both on Thursday and Friday. Often, a f ilmmaker from out of Boston can only come on Friday evening. Working filmmakers rarely can predict their schedules, and the more days open for them to choose from, the more chance they can come to the Cinematheque .
Well how can I pass that up?! So I'm no longer taking Writing for Comedy AND Television Comedy by the same professor, which was incredibly redundant anyway. I dropped the non-writing one.
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