An Evening with Ted Tally

This event is sold out! We will have a rush line outside/in front of the cinema, and will be able to let additional people in if seats go unclaimed at the film's start time, 7pm. We will not have a wait list, people will need to physically be present and in the rush line for a chance to get rush tickets. Academy Award winning screenwriter Ted Tally (Best Adapted Screenplay: The Silence of the Lambs) will be in conversation with American novelist Jim Shepard following a screening of The Silence of the Lambs on Wednesday, October 16. “The Silence of the Lambs” is one of only three films to win all top five Oscar categories in the history of the Academy Awards. 6pm: Cash bar with themed specialty drinks in the Lounge 7pm: The Silence of the Lambs will screen in the Main Theater 9pm: Ted will be in conversation with Jim THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS A young F.B.I. cadet (Jodie Foster) must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer (Anthony Hopkins) to help catch another serial killer. 4K restored digital print TED TALLY  Ted Tally is best known for writing the Academy Award winning screenplay for The Silence of the Lambs, which also earned a Writers Guild Award and an Edgar Award. The movie itself has been selected by the American Film institute, the Library of Congress, and many film critics and historians as one of America’s greatest. It is one of only three movies to ever sweep the five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, Actor and Actress). His additional screen credits include, Before and After, The Juror, All the Pretty Horses (Best Screenplay, National Board of Review), Red Dragon, and 12 Strong. His stage plays include Terra Nova (Obie Award), Hooters, Coming Attractions ( Outer Critics Circle Award), Silver Linings, and Little Footsteps. Born and raised in North Carolina, Tally earned his BA at Yale, as well as an MFA at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University, at each of which he has also taught seminars. JIM SHEPARD  Jim Shepard has written eight novels, including The Book of Aron, which won the Sophie Brody Medal for Jewish Literature, the PEN/New England Award for Fiction, and the Clark Fiction Prize, and six story collections, including Like You’d Understand, Anyway, a finalist for the National Book Award and Story Prize winner, and the forthcoming It’d Be Nice If Someone Cared.  Seven of his stories were chosen for the Best American Short Stories, two for the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and two for Pushcart Prizes. For seven years he was a columnist on film for the magazine The Believer, and he’s written screenplays for two films made from his fiction, And Then I Go (2017) and The World to Come (2020). He teaches film and creative writing at Williams College.ThrillerPT2HR2024-10-16
Jonathan Demme
An Evening with Ted Tally"An Evening with Ted Tally"

Showtimes

October 16, 7:00 pm

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