RICHMARK Entertainment
REEL TALK with Stephen Farber
10 memorable evenings of exciting new films and conversations
10 Mondays at 7:00pm, March 10 – May 19, 2008 (No Screening Monday, April 28)
Stephen Farber, one of the country’s leading film critics and historians, will continue his film series Reel Talk with Stephen Farber at the Wadsworth Theatre for 10 Monday nights beginning March 10th. Reel Talk with Stephen Farber is presented in partnership with RICHMARK Entertainment and Landmark Theatres.
Unlike any other preview series, Reel Talk with Stephen Farber allows the film going public to be the first to sample some of the most exciting movies of 2008. This past fall, Reel Talk members got an early look at several of the hottest films currently running, including “The Kite Runner”, “Juno”, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, “The Savages”, and “Sweeney Todd” along with films that were the recipients of prestigious year-end critics’ prizes. The tradition continues this coming year, with the season’s most provocative movies followed by revealing discussions with top actors and filmmakers after the screenings. Previous Reel Talk guests have included Forest Whitaker, David Duchovny, Laura Linney, Andy Garcia, Javier Bardem, Claire Danes, as well as master directors Sydney Pollack, John Singleton, Bill Condon, and Mike Leigh, not to mention legendary producer Richard Zanuck.
Farber, who moderates each program, is one of the originators of this popular preview screening series, and has been doing it for more than 25 years now. He assembles the series himself - working with the studios to supply the prints and with the filmmakers themselves to be the guests. For the film going public, this effort provides a connection to the movie industry and to the film itself, that is just not available, much less with this kind of authority, just about anywhere else.
Stephen Farber is currently the film critic and contributing editor for Movieline’s Hollywood Life magazine and a regular contributor to The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. Farber has also written reviews and articles on film for Esquire, New York, New West, Harper's Bazaar, Premiere, Film Comment, and other national publications. He has interviewed hundreds of top actors, writers, directors, and producers for these newspapers and magazines.
Farber also taught a similar "Sneak Preview" class for UCLA Extension. He has also lectured on film at several other American universities, at the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, at the Swedish Film Institute in Stockholm, and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation in Oslo. He also lectured throughout Australia and New Zealand in a program sponsored by the Australian Film and Television School and the New Zealand Film Commission.
Farber produced three episodes of the Arts & Entertainment network's acclaimed "Biography" series in conjunction with Peter Jones Productions about Anthony Perkins, Spencer Tracy and Roman Polanski. And he has written several acclaimed books on film; The Movie Rating Game (1972, Public Affairs Press), Hollywood Dynasties (1984, Delilah/Putnam), Outrageous Conduct: Art, Ego, and the Twilight Zone Case (1988, Arbor House/Morrow), and Hollywood on the Couch (1993, Morrow).
