Brattle Theatre Elements of Cinema: Shrek (+ discussion)

Brattle Theatre Elements of Cinema: Shrek (+ discussion)

ShrekTuesday, May 26 at 6:00 PMFree Screening and Discussion!2001 • dir Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson w/Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, John Lithgow, Mike Myers, Vincent Cassel • 90 minIt’s the Brattle debut of everyone’s favorite ogre! In this outrageously entertaining animated classic, Mike Myers voices an antisocial fairy tale monster with a frightening demeanor but tender heart who is ostracized for his appearance—until he meets a very talkative donkey and falls for a princess with a secret.Admission to this screening is free and first-come, first-served beginning at 5:30pm on the day of the show. No tickets are available in advance for this screening.Guest Speaker: Debbie Danielpour, Associate Professor of Screenwriting at Boston UniversityDebbie Danielpour writes screenplays, libretti, fiction and nonfiction. She has been a professor of fiction and screenwriting for over twenty years—at San Francisco State University, Emerson College, Harvard University, and now at Boston University.Her fiction has been published in Electric Literature, Another Chicago Magazine, AGNI, Lilith, Salamander, Natural Bridge, and Women’s Words; her nonfiction in What We Keep, Finding a Spiritual Home and her academic work in several books and journals. Her sevenths screenplay, We’re All Here is in pre-production. She collaborated on the libretto for Margaret Garner with Toni Morrison, wrote a musical adaptation of the young adult novel The Great Good Thing, and the farcical musical The King’s Ear based on the biblical story of Esther.

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