{"id":31803,"date":"2014-08-20T17:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T00:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=31803"},"modified":"2014-08-20T17:00:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T00:00:31","slug":"fall-film-series-pay-tribute-screenwriters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/fall-film-series-pay-tribute-screenwriters\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall film series to pay tribute to screenwriters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAU\u2019s College of Arts and Letters Film Series will begin the fall semester Tuesday, Aug. 26, with Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett\u2019s <em>After the Thin Man<\/em>. Free films will screen on Tuesdays throughout the semester at 7 p.m. in the Cline Library Assembly Hall.<\/p>\n<p>This semester\u2019s theme is \u201cThe Screenwriter: Oscar Winning and Nominated Screenplays \u2013 Adapted from Another Medium.\u201d The films will focus on outstanding screenwriters as a tribute to those who have crafted some of the best stories in cinema history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first question we always ask in choosing our films is whether or not we want to see the movie on the big screen with an audience,\u201d said\u00a0<strong>Paul Helford<\/strong>, principal lecturer in the School of Communication. \u201cOne I\u2019m really looking forward to showing is <em>Friendly Persuasion<\/em>. It\u2019s a really typical 1950s type movie \u2013\u2013 funny, heartwarming and epic in scope and length.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Local film experts will contribute introductions before the films, while co-hosts Helford and\u00a0<strong>Paul Donnelly<\/strong>,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">an associate professor of comparative cultural studies,<\/span>\u00a0will lead the post-screening conversation, adding to the viewer\u2019s understanding of the experience.<\/p>\n<p>View a complete film schedule for the fall semester\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/CAL\/Events\/Event-Pages\/College-of-Arts-and-Letters-Film-Series\/\">here<\/a>. Free\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nau.edu\/maps\/\"><strong>parking<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is available behind Cline Library in parking lot P13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/fall-film-series-pay-tribute-screenwriters\/\">NAU\u2019s College of Arts and Letters Film Series will begin the fall semester Tuesday, Aug. 26, with Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett\u2019s After the Thin Man. Free films will screen on Tuesdays throughout the semester at 7 p.m. in the Cline Library Assembly Hall. This semester\u2019s theme is \u201cThe Screenwriter: Oscar Winning and Nominated Screenplays&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":31805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}