The Center for French Civilization and Culture will host “Screenwriting and Literature: Homage to Jean-Claude Carrière,” an international conference that will celebrate and include the Oscar®-winning screenwriter, along with some of the directors who brought his writing to the big screen, April 7-9.
New York University’s Center for French Civilization and Culture will host “Screenwriting and Literature: Homage to Jean-Claude Carrière,” an international conference that will celebrate and include the Oscar®-winning screenwriter, along with some of the directors who brought his writing to the big screen, to be held April 7-9 at various venues on and near the NYU campus.
Jean-Claude Carrière, who is a recipient of an Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievement and who won an Oscar® for best short subject in 1962 for co-writing “Heureux Anniversaire” (“Happy Anniversary”), will deliver the keynote address on Thurs., April 7 and take part in discussions with directors for whom he wrote screenplays: Atiq Rahimi (“The Patience Stone”) and Philip Kaufman (“The Unbearable Lightness of Being”). The conference will also include screenings of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” and “Belle de jour,” for which Carrière was the screenwriter. One session will be devoted to Carrière’s celebrated collaboration with director Luis Buñuel (“Belle de jour”).
In addition to celebrating Carrière’s legacy, the conference will also consider screenwriting as the key transitional element that successfully leads from the written word to the image and sound of films.
Sessions include the following:
Thursday, April 7, 7 p.m.
Keynote by Jean-Claude Carrière
19 West 4th St., Room 101 (at Mercer St.)
Friday April 8
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.: Jean-Claude Carrière in conversation with Atiq Rahimi and Richard Peña
19 West 4th St., room 101 (at Mercer St.)
2 p.m. - 5 p.m.: Screening of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” directed by Philip Kaufman
Rose Auditorium, Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square (7th St. at Third Avenue)
5:15 p.m. - 7 p.m.: “Adapting ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’ ”
Roundtable with Jean-Claude Carrière, Philip Kaufman, Annette Insdorf (Columbia University, School of the Arts)
Rose Auditorium, Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square (7th St. at Third Avenue)
Saturday April 9
9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.: Screening of “Belle de jour,” directed by Luis Buñuel
Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th St. (between University Place and Greene St.)
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.: “Jean-Claude Carrière and Buñuel”
Jean-Claude Carrière in conversation with Atiq Rahimi, artist and director Julian Schnabel (“Before Night Falls,” “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”), and Richard Peña (Columbia University, School of the Arts and former director of the New York Film Festival)
Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th St. (between University Place and Greene St.)
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.: Roundtable with Jean-Claude Carrière, Philip Kaufman, Richard Peña, and William Wolf (NYU’s Department of French), moderated by Professor Tom Bishop, director of NYU’s Center for French Civilization and Culture)
Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th St. (between University Place and Greene St.)
The conference is free and open to the public. Entry is on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, call 212.992.9848.
Reporters wishing to attend must RSVP to James Devitt, NYU’s Office of Public Affairs, at 212.998.6808 or james.devitt@nyu.edu.
The event, organized by Tom Bishop and Lise Landeau, is supported by the Florence Gould Foundation and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, in collaboration with the Department of Cinema Studies at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.