Screening: Jonathan Demme's A MASTER BUILDER

Wallace Shawn and Lisa Joyce in A MASTER BUILDER

Screening of Jonathan Demme's A MASTER BUILDER
7 p.m. Friday, April 13, 2018
Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, downtown campus, Albany
Free and open to the public.

Jonathan Demme's A MASTER BUILDER (United States, 2013, 130 minutes, PG), will be screened 7 p.m. Friday, April 13, at Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, on the University at Albany downtown campus. The event, sponsored by the NYS Writers Institute's Classic Film Series, is free and open to the public.

The film was adapted from Henrik Ibsen’s play for a contemporary setting by Wallace Shawn, who plays the architect Halvard Solness, an egomaniac who enjoys manipulating and bullying everyone around him, especially his wife and mistresses.

The film is being shown in association with the April 30 visit of major American set designer Eugene Lee, who created the film’s production design.

Demme, whose previous films include STOP MAKING SENSE (1984), SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991), and PHILADELPHIA (1993), based his direction on the near-legendary production created for the stage by co-star André Gregory. Gregory previously worked with Shawn in two acclaimed Louis Malle films, MY DINNER WITH ANDRE (1981) and VANYA ON 42nd STREET (1994).

For additional information, contact the Writers Institute at 518-442-5620.