Author Talk Series
Enjoy a range of talks from bestselling authors and thought leaders. Brought to you in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium.
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DVD
Parasite = Gisaengchung [2019]
Chun-ho Pong
Green book [2018]
Peter Farrelly
The shape of water [2017]
Guillermo del Toro
Moonlight [2016]
Barry Jenkins
Spotlight [2015]
Tom McCarthy
Birdman : or, (The unexpected virtue of… [2014]
Alejandro González Iñárritu
12 years a slave [2014]
Steve McQueen
Argo [2013]
Ben Affleck
The artist [2011]
Michel Hazanavicius
The king's speech [2010]
Tom Hooper
The hurt locker [2008]
Kathryn Bigelow
Slumdog millionaire [2009]
Christian Colson
No country for old men [2008]
Scott Rudin
The departed [2006]
Leonardo DiCaprio
Visual Materials
Crash [2004]
Paul Haggis
Million dollar baby [2004]
Clint Eastwood
The lord of the rings. The return of the king [2003]
Elijah Wood
A beautiful mind [2006]
Brian Grazer
Gladiator [2000]
Douglas Wick
American beauty [1999]
Sam Mendes
Shakespeare in love [1999]
John Madden
The English patient [2003]
Ralph Fiennes
Braveheart [2007]
Mel Gibson
Forrest Gump [1994]
Tom Hanks
Schindler's list [1993]
Steven Spielberg
Unforgiven [1992]
Dances with wolves [1990]
Kevin Costner
Driving Miss Daisy [1989]
Bruce Beresford
Rain man [1988]
Dustin Hoffman
The last emperor [2008]
Jeremy Thomas
Platoon [2000]
Oliver Stone
Out of Africa [1985]
Robert Redford
Amadeus [1984]
Miloš Forman
Terms of endearment [1983]
James L Brooks
Gandhi [2007]
John Briley
Chariots of fire [1981]
Hugh Hudson
Ordinary people [1980]
The deer hunter [2012]
Michael Cimino
Annie Hall [1977]
Woody Allen
One flew over the cuckoo's nest [1975]
Jack Nicholson
The godfather, part II [1974]
Francis Ford Coppola
The sting [1973]
Paul Newman
The French connection [1971]
Gene Hackman
The godfather [1972]
Patton [2006]
Franklin J Schaffner
Midnight cowboy [1969]
John Schlesinger
In the heat of the night [1967]
Stirling Silliphant
A man for all seasons [1966]
Fred Zinnemann
My fair lady [1964]
George Cukor
Tom Jones [2018]
Tony Richardson
Lawrence of Arabia [1962]
Sam Spiegel
West Side story [1961]
Robert Wise
The apartment [1960]
Billy Wilder
Ben-Hur [2012]
William Wyler
Gigi [1958]
Vincente Minnelli
The bridge on the River Kwai [2008]
David Lean
Around the world in 80 days [1956]
Michael Anderson
Marty [1955]
Paddy Chayefsky
On the waterfront [2013]
Elia Kazan
From here to eternity [2001]
Burt Lancaster
An American in Paris [1951]
All about Eve [1950]
Joseph L Mankiewicz
All the king's men [1999]
David Jason
Laurence Olivier's Hamlet [1948]
Laurence Olivier
Gentleman's agreement [1947]
The best years of our lives [1946]
Robert E Sherwood
The lost weekend [1945]
Going my way [2007]
Frank Butler
Casablanca [1942]
Michael Curtiz
Mrs. Miniver [1942]
How green was my valley [1941]
Richard Llewellyn
Rebecca [2017]
Alfred Hitchcock
Gone with the wind [2009]
David O Selznick
You can't take it with you [1979]
Paul Bogart
The life of Emile Zola [2005]
William Dieterle
The Great Ziegfeld [1936]
William Powell
Mutiny on the Bounty [1935]
Clark Gable
It happened one night [1934]
Robert Riskin
Grand Hotel [1932]
Greta Garbo
All quiet on the western front [1930]
Carl Laemmle
Wings [2012]
William A Wellman