Annette Insdorf Author Reading

Annette Insdorf will talk and present clips from films covered in her new book, Cinematic Overtures: How to Read Opening Scenes. Based on her teaching approach at Columbia University for 30 years, it explores how gifted filmmakers layer their first shots in a way that introduces the movie’s stylistic and thematic richness. Her focus will be ‘ensemble-piece’ movies including Truffaut’s Day for Night and Farhadi’s A Separation.