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    505. OUTSIDERS ON FILM: THE STATION AGENT

    505. OUTSIDERS ON FILM: THE STATION AGENT

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    Peter Josyph

    Written and directed by Tom McCarthy, this 2003 comedy is the first feature film by the director who would go on to make The Visitor and Spotlight. It stars Peter Dinklage as Fin McBride, a loner who inherits an abandoned train depot; Bobby Cannavale as Joe Oramas, a talkative Cuban-American operating a nearby snack truck who insists on becoming his friend; and Patricia Clarkson as Olivia Harris, an artist with marital issues that threaten her stability. Writing in Rolling Stone, Peter Travers said: "Huge feelings are packed into this small, fragile movie. It's something special." A lively discussion will explore what Tom McCarthy refuses to do and how that is just as important for the film's success as what he does. The film won 12 major awards including a BAFTA for Best Screenplay.


    1-3:30 p.m.                                                                                                  1 Session

    Thursday, October 16                                                                                  Fee:  $40

     



    ABOUT THE LECTURER

    Peter Josyph is an actor, a painter, a photographer, an award-winning filmmaker, and he has published 13 books.

     

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    About the lecturer(s)

    Peter Josyph

    Peter Josyph is an author, actor, director, and filmmaker whose films include: Liberty Street: Alive at Ground Zero; Acting Cormac McCarthy: The Making of Billy Bob Thorton’s All the Pretty Horses; Shakespeare In New York: The Sonnets; and A Few Things Basquiat Did in School. His books include: Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy; What One Man Said to Another, Talks with Richard Seltzer; and, The Wounded River, which was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book. He also excels in literary and film criticism.

    Lecture Details

    Program
    Fall 2025 Lectures
    Sessions
    1 lecture(s)
    Day & Time
    Thursday, 1-3:30
    Date(s)
    Oct 16, 2025