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The SCM Colloquium Series presents: Reel Montclair: Dialogue with the Screenwriter
Sundays with Scorsese: "After Hours" (1985) 2-5 PM
A meek word processor, Paul Hackett, (Griffin Dunne) impulsively travels to Manhattan's Soho District to date an attractive but apparently disturbed young woman and finds himself trapped there in a nightmarishly surreal vortex of improbable coincidences and farcical circumstances. with special guest - screenwriter Joe Minion. Reserve your seat for: After Hours & Post Screening Conversation with Joe Minion.
Joe Minion graduated from Rutgers and attended NYU film school. His screenplay "After Hours," from a story by him and radio artist Joe Frank, was made into a movie by Martin Scorsese. It won the first Independent Spirit Award and the Palme d'Or for Direction at the 1986 Cannes film festival.
Subsequent produced screenplays include cult films such as "Vampire's Kiss" starring Nicolas Cage, a favorite of the American Psychiatric Association; "Motorama", featured at the 1992 New Directors Series at the Museum of Modern Art; and "On the Run" starring Sopranos' co-stars Michael Imperiole and John Ventimiglia.
His directing credits include "Daddy's Boys", produced by low-budget Hollywood legend Roger Corman and the independently made, Los Angeles-set neo-noir "Trafficking" which he also wrote and co-produced. In 2015 he wrote, produced and directed the short film "Airport 2012", shot in Seaside Park, New Jersey.
Joe has taught screenwriting at New York's School of Visual Arts; USC; the North Carolina School of Arts; Long Island University and NYU's School of Continuing Education.
He is currently working with Dutch director Rogier von Beeck Calkoen on finding money or a producer for his newest screenplay, "Bird Headed Monster", about the late antiquity painter Hieronymus Bosch, a savage and pessimistic story set in a savage and pessimistic era.