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Starting Out in the Evening is thrilling in a way that a movie larded with car chases and explosions can seldom be, because of the way it deals with that basic building block of civilization, the ...
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Jan 1, 1997 · Brian Morton. In the second novel by the author of The Dylanist, an aging author, now barely remembered by the literary world that once embraced him, is courted by a young graduate student who wants to write her thesis on him. Reprint. 325 pages, Paperback. First published January 1, 1997.
Nov 23, 2007 · Screenplay. Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's literary lions, but illness and ten years of writer's block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for her thesis on his work, her interest forces him to address the issues that he has avoided ...
Starting Out In the Evening. Battling illness and unable to finish a novel that has taken him ten years to write, aging novelist Leonard Schiller is slipping into literary obscurity. Formerly a famous author, Schiller has been all but forgotten by the readers, colleagues and critics that once praised him. But when Heather Wolfe, an ambitious ...
Rated PG-13, STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING is a literate drama about human passions and regret that plays like an excellent stage production. This is not a splashy movie, with splashy performances, but a quiet slice-of-life drama. Within that limitation, it succeeds, helped along by a talented cast led by Frank Langella.
7/10. Notes from 2007 TIFF. riid 7 September 2007. I saw this film at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. Starting Out in the Evening is based on the novel by Brian Morton, and stars Frank Langella in an understated role as Leonard Schiller, a once great novelist and now-retired literary professor.
