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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 @ 5 PM PT
NICHOLAS MEYER
@ the Laemmle Royal Theater Classics
presented by hosts
JOHN SEMPER JR. & CYNTHIA FRIEDLOB
(This show was scheduled in July, but was preempted by the KPFK Summer Fund Drive.)
NICHOLAS MEYER has achieved success as a novelist, screenwriter, and director. His many films as writer and/or director include Time After Time, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Sommersby, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, The Deceivers, Company Business, and The Human Stain.
He adapted the screenplay for his first film, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, from his 1974 best-selling first novel of the same name. For his work, Meyer was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
The film tells the story of two of the greatest detectives in history—Sherlock Holmes and Sigmund Freud—who team up to solve a mystery in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century. The 1976 film, directed by Herbert Ross, brought the story to vivid cinematic life. The stellar cast includes Nicol Williamson as Holmes, Alan Arkin as Freud, Robert Duvall as Dr. Watson, along with Laurence Olivier, Vanessa Redgrave, Joel Grey, and Jeremy Kemp. Pauline Kael called the elegant, witty film “a highly civilized light entertainment.”
Recently, Meyer made an appearance at the 40th anniversary screening of the film at the Laemmle Royal Theater in West Los Angeles and, after the screening, participated in a Q&A moderated by Los Angeles Film Critics Association President Stephen Farber.
Experience Talks host John Semper Jr. recorded the interview.
Thanks to Mike McClellan, Stephen Farber, and the Laemmle Royal Theater for allowing us to share these interviews, which are part of their excellent Anniversary Classics Series.
More on Nicholas Meyer here.
