Scarsdale Adult School Catalog Spring/Summer 2025
Film Conversation: Band of Brothers (2001 HBO Mini-Series) with Special Guest Kirk Saduski
In commemoration of D-Day, class will discuss the HBO mini-series Band of Brothers (2001). Joining the conversation will be special guest Kirk Saduski*, who will speak from personal experience about the making of this Emmy and Golden Globe awards-winning TV series. Created by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, Band of Brothers dramatizes the Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division. The story begins during Easy Company’s paratrooper training and follows their participation in the Western Front of World War II. The true events are based on Stephen Ambrose’s nonfiction book by the same name. The TV series includes interviews with many surviving veterans of Easy Company. Class will explore the development, producing challenges and the continuing significance of Band of Brothers. Please view this 10-episode TV series (widely available for online purchase) prior to class. *About Kirk Seduski: Since 1998, Saduski has been a producer and executive at Playtone, the film company established by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman. He was executive-in-charge of the HBO mini-series Band of Brothers , and co-producer of the HBO mini series John Adams and The Pacific , the HBO movie Game Change , and the HBO documentary David McCullough: Painting with Words . Saduski is also a co-producer of Apple TV+’s Masters of the Air . KATE HEARST is a cultural and film historian. Since 2011, Hearst has been teaching film as well as gender, race, and sexuality studies at various New York-based colleges, including Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University, the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, and Brooklyn College. She has appeared on CNN’s “History of the Movies,” writes regularly for Film International, and advises the web-based series Women Film Pioneers Project (WFPP). She earned both a PhD in American history and an MFA in film from Columbia University. Tuesday, April 1 • 7:00pm-8:30pm • Zoom • Course 13308 • $30
Film Discussion: The Great Gatsby (2013) Director Baz Luhrmann’s visually riotous cinematic adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel polarized film critics and delighted audiences. A.O. Scott of The New York Times felt the adaptation was “a lot of fun” and “less a conventional movie adaptation than a splashy, trashy opera, a wayward, lavishly theatrical celebration of the emotional and material extravagance that Fitzgerald surveyed with fascinated ambivalence.” Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, and Carey Mulligan, the movie won two Academy Awards for Best Production Design and Best Costume Design. Please view the film (widely available in libraries and on streaming services) prior to class. For an optimal experience, pair this course with the book discussion “Revisiting The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald” ( Course 13152 ). KATE HEARST (see bio for “Film Conversation: Band of Brothers”). Thursday, April 10 • 7:00pm-8:30pm • Zoom • Course 13309 • $30
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