Ernest Thompson, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of the 1981 film \u201cOn Golden Pond,\u201d has spent his career moving between stage, screen and page.<\/p>\n
Now, he brings that range to the Mechanics\u2019 Institute for an evening devoted to his work across media.<\/p>\n
Thompson is scheduled to be in conversation with Chronicle arts and culture columnist Tony Bravo on Friday, June 5, about his latest book, the detective mystery \u201cOut Clause.\u201d The program also includes a screening of Thompson\u2019s 2025 short film \u201cThe Constituent,\u201d which he wrote, directed and co-starred in.<\/p>\n
The event will be hosted by Movies at Mechanics\u2019 emcee, film curator and author Lara Gabrielle.<\/p>\n
Beyond \u201cOn Golden Pond,\u201d the evening offers a look at the breadth of Thompson\u2019s career. He is also the author of the play \u201cThe West Side Waltz\u201d and the one-man show \u201cArchie Parish\u2019s Parting Words.\u201d He wrote the lyrics for \u201cThe Father Daughter Dance,\u201d a song with Carly Simon scheduled for release later this year, and, with his wife, writer Kerrin Thompson, founded Rescind Recidivism, a prison education program that uses writing to help inmates \u201cfeel creative as well as human, capable and worthy.\u201d<\/p>\n
For fans of Thompson\u2019s work, the event is a chance to hear him reflect on a body of work that spans theater, film, fiction and song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ernest Thompson, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of the 1981 film \u201cOn Golden Pond,\u201d has spent his career moving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[329,647,7,35717,838,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-343373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-arts-and-entertainment","tag-books","tag-california","tag-datebook-pick","tag-movies-and-tv","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}