I'm really glad to be with you tonight and I know we're on a tight schedule here. You all need to

get out of here within an hour. I'm going to try and talk for about 35 minutes or so. We're going to

show a couple, two or three clips. We'll see. And talk a little bit about how I've been influenced in my work on film

by the writings of C.S. Lewis. Let me say a little bit about Lewis. You all probably know

something about Lewis, probably read some work of Lewis, I mean, an enormously productive scholar

who wrote,

scholarly works on medieval and Renaissance literature and philosophy.

He also wrote lots of fiction. You're probably familiar with the Narnia series.

We were just talking about what I think is his best piece of fiction until we have faces.

He also wrote Christian Apologetics. He wrote this odd little set of letters,

the screw tape letters. One of the interesting things about Lewis's legacy, he's had a huge influence

in Christian apologetics, of course. But the interesting things about his legacy is the way in which

people have found resources for drama so that

there's a kind of one-man play of the screw tape performance of the screw tape letters that goes

around the country there was an off-broadway play that is called Freud's last session which

I think is probably the most interesting of the dramatic

performances, was actually based on a script that was based on a book that was based on a class at

Harvard, taught by a psychologist, and it was a class that was about Freud and Lewis.

And Professor Nicoli, there's a PBS special on this.

And then the book is called The Question of God.

And he may still be teaching it for all I know.

But the class had a huge wait list.

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