In a series celebrating the relationship between art, theater, literature, and film, Joyce Carol Oates and Stephen Sondheim will discuss some of the films that have influenced their lives and work. Moderated by Antonio Monda, artistic director of Le Conversazioni literary festival. This is the seventh program of Le Conversazioni/New York, being held at the Morgan Library.

Previous guests were Renzo Piano, Mark di Suvero, Michael Cunningham, Gay Talese, Paul Schrader, Jonathan Franzen, Martin Amis, Ian Buruma, A.M. Homes, Daniel Mendelsohn, Marina Abramovic, Daniel Libeskind, Julie Taymor, Jeffrey Eugenides, Isabella Rossellini, Salman Rushdie, Patrick McGrath and Zadie Smith.