Talks on movies, the culture of cinema, and filmmaking.
Enjoy a conversation on Dracula films with Olivia Rutigliano, hosted by film connoisseur Scott Adlerberg.
Olivia Rutigliano is a writer and entertainment historian. She is an Editor at Lit Hub and CrimeReads, and, in addition to those publications, her writing appears in Vanity Fair, Vulture, Lapham's Quarterly, AirMail, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, The Baffler, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Politics/Letters, and Truly*Adventurous, among others. She has a PhD from the departments of English/Comparative Literature and Theatre at Columbia University, where she was the Marion E. Ponsford fellow. She has a Substack column called "Culture Schlock," which features a podcast of the same name that is distributed by Lit Hub Radio and is available everywhere.
Scott Adlerberg is the author of five novels, including Graveyard Love, Jack Waters, and The Screaming Child. He has written many short stories and contributes pieces regularly to sites such as CrimeReads and Mystery Tribune. He was born in New York City and lives in Brooklyn.
June 15, 2026 - August 24, 2026
Mondays, 12:30pm-1:30pm
June 15: Conversation on Dracula Films with Olivia Rutigliano
June 22: The Making of Sunset Boulevard with David M. Lubin
July 6: Godzilla: The First 70 Years with Steve Ryfle
July 13: Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann with Steven C. Smith
July 20: The Worlds of Hayao Miyazaki with Nicolas Rapold
July 27: Conversation on Film Director Eric Rohmer with André Aciman
August 3: The Making of Rear Window with Jennifer O'Callaghan
August 10: The World of Black Film with Ashley Clark
August 17: How Kung Fu Movies Changed the World with Grady Hendrix
August 24: Conversation on Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut with Megan Abbott
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