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Talks on movies, the culture of cinema, and filmmaking.
J. Hoberman, Duck Soup
Hosted by Scott Adlerberg, film connoisseur
J. Hoberman is the senior film critic for the Village Voice, where he has worked for more than thirty years. He is the author of Bridge of Light, The Magic Hour, The Red Atlantis, Vulgar Modernism, and The Dream Life (The New Press) and the co-author, with Jonathan Rosenbaum, of Midnight Movies. He has written for Artforum, the London Review of Books, The Nation, the New York Review of Books, and The New York Times, among other publications, and has taught cinema history at Cooper Union since 1990. He lives in New York.
Scott Adlerberg is the author of the novels Spiders and Flies, Jungle Horses, Graveyard Love, Jack Waters, and The Screaming Child. He has written many short stories and contributes pieces regularly to sites such as CrimeReads, Mystery Tribune, and Criminal Element. Every summer, he hosts the Reel Talks film commentary series in Bryant Park in Manhattan. He was born in New York City and lives in Brooklyn.
June 9
J. Hoberman, Duck Soup
June 16
Philip Gefter, Cocktails with George and Martha:
Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
June 23
Carrie Courogen, Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood's Hidden Genius
June 30
Samm Deighan, Revolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse, 1960-1990
July 7
Shawn Levy, CLINT: The Man and the Movies
July 14
Chris Alexander, Art! Trash! Terror!: Adventures in Strange Cinema
July 21
Odie Henderson, Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema
July 28
Alissa Wilkinson, We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine
August 4
David M. Stewart, There's No Going Back: The Life and Work of Jonathan Demme (Screen Classics)
August 11
Dave Karger, 50 Oscar Nights: Iconic Stars & Filmmakers on Their Career-Defining Wins