Reel Talks with Phillip Lopate

Talks on movies, the culture of cinema, and filmmaking.

Phillip Lopate, My Affair with Art House Cinema: Essays and Reviews 

Hosted by Scott Adlerberg, Film Connoisseur

Phillip Lopate is the author of many acclaimed books, including the essay collections Bachelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre, and Portrait of My Body and the novels The Rug Merchant and Confessions of Summer. He is the editor of the anthologies Art of the Personal Essay and American Movie Critics. Lopate taught for many years in the Writing Program at Columbia University School of the Arts. He also served on the selection committee of the New York Film Festival.

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.