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Reading Room

Reel Talks

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

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:

Discussion on Movies Set in the World of Books with Tobias Carroll 

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 

August 11: 

Dave Karger, 50 Oscar Nights: Iconic Stars & Filmmakers on Their Career-Defining Wins

August 18: 

Samm Deighan, Revolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse, 1960-1990

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