| Thanks to all who came out to last week's inspiring Black History Month event at MoAD! Next week, we're launching our new film series at Alamo. See you there! |
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| Lit Flicks is a new monthly collaboration between Litquake and Alamo Drafthouse, presenting the best films adapted from written works, and introduced by special guests. Lit Flicks bookstore, operated by Borderlands Books, will be open at all screenings.
Steven Soderbergh’s “Out of Sight”
Tuesday, February 25 • 7:30pm
Alamo Drafthouse & Cinema SF
$16
George Clooney. Handsome, classy, and undeniably the most suave man in Hollywood. He's one smooth operator, and no film exemplifies that better than “OUT OF SIGHT.” As Jack Foley, Clooney plays a bank robber who escapes from prison and winds up stuck in the trunk of his getaway car with U.S. Marshall Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez, in arguably her best role). After she's released, Sisco remains in hot, and I mean HOT, pursuit of Foley (and who can blame her?). Based on the novel by the legendary Elmore Leonard. Special guest speaker: Eddie Muller. Talk at 7:30 pm, screening at 7:50 pm. |
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Wim Wenders’ “The American Friend”
Tuesday, March 31 • 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Alamo Drafthouse & Cinema SF
$16
Wim Wenders pays loving homage to rough-and-tumble Hollywood film noir with “THE AMERICAN FRIEND,” a loose adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s classic novel RIPLEY'S GAME. Dennis Hopper oozes quirky menace as an amoral American art dealer who entangles a terminally ill German everyman, played by Bruno Ganz, in a seedy criminal underworld as revenge for a personal slight—but when the two become embroiled in an ever-deepening murder plot, they form an unlikely bond. Special guest speakers: Mystery/Crime authors Laurie R. King and David Corbett. Talk at 6:30 pm, screening at 6:50 pm. |
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| Colum McCann & Isabel Allende
Wednesday, March 11 • 7:00pm
JCCSF
$30, use LITQ25 for 25% off
Co-presented with JCCSF
Irish-born international bestselling author Colum McCann (Let the Great World Spin) is among the world’s foremost storytellers, moving seamlessly from the Troubles in Ireland to the Romani camps of Eastern Europe to the dizzying heights of the World Trade Center. His latest book, Apeirogon, tells the story of two fathers – one Palestinian and one Israeli – who learn of each other’s grief and reach across borders to work towards peace. In conversation with Isabel Allende. |
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| Lit Cast: Episode 115 Anna Wiener / Uncanny Valley
Reading from her debut book, Uncanny Valley, New Yorker writer and Litquake alum, Anna Weiner stopped by Green Apple Books on the Park for a lively discussion with Mike Isaac, author of Super Pumped: The Battle For Uber. The store was filled to the brim with equal parts sweater-vested techies and more resistance-minded readers, all waiting to hear bits about Anna’s journey from the world of publishing to the tech sector, and back again. Though Anna refused to hold back on her well-researched criticisms of Silicon Valley, what is most intriguing is the sympathy and humor that exudes from nearly all of her anecdotes and observations. |
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| Jewish Film Institute: Winterfest 2020 Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
Saturday, February 29 • 4:20pm
Vogue Theater
$13 with WINTER20 On January 15th, 2015, a few weeks after completing his memoir, the writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks learned that the rare form of cancer for which he had been treated seven years earlier had returned, and that he had only a few months to live. One month later, he sat down with the producers for a series of marathon filmed interviews in his apartment in New York. |
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Litquake Weekly Highlights the best literary news and upcoming
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Thursday, February 20 • 6:00pm
El Rio
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Thursday, February 20 • 7:30pm
Green Apple 9th Ave
John Sayles / Yellow Earth
Tuesday, February 25 • 7:00pm
Moe's Books |
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