| 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.
More films to come: Legally Blonde (based on Amanda Brown's novel) and The American Friend (based on Patricia Highsmith's Ripley's Game)
But first...in February! |
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| 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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| Zora Neale Hurston: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
Saturday, February 8 • 2:00pm
Museum of the African Diaspora
$10 general, $5 student/senior, free for MoAD members
Co-presented with MoAD
Released just in time for Black History Month, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick (Amistad Press) unveils an outstanding collection of stories brought together for the first time in one volume, including eight of Hurston’s “lost” Harlem stories, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives. With readings and discussion from UC Berkeley African American studies professor Chiyuma Elliott, poet Tonya M. Foster, and bestselling novelist Margaret Wilkerson Sexton. Moderated by writer and radio journalist Jenee Darden. Audience discussion and book sales to follow. |
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| Homie: Poet Danez Smith
Wednesday, January 29 • 7:00pm
JCCSF
$20, Use LITQ25 for 25% off
Co-presented with JCCSF
Award-winning poet Danez Smith (Don’t Call Us Dead) is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects and performative power. Join Smith as they read from and share their new collection, Homie, a magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship at a time when our country is overrun by violence, xenophobia, and disparity, speaking from within a body defined by race, queerness, and diagnosis. With Safia Elhillo and sam sax. |
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Shoah: A Film Screening
Monday, January 27 • 9:00am - 8:00pm
Goethe-Institut San Francisco
FREE
Co-presented by Berlin International Literature Festival and Goethe-Institut SF
January 27, International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, was introduced by the United Nations in 2005 to commemorate the Holocaust and the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1945. To honor this day, and remind us all of the current growing popularity of anti-Semitism, cultural institutions around the world will participate in a global film screening of Shoah, the 1985 documentary by Claude Lanzmann. With a running time of 9½ hours, both surviving victims and perpetrators of the systematic extermination of Jews by the German Reich are given time to speak on camera.
Panel discussion will take place the following day on 1/28, 7pm - 9pm, on Holocaust education. |
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