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Moonlight & Movies: On the Waterfront with Jennifer Egan

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan introduces this outdoor screening of Elia Kazan’s 1954 classic On the Waterfront (108 min). Egan’s latest novel, historical noir thriller Manhattan Beach, and On the Waterfront, which stars Marlon Brando as brooding dock worker Terry Malloy, both traverse the crime-ridden underworld of New York City’s shipyards in the 1940s. Examine how On the Waterfront and Manhattan Beach intertwine and what they reveal about corruption, morality, and the experience of work.

Ticket includes a drink voucher.

About the Speaker: 
Jennifer Egan is the author of several books and a short story collection. Her most recent novel, Manhattan Beach, a New York Times bestseller, was awarded the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was selected as the One Book, One New York City-wide read. Her previous novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times book prize. Also a journalist, she has written frequently in the New York Times Magazine—most recently about pregnancy and childbirth among opioid-dependent women. She is currently the President of PEN America and Artist-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.

To view all of our Moonlight & Movies outdoor film screenings, click here. 

This program also accompanies our exhibition, City of Workers, City of Struggle: How Labor Movements Changed New York (opened May 1, 2019). To view all of the programs in the series, click here.

Start time subject to change, check back for details. In the case of rain, the screening will be moved indoors and take place at the same time. 











When: Tue., Sep. 10, 2019 at 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Where: Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Ave.
212-534-1672
Price: $15
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan introduces this outdoor screening of Elia Kazan’s 1954 classic On the Waterfront (108 min). Egan’s latest novel, historical noir thriller Manhattan Beach, and On the Waterfront, which stars Marlon Brando as brooding dock worker Terry Malloy, both traverse the crime-ridden underworld of New York City’s shipyards in the 1940s. Examine how On the Waterfront and Manhattan Beach intertwine and what they reveal about corruption, morality, and the experience of work.

Ticket includes a drink voucher.

About the Speaker: 
Jennifer Egan is the author of several books and a short story collection. Her most recent novel, Manhattan Beach, a New York Times bestseller, was awarded the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was selected as the One Book, One New York City-wide read. Her previous novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times book prize. Also a journalist, she has written frequently in the New York Times Magazine—most recently about pregnancy and childbirth among opioid-dependent women. She is currently the President of PEN America and Artist-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.

To view all of our Moonlight & Movies outdoor film screenings, click here. 

This program also accompanies our exhibition, City of Workers, City of Struggle: How Labor Movements Changed New York (opened May 1, 2019). To view all of the programs in the series, click here.

Start time subject to change, check back for details. In the case of rain, the screening will be moved indoors and take place at the same time. 

Buy tickets/get more info now