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LitFilm—BPL’s Film Festival About Writers

LitFilm – BPL’s Film Festival About Writers
February 13-19, 2023

Enjoy a 7-night free film fest of documentaries and films, highlighting some of the most influential and iconoclastic literary minds. Get an inside look at the private lives, artistic processes and political struggles of luminaries such as Elizabeth Bishop, Leonard Cohen, Patricia Highsmith, Robert Gottlieb, Pauli Murray, Joyce Carol Oates, Salman Rushdie, Dylan Thomas, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and more. See website for details. Reservations required: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/list/litfilm 

The festival’s keynote conversation will be with My Name is Pauli Murray director Betsy West, on making literary documentaries, filmmaking partnerships and more. Director Eva Vitija introduces Loving Highsmith. Plus, editor Alice Quinn discusses Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Losing. And as an endnote talk, director Lizzie Gottlieb discusses Turn Every Page, her portrait of her father, famed book editor Robert Gottlieb and his long work with Robert Caro.











When: Fri., Feb. 17, 2023 - Fri., Feb. 24, 2023 at All Day
Where: Brooklyn Public Library - Central Library
10 Grand Army Plaza
718-230-2100
Price: Free with registration
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LitFilm – BPL’s Film Festival About Writers
February 13-19, 2023

Enjoy a 7-night free film fest of documentaries and films, highlighting some of the most influential and iconoclastic literary minds. Get an inside look at the private lives, artistic processes and political struggles of luminaries such as Elizabeth Bishop, Leonard Cohen, Patricia Highsmith, Robert Gottlieb, Pauli Murray, Joyce Carol Oates, Salman Rushdie, Dylan Thomas, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and more. See website for details. Reservations required: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/list/litfilm 

The festival’s keynote conversation will be with My Name is Pauli Murray director Betsy West, on making literary documentaries, filmmaking partnerships and more. Director Eva Vitija introduces Loving Highsmith. Plus, editor Alice Quinn discusses Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Losing. And as an endnote talk, director Lizzie Gottlieb discusses Turn Every Page, her portrait of her father, famed book editor Robert Gottlieb and his long work with Robert Caro.

Buy tickets/get more info now