Come join me on the afternoon of Saturday, June 18th at the Seoul Global Cultural center, where I’ll appear on stage to record a live KoreaFM podcast alongside Chance Dorland, my co-host on the Korea Blog Podcast (and past Notebook on Cities and Culture guest); Robert Koehler, for years and years the man behind the well-known blog The Marmot’s Hole and […]
Come join me on the afternoon of Saturday, May 14th at the Seoul Global Cultural center, where I’ll appear on stage to record a live KoreaFM podcast alongside Chance Dorland, my co-host on the Korea Blog Podcast (and past Notebook on Cities and Culture guest); Robert Koehler, for years and years the man behind the well-known blog The Marmot’s Hole […]
On the afternoon of Saturday April 2nd, I’ll moderate a free, bilingual Seoul Book and Culture Club talk with three young award-winning Korean writers, Kim Ae-ran, Chan Kangmyoung, and Kim Min-jung. Details from the event’s Facebook page: Meet three of the brightest young imaginative voices in Korean fiction on April 2nd in central Seoul. These […]
San Francisco urbanist-cinephiles! This Friday at the second annual San Francisco Urban Film Festival, with its theme of going “beyond dystopia,” you can catch a free screening of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, whose vision of 2019 Los Angeles established our aesthetic vocabulary for urban dystopia — but how dystopian does it really look these days? I’ll show up to give a talk […]
The second annual San Francisco Urban Film Festival happens this November from the 3rd through the 8th, taking as its theme the idea of going “beyond dystopia.” In line with that, they’re screening Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, whose vision of 2019 Los Angeles has, for nearly 35 years, endured as a vision of the urban future. Its crowded streets and Babel […]
One night only, Portlanders! Tonight at 7:00 at the Hollywood Theatre, I’ll give my talk and screening “Portland and Los Angeles: The Cities in Cinema“, a look at how movies — respectable ones and schlockfests, Hollywood blockbusters and indie favorites, visions of the future and the past — reveal both the City of Angels and […]
This Sunday, January 25, at 7:00 p.m., my live talk and screening happens at Portland, Oregon’s Hollywood Theatre. I’ll show both never-before-seen video essays from “Los Angeles, the City in Cinema” and present to you the world premiere of “Portland, the City in Cinema”, a new, long-form video essay on the roles the City of […]
On Sunday, January 25, 2015, I’ll appear live at Portland, Oregon’s Hollywood Theatre to give “Portland and Los Angeles: The Cities in Cinema”, a talk on and a screening of my City in Cinema video essays. The evening will include not just new, never-before-seen video essays on Los Angeles films, but the world premiere of Portland: […]
Angelenos, you can catch me live-interviewing Todd Shimoda, author of Japanese- and Japanese-Amercan-themed “philosophical mysteries,” at Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood this Thursday, May 31st. You may remember my first interview with Todd on The Marketplace of Ideas, when I talked to him about reading Kobo Abe, integrating art with text, and writing his novel […]