Writers: On Moviegoing
Melissa Anderson & William E. Jones
Moderated by
Adam Piron
Sunday, April 12, 2:00 p.m. @ Philosophical Research Society
Followed by a book signing of Melissa Anderson's The Hunger
Writing about cinema was once synonymous with talking about it. Although we're facing a decline of legacy media publication, there's no shortage of vivid writing on film. In this talk, we're asking two of the finest contemporary cinema writers to talk about their relationship with going to the movies, and their optimism about the future of film culture.
Melissa Anderson is the film editor and lead film critic of 4Columns. She is the author of a monograph on David Lynch's Inland Empire published by Fireflies Press in 2021. Her collection The Hunger: Film Writing, 2012–2024 is now available from Film Desk Books.
Artist, filmmaker and writer William E. Jones lives and works in Los Angeles. His films include Massillon (1991), Finished (1997), Is It Really So Strange? (2004) and The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography (1998). He has had retrospectives at Tate Modern, Anthology Film Archives and Austrian Film Museum. His books include "Killed": Rejected Images of the Farm Security Administration (2010), Halsted Plays Himself (2011), True Homosexual Experiences: Boyd McDonald and Straight to Hell (2016), and the novels I'm Open to Anything (2019), I Should Have Known Better (2021) and I Didn't See It Coming (2023).