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Saturday Screenings: Talkback with Boston Globe film critic Odie Henderson (Main)

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Saturday, December 9, 2023

Location:
Main Library
449 Broadway
Community Room
Cambridge

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Join us in the Community Room following the screening of Polite Society for a talkback lead by Boston Globe film critic Odie Henderson. Light refreshments will be provided. 

Odie Henderson is the Boston Globe’s film critic. He is a member of the National Society of Film Critics whose work has appeared in The Criterion Collection, Slate, The Village Voice, Cineaste Magazine, Slant Magazine, and other outlets. Prior to the Globe, he spent 11 years at RogerEbert.com as a regular contributor. Odie has covered the New York Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival for many years and has also programmed his own nine-film sidebar on Black American Cinema at 2013’s Off-Plus Camera Film Festival in Krakow, Poland. In January 2024, his own book “Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema,” will be published. Odie is a massive fan of film noir, musicals, Blaxploitation, bad art, and good trash.  

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