The Criterion Collection

Hey, Brooklyn: Unnameable Books in Prospect Heights is kicking off a new kind of book party tonight with a screening of Godard’s A Married Woman accompanied by a discussion with film writer Richard Brody (see his essay for the Criterion release of Pierrot le fou here) about that film and his Godard book Everything Is Cinema, which came out last year. This will be the first in a series of book/screening events at the store, which has issued the following rallying cry:

When they come out, books have parties. Over the first months of their release they’ll get a few parties in a few different regions. After that, nothing. What about those books still good past their appointed shelf life? Maybe they should get a party now and then too.

But this is a CINEMA series. So we’re showing films, and celebrating books related to the films, and bringing in the authors to talk about the books AND the films . . . years after that initial tiny birth-death cycle of publishing. And we’ll be drinking wine.

As fellow disdainers of disposable culture (and enjoyers of wine), we’re on board!