A.S. Hamrah at Elliott Bay Book Company

Writer and film critic A.S. Hamrah has many admirers, including our booksellers at Elliott Bay, and we’re very excited to have the opportunity to host a conversation with him tonight about his work, some of which was collected in his book, The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing 2002-2018 (n+1).

“Hamrah is committed to his ambivalence, conveying it with a mixture of precision and conviction that will remind you how much more there is to be gleaned from a review than whether a movie is ‘good ’ or ‘bad ’ (even if it’s a movie you happen to deem very good or very bad indeed) . . . A political awareness imbues Hamrah’s criticism without weighing it down. He doesn’t succumb to a leaden moralizing because he pays close attention to the medium he’s writing about, alert to what he sees and hears.” —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times.

A. S. Hamrah has been n+1’s film critic since 2008 and was the editor of the magazine’s film review supplement. He also writes for a number of other publications including Harper’s, The Baffler, and Bookforum. He has worked as a movie theater projectionist, a semiotic brand analyst, a political pollster, a football cinematographer, a zine writer, and for the film director Raúl Ruiz.

Co-presented with Seattle International Film Festival.

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