<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Movies That Made Us Love Movies with Harry Chotiner and Sara Lukinson.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We all have movies we love, but what made us fall in love and still remember them? Join us for an hour of lively conversation and reflection as Harry and Sara explore how and why certain movies affected us so deeply, left us laughing or crying, shaped our dreams and desires or ideas about ourselves and the world around us. We'll ask if movies used to have a cultural weight they have since lost or if they are evolving today into something different. Let's see what lies beneath our movie crushes and obsessions–from</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Singing in the Rain</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">to</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cinema Paradiso</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">to</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Godfather.</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">No genre is off-limits.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bring your own favorite films, along with your questions and insights, as we take up the magic of movies and the ones that made us fall in love with movies and what they could do.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lunch will be served. Free with RSVP.</span></p><p><picture class="lw_image lw_image144151 lw_align_center"><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://events.nyu.edu/live/image/gid/77/width/485/height/485/144151_Harry.webp 1x" data-origin="responsive"/><source type="image/jpeg" srcset="https://events.nyu.edu/live/image/gid/77/width/485/height/485/144151_Harry.rev.1755006897.jpg 1x" data-origin="responsive"/><img width="485" height="485" alt="" data-alt="" data-caption="j" src="https://events.nyu.edu/live/image/gid/77/width/485/height/485/144151_Harry.rev.1755006897.jpg" data-max-w="485" data-max-h="485" loading="lazy" data-optimized="true"/></picture></p><p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Harry Chotiner Bio</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">:</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Harry Chotiner, Ph.D., is an adjunct assistant professor in the humanities at the NYU SPS Academy of Lifelong Learning whose teaching focuses on film studies. He has done graduate work in Rabbinic studies, co-edited the <i>Socialist Review</i> magazine, and worked as everything from a script reader to vice president of development at Zoetrope Studios, CBS Theatrical Films, 20th Century Fox, and Interscope Communications.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">He has received teaching excellence awards at the high school and university level, including the NYU SPS Teaching Excellence Award.</span></p><p><picture class="lw_image lw_image144152 lw_align_center"><source media="(max-width: 500px)" type="image/webp" srcset="https://events.nyu.edu/live/image/scale/2x/gid/77/width/500/height/529/144152_Sara.webp 2x" data-origin="responsive"/><source media="(max-width: 500px)" type="image/jpeg" srcset="https://events.nyu.edu/live/image/scale/2x/gid/77/width/500/height/529/144152_Sara.rev.1755006948.jpg 2x" data-origin="responsive"/><source media="(min-width: 501px)" type="image/webp" srcset="https://events.nyu.edu/live/image/gid/77/width/609/height/644/144152_Sara.webp 1x" data-origin="responsive"/><source media="(min-width: 501px)" type="image/jpeg" srcset="https://events.nyu.edu/live/image/gid/77/width/609/height/644/144152_Sara.rev.1755006948.jpg 1x" data-origin="responsive"/><img width="609" height="644" alt="" data-alt="" data-caption="l" src="https://events.nyu.edu/live/image/gid/77/width/609/height/644/144152_Sara.rev.1755006948.jpg" data-max-w="1119" data-max-h="1184" loading="lazy" data-optimized="true"/></picture></p><p><strong>Sara Lukinson Bio:</strong></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sara Lukinson is a three-time Emmy award winning writer and documentary filmmaker best known for her biographical films of artists and creators. She produced film biographies for the Kennedy Center Honors for thirty years. Her films have been shown on network specials, PBS, and HBO. She's written for national cultural events including New York City's annual 9/11 Ceremonies at Ground Zero, the opening of the African-American Museum, and the Obama Inauguration concert at the Lincoln Memorial. Her personal essays have appeared in <i>The New York Times</i> and <i>The Washington Post</i>. She edited "September Morning," a collection of poetry used in the 9/11 Ceremonies. Lukinson currently teaches at the NYU SPS Academy of Lifelong Learning, the 92nd St Y, and The Smithsonian.</span></p>