Big-screen Stories with Ty Burr and Janice Page
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About this event
As Oscar nominations approach, veteran Boston Globe / Washington Post film critics Ty Burr and Janice Page talk about the frontrunners, recent festival hits and misses, and Janice's shamelessly cinematic new memoir, Year of the Water Horse . Join them for an entertaining evening. Copies of Year of the Water Horse will be available for purchase and signing courtesy of Newtonville Books.
About the speakers:
A film critic and columnist for T he Boston Globe from 2002 to 2021 and T he Washington Post from 2023 to 2025, Ty writes “ Ty Burr’s Watch List .” He is the author of "Gods Like Us: On Movie Stardom and Modern Fame" (2013), "The Best Old Movies for Families" (2007). In 2017, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism.
Janice Page has written and edited arts and culture coverage at The Boston Globe , The Los Angeles Times , The Providence Journal , MSN , and most recently, The Washington Post . She was named the 2023 recipient of the Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger Residency at Yaddo, where she worked on her memoir, Year of the Water Horse , a New York Times Book Review "Editors' Choice." Janice is a Braintree native who now lives in Brookline.
Location
Druker Auditorium, Newton, MA
Listed by Newton Free Library. Details can change — check the official page before you go.