![]() ![]() The synopses, trailers and other links on our website, further information about contentĪnd age-appropriateness for specific films can be found onĪs well as through general internet searches. Triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. IFC Center does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially In THEY LIVE, Lethem explores the film’s mix of deliberate B-movie, sci-fi, horror, anti-Yuppie agitprop, calling Carpenter’s film, “howlingly blatant and obvious on many levels… marvelously slippery and paradoxical at its depths.” The pocket-sized collection of freewheeling essays, referencing everything from classic Hollywood cinema to the role of wrestlers in contemporary culture, is the first in a new film criticism series, Deep Focus, on sale now from Soft Skull Press. ![]() Lethem’s Deep Focus: THEY LIVE offers a wholly original perspective on Carpenter’s paranoid satire. His memories of the city life of children provided raw material for the fantastical Carroll Gardens of Motherless Brooklyn (1999) they are the heart of. Lethem will do a book signing at IFC Center directly following the event. ![]() Jonathan Lethem in conversation with John Hodgman for a screening and discussion of John Carpenter’s classic THEY LIVE, in conjunction with the release of Lethem’s new book about the film. ![]()
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