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The Arts Intel Report

LitFilm: A Film Festival About Writers

Feb 13–19, 2023
10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238

LitFilm is back for its fifth year. For one week, Brooklyn Public Library will host free screenings of documentaries and films about literary figures, among them Loving Highsmith, a documentary about Patricia Highsmith, and Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Losing, a documentary about the American poet. This year’s keynote conversation is led by director Betsy West, director of the 2021 documentary My Name is Pauli Murray. The week ends with a talk by Lizzie Gottlieb, the director of Turn Every Page, a loving look at her father, the book editor Robert Gottlieb, and his decades-long collaboration with Robert Caro. —Jensen Davis