The Read
Lee Chang-dong's film about an old woman learning to write while her grandson's crime closes in on her. Yun Jeong-hie came out of retirement for it and never acted again. Nothing is underlined.
The Venue
Paris Theater
4 W 58th St
Manhattan's last single-screen theater, a cinema of more than 500 seats just south of Central Park, now run by Netflix.
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Shape The Night
Before
Carnegie DeliReopening on September 15, 2026 at 834 Seventh Avenue, the address that held the Stage Deli until 2012. Sarri Harper, whose grandfather Milton Parker bought Carnegie in 1976, is the third generation to run it. Around 110 seats, walk-in only, with the wood panelling and the Wall of Fame restored.
6:30 PM · Poetry
After
P.J. Clarke'sEstablished in 1884, and the reason it still looks like 1884 is that the owner would not sell. A 47-story tower went up around it in the late 1960s and the original building lost its top two floors rather than the whole thing. Buddy Holly proposed to his fiancee here in 1958.