Escape from End Times Cinema

A.S. Hamrah 
In conversation with 
John Wall Barger

Wednesday, February 18, 2026 - 4:30 - 5:30 pm

Dartmouth Hall 105

In this interview, the film critic A.S. Hamrah will address the general disaster of current commercial  cinema in the age of streaming  platforms,  theater closures, the crazed push for AI, and the dead-end reliance on IP franchising. As the Hollywood film industry—a culture mired in publicity and stale  convention—becomes  increasingly tech-based and plunges into uncertainty, what happens to great films, and to film criticism? 

Sponsored by:
The Writing Program, Leslie Center for the Humanities, and Film & Media Studies

Free and open to the public