LATE FAME: Screening and conversation with director Kent Jones and Professor Alexander Nemerov

Willem Dafoe stars as Ed Saxberger, a New York poet who gave up writing decades ago and has worked at the post office ever since. When an eager young admirer (Edmund Donovan) turns up at his door, Saxberger is drawn into a circle of twentysomethings who call themselves the Enthusiasm Society and anoint him a rediscovered genius, and into the orbit of Gloria (Greta Lee), the group's resident tragic heroine. Funny, tender, and unsentimental, LATE FAME is a film about flattery, belonging, and the hard work of making art, set in a downtown New York that now survives mostly in memory. Written by Os