Kenneth Turan, Film Critic, LA Times and NPR’s "Morning Edition"; Author, Not to be Missed: Fifty-Four Favorites from a Lifetime of Film; Twitter @KennethTuran 

Brian Hackney, Reporter, KPIX TV – Moderator

Turan’s favorite films span a century of the world’s most satisfying romances and funniest comedies, the most heart-stopping dramas and chilling thrillers from All About Eve to Seven Samurai to Sherlock Jr. Come hear about these timeless films – classic and contemporary, familiar and obscure, with budgets big and small – and judge for yourself the truth of director Ingmar Bergman’s observation that “no form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.”