Sidewalk’s Book + Film Club unites movie and book lovers for a monthly film screening and discussion about famous films and the people who make them. Register by the deadline and select and books are mailed to participants or available for pick-up at the cinema following this deadline. At the end of the month, we host a screening of a film related to the book and host a round-table discussion.

Book: All of Us Strangers: A Literary Ghost Story of Family Loss and Romantic Love in Tokyo by Taichi Yamada

A man is drawn back to his childhood home and discovers his parents living just as they were on the day they died thirty years before…

Screenwriter Harada is disconnected from the world. Lonely and jaded, he’s drifted apart from his son and is dismissive when approached with gestures of friendship, including from a lonely and mysterious tenant who lives in his mostly empty apartment building.

One night, when Harada returns to the dilapidated downtown district of Tokyo where he grew up, he meets a man who looks exactly like his long-dead father. And so begins Harada’s ordeal, thrust into a reality where his parents appear to be alive at the exact age they had been when they died many years earlier.

Deeply felt, searching, and profound, All of Us Strangers is a beautiful meditation on loss and the connection between familial love and romantic love.

Film: All of Us Strangers (2023) Dir. Andrew Haigh

One night in his near-empty London tower block, screenwriter Adam has a chance encounter with mysterious neighbor Harry, puncturing the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam finds himself drawn back to his childhood home, where his parents appear to be living just as they were on the day they died 30 years ago.

June MAILING Registration Deadline: Friday June 5. Books will be mailed within 72 hours of this date.

June PICK UP Registration Deadline: Wednesday June 10. Pick up from our box office during our operating hours of 2pm-10pm Thursday - Sunday. (You will receive an email when your book is ready to be picked up.)

Already have the book? Select the $15 option for access to the film screening and post film discussion.

Private screening and discussion will take place at Sidewalk Cinema June 17th at 7 PM.