Scarecrow Video Zeitgeist ‘23! – The Age of Shatner

A special Silver Screeners edition with film critic Robert Horton

William Shatner turned 92 in March, so most of us have spent our lives in the Age of Shatner, a strange and wondrous time of dramatic pauses, fantabulous musical interpretations, puckish self-spoofery, and Tribbles. Sure, he was never Oscar-nominated, but who else can claim, in a single career, cinematic association with Dostoyevsky and Roger Corman, multiple top-tier episodes of The Twilight Zone, the lead role in the all-Esperanto-dialogue feature Incubus, a game-changing SNL hosting gig, and that Star Trek thing? In this career appreciation (with clips) we pledge to take Shatner seriously, mostly, and give this Canadian treasure his due.

This talk is part of our Silver Screeners program and is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

NOTE: This presentation will be recorded (minus the Q&A) for a future Silver Screeners Program.

Admission is free. Registration is required: bit.ly/svzeitgeist