Film: A Scanner Darkly and "Much Ado About Keanu" Book Talk

Much Ado About Keanu: A Film Discussion Series
Thursday, 5/29/2025
5:15 - 7:45
Koret Auditorium
Koret Lobby
Main Library

100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States

415-557-4400

A showing of the animated science fiction thriller A Scanner Darkly will be followed by a talk with Sezin Devi Koehler, author of Much Ado About Keanu: A Critical Reeves Theory. Sezin will give a talk about the movie, Keanu's role in it and her newly released book.

Devi Koehler presents a new set of lenses through which to experience Keanu Reeves movies from an intersectional perspective that includes history, politics, queer theory and more. These illuminating talks will deepen the way audiences engage with the internet's boyfriend and solidify his place as one of the most talented performers in Generation X, and far beyond. 

A Scanner Darkly stars Keanu Reeves as Bob Arctor, a drug-enforcement detective who has become addicted to Substance D, the very drug he's supposed to crack down on. 

R, 100 mins., 2006. Closed captions (CC) in English.

This is part of the film discussion series Much Ado About Keanu, pairing Keanu Reeves film showings with talks by author Sezin Devi Koehler. 

Devi Koehler is an author with bylines including Entertainment Weekly!, Daily Beast, Black Girl Nerds, Tasteful Rude, Certified Forgotten, Looper, Bitch Magazine, Teen Vogue, Ravishly, Broadly, and many others. This multiracial Sri Lankan/Lithuanian American lives in a hidden Northern California mountain town where she can almost see the Bay from her back patio.

Sezin Devi Koehler - Website | Sezin Devi Koehler - Instagram 

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