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I recently presented the series A Theater Near You, a history of New York City repertory programming, at the Museum of Modern Art.

David Schwartz is a New York-based film curator and critic. He is curator-at-large for Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI), where he worked for many years as Chief Curator. In 2019, Schwartz received a Career Achievement Award from the New York Film Critics Circle for his tenure at MoMI. Schwartz is the Director of Film Programming at the Barrymore Film Center in Fort Lee, hosts the Emelin Theatre Film Club in Mamaroneck, and programs for other venues, including the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, and he has upcoming programs at the Museum of Modern Art and Film Forum in New York. He programmed and managed the Paris Theater in Manhattan, for Netflix, and has programmed for DocFilms in Chicago, Mezzanine in Los Angeles, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, NY, and Metrograph,and the Quad in Manhattan. He writes about film for Screen Slate, Reverse Shot, Filmmaker Magazine, MUBI Notebook, and Film Comment, edited the book David Cronenberg: Interviews, and taught film history at Purchase College and New York University. He is on the Board of Directors for The Film-makers’ Cooperative.