I Like it Here

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I Like it Here

Q&A with director Ralph Arlyck

Equipped with curiosity, humor, and a deceptive lightness, veteran filmmaker Ralph Arlyck sets out to reckon with the particularities, absurdities, and indignities of aging. Through a series of lively, unguarded visits with friends and neighbors, as well as reflections on his own life, relationships, environs, and health, Arlyck pursues a frank exploration of death and loneliness, but also the pleasures of being alive. The director’s first feature since the award-winning Following Sean (2006) expresses how it feels to look back on your own life, to contemplate your place in an ever-changing world, and what to make of the time that remains.

“[Arlyck] is doing precisely what great memoirists do: invite us into their stories as a way of making space for us to reflect on our own. I’ve seen the movie twice, and both times I found myself moved near tears.”
Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times
"Striking a sweet, often humous tone, Arlyck navigates aging gracefully with a keen awareness of how parent-child relationships morph as time proceeds."
John Fink, The Film Stage

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Q&A with filmmaker Ralph Arlyck
Tuesday, Jan. 13 2026, 7:00
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  • Director/Producer Ralph Arlyck's film work includes Following Sean which screened at numerous American and international festivals, was broadcast nationally on PBS and garnered two Emmy nominations; Current Events, which was selected as Best Documentary at the Atlanta Film Festival and aired on PBS and the BBC; An Acquired Taste, regarded as a classic of the personal-essay genre.  His films have screened at Sundance, the New York and London Film Festivals, the Prix Italia.

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