Adaptations II at the Coolidge

Adaptations II: Novels into Film
Thursday, October 11, 7:30pm,
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
Co-Sponsored by Grub Street
Tickets: $15/$12 (for Grub Street or Coolidge Corner members)
More information here.

As if there weren't enough literary events happening in Boston today, the Coolidge Corner and Grub Street are bringing you their second Adaptations event. As the name implies, the focus is on novels that have been adapted for the screen.

Four novelists, Arthur Golden, Russell Banks, Alice Hoffman, and Scott Heim, will read from works that have been made into movies, and the Coolidge will screen corresponding scenes from the films. The authors will then discuss the process of making words into moving images.

It's a mixed bag. Some of the adaptations (Atom Egoyan's nimble retelling of Banks's The Sweet Hereafter) are masterpieces in their own right. Others are, well, Memoirs of a Geisha. (Here's a hypothetical celebrity nightmare: Rob Marshall is directing your biopic.) There is sure to be plenty of dirt to dish.