Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Novel to Screen Film Festival Opens in Limited Release in April

Shelf Awareness

The National Book Foundation and the Pratt Institute have created the Novel to Screen Film Festival, in which three National Book Award-nominated books will be examined beside their respective film adaptations.


To be held April 4-5, the inaugural festival will feature Nabokov's Lolita alongside Stanley Kubrick's adaptation; Warren Miller's The Cool World and its adaptation by Shirley Clarke; and Brian Selznick's The Invention of Hugo Cabret paired with Martin Scorsese's adaptation, Hugo.

Lolita was nominated for the National Book Award in 1959 and made into a film by Kubrick in 1962. Nabokov wrote the adaptation’s screenplay, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. Miller's The Cool World was nominated for an NBA in 1960, while the adaptation was released in 1964. Miller did not help write the screenplay, although he was involved in the book's adaptation for the stage. The Invention of Hugo Cabret was a National Book Award for Young People's Literature finalist in 2007. Scorsese's adaptation came out in 2011 and was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won five.

The festival will run from April 4-5 at Pratt's Manhattan Campus. Lolita will be screened on the 4th, and Cool World and Hugo will be shown on the 5th. After each screening, a panel of scholars, writers, filmmakers, critics and actors will discuss the faithfulness of each respective adaptation.

Screenings and panel discussions are free and open to anyone, but space is limited. RSVP to tosyoung@nationalbook.org with the subject line "RSVP for Novel to Screen.
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