Programmed September 2020

By the Book

You’ve read—or at least meant to read—the book. Now see the movie. Just in time for the start of school, we’ve collected some of the all-time great page-to-screen adaptations, encompassing English 101 classics like Great Expectations and Lord of the Flies , world-literature masterpieces like War and Peace and Pather Panchali , modern best sellers like The Virgin Suicides and The Hours , and more. While faithful transpositions abound, there are plenty of surprising spins on canonical titles, such as Akira Kurosawa’s Japan-set retelling of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot , John Huston’s hallucinatory take on Malcolm Lowry’s “unfilmable” Under the Volcano , and Chantal Akerman’s fascinating postcolonialist reimagining of Joseph Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly . Each is a distinguished work of art in its own right, as worthy of appreciation as its celebrated source. Added on Sunday, 27 September 2020