Filming Carver

Dell Smith has a cool little story over at Beyond the Margins about making a short film from Raymond Carver’s story “Why Don’t You Dance?”  This makes me want to go back and re-read all my Carver favorites. Story here.

Topic for Discussion: Film Interpretations of Books

Okay, we all have our favorite film adaptations of beloved books, right? And there are also cinematic adaptations of fine books that we’d just as soon forget (I’m looking at you, Barbra Streisand, and your Prince of Tides). Sometimes a film follows a book by the letter, and this isn’t always a bad thing. For [...]