From Page To Screen

Less than two weeks now before the opening night of Bridport's very own film festival. The opening gala, on Wednesday 13 April, will be a screening of Mark Romanek's fine version of Never Let Me Go, preceded by an onstage conversation between Kazuo Ishiguro and myself. I will be at the festival on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, introducing some of the screenings and welcoming other special guests such as Nicholas Mosley, Bill Forsyth and Emma Richler. The extremely rare screening of Forsyth's wonderful adaptation of Marilynne Robinson's novel Housekeeping is not to be missed.

As part of the run-up to the festival, I've written up some of my thoughts about the relationship between film and the novel in this article for The Guardian.