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ttff/10: The art of adaptation

by Nicholas Laughlin on September 18, 2010

Caryl Phillips. Photograph courtesy Georgia Popplewell/Caribbean Free Photo The trinidad+tobago film festival/2010 programme offers a number of workshops for aspiring filmmakers, including a session on adapting literary works for the screen, led by Caryl Phillips. The ttff provides this information: The practice of turning a work of literature into a film is almost as old [...]

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“Another shrug”

by Nicholas Laughlin on July 15, 2010

Jean Rhys . . . then there is the usual problem of fragmentation . . . which raises the question of whether a group of individuals linked to the same geographical area who nevertheless write independently of each other and without each other’s work in mind really form a common tradition. Which reminds me of [...]

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“A crumpled heaven”

by Nicholas Laughlin on May 26, 2010

The CRB’s editorial engine is running again, though with the occasional cough and splutter — we’re not yet at cruising speed, as it were. But our May 2010 issue — our first in a year — is under way, with the first new reviews appearing at the start of the month and another batch published [...]

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