A Clockwork Orange at Snowcat Cinema

We’re delighted to share the news that our friends at Penarth Pier’s Snowcat Cinema will be showing Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange on 17 February as a tie-in with our discussion of Anthony Burgess’ novel this week. Since its release in 1971, the film has …

‘In the screenplay I described them almost as looking like extraterrestrials…’

On Wednesday we’ll be discussing David Lowery’s eerie new film, The Green Knight, and its source, the anonymous medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. In this interview for Vanity Fair, Lowery discusses the process of adaptating the poem for the screen. ‘The anonymous …

‘…the Green Knight mounted on his green horse holds his severed head aloft’

Another gem from the British Library blog. Here, Julian Harrison from the Medieval Literature team takes a playful look at the illustrations of the original manuscript. ‘Its full-page illustrations have a charm all of their own, even if they were once dismissed as ‘coarsely executed’. …

‘It needs to be nightmarish, hallucinogenic and scary’

Critic and Arthurian enthusiast Xan Brooks comments on the intertextual adventures of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in The Guardian: ‘I like this idea that Gawain is modern, somehow ahead of his time, complicated in a way that the other knights aren’t. It helps …

Open Book’s Graham Greene Special

Jon Wise, who will be joining us to discuss The Power and the Glory in a few weeks, appears alongside Mariella Fostrup and guests including Peter James and Louise Doughty for a special Graham Greene-themed episode of Radio 4’s Open Book. Find out about what …

Cardiff BookTalk: The Green Knight

Speakers: Tison Pugh, Sabina Rahman, and Usha Vishnuvajjala. At our 8 December 2021 event we will be considering the recent film The Green Knight (dir. David Lowery and starring Dev Patel and Alicia Vikander) alongside its source text, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a late 14th-century Middle English …