Arthouse Alert: Salman Rushdie Introduces Kubrick's "Lolita" in Atlanta Monday (3/21)

As part of Emory University’s “Great Works of Fiction Made Into Great Films” series, guest professor and renowned author Salman Rushdie presents a 35mm print of Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita, an adaptation of Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov’s book. While there’s no way to replicate the brilliant wordplay of the text, having Nabokov adapt his own work into a screenplay definitely helped Kubrick make this tale of a man infatuated with a teenage girl into a stunning piece of cinema. Rushdie, who became a household name in 1988 when the Ayatollah of Iran issued a death warrant in the wake of his controversial novel The Satanic Verses, has curated this series and will introduce the film. -Finn Cohen

Lolita (1962)
Monday, March 21
7 p.m.
White Hall 208
at Emory University
301 Dowman Dr. NE, Atlanta