Selected Shorts Goes to the Movies with the Tribeca Film Festival

About this episode

Host Meg Wolitzer presents three works that explore the intersection of fiction and film.

Host Meg Wolitzer presents three works that crossed the boundaries between fiction and film for our collaboration with this prestigious New York film Festival. An eerie game has unexpected consequences in Richard Matheson’s “Button, Button,” performed by Marin Ireland. Michael Stuhlbarg gives a rousing performance of Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky;” and Andrea Martin reads the story that inspired the Hollywood classic All About Eve—Mary Orr’s “The Wisdom of Eve.”

People in this episode

Host: Meg Wolitzer

Guests: Marin Ireland, Michael Stuhlbarg, Andrea Martin

Topics covered

• fiction
• film
• storytelling
• performance
• adaptation

Keywords

• Selected Shorts
• Tribeca Film Festival
• fiction
• film adaptation
• performance

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Tribeca Film Festival

Books & works: Button, Button, Jabberwocky, The Wisdom of Eve, All About Eve

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