For those in the New York City area:

If you weren't already aware, Cormac McCarthy's book The Road has been made into a movie. It's coming out around Thanksgiving, and they're inviting LibraryThing members to come and view it, and then participate in a Q&A with the director! It's a great chance to see a film adaptation of a popular book.

Screening Location: Bryant Park Hotel Screening Room, 40 West 40th Street, btw 5th and 6th Avenues

Time: 7pm (we will start on time) TONIGHT Thursday, Oct. 29 (the film is just under 2 hours).
After the film there will be a Q&A with director John Hillcoat

If you'd like to go, email your name and cell phone number to Holly Cara Price at Donna Daniels Public Relations - hcp@ddanielspr.net

It's first-come, first-serve.

Here's the press release, with movie description:
From Cormac McCarthy, author of NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, comes the highly anticipated big screen adaptation of the beloved, best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, THE ROAD. Academy Award-nominee Viggo Mortensen leads a distinguished cast featuring Academy Award-winner Charlize Theron, Academy Award-winner Robert Duvall, Michael Kenneth Williams, Molly Parker, Guy Pearce and young newcomer Kodi Smit-McPhee in this epic post-apocalyptic tale of the survival of a father (Mortensen) and his young son (Smit-McPhee) as they journey across a barren American landscape that has been destroyed by a mysterious cataclysm. THE ROAD boldly imagines a future in which men are pushed to the worst and the best that they are capable of - a future in which a father and his son are sustained by love and an unshakable morality even in the face of total devastation.

Directed by John Hillcoat

Message edited by its author, Oct 29, 2009, 2:19pm.

So, did anyone go to this screening? I'm interested in your impressions/reviews.

By the way, I had to laugh at the press release calling The Road a "beloved" novel. There are plenty of words you could use to describe this book, but I'd never use that one.

Message edited by its author, Nov 2, 2009, 7:54pm.

Yeah, no kidding. I can't say any of McCarthy's novels are "beloved". On the other hand, I can't stop reading them!

Oh, I don't know, I'm sure Cormac is very fond of his novels.

Message edited by its author, Nov 2, 2009, 8:07pm.

Although I thought it was very cool to be invited to this, I disliked The Road so I had/have no interest in seeing the movie. But here's hoping we'll have other opportunities to see other movies through the LT connection.

It was so last minute, I don't know if anyone was able to go. I'm hoping to convince the movie publicist to do another screening for LT members. *fingers crossed*

You have to admit, it'll make for great book-to-movie fodder. When I read it, in my mind, it was in black and white.

I think you get to use the term 'beloved' if Oprah loves it.