Noah Baumbach with Reggie Ugwu: White Noise
Schedule
Wed Dec 07 2022 at 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm
Location
NYPL The New York Public Library | Long Island City, NY
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The director screens clips from his latest film and discusses adapting the notoriously unfilmable Don DeLillo novel.Noah Baumbach is at least the third director to attempt to bring Don DeLillo’s National Book Award–winning novel White Noise to the screen. A family drama about mass culture and the numbing effects of technology, White Noise was published in 1985 and remains one of DeLillo’s best-loved books. Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and their four children live in the small college town Blacksmith, where Gladney is the department chair of Hitler studies at College-on-the-Hill. When the entire town is ordered to evacuate after an “airborne toxic event” sends a black chemical cloud over Blacksmith, Jack and Babette confront punishing revelations about mortality in themselves and with each other.
Baumbach speaks with Reggie Ugwu from The New York Times about White Noise’s unfilmable reputation, and how he brought it to the screen.
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Where is it happening?
NYPL The New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue at 42nd St,New York,NY,United States, Long Island CityEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
