"I took the call," Braunsberg (whose documentary Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir screens in Cannes this month) tells me.
Should America's first black president write another memoir, a screen adaptation might be expected to follow.
Film CROTON FALLS Schoolhouse Theater "Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison," screening and discussion with T. J. Parsell.
They are led by Cambridge University's Eamon Duffy whose scholarly masterpiece, The Stripping of the Altars, was a meticulous study of the accounts, wills, primers, memoirs, rood screens, stained glass, joke-books and graffiti of the period.
And there's Hans, the director planning to bring Willy's memoir to the screen, a would-be auteur who compliments Willy on having a life story with "a fabulous arc".
A Translation to Film In 1999, the British director Alan Parker translated the memoir to the screen, with Emily Watson as Angela (who died in 1981), Robert Carlyle as Malachy Sr .(who died in 1985) and three actors in the roles of Mr. McCourt as a small, medium-size and grown boy.
Just as Leonard Nimoy had an uneasy relationship with his famous alter ego, his standing with his son wasn't always on terra firma, as explored in Adam Nimoy's honest but warmly affectionate screen memoir, "For the Love of Spock".
Most recently she attended a screening of "Memoirs of a Geisha".
THE prospect of adapting for the screen a memoir about writing, addiction and homelessness is fraught with challenges.
Frank Cottrell Boyce, who adapted Lomax's memoir for the big screen, said he felt testimony from this period had been ignored because Britain had won the war.
