Heads’ Up: Walker Percy Documentary
January 7, 2010, 11:53 pm
Posted by Gregory Wolfe
My last post was about the re-release of John Huston’s film of Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor.
This post is just to give y’all a heads-up about another film about another southern Catholic writer: Walker Percy A new documentary is forthcoming. This preview looks very, very promising. I’ll post again when there’s more concrete information about when and where this might be seen. Of course, I’d love to see it on PBS.
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I wonder if there’s a chance PBS will do it. Great if they did.
The Oxford American is a literary magazine out of Oxford, MIssissippi. It has just named “The Movie Goer” as one of the 10 best southern novels ever, Here they are:
1. Absalom, Absalom (Faulkner)
2. All the King’s Men (Warren)
3. The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner)
4. Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee)
6. The Moviegoer (Percy)
7. As I Lay Dying (Faulkner)
8 Invisible Man (Ellison)
9. Wise Blood (Flannery O’Connor)
10, Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neal Hurston)
I’ve never heard of the last one. And, No,GWTW didn’t make the top 10.
Is the Moviegoer better than The Second Coming?
Kathy, I’d say the general consensus is that The Moviegoer is better than the Second Coming. The Moviegoer is considered the most novelistic the novels — sort of a French existential novel set in New Orleans and turned into a tragicomedy.