Innocence of Memories: Orhan Pamuk"s Museum and Istanbul
Auteur, Authors: Film and Literature was a series June 2-3 at the BAMPFA in Berkeley. Kathy Geritz, who I know and like is the PFA film curator, worked with Telludride FIlm Festival co-director Tom Luddy to bring the international collection to this series which kicked off the Bay Berkeley Book Festival. She says, "The series features incredible films, including portraits of writers, tributes to the power of poetry and explorations of fictional novels, all presented by guests, writers, critics, scholars and film makers. " A poetic rendering in this film has Orhan Pamuk, who I met and heard when he read after winning the Noble Prize, in Philadelphia in the series at the Public Library. I have read most of his books, and find him one of our finest novelists of the 20th-21st century. This quote from a NYT book review by Pico Iyer expresses it best: " Pamuk has two enduring loves: books and Istanbul. Often th y converge as his journeys through his homet...