Poets & Writers Theater

Watch the trailer for Dune: Part Two, the second chapter of the film saga adaptation of Frank Herbert’s iconic 1965 science fiction novel. The film is directed by Denis Villeneuve and stars Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, and Florence Pugh.

In 1964, the memoirist, novelist, and biographer James Lord sat for a portrait for the artist Alberto Giacometti. The painting session was intended to take only a few hours, but lasted weeks and became the inspiration for Lord’s book A Giacometti Portrait (Doubleday, 1965). In this film adaptation of the book, The Final Portrait, written and directed by Stanley Tucci, Armie Hammer stars as Lord with Geoffrey Rush as Giacometti.