Guest speaker: film critic Adam Nayman  

Delve into the complex and contradictory history of movie remakes, and examine the impulses and factors that influence filmmakers trying to make lightning strike twice. From A Star is Born and West Side Story to Psycho and Scarface, what makes a film a classic, and how that status can help or hinder attempts to remake and remodel it, will be looked at through a variety of lenses, with special emphasis on remakes that alter or deepen the meaning of their original source material.