Dick, Darkly

Long dismissed as a genre writer, Philip K. Dick didn’t live to see the devoted geeks who carried his banner into the popular culture of the last 20 years. One such disciple is indie filmmaker Richard Linklater, whose trippy, rotoscope-animated adaptation of A Scanner Darkly screens at 6:30 p.m. at the Kansas City Central Library (14 West 10th Street,
816-701-3400). The free series “No Single Thing Abides: Films Inspired by Philip K. Dick” continues on Mondays through February with John Woo’s Paycheck, Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report and Lee Tamahori’s Next. Coming Sunday, February 13, the Library’s Adult Winter Reading Program presents a free screening of John Hillcoat’s 2009 adaptation The Road, preceded by a discussion of Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel, at the Lucile H. Bluford Branch (3050 Prospect). There’s still time to read the book, but you needn’t do so to attend the screening. For more details, see kclibrary.org/reading2011/films.

— Brent Shepherd

Mondays, 6:30 p.m. Starts: Feb. 7. Continues through Feb. 28, 2011