Dozens of British author Graham Greene’s novels have been successfully adapted into movies, from “Travels With My Aunt’’ to “The End of the Affair.’’ But Greene wrote screenplays for just five films, all of which will screen in the Museum of Fine Art’s series Words in Motion: Graham Greene as Screenwriter running through Jan. 17. The series, launched on Jan. 2, includes “The Fallen Idol’’ (1948), directed by Carol Reed, which earned Greene an Oscar nomination for his screenplay. Reed also directed “The Third Man’’ (1949), starring Joseph Cotton and Orson Welles, and “Our Man in Havana’’ (1959), with Alec Guinness. Rounding out the series are “Brighton Rock’’ (1947), featuring Richard Attenborough, and “The Comedians’’ (1967), starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. There will be multiple screenings of each film with “Brighton Rock,’’ directed by John Boulting, and “The Fallen Idol’’ presented in 35mm.

Also notable at the MFA is “Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art,’’ running Jan. 13-21. Filmmaker James Crump documents the history of land art during the tumultuous years of 1968 through 1973, when renegade New York artists sought to break from the limitations of painting and sculpture in galleries by producing monumental scale works in the vast desert spaces of the American Southwest. Besides interviews with artists and rare footage from the era, “Troublemakers’’ includes new aerial footage taken with the latest camera technology of the iconic environmental works of Robert Smithson (“Spiral Jetty’’), Walter De Maria (“The Lightning Field’’), and Michael Heizer (“Double Negative’’), the three iconoclasts who established the genre and whose ambition and audacity are still stunning. Crump is also a curator and historian, whose first documentary as writer-director was “Black White + Gray’’ (2007), which featured the influential curator and art collector Sam Wagstaff and artist Robert Mapplethorpe.

For more information go to www .mfa.org.

Take to the road

Bluestocking Film Festival is seeking short films driven by women characters for its sixth iteration in Portland, Maine, July 15-16. The festival opened for submissions Jan. 1 for both its narrative short category and special road movie category. All films must be fiction of less than 30 minutes, feature a female protagonist, and pass the Bechdel Test (they must include at least two female characters who talk to each other about something other than a man). The road movie category this year is in honor of the 25th anniversary of “Thelma and Louise.’’ Films submitted for this category must, in addition to the other requirements, be making their world premiere. Maine-based filmmaker Kate Kaminski (who earned her master’s in film from Boston University) founded Bluestocking Film Series in 2011 to encourage filmmakers to “take the creative risk of placing female protagonists front and center.’’ Besides the annual festival in Portland, Bluestocking produces a year-round touring component that has screened in Maine, Massachusetts, New York City, and Stockholm and Göteborg, Sweden.

For more information, or to submit a film, go to www.bluestockingfilms .com.

Loren King can be reached at loren.king@comcast.net.