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I noticed that the screenplay was by William Nicholson (author of SHADOWLANDS).
This series adds new information and background to the book and includes personal appearances by the author and by archaeologists and other anthropologists.
"Emma" was a product of what might be called by the First Great Jane Austen Cycle of the mid-nineties, and it was recently shown on British television, doubtless because of the interest in the author created by the Second Great Jane Austen Cycle which started with "Pride and Prejudice" two years ago.
Second, the recent Oscar winning biopic, "Capote" showed the muddled back story of this haunting true crime tale's author, Truman Capote.
The cinematography was perfect and breathtaking -- I was awed by its beauty and how well it brought to life the words of the author of the book, Norman Maclean, "But when I am alone in the half light of the canyon, all existence seems to fade to a being with my soul, and memories.
I couldn't remember what it was called, but recalled that the author was Rumiko Takahashi, creator of Inu Yasha.
The author was heavyweight champion of the world, succeeding John L. Sullivan, before the turn of the century.
Orwell says that for any author to grow they have to change the style of their books.
How many film adaptations of any author's work can claim that?
It is just incredible how the homosexual relationships between author and protagonists are sublimated in the movie.
At first, I hadn't read the novel so far and I hadn't hear anything about the author yet.
One of them, Silvano Tranquilli, even gives away a fairly credential depiction of author Edgar Allan Poe.
A best-selling book about honour killings in Jordan is withdrawn by its publishers after allegations surface that the story has been fabricated; associated with other allegations of its author's past as a con-woman.
This is the one in which the diminutive Ruth Gordon plays an Agatha-Christie type of murder mystery author who locks her nephew by marriage into a safe.
Aggie (Diane Keaton) is an accomplished and award-winning author with a lovely face and an independent spirit.
The author still turns up to introduce the episodes, but there’s no epilogue this time around; by the way, while the script of the original compendium gave sole credit to R.C. Sheriff, here Maugham himself also lent a hand in the adaptation, as well as Noel Langley (though it’s unclear whether they contributed one segment each or else worked in unison).
As a fan of author John le Carre I've slowly been working my way through both his books and the adaptations of them.
The importance of a director's (or author's) intention is not important in critical theory.
She is delicious to watch as the perky, lovable author who suffered a terrible loss when her niece died in a drowning accident.
The book on which this movie is based was excellent; it took a while to come to grips with Houellebecq's unconventional style but once I understood the mood behind the writing I was completely drawn into the author's world of sadness.
She is just no match for Northam's talents, but all in all I thoroughly enjoyed this film and would enjoying knowing about other screenplays written by the same author.
This film is a quite entertaining horror anthology film (along the lines of Tales from the Crypt) written by Robert Bloch (author of Psycho).
Wallace Shawn, the author of "Marie and Bruce", who wrote the original play in which this film is based on, is a man whose work in the theater leaves a lot to be desired.
Poor De Sade, persecuted and imprisoned in his lifetime, misrepresented after his death, and unlike one-time-fellow-prisoner Laclos, author of Dangerous Liaisons, is persecuted and tortured on film.
Its up to Martin Andrews, author and expert on Chinese cultures (only thanks to his manservant Willy Fu) and reporter Joan Whiting to stop Poten's nefarious plot.
The movie was really too slow for me for the first 70 mintues, however, and I kept wondering, what is the point of painting us a pictures of this dour and unhappy author's interactions with a lustful irresponsible bratty young woman?
The main failure behind it is a stodgy script, which, in hands other than the original author, had much potential, it was as if the filmmakers had started out with the priority of getting the right cast & movie makers, and expecting the rest would fall into place.
While they did a pretty good job filming Jurassic Park, the seriously messed up with Timeline (same author).
Unfortunately, I suspect that the author of such one-sided point of view cannot tolerate anything that does not come out of Hollywood whose films are indeed well-structured, well-paced and contain humour but at the same time are mostly idiotic, shallow and meaningless.
The same year as the first of the Lone Wolf series brought another adaption of a manga from the same author.
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