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Granted, he had a well-described character to live up to - one whose abilities the author describes in an awe-striking way.
Movie earned warm heavy applause after its screening in the Dubai International Film Festival yesterday evening: the audience, a mix of Europeans, Middle Easterns, and Indians, showered the director and author and lead actress with questions after the show.
The songs are fine but nothing very memorable and we really don't get a feeling that Alice has learned anything when it's all over(I guess I'm not sure if this was the author's intention but we see this in the Disney version).
I commend the author, producer, actors, etc., on this movie.
In the end, both the movie and the book leave so many unanswered questions only a long discussion with the author or screen writer would help.
"Roberta" is fairly typical of the movies set in Astairerogersland (as one author called their world).
(Pirandello's play "Six Characters in Search of an Author" is a good literary example).
When an author does that, it's kind of a tip-off that someone has made a bad movie.
Then there's Edith, who loves her author husband enough to come out of her bland, unexciting shell into the characters that he creates.
Sorry all, but even though I overall LOVED the movie the author MISSED on the history.
He claims to have once been a great novelist, and she is now a successful author on her own.
I would like to thank the author for writing a great book. it grabed my attention right away.
(For an update on the story see Altman's The Player) Kirk Douglas (at the absolute top of his game here) plays the S.O.B. producer, Lana Turner (in that brief moment between the baby fat and middle age that seemed to overtake her so swiftly) as the cynical, hard-drinking, vulnerable, showbiz outcast, near ex-actress, Barry Sullivan as the neophyte director looking for a break, Walter Pidgeon as the bottomline fixated studio head, and Dick Powell as the Pulitzer prize winning author and font of high quality original material.
Renowned minister and author Bishop T.D. Jakes of The Potter's House of Dallas, Texas has brought to screen his best-selling novel that has been a major hit amongst women in his ministry for nearly 10 years.
Few notice looking at the movie poster that "Bicentennial Man" was actually written by Isaac Asimov, biochemist, Columbia graduate, and noted science fiction author.
Alan is a failed author with a failed marriage which he stole from his publisher.
L'EMPIRE DES LOUPS is another intelligent, intense and very explosive thriller from the author Jean-Christophe Grangé who wrote also the first CRIMSON RIVERS.
A technical note: If the couple was on Lake Michigan when the storm blew up, somebody needed to tell the author that there just ain't that many islands in the lake, and none within an easy row or swim.
Carrere (who wrote the novel and directed the film) is a writer and fan of the late, great science fiction author, Philip K. Dick.
In fact, Carrere's, I AM ALIVE AND YOU ARE DEAD:A JOURNEY INTO THE LIFE OF PHILIP K. DICK is an excellent biography of this gifted author.
Rather effective three part tribute to Charles Bukowsi ( even if the first part is based on the semi autobiographical tale by his author of choice, Joe Fante).
Based on a novel by Edogawa Rampo, a Japanese author whose name transliterates to "Edgar Allen Poe".
Howling IV: The Original Nightmare tells the tale of Los Angeles based author Marie Adams (Romy Windsor) who has a deadline looming but has also been suffering from bad dreams & hallucinations of a mysterious nun, after a public breakdown her doctor advises her husband Richard (Michael T. Weiss) to take her on a break, a complete rest form work.
This story, based on a novel by California author Dan Totheroh, could have failed miserably if it had not been cast correctly, since the entire tale hangs on the believability of the girl played by Ida Lupino.
With such sentimental authors like Dickens it is difficult to know when you are criticising the director and when the author, and I find it almost impossible to keep them apart in my evaluation of this mini.
In the book 'Mother Goddam', the author states that in response to Borgnine's question 'What about your family'?, Bette says 'f--k them'!
One can not be but startled by the incredibly high reputation that Zeffirelli has in some quarters, where he is revered as an artist, an author, Visconti's heir, a consummate aesthete ,when the guy is so obviously much more banal--a buffoon, a hack, a charlatan, a bluffer, a hustler, a swindler.
But, when after reading the credits in back of the case I realized it had been written by the same author of the first film (Ringu).
What was the author thinking (or perhaps drinking)?
What is totally incomprehensible is the mutilation suffered by the highly readable 'La Tabla de Flandes' by the most popular Spanish author Arturo Pérez-Reverte.
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