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So much of the "weirdness" is not Fellini's doing, but the author's!
The author should have sued anyway.
In this wonderful film, based on a book by the same author of Babe; I have read the book AND seen the film.
He does not escape from a prison in Alabama, but rather the state prison in Huntsville, Texas, (the author apparently got their "Huntsvilles" mixed up and assumed it was Alabama.)
The many efforts to recreate Jane Eyre for TV or Cinema attest to the ongoing satisfaction readers have with this author and this book.
'The Patchwork Girl of Oz' is one of the three Oz films produced by author L. Frank Baum's own production company.
The first of three films for Oliver as novelist Stuart Palmer's fiftyish caustic, snoopy schoolteacher Miss Withers, the movie was a major hit in 1932 and one can see why even today, the duologue is hilarious, the setting quite novel, and the cast is fine, especially Oliver and James Gleason who have such a superb team chemistry together is near tragic they only made three films together (Oliver left RKO-Radio Pictures in 1935 and the studio unwisely decided to carry on the series with different actresses much to moviegoers - and author Stuart Palmer's - displeasure.)
As to the critics of historical accuracy, the author was not presenting his work as a non-fiction textbook; but rather a novel set against the background of events leading up to and including World War II.
John Ritter did a terrific job portraying L. Frank Baum, author of the Wizard of Oz books.
(this is firstly a function of Margaret Gibson's source story, which is told from the author's POV) At first you get squirmy and expect that the parallel this character articulates between her and drag queen Russell - "We're both crazy" - will be used as an excuse for the good old queer self-loathing, but in fact this is in a different tradition, that King-of-Hearts, madness-as-sentimental-symbol-for-nonconformity thing that was in vogue then.
If I hadn't been steeped in the author's themes already, I never would have gotten this message from his last, great, but very thin book.
I had never seen a Nanni Moretti movie previously and I was pretty curious since he is the kind of "respected author" among the European critics.
If you notice in most of the positive reviews here, the author will often say something like, "Of all of Prince's movies..." Look, if you have seen more than 2 of Prince's movies, you are a Prince groupie and thus can not be counted on to give an unbiased review.
These long close shots on the actor's eyes don't lead anywhere if the author has no intention, no other purpose but to please himself/herself.
After I watched the whole movie, I was left with a feeling of emptiness, that is, the author's emptiness.
George Segal is a self-styled intellectual author who doesn't write well.
I do not know what the writer's were thinking (and speaking as a published author, I don't think I WANT to) and one would assume that Dennis Hopper, having now attained a modicum of respectability will never lay claim to this piece again.
Here in Atlanta we mourn the death Monday, February 27th of General Robert L. Scott, ace and author of the book from which this classic movie was made.
The BBC should be censured for this nonsense and I doubt Nigel Kneale, the original author (mentioned as a consultant) had anything to do with this travesty.
This is mainly because our author lived in the days when men wrote about other men as adventurers, and left all the romantic stuff to women authors!So there is room for a little poetic license, or the film would be made exactly like the original!
One of the disadvantages of films no longer having all the credits at the beginning is that you now have to wait till the end for clues that the film in question may suck - the appalling film of "The Saint" a few years ago had Leslie Charteris' name nowhere in sight, and similarly "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" credits neither Kevin Williamson (writer of the first film) nor Lois Duncan (author of the book that it was based on), although they could both lay claim to having originated certain characters.
portraying an idyllic time in anais nin's life, the film works to highlight one woman's sensual/sexual exploration which just happens to include another infamous author.
Bookstore employee Virginia (Jenny Wright) reads a sick if oddly poetic horror story by an author named Malcolm Brand and in so doing resurrects the demented creep, who kills off real people in the same fashion as those in his book.
America is Matt Salinger, son of the aforementioned author of "Catcher in the Rye".
Reygadas is truly an author.
The writer of the source material for this film, the novel UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE, Bel Kaufman, was Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem's granddaughter.
The author was extremely daring to flout the dangerous emperor Nero by satirizing the egregious excesses of the time.
Although the movie is billed as based on a true story, no information is readily available about how much is true or from what the author got his inspiration.
I don't know if this movie uses a little or a lot the author's own past, but it could have, it is, somehow, very much like a memory exploration (and it talks a lot about memory actually : remembering school pals, remembering teachers word, remembering the 19th, etc.).
Let me state emphatically that I loved and throughly enjoyed the 1976 novel "RAISE THE TITANIC" by author and deep-sea discoverer Clive Cussler, it was one of the greatest and most spellbinding books of the 2oth century.
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