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Schweiger has come a long way since DER BEWEGTE MANN ("Maybe, Maybe Not"), and in the process has single-handedly brought German cinema back to the masses after a half century of domination by the high brow author directors (Herzog, Fassbinder, Wenders) who made German cinema synonymous with boredom, and inaccessibility with the masses.
"Shaun Brumder (Colin Hanks) is content to be a bright, talented, but unfocused Southern California surf slacker- until the day he discovers a novel by acclaimed author Martin Skinner.
In the Sixties, author Roderick Thorp wrote a novel, The Detective, which was turned into a movie, starring Frank Sinatra in the title role of Joe Leland.
I like the way Absa,the author and director of the movie,used to tell the story.
I'm not one of those persons who believe novels should be adapted to the screen faithfully, word for word.Changes have to be made,we're talking of two different mediums of telling a story.But changes apart, the storyline must remain the same;the characters remain the same,the solution to the crime must be the one devised by the novel's author.
A fan of the first film and the novel that preceded this, I did not expect much from this film as neither the author of the book or director of the film was on board for this "sequel", let alone cast.
He tries to cheer up his friend Josh (Derek Richardson), an aspiring author, by telling him that "life experience" is grist for the writer's mill.
I recently saw the original 1979 version of this film, where the screenplay, and professional consultation were done by the author herself.
Dennis Wheatley, the author of the book, condemned it because there was little resemblance to his novel and what appears on screen, except for the title.
This is not one of the more famous (author) John Grisham based-movies and it's a bit talky for my normal tastes, but it was interesting.
A children's book author haunted by vicious night terrors.
as if this wasn't enough he is also a knowledgeable surgeon, author, recording artist, amateur sleuth and in the due course father converted husband.
They respond to the author's website address with tales of inadequacy of their own.
A successful author, Colum(Allen Scotti) returns to his ancestral home in an Irish village with wife, son and daughter in tow hoping to rekindle possible memories of slain parents he never knew.
This excellent thriller owes most of the credits to it's author (the book) Jean Christophe Grange and actor Jean Reno.
Considered by some as the author's best work, this deserved better treatment.
The author's phobic attitude toward the "Boston Marriage" of the two heroines seems to mirror that of the southern chauvinist Basil Ransom (which is offputting) and the book never quite recovers from thoroughly humanizing the doomed females while setting them up to be trounced by the Great White Male.
After seeing too many switcheroo movies, author Anthony Shaffer has come to believe that if one reversal is good than a new reversal every ten minutes for over two hours must be genius.
While all this is going on, we are privy to a love triangle at an inn between a real annoying author, played by a very smug Patrick Allen, and his newly arrived, very attractive secretary, played by Jane Merrow(who incidentally really looks good in a two-piece swimsuit), and his wife played by Sarah Lawson.
They really ought not to have put the author up on the credits.
the problem is that in his "true account" Haley plagiarized from a FICTIONAL author.
This author was a Caucasian who enjoyed traveling, and in his travels found a deep love for folklore.
The problem with documentaries is that (while they should be presenting facts objectively) they are all created to serve one purpose in mind: to convince the viewers of the author's ideas/ideals/point of view.
In the case of Sharkwater the ideas and ideals of the author were at the level of an elementary school student.
There is also a completely unnecessary section about the author being attacked by flesh-eating disease.
Still the same theme appears in dozens of configurations, as if the author was wrestling with the same moral dilemma in ever character and plot structure: helpfulness in it's various guises, sometimes as sacrifice, sometimes as but the false shell of selfishness.
The humor here is that the paterfamilias, James Mortmain (well played by Bill Nighy) is a dried up author who hasn't penned a word since a successful novel of twelve years past.
The screen play is adapted by the author of the play, Jeffrey Hatcher.
A lady children's book author is plagued with nightmares of a little girl disappearing in a swamp and images of an old house.
a very underrated film by the author of jarassic park.
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