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While I acknowledge that I can't know exactly what the author wished to convey, I have enough affection for her and her works to desire to remain a fan.
I watched it despite the fact that I don't like the pretentious kind of stuff that Alan Hollinghurst writes (sorry to his fans but I think we have a case of the emperor's new clothes with this author's work).
In his brief 40 years on Earth, author Jack London managed to cram as much adventure and incident as would seem possible.
The storyline is simple : after a divorce and ten years of a hollywoodian non-career, the author plays is quest for love in front of the camera.
The author of numerous novels, plays, and short stories, W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was considered among the world's great authors during his lifetime, and although his reputation has faded over the years his work continues to command critical respect and a large reading public.
Please, director, producer and author of this movie, STOP making movies like that...you are not doing yourself a favor.
A film about the Harlem Renaissance and one author in particular.
The whole thing sounded to me as if the author was trying to convince himself!
Some have, as Kubrick did with "Lolita", gotten the original author to write a screenplay that is something like the original work.
To me, it seemed that even the Author of the book favored Caroline.
"At last," I thought, "someone will make this book into a movie following the story actually written by the author."
The reason this is such a bad movie is because it is so very badly written, and this is entirely the fault of the hack novelist Robert James Waller, also author of Bridges of Madison County.
I didn't read the Ramsey Campbell book, but I'm sure that the author of The Doll Who Ate Its Mother didn't have much in common with this terrible production.
Input from the author doesn't always insure a good movie but it can help sometimes.
Corin Nemec is just outstanding as the ne'er do well author and narrator.
The sequels however take that universe and lead you down the garden path to whatever new little social or political commentary the author wants to make.
The previous five day offering by this author was highly enjoyable and I was really looking forward to this.
I wonder what did Isabel Allende (author) say about the movie, but I think it sucks!!!
Why do movie makers always go against the author's work?
Once upon a time there was a science fiction author named H.
If this book remained faithful to the book then we can only assume that the author was ignorant of history.
The film is absolute pants, it's full of music from the attempted mid-80's jazz revival and based on a book & author that was briefly popular at that time and has deservedly sank back into obscurity.
He gets in touch with the author of a book about the Zodiac Killer and they form a friendship.
In reality, there are no ancient scrolls and if the author was hard pressed I'm sure he'd have to admit he's never laid eyes on any scrolls in ancient Aramaic found in Peru.
No wonder that the historian Ian Kershaw, author of the groundbreaking Hitler biography, who originally was the scientific consultant for this TV film, dissociated himself from it.
They know the history of the genre and more importantly they know to what heights it can reach in the hands of a gifted author.
This is the version that even the author hated, because it's so schmaltzy.
Ms. Madeleine L'Engle brought children and adults alike into a magical, fantastical and original world like no author before her.
The author sets out on a "journey of discovery" of his "roots" in the southern tobacco industry because he believes that the (completely and deservedly forgotten) movie "Bright Leaf" is about an ancestor of his.
the author of the book, by the same title, should not have let her name be used for this movie.
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