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The performances may sound a bit too "melodramatic" but I've got the impression that this film, like the novel itself, is deliberately making fun of the popular tales of romance and terror and of the society of the period.
This is a pretty faithful adaptation of Masuji Ibuse's novel, "Black Rain."
Turning Isherwood's somewhat dark and utterly brilliant novel into light comedic romp could easily have been a recipe for disaster, but somewhow it wasn't .
It was even published as a novel, by the screen player George Tabori.
Nigel Balchin's maze-like novel 'A Way Through the Wood' has been adapted by Julian Fellowes who also directs this 'terribly British' drawing room suspense piece.
Based on Nelson Algren's novel that won the 1950 National Book Award, this gritty, uncompromising, 119-minute, black & white melodrama deals with heroin addiction.
I love the Thackeray novel on which this film is based.
Well acted drama based on a novel by Arthur Miller.
In movie, it's different, you see the visual, but the description and reflection that really makes the novel, is frightfully missing.
There are the exact same scenes, which are pinpointed quite geniously, but they never have the same affect as in the novel.
The script by John Patrick followed Han's exquisite novel closely; the direction by Henry King was solid as always.
I have not read the novel from which the film is based on.
It was supposed to expose Hilton's novel in a completely different way.
The story involves a young man (Danny DeVito) who wants to get rid of his annoying, grouchy mother (Anne Ramsey, nominated for an Oscar in a role that was completely flawless, in my opinion) and does so by killing off Billy Crystal's wife, whom Crystal wanted dead for stealing his novel.
Spanish novel director Jesus Ponce creates one of the most perfect gallery from the latest year of Spanish cinema.
Although I thought Scarlett, the novel, was superb, the movie didn't add up.
In the novel by William Diehl, the story is more complex because the guy's running for president.
It has a slightly dated air, being an adaptation of "A Way Through the Wood", a 1950 novel by Nigel Balchin (once hugely popular and now forgotten).
Like I said, I don't understand Japanese -or at least only the very small amount I came away with from reading the very lengthy novel -pro- bably my favorite all time book which I could not put down & took the next day off from work just to finish reading!
You really feel like you're in a good Stephen King novel as you play.
First, let me confess that I have not read this particular Balzac novel, so maybe I am directing my cavils unfairly at director and editor.
The latter, a high-quality adaptation of George Johnston's immortal novel, was outstanding - but, in my opinion, not as good as CHANGI.
And what's more - haha - I found the novel while thumbing around in a used book store...in Omaha, NE of ALL places!!! Guess you have to have an eye for her!
This TV adaptation of Sarah Waters' novel was so lovingly done I can hardly find the words to appreciate it.
All in all, Australia continues its rich tradition of producing exceptional television miniseries, and is an unrivalled world leader in this regard: vyeing for the AFI Award with CHANGI is MY BROTHER JACK, the adaptation of George Johnston's novel, and also a worthy winner.
Miniseries in recent years include DAY OF THE ROSES (the story of the investigation into the Glanville train crash), KINGS IN GRASS CASTLES (the adaptation of Mary Durack's historical account of her pioneering ancestors), KANGAROO PALACE (about a group of friends from a country town in Australia who travel to London and change and grow apart), and the (somewhat disappointing) adaptation of Bryce Courtenay's powerful novel, THE POTATO FACTORY.
Less recently: Nancy Cato's sweeping saga of life on the Murray - ALL THE RIVERS RUN; Cusack & James' brilliant novel about postwar life in Sydney - COME IN SPINNER; Colleen McCullough's outstanding pioneering saga - THE THORN BIRDS; THE RIVER KINGS; Ruth Park's novel THE HARP IN THE SOUTH; BODYLINE; EUREKA STOCKADE; ANZACS; etc..., etc... (Of course, there have been some not-so-good productions - for instance, MOBY DICK, DO OR DIE, ON THE BEACH, THORN BIRDS: THE MISSING YEARS; etc...) Generally, though, if an Australian miniseries comes your way, make sure you see it - and this goes double for CHANGI, a superbly directed masterpiece.
There have been few film versions of a celebrated novel that have done better justice to their source material than Anthony Minghella's movie of Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain.
I personally cried numerous times while reading the novel and spent much of the evening watching the film through tears.
A Jane Smiley novel, loosely based on Shakespeare's KING LEAR about the Cook family and its dark secrets.
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