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No film version of the novel was ever attempted (it is remarkably rich in subplots that actually serve as counterpoints to each other, so that it would have been very hard to prune it down).
The novel was the only attempt by Dickens to make a central narrator (one of two in the work) a woman, Esther Summerson.
I first read Pearl S Buck's splendid novel in my ninth grade history class, and I enjoyed every thrilling page of it.
"Toi le Venin" is Robert Hossein's masterpiece,and one of the great thrillers of the fifties.Based on a Frederic Dard novel,a writer the director often worked with (see also "le Monte-Charge" which Hossein did not direct but in which he was the lead too),the screenplay grabs you from the first pictures on a desert road by night where a beautiful blonde might be the fieriest of the criminals to the mysterious house where he finds his femme fatale ..and her sister.Then begins a cat and mouse play .One of the sisters is in a wheelchair .But is she really disabled?Which one is the criminal who tried to kill the hero on that night?
The film might remind you of Sin City in look, but it has an even sharper, even more graphic novel look that I found really compelling.
Steven Speilberg's adaptation of Alice Walkers popular novel is not without its share of controversy.
The great plot comes from the novel by Tim Krabbé, who also adapted this story for the screen.
From the use of the actual villa that inspired Elizabeth Arngrim to write the novel in the 1920s to the inspired casting, every choice was perfectly right!
This is a lovely film, based on a novel by Nabokov.
However,financial considerations made him willing (in 1901) to write THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, which is still considered his best Holmes' novel and possibly his best novel.
I am a very avid reader of Margaret Laurence and was excited to see that this novel was being turned into a film.
I actually ended up liking the movie better than the novel.
Ulysses as a film should in no way be compared with the novel, for they are two entirely different entities.
He creates a killer for his latest novel and then he starts seeing the killer roaming around in his house.
The novel which earned Ms. Buck the Nobel Prize for literature comes alive under the baton of Sydney Franklin which along with an excellent script recounts the story of peasant farmer, Wang Lung, whose father obtains a bride for him, a slave girl from the kitchen of a local landlord.
Anyways Matthew Modine plays a novice producer who wants to make an adaptation of a beloved Canadian novel.
This happy-go-luck 1939 military swashbuckler, based rather loosely on Rudyard Kipling's memorable poem as well as his novel "Soldiers Three," qualifies as first-rate entertainment about the British Imperial Army in India in the 1880s.
For those who aren't familiar with the name, Haldeman wrote the award-winning science fiction novel "The Forever War." It's considered one of the very best powered battle armor novels, right up there with Robert Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" and John Steakley's "Armor."
This is without doubt my favourite Le Carre novel and it is transformed to the silver screen with all the love and care one could wish for.
In the aftermath of Watergate, a number of conspiracy movies appeared, such as this one, written by the late Adam Kennedy ( based on his novel ).
One wonders what he would've brought to the film, as the director Mary Lambert, while not really a bad director, doesn't really bring that much imagination to this adaptation of King's novel, of which he wrote the screenplay.
I have just recently read the novel "mother night", I've owned the dvd for some time now, and watch it every so often.
I've really enjoyed this adaptation of "Emma".I have seen it many times and am always looking forward to seeing it again.Though it only lasts 107 minutes, most of the novel plot and sub-plots were developed in a satisfactory way.
I have waited a long time for someone to film a faithful version of H.G. Wells' classic novel, "War Of The Worlds".
The novel, of the same title, dealt with a man's obsession with soccer, since it is set in England, where that sport consumes most of British sports fans.
Govind Nihalani's directorial venture of Vijay Tendulkar's novel is brilliant.
A filmed novel is always interpretive; in particular an animated film relies on the artist's vision and should be judged on its own terms.
Charles McDougall's resume includes directing episodes on 'Sex and the City', 'Desperate Housewives', Queer as Folk', 'Big Love', 'The Office', etc. so he comes with all the credentials to make the TV film version of Meg Wolitzer's novel SURRENDER, DOROTHY a success.
The point was in the novel that the surface sophisticated and weak idle species was the prey of the other species who were the predators.
Robert A. Heinlein's classic novel Starship Troopers has been messed around with in recent years, in everything to Paul Verhoeven's 1997 film to a TV series, to a number of games.
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