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Love your site, thanks for exposing me to such good new music.
The worst may be City of Ember - although our whole family ripped through the book only to watch the movie this afternoon with underwhelming results
Yeah, the original and remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are good, too.
My favourite is "Revolutionary road" because such an amazing novel turned into such an amazing movie.
That story is magic in ANY format.
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Another would be "The Dead" a short story written by James Joyce and adapted for film by John Huston, starring Angelica Huston and the great Irish actor Donal McCann.
But on a much deeper and memorable level, the old BBC version of "Brideshead Revisited," with odd frames and gaffs and all.
I'm hoping that the loose adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are blows me away though.
(from http://www.filmfreakcentral.net/diff/arudolphin...)
You've often spoken of an adaptation of Gary Larson's "The Far Side" comic one-panel.
AR: Oh, I almost got that made. David Putnam almost made that at Columbia for the half-hour that he was there. (laughs) Now you'd probably do it totally different, but at the time we'd done the test and it was really funny. It looked just like the cartoon--Gary is a friend and I just took his three or four hundred panels and had some kind of story about the struggle for reality by humans and anything not human. So spiders had as big a part as the two goofy people with the hair, y'know.
Despite the vast canvas the series covers, I think he did an amazing series of films that really captured the books for a new audience.
And I'll offer the observation: given the choice, see the movie before reading the book on which it's based. Otherwise, you risk the "What are they doing to the book in my head" and "How could they leave out..." reactions drowning out other responses to the movie.
Case in point: I was very disappointed with the movie of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. It was nowhere near, and nowhere near as good as, the novel I'd read before.
Bent Hamer's take on Bukowski trumps the amusing-yet-flawed Barfly.
And because that might not quite qualify as an adaptation, The Shawshank Redemption.
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