A Farewell To Arms: a great movie but a terrible adaptation
After Graham Greene died, the movies atoned by re-filming his best books.
May 26, 2014
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After Graham Greene died, the movies atoned by re-filming his best books.
US illustrator Leanne Shapton’s new book is a highly entertaining collection of black and white watercolours based on classic film stills, arranged to suggest a whole new narrative… Leanne Shapton is a superbly talented and exceedingly well-connected New York-based illustrator and author – from 2008 to 2009 she was the art director of the New York Times op-ed page – who turns out surprising and …
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When you grow up, your heart dies – or so they say. Here’s the proof: from Heathers to Juno, the Guardian and Observer’s critics pick the 10 best teen movies • Top 10 action movies • Top 10 crime movies • Top 10 arthouse movies • Top 10 family movies • Top 10 war movies • More Guardian and Observer critics’ top 10s 10.
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‘White Dog is an angry, didactic take on a subject more commonly handled at arm’s length’ Long gone are the days when budding cinephiles would seek out new discoveries by gazing up at the marquee of their local nickelodeon and hoping against hope for a Capra retrospective or anything else that might offer a counterpoint to the paltry stream of new releases otherwise on offer.
Against Hollywood wisdom, a new survey reveals that movies with better gender equality don’t lose money compared to male-oriented fare Cinema programmers beware: feminist films can flunk the Bechdel test Movies which pass the “Bechdel test” are just as likely to be profitable than those which do not, contrary to received thinking in Hollywood, according to a comprehensive new survey .
‘Why audiences might prefer to watch his oeuvre – a 40-year mass of frequently explicit sex films – at home rather than at the multiplex, is an enigma that may never be unravelled’ Though few of his films have secured UK cinema releases since his notorious sex-and-sandals epic Caligula sent British authorities into the mother of all censorship tizzes in 1979, self-proclaimed Italian “master of …
‘In his version of events, each and every character speaks like a race commentator, clarifying events as they happen and saying things like “Ready? I’ve been waiting for this my whole life…”‘ Reading this on mobile?