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THE BOOKSHOP

September 1, 2018 By 2 Comments

THE BOOKSHOP

Florence Green, the widowed heroine of THE BOOKSHOP, is a woman of patience, determination, and kindness.  Qualities that would stand anyone in good stead, they are enough to get her dream of opening the eponymous entity in this evocative adaptation of the Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel. Whether they will be enough to keep it going in… Read More »

Tagged With: 1959, book to screen, bookstore, recluse, Suffolk, widow

IT

September 9, 2017 By Leave a Comment

IT

The evil that lurks in the sewers beneath Derry, Maine, has nothing on the evil lurking in the homes of that community.

Tagged With: book to screen, bullying, child abduction, child abuse, evil clown, horror, remake

THE GLASS CASTLE — Jeannette Walls Interview

August 8, 2017 By Leave a Comment

THE GLASS CASTLE — Jeannette Walls Interview

Jeannette Walls is a larger-than-life personality, brimming with energy and a ready laugh that fills a room.  That she is still laughing after the childhood she describes in her best-selling memoir, THE GLASS CASTLE is a testament to her innate toughness, and to her ability to appreciate the wonder with which her eccentric parents imbued… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, book to screen, Destin Daniel Cretton, Family, father-daughter, Jeannette Walls, memoir, Naomi Watts, New York City, secret, West Virginia

THE DARK TOWER

August 5, 2017 By Leave a Comment

THE DARK TOWER

Intermittently garrulous, yet generally somnambulant, THE DARK TOWER disappoints on almost every level.  Based on the Stephen King series of the same name, the cinematic version blows a kiss to the novels, then goes its own way plot-wise for reasons that defy explanation, unless it’s a scheme similar to the one in Mel Brooks’ classic… Read More »

Tagged With: alternate universes, apocalypse, based on Stephen King novels, book to screen, nightmares, portals, Razzie-worthy, shining

AGAINST THE LAW — Fergus O’Brien Interview

June 24, 2017 By 2 Comments

AGAINST THE LAW — Fergus O’Brien Interview

  I spoke with Fergus O’Brien on June 23, 2017 as part of the second Frameline press day. His film, AGAINST THE LAW, was screening the following day at the fabulous Castro Theater, and I took the opportunity to ask him the question I was putting to all the filmmakers who sat in front of… Read More »

Tagged With: Against the Law, based on a true story, book to screen, discrimination, docu-drama, England, Fergus O'Brien, gay and lesbian, Great Britain, Peter Wildebloode

THE CIRCLE

April 30, 2017 By 1 Comment

THE CIRCLE

It is possible that those years of my wayward youth spent toiling in the Valley of Silicon have colored my view of THE CIRCLE. The, at least to me, mundane observations about that particular corporate culture fall with a resounding thud as we see the way work and personal life intermingle, with everything one could… Read More »

Tagged With: book to screen, hi-tech, monitoring, police state, privacy, Silicon Valley, social media

THE LOST CITY OF Z — James Gray Interview

April 21, 2017 By Leave a Comment

THE LOST CITY OF Z — James Gray Interview

James Gray had his work cut out for him with THE LOST CITY OF Z. He had to find a way to include World War I, upper-crust Edwardian Society, and the jungles of Bolivia, in his adaptation of David Grann’s book about Percy Fawcett’s obsession with finding a lost city in the wilds of Amazonia.… Read More »

Tagged With: Amazonia, based on a true story, Battle of Somme, Bolivia, book to screen, Brazil, Charles Man, civilization, Darius Khondji, exploration, Gavin Menzies, global politics, Goodbye to All That, jungle, lightning strike, Percy Fawcett, Robert Graves, social class, South America, trench warfare, World War I

THE LOST CITY OF Z

April 13, 2017 By 2 Comments

THE LOST CITY OF Z

THE LOST CITY OF Z opens in the darkness of the jungle. Natives stand in silhouette outlined against fires burning in warning or in welcome. It’s a fitting start to James Gray’s suitably literate adaptation of David Grann’s book of the same name, telling the true story of the obsessions that drove British Major Percy… Read More »

Tagged With: Amazonia, based on a true story, Bolivia, book to screen, indians, jungle, lost, lost civilization, military, natives, rubber plantation

THE DUNNING MAN — Michael Clayton, Kevin Fortuna, and Ian Blume Interview

March 30, 2017 By 1 Comment

THE DUNNING MAN — Michael Clayton, Kevin Fortuna, and Ian Blume Interview

The one question I knew I wasn’t going to ask the team behind THE DUNNING MAN was the one about that Oscar™-winning film that shares a name with DUNNING MAN’s director/screenwriter, Michael Clayton. Instead, when I spoke with Clayton, writer Kevin Fortuna, editor Ian Blume by phone on March 6, 2017, I started the conversation by… Read More »

Tagged With: Atlantic City, book to screen, Brenden and Billy Ryan, director, editor, Hierarchy of Need, investing, Lost Bayou Ramblers, Maslow, MFA program, New Orleans, Nicoye Banks, Petr Cikhart, Skinny D’Amato, Spider Stacy, The Bogmen, The Pogues, UNO, writer

SILENCE

January 6, 2017 By Leave a Comment

SILENCE

Academics are taught to write with a dispassionate yet highly detailed style for their scholarly treatises.  That is the approach that Martin Scorsese has taken with SILENCE, his philosophically dense and immaculately rendered film of Shusaku Endo’s book of the same name. The result is a maddening film more to be admired than enjoyed as… Read More »

Tagged With: 17th century, book to screen, Christian missionaries, conversion, Japan, Jesuits, martydom, prosecution

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