Indignation [2016] – ★★★★ Indignation is a directional debut of screen-writer and producer James Schamus, known for adapting the script of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and being producer of Brokeback Mountain (2005). Adapting a book by Philip Roth, in Indignation, Schamus presents the life of Marcus Messner (Logan Lerman), a bright lad who, while…
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“Rebecca” Review
Rebecca [1940] – ★★★★1/2 “…I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end” (Daphne Du Maurier Rebecca (1938)). Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Rebecca is adapted from the best-selling novel…
10 Classic Novels I would Love to be Made into Major Films
1. Notre-Dame de Paris (Victor Hugo) 2. The Beautiful and Damned* (F. Scott Fitzgerald) 3. The Quadroon (Mayne Reid) 4. The Stranger* (Albert Camus) 5. The Captain’s Daughter (Alexander Pushkin)
“The Painted Veil” Review
The Painted Veil [2006] – ★★★★1/2 “Lift not the painted veil which those who liveCall Life: though unreal shapes be pictured there,And it but mimic all we would believeWith colours idly spread….” (Percy Bysshe Shelley) The Painted Veil is a moving romantic drama set in China in 1925, and based on Somerset Maugham’s critically acclaimed…
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