Of all the Hallmark adaptations of classic novels which premiered on Turner Network Television, Don Quixote is the only one still unavailable on a U.S. or British DVD. The film was directed by Peter Yates and the teleplay adapted by John Mortimer from the Cervantes novel, produced by Dyson...
The Bourne Legacy introduces a new character, Aaron Cross, a Department of Defense operative who runs for his life because of Bourne's actions in Ultimatum. All three of Ludlum's novels were adapted for the screen, featuring Matt Damon as the titular character in each. Doug Liman directed...
Let’s turn to one of the novels you’ve picked next. Tell me aboutChéri(1920)by Colette, which is about the relationship between a young man, Chéri, and an older courtesan. Why is it on your list? I choseChéribecause this is the book that gave me, as a young girl, an idea ...
Based on Bryan Lee O’Malley’s series of six graphic novels, the film follows hapless, perpetual teenager Scott (he’s 23 but has no job, still plays in a struggling band and dates a high schooler – we're claiming him as a teen) as he battles the seven evil exes of mysterious ...
The only thing better than a Keira Knightley period piece? An unabashedly queer one. In Colette, Knightley portrays the titular famous French novelist best known for her 1944 work Gigi, but who for years was the ghostwriter of novels her husband took credit for. Wash Westmoreland's film isn'...
Reportedly released in the South under the title Glenn Beck's Nightmare. Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970) Director: Ossie Davis Stars: Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Calvin Lockhart Based on one of Chester Himes' Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones detective novels. Two sleuths try...
Italy’s tradition of the giallo thriller – so-called for deriving from yellow-covered pulp novels – is as significant as film noir was to Hollywood: a major evolution of onscreen style linked to a cultural malaise of ennui and free-floating amorality. Inspired director Dario Argento perfect...
From picture books to chapter books to young adult novels, we think every kid will love the books on this list.
But don’t let your fear of sudden tears or a lingering ache in your chest keep you from picking it up: How to Make Friends with the Dark is one of the best contemporary novels of the last decade, YA and otherwise. As long as sixteen-year-old Tiger Tolliver can remember, it’s ...
And it's not like there's a shortage of source material; Walter Mosley has written over a dozen novels about the detective, beginning with Devil in a Blue Dress, which was adapted by writer/director Carl Franklin in 1995. In this evocative, hard-boiled mystery set in post-war Los ...