Tag Archives: film based on a novel

a polarized world (film: One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025)

Posted on September 26, 2025 by admin

‘One Battle After Another‘ is the first serious candidate for the next Academy Awards. I couldn’t have expected anything else from Paul Thomas Anderson, a film maker who has already demonstrated his talent for bringing complex stories to the screen … Continue reading →

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Aronofsky does Coen … or maybe Tarantino (film: Caught Stealing – Darren Aronofsky, 2025)

Posted on September 15, 2025 by admin

Darren Aronofsky is accustomed to surprise us. Starting with his directorial debut with ‘Pi’, going through the exceptional ‘Requiem for a Dream’ and ‘Black Swan’ to ‘The Whale’, including a few failures along the way, always original and uncomfortable. His … Continue reading →

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when love turns into hate and marriage turns into war (film: The Roses – Jay Roach, 2025)

Posted on August 30, 2025 by admin

Either I haven’t seen or I don’t remember seeing ‘The War of the Roses’, the 1989 film that was the first screen adaptation of Warren Adler‘s novel, starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito, so I can’t contribute with … Continue reading →

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extreme forms of the struggle of the classes (film: La cérémonie – Claude Chabrol, 1995)

Posted on August 24, 2025 by admin

Claude Chabrol‘s ‘La cérémonie‘, adapted from a novel by Ruth Rendell, ends about where Stanley Kubrick’s and Anthony Burgess’ ‘A Clockwork Orange’ begins. The ceremony in the title is a shocking act of violence, and I won’t say more to … Continue reading →

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a remarkable film by a master of theatre (film: Lord of the Flies – Peter Brook, 1963)

Posted on July 21, 2025 by admin

Peter Brook was one of the greatest directors in the history of theatre, but he experimented with film in the first half of his career. ‘Lord of the Flies‘ (1963) is his second and last full-fledged venture into the world … Continue reading →

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an obsessive thriller with Isabelle Adjani at her best (film: Mortelle rendonnée – Claude Miller, 1983)

Posted on July 16, 2025 by admin

Alfred Hitchcock died in 1980, but not completely. In fact, his influence is so strong that to this day, 45 years after his departure, not only are his films watched and re-watched, analyzed and enjoyed, but they also represent benchmarks … Continue reading →

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roots of nostalgia (film: Sunt o babă comunistă – Stere Gulea, 2013)

Posted on June 19, 2025 by admin

The phenomenon of nostalgia for communism seems to refuse to die. ‘Sunt o babă comunistă‘ (English title – ‘I’m an Old Communist Hoag‘), the 2013 film by Stere Gulea, joins several other creations of film schools from former communist countries, … Continue reading →

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a love story on the stormy ocean (film: Remorques – Jean Grémillon, 1941)

Posted on May 6, 2025 by admin

There are films whose production could be a good subject for a film script. One of these cases seems to me to be ‘Remorques‘ (the English distribution title was ‘Stormy Waters‘). The director of this film was Jean Grémillon, a … Continue reading →

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wait for second half when it really gets crazy (film: Les tribulations d’un Chinois en Chine – Philippe de Broca, 1965)

Posted on May 1, 2025 by admin

‘Les tribulations d’un chinois en Chine‘ (the English title is ‘Up to His Ears’) was made by director Philippe de Broca in 1965, a year after his international blockbuster success with ‘L’homme de Rio’. It is obvious that the film … Continue reading →

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another end of the world (film: Leave the World Behind – Sam Esmail, 2023)

Posted on March 12, 2025 by admin

I avoid comparisons between films and books, even (or especially) when it comes to screen adaptations of more or less well-known books. Film and literature are arts that work 90% with different materials. In the case of the 2023 film … Continue reading →

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