Tag Archives: film based on a novel

the world is more than one room (film: Room – Lenny Abrahamson, 2015)

Posted on September 7, 2023 by admin

‘Room‘, the 2015 film made by Lenny Abrahamson based on a script written by Lenny Abrahamson, who adapted her own novel for the screen can be considered as a sequence of two different films, each about an hour long, with … Continue reading →

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vertigo at the peak (film: Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

Posted on April 19, 2023 by admin

‘Vertigo‘, made in 1958, seems today, at the first viewing or at a re-watch, like a cinema lesson left by Alfred Hitchcock to the directors who would come after him. It is a complex story (inspired by a French novel … Continue reading →

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crime without punishment (film: Juste avant la nuit – Chaude Chabrol, 1971)

Posted on April 12, 2023 by admin

Made in 1971, ‘Juste avant la nuit‘ (translated to English as ‘Just Before Nightfall’) was made towards the end of a very productive period in the career of French director Claude Chabrol. Since 1969 he had directed at least two … Continue reading →

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Kafka at the Bank (film: L’argent des autres – Christian de Chalonges, 1978)

Posted on April 1, 2023 by admin

‘L’argent des autres’, Christian de Chalonge‘s movie, was one of the best films of 1978 in France, enjoying box-office success and receiving the two most important Cesar awards – for the best film and for the best direction. It is … Continue reading →

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the best of Deville (film: Le dossier 51 – Michel Deville, 1978)

Posted on March 26, 2023 by admin

The best tribute we can pay to a departed filmmaker is to watch or rewatch his films. That’s what I’ve been doing for the past few weeks, since I learned that Michel Deville is no longer with us. In the … Continue reading →

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hell is sometimes ‘cool’ (film: Eaux profondes – Michel Deville, 1981)

Posted on March 19, 2023 by admin

The American remake was released on screens a year ago. I did not get to watching it yet, and I’m not sure if I will soon. ‘Eaux profondes‘, the 1981 adaptation of the novel ‘Deep Water’ (this is also the … Continue reading →

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the improbable lover (film: Le mouton enragé – Michel Deville, 1974)

Posted on March 13, 2023 by admin

Michel Deville quietly left us and this world a few weeks ago, and his disappearance would have gone unnoticed, for me at least, if some television stations had not marked the sad event by programming some of his films. A … Continue reading →

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identity games (film: Aru otoko /A Man – Kei Ishikawa, 2022)

Posted on February 25, 2023 by admin

‘A Man‘ (original title is ‘Aru otoko‘), the 2022 film directed by Kei Ishikawa, is a Japanese film with an European flavor. It is a detective mystery with many twists and turns, which demands the permanent attention of the viewers … Continue reading →

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three stories in one good movie (film: Nocturnal Animals – Tom Ford, 2016)

Posted on February 8, 2023 by admin

‘Nocturnal Animals‘ (2016) directed and written by Tom Ford (adaptation of a novel by Austin Wright) is one of the smartest, best written and well executed films of the last decade, a film that I watched with great delay. I … Continue reading →

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between Hitchcock and James Bond (film: Arabesque – Stanley Donen, 1966)

Posted on February 7, 2023 by admin

‘Arabesque‘ (1966) was produced and directed by Stanley Donen for Universal studios, but it belongs to the director’s ‘English period’, i.e. the decade in which Donen crossed the Atlantic the opposite way to that of Hitchcock and settled in England … Continue reading →

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