Tag Archives: inspired by a novel

three men, one woman and many guns (film: Appaloosa – Ed Harris, 2008)

Posted on November 5, 2024 by admin

Ed Harris, an actor I admire a lot, has stepped behind the camera only twice so far, to sit in the film director’s chair. His third film is now in pre-production. The second one, which I saw last night, is … Continue reading →

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from narco-thriller to musical soap opera and back (film: Emilia Pérez – Jacques Audiard, 2024)

Posted on November 4, 2024 by admin

Jacques Audiard has never disappointed me before. Many of his films have as their main theme (or one of the main themes) the search for identity and changes of identity. Many of the memorable characters in his films search for … Continue reading →

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twilight of an epoch (film: Un amour de Swann – Volker Schlöndorff, 1984)

Posted on October 26, 2024 by admin

One of the most useless intellectual exercises, in my opinion, is to compare a book and a movie, even if the movie is inspired by the book or is an adaptation. Literature and cinema are as different arts as dance … Continue reading →

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the breaking of an ordinary family (film: Ordinary People – Robert Redford, 1980)

Posted on October 23, 2024 by admin

Americans don’t really use the expression ‘cinema de papa’, invented by critics and French filmmakers followers of the New Wave to define everything that characterizes the film-making ways of previous generations, from which they wanted to move away. It would … Continue reading →

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Poirot haunted (film: A Haunting in Venice – Kenneth Branagh, 2023)

Posted on September 2, 2024 by admin

Kenneth Branagh continues his series of adaptations of Agatha Christie’s novels and seems to feel quite comfortable in the skin of Hercule Poirot and in the position of director of the films that bring him to the big screen. The … Continue reading →

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frozen passions (film: Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Bille August, 1997)

Posted on August 27, 2024 by admin

Director Bille August‘s ‘Smilla’s Sense of Snow‘ (1997) should have had every reason to be a standout film. The script brings a successful novel by Peter Høeg to the big screen. The story belongs to a cinematographic genre – techno-thriller … Continue reading →

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the lost generations (film: All Quiet on the Western Front – Lewis Milestone, 1930)

Posted on August 26, 2024 by admin

Lewis Milestone (born Leib Milstein in Chișinău in 1895) is one of those immigrant filmmakers who laid the foundations of the American film industry and whose biographies await screenwriters to turn them into memorable films. ‘All Quiet on the Western … Continue reading →

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love and crime in a small French town (film: La chambre bleue – Mathieu Amalric, 2014)

Posted on August 21, 2024 by admin

Mathieu Amalric is one of my favorite actors and his presence on the credits of a movie is reason enough to want to see him. From time to time he is also behind the camera as a film director. This … Continue reading →

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