"The Joy Luck Club was an amazing book. Amy Tan painted pictures with words using imagery and other literary devices. I watched the movie right after I read the book.
As much as I enjoyed both the movie and the book, the movie couldn’t portray the stylistic devices that filled the pages of the book."
"The work of popular Japanese author Haruki Murakami has only been adapted to film on a few occasions, and none of those adaptations have achieved significant international success. Perhaps it’s the surreal qualities that make them resistant to easy adaptation, or the fact that so much in Murakami’s stories rests between the lines: Simple translations of the plot elements can’t necessarily capture the tone of his work.
"French-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung has taken on one of Murakami’s most accessible works in Norwegian Wood, likely the highest-profile of those adaptations to date. That accessibility might make it a more likely candidate for adaptation, but given the popularity of the book, which skyrocketed the author to fame, it also probably subjects it to greater scrutiny from fans."
On January 8 NBC-TV will premiere a new legal series, The Firm. based on the book of the same name by author John Grisham.
But not long after, he is approached FBI agents, telling him the firm has a sinister secret."Director Martin Scorsese gets to play in the 3-D playground for the first time with Hugo, a delightful ode to the art of filmmaking based on the book by Brian Selznick...
"When this project was first announced, it was touted as a children’s movie. I have a feeling kids would rather be bowling or ice-skating than watching this film. It strikes me as strictly for adults, with little to keep the interest of small folks, unless the particular small folk are really into trains and Dobermans. Or Borat.
The filmmakers of “Hugo” made considerable changes and a significant addition, though the basic story of Hugo Cabret, his discovery of a “broken” elderly man, and Hugo’s “fixing” of that man, remains...
"Hugo” starts out with images of trains, clocks and Paris, letting the audience know immediately what this movie will be about, and where these events will occur. This is absolutely faithful to the book. The movie takes us through the passages in the train station, the nooks and crannies Hugo navigates through, and the mechanics of the clockwork absolutely as depicted in the book. With so many visuals provided in the book, we can imagine this was not easy. But readers of the book will feel the movie has been completely faithful to the book’s visual feel.
Henry & June added to See the Movie Read the Book Directory under Dramas and Documentaries.
The adaptation of Anais Nin's “Henry & June," the story of a woman's sexual awakening in 1930s Paris, was the first motion picture to receive an NC-17 rating from the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences instead of the dreaded X rating.
The Hunger Games movie is an adaptation of a popular series of novels by Suzanne Collins popular with young female readers.
Set for release March 23, the film features Oscar-nominated Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss and a supporting cast that includes Donald Sutherland and Stanley Tucci.
