UNSCRIPTED"Men must know their limitations."Clint Eastw...
Friday, 31 August 2012
Wednesday, 29 August 2012
I've got a couple of words for Wondrous Words Wednesday, the meme hosted by Kathy over at Bermuda Onion. They come from the novel The Eye of the Storm, a book written by Australian Nobel Prize winner, Patrick White, back in 1973 and adapted for the screen last year. The film is only now being released in the states (September 7) and I'd like to read the book before I see the film.Rampling plays Mrs Hunter, an aging and bedridden woman...
Tuesday, 28 August 2012
Summer is sadly drifting away. Visions of palm trees and sipping mai tais at some sandy oasis by the sea get replaced with serious thoughts more fitting to the cooler fall days. For now, let's turn to the books we ought to read before we see their screen adaptations in our local cinema.Here's my list of 10 books to see you through the cooling months of September through November.September 7The Eye of the Storm Novel written by Patrick...
Monday, 27 August 2012
'Lawless' formerly known as 'The Wettest County in the World: A novel based on a true story.' comes out on August 29th and stars Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Jessica Chastain, Gary Oldman, Mia Wasicowska and Guy Pearce. Lawless was the title of a film genius director Terence Mallick has in the works but he agreed to give the title up when director John Hillcoat asked if he could have it instead. That's the story anyway, I'm not sure if I believe...
Sunday, 26 August 2012
UNSCRIPTED:"I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction."Martin ScorseseThe first pictures from The Wolf of Wall Street, the film Martin Scorsese is currently directing have just hit the street. The movie is based on Jordan Belfort's memoir of the same name,with Leonardo DiCaprio playing Belfort. The first pictures show Leonardo DiCaprio on Nassau Street in New York where they...
Saturday, 25 August 2012
One of my favorite book bloggers posts the most interesting quotes and pictures. The blogger, Cipriano, calls it splash du jour and you can see what I mean over on his BookPuddle blog. With a nod to Cipriano I will occasionally do the same if there's a pithy quote that works with the book/movie news I'm blogging about.Today, in my earlier post, I included the teaser trailer to The Girl, a film that centers around Alfred Hitchcocks'...
There are two Alfred Hitchcock feature films coming out soon. The first will be HBO’s The Girl. Here in the states it airs October 20th. I hope you enjoy this first look at Toby Jones and Sienna Miller as Hitchcock and actress Tippi Hedren. The movie is about Hitchcock's creepy fascination with Hedren. I thought I'd share what Tippi Hedrin had to say about Hitchcock to the Mirror. Sounds pretty creepy to me!“He was evil...
Friday, 24 August 2012
Will Martin Scorsese ever get around to adapting Shusaku Endo's Silence? That's what frustrated fans of the book want to know and now the production company behind the adaptation is suing Scorsese for seemingly putting Silence on the backburner yet again. According to the Hollywood Reporter they've been trying to get the film made since 1990!Last December when Scorsese was doing pr for HUGO, and with a whole slew of possible projects in his...
Thursday, 23 August 2012
Add TRACKS to the list of adventure adaptations we're looking forward to!Adam Driver, who plays Lena Dunham’s bizarre boyfriend in HBO’s Girls, has just been cast in Tracks, the saga of a young Australian woman’s camel trek across the Australian Outback in 1977. Driver plays Rick Smolan, a New York photographer that the National Geographic sent to chronicle Davidson's 1,400-mile journey. Tracks starts shooting on October 8...
It's been 20 years this month since Christopher McCandles dead body was found in an old bus in Alaska. His saga was put beautifully into print by Jon Krakaur in "Into the Wild" in 1996 where it was on the best seller list for over 100 weeks. And then in 2007, Sean Penn made the film adaptation with Emile Hirsch playing McCandles. Such a beautiful and horrifying movie. Over at Word and Film, to mark that anniversary,...
Well this should be fun! Check out these pictures from the biopic Behind the Candlelabra. It's the film version of Scott Thorsens' book about life with Liberace. Thorsen was Liberace's lover of about 5 years - from 1977 to 1982. Thorsen was 18 when they met and Liberace was 57. Clearly with Matt Damon playing Thorsen and Michael Douglas playing Liberace, the filmmakers are playing fast and loose with the facts. Facts a little more palatable than...
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
Sean Penn is so smart. Last week I wrote that he was signed up to direct the screen adaptation of Norman Ollestad's Crazy for the Storm which is a moving and gripping true story of survival. You can read the original post here At the time I wrote that I wished Penn could play the father. I still think he would be tremendous in the part but the news that Josh Brolin is in talks to play Norm Ollestad Sr, confirms for me just what a great job...
Tuesday, 21 August 2012
He may no longer the cute Crash we all loved in Bull Durham but Kevin Costner is back in the spotlight due to rave reviews for his performance in the acclaimed Hatfield & McCoys. Today, Deadline announced that not only is Costner a go to play CIA Agent William Harper, the mentor of Chris Pine's Jack Ryan in an untitled Kenneth Branagh film, he also plans to spin the role off for the studio's Without Remorse, based Clancy's...
Monday, 20 August 2012
It's not a great day for Stephen King fans looking forward to the screen adaptation of The Dark Tower. The option was passed on by Universal and now Warner Brothers has passed on the project too.Warner Brothers had been the projects best hope with a script from Akiva Goldsman prompting some interest from Russell Crowe to play the lead. Director/producer Ron Howard still has a shot at getting the project made because now Imagine Entertainment,...
We don't have a release date here in the states but the movie opens in late November in the UK and Ireland and on December 6 in Germany. In fact the international trailer comes complete with German subtitles. I've reread Dicken's classic in preparation for the latest film version and I really can't wait ... despite the fact that Helena Bonham Carter looks too young as Miss Havisham (imho). Ralph Fiennes is the convict Magwitch, and Jeremy Irvine (War Horse ) as Pip. The films' director is Mike...
Sunday, 19 August 2012
Most of the movie takes place in a limo. This illustration is from David Denby's review in the New YorkerIf you go by the critics, you may just want to save your money and wait for Cosmopolis starring Robert Pattison on DVD. Over at Rotten Tomatoes the critics have given David Cronenberg's (CRASH) screen adaptation of Don Lillo's book at 64%. Don't give a hoot what people say? The audience response weighed in with an even harsher...
Saturday, 18 August 2012
For this week's Saturday Snapshot, I couldn't resist posting this picture of this devoted pair. That's my husband, Mark, who prefers to sleep vs. blog along with our dog Charlie who prefers to sleep, eat and go for walks vs anything in the world.To play along, post an original picture then link it over at Kathy's Bermuda Onion bl...
Thursday, 16 August 2012
The adorable Elle Fanning (sister of Dakota) has just signed on to play the part of Martha in the screen adaptation of Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes. Elle played Lily in We Bought A Zoo. She was very sweet as the young love interest for Colin Ford - Matt Damon's son in the film.The news reports about the film claim the book is Young Adult but on Amazon they cite it as a 5th-8th grade reader. It sure sounds like its...
Wednesday, 15 August 2012
I read the sample pages of Cloud Atlas on my nook to see if I could get into it. At this point I can't! But I did learn a new word for Wondrous Words Wednesday. That's the weekly meme hosted by Kathy at Bermuda Onion if you want to play along. Dendroglyphs are aboriginal tree carvings made by the moriori found on the Chatham Islands in New Zealand. Apparently they often marked gravesites or memorialized noteworthy events. In the book, one...
Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Have you read this book? It came out in 2009 and I picked it up last year at a friend's book swap party. It's not the kind of book I would normally pick up but it was the only one there that I hadn't already read. It sat on my bedside table for a bit but I finally forced myself to read it. Woah. Once I picked up Norman Ollestad's memoir, Crazy for the Storm, I couldn't put it down. And now, Warner Brothers has announced that Sean Penn is going...
Monday, 13 August 2012
I don't know about you but the Olympics really put a dent in my blogging! I have been so wrapped up in the thrill of the games I'm guilty of putting my blog on the backburner. And I'm glad I did because the drama and excitement were at least the equal of any book made into a movie. The athletes, winners and losers - although I think any athlete who made it to the Olympics is automatically a winner - were absolutely mesmerizing. I thrilled to every...
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