One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest added to Classics directory under Dramas and Documentaries.
Only the second film in history to win all five major Academy Awards - including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director - One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest is considered by many critics to be among the best American films of [...]
posted by Kim Voynar on Movie City News:
Thanks largely to a brave, raw performance by Saiorse Ronan, the film version of The Lovely Bones isn’t intolerably hard to watch, and may even end up being a successful sale to same teen market that’s been flocking to darker, moodier fare like the Twilight series…
… The biggest [...]
“The movie has given the book a whole new life,” the author of the 1996 novel, “Push,” told Bob Minzesheimer of USA Today.
Known simply as Sapphire, the author’s book about an illiterate and seriously overweight 16-year-old girl is set in Harlem in 1987. It was critically acclaimed and a modest bestseller when it was published [...]
“The book was not filmable, and it was not easy. When Lee (Daniels, the director of Precious) asked me to adapt it, he told me it would be difficult not only in terms of translating it to film but in terms of the content, the language. It’s written in her voice, someone who is barely [...]
It’s tricky material, adapted faithfully by Daniels from the novel “Push” by Sapphire. The book has widely been described (with sarcasm) as an example of pulpy urban lit, but that’s wide off the mark. Sapphire, a Brooklyn, N.Y., poet, wrote it in stylized street argot, meant to convey Precious’ untutored voice, a technique as old [...]
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Choke, screenplay by Clark Gregg (author of screenplay What Lies Beneath, and novel by Chuck Palahniuk (author of Fight Club) is as disgusting as it is funny, serious as is it sad, and nowhere near as good as the book…. Right from the start it is evident that the [...]
On PopSense, staff writer Alexandra M. Svokos details the “Top 10 Films That I Watched in 2008.” Included on the list is The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, about which he writes:
Don’t stop at the movie either: read the book. You will find more appreciation and love for life in those quick 132 pages than [...]