http://outriderbooks.com/seethemovie See the Movie, Read the Book, Hear the Soundtrack, Get the Script, Download the Video, Watch the Trailer, Listen to the Audio, and Collect Stuff Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:31:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://outriderbooks.com/seethemovie/?p=45 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 ... http://outriderbooks.com/seethemovie/?p=43 "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 ... http://outriderbooks.com/seethemovie/?p=41 posted at need coffee dot com It was to be expected that a beloved children's book being made into a film--a live-action film at that--was to be suspect. Mostly because the book itself clocks in at a whopping forty-eight pages. And how do you make a feature film out of that, ... http://outriderbooks.com/seethemovie/?p=39 ``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 ... http://outriderbooks.com/seethemovie/?p=37 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 ... http://outriderbooks.com/seethemovie/?p=34 posted in the  ...i like that. blog 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 ... http://outriderbooks.com/seethemovie/?p=30 On the CreativeSports blog, Lawr Michaels' post on "Macaroni, Marley, and Me" reflects on being introduced to John Grogan' book in late 2005 and then seeing the movie on New Year's Eve: I did find the book a lovely read and memoir. I thought the movie was almost non-existent: a series ... http://outriderbooks.com/seethemovie/?p=28 While not adapted from a single text, the motion picture Valkyrie is based on a historical events that have been chronicled in detail by several historians and popular history writers. In History's Greatest Conspiracies: One Hundred Plots, Real and Suspected, That have Shocked, Fascinated, and Sometimes Changed the World, author ... http://outriderbooks.com/seethemovie/?p=25 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 ... http://outriderbooks.com/seethemovie/?p=23