Oh these are great recommendations! I did stay up too late watching the Oscars - and I don’t regret it!!! Thrilled to see American Fiction win best adapted screenplay. My Fav adaptations of all time are Don’t Look Now by Daphne Du Maurier (the short story and the film are somehow equally magnificent), Sense and Sensibility - the 1995 with Emma Thompson’s screenplay (utter heaven) and Room With a View (just because it’s a delight in both forms).
I have a copy of Advika and can't wait to read it — I also just started Young Jane Young, which is a fictional take on a sort of Clinton/Lewinsky situation, and that story is one I've certainly developed new and lots of thoughts on as the times have changed and I've gotten older. Adding the others to my list because this is certainly a topic I'm very interested in!
What a fun topic for us cinema fans. I did see the Oscars program and liked it a lot. The humor bit between the presenters pretending to bicker about Barbie vs. Oppenheimer was really fun.
Thanks for the tip about But Have You Read the Book? I will love reading that. Like commenter Mark S, today, I'll be looking to see if my favorites are included. My top two favs for book and movies being both wonderful are: The English Patient, and The Shipping News. Where the book was much better: the original The Color Purple (haven't seen the new one yet).
I'll second the recommendation for "As You Wish" by Cary Elwes -- lots of fun.
I definitely want to check out "Have You Read the Book". I wonder if she included one of my favorite book/movie combinations: "The French Lieutenant's Woman".
I'm half way through the novel Tom Hanks has written- The Making of Another Motion Picture Masterpiece. It's really good, full of inside information, funny and touching. He is a man of detail! And I love it
Oh these are great recommendations! I did stay up too late watching the Oscars - and I don’t regret it!!! Thrilled to see American Fiction win best adapted screenplay. My Fav adaptations of all time are Don’t Look Now by Daphne Du Maurier (the short story and the film are somehow equally magnificent), Sense and Sensibility - the 1995 with Emma Thompson’s screenplay (utter heaven) and Room With a View (just because it’s a delight in both forms).
I have a copy of Advika and can't wait to read it — I also just started Young Jane Young, which is a fictional take on a sort of Clinton/Lewinsky situation, and that story is one I've certainly developed new and lots of thoughts on as the times have changed and I've gotten older. Adding the others to my list because this is certainly a topic I'm very interested in!
What a fun topic for us cinema fans. I did see the Oscars program and liked it a lot. The humor bit between the presenters pretending to bicker about Barbie vs. Oppenheimer was really fun.
Thanks for the tip about But Have You Read the Book? I will love reading that. Like commenter Mark S, today, I'll be looking to see if my favorites are included. My top two favs for book and movies being both wonderful are: The English Patient, and The Shipping News. Where the book was much better: the original The Color Purple (haven't seen the new one yet).
I'll second the recommendation for "As You Wish" by Cary Elwes -- lots of fun.
I definitely want to check out "Have You Read the Book". I wonder if she included one of my favorite book/movie combinations: "The French Lieutenant's Woman".
These are great recommendations! I'd add David Karger's recently released "50 Oscar Nights." He's been covering the red carpet for year! https://l.instagram.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hachettebookgroup.com%2Ftitles%2Fdave-karger%2F50-oscar-nights%2F9780762486328%2F&e=AT3rklvnmbRKOFus2rR58b_kHrUW1Zwn1XePwHNwTdngdE69Mu17oQ9mZzzdfZSiyYm0TaylfWhVg1HKan-ff48LlQZjoKZMptWs0A
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I'm half way through the novel Tom Hanks has written- The Making of Another Motion Picture Masterpiece. It's really good, full of inside information, funny and touching. He is a man of detail! And I love it