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The Cannes Film Festival is in full swing this week, and the Guardian’s Charlotte Higgins has surmised that its coveted prize, the Palme d’Or, will most likely be presented to a film based on a book. While the festival has historically eschewed adaptations (only two…
Melville International Crime author Mukoma Wa Ngugi was recently interviewed by Kali TV, an independent news program that focuses on the stories of Africans living in the diaspora. Wa Ngugi’s philosophy and approach to literature and life is rendered plain in this short video. He…
Happy Friday the 13th. Did you know that Victor Miller, the man who wrote the screenplay for the first Friday the 13th movie is also a Grammy Emmy award-winning soap opera writer? It’s true. And even though that sounds like a pretty sharp turn creatively (who goes…
Stieg Larsson‘s trilogy of Swedish crime novels are some of the best-selling and most recognizable books of the last 50 years. There’s isn’t a literate soul in America who isn’t at least aware of Lisbeth Salander and her adventures in a very corrupt modern Sweden.…
The moment we’ve all been waiting for… The 9/11 novel The New York Times called “irritating” and New York Press hailed as “incredibly false” has been made into a major feature film starring Tom Hanks, Sandra Bollock, and some precocious kid. That’s right, Extremely Loud and…
Dan Rush‘s first film, Everything Must Go, is based on Raymond Carver‘s very short story, “Why Don’t You Dance” and stars Will Ferrell. You can read the full Carver short-story here. It manages, in a 2129-word description of a yard sale, to capture seventeen visceral…
At The New Yorker‘s Book Bench Meredith Blake reports that: Australian director Baz Luhrmann told reporters at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that he was thinking of filming his upcoming adaptation of “The Great Gatsby” in 3-D. Since the concept already sounds like an…
Previously, MobyLives held a contest to see if anyone could guess the three films used in Jean-Christophe Valtat‘s beautiful black and white trailer for Aurorarama (excluding the stock Edison footage). David Abrams was the first commenter to guess two of the films correctly (“Nanook of…
A recent article about Halloween movies by Dianna Dilworth in eBookNewser got me thinking about a subject we talk about on a pretty regular basis at MobyLives: movies based on books. A particular preoccupation for me has been this question: Which movies based on a…
The following post by Edward Jay Epstein, author of The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies (available from Melville House, and reviewed in the Wall Street Journal here), is the 12th in a series of posts celebrating the publication of the book.…