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Brideshead, revisited..4 comments

Mrs.Pogle wrote 3 months ago: May contain spoilers if you haven’t read/watched it! I have spent a good few hours over the su … more →

Movies in Literature Part 4: Paul Auster's 'The Book of Illusions'6 comments

Ben wrote 7 months ago:   Above are a couple of pictures of Hank Mann, a silent comedian with a big moustache. I think these … more →

Tags: Film and Literature, Hollywood, Movies in Literature, Chaplin, charlie chaplin, Cinema, clown, Entertainment, film

Movies in Literature Part 3: Leonard Cohen's 'Warning'8 comments

Ben wrote 8 months ago:                                               WARNING                                                … more →

Tags: Film and Literature, Hollywood, Movies in Literature, 1950s, 1956, canadian poetry, Cinema, cohen, Cold War

Q&A and Slumdog Millionaire

Trinny wrote 9 months ago: During my first year of varsity I took a wonderful course called Film and Literature. Or perhaps it … more →

Tags: University, prostitutes, Hollywood, Reading, films, Slumdog Millionaire, Film and Literature, bibliophilia, virgin suicides

Movies in Literature Part 2: John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' (continued)4 comments

Ben wrote 11 months ago:   John Steinbeck comes across as, like many writers, somewhat ambivalent about the value of cinema. … more →

Tags: Film and Literature, Hollywood, Movies in Literature, film, Cinema, Movie, ekphrasis, Steinbeck, john steinbeck

The Bicycle Thief 7 comments

ngothanh86 wrote 11 months ago: by Ngô Thị Thanh Bộ phim “The bicycle thief” (1948) của đạo diễn người Ý Vittorio De Sica nằm trong … more →

Tags: Critical Writing, Recent Posts, Cesare Zavattini, Enzo Staiola, Italian National Cinema, italian neorealism, lamberto maggiorani, Lianella Carell, Literary Adaptation

The Bicycle Thief 7 comments

ngothanh86 wrote 11 months ago: by Ngô Thị Thanh Bộ phim “The bicycle thief” (1948) của đạo diễn người Ý Vittorio De Sica nằm trong … more →

Tags: Critical Writing, Recent Posts, Cesare Zavattini, Enzo Staiola, Italian National Cinema, italian neorealism, lamberto maggiorani, Lianella Carell, Literary Adaptation

Movies in Literature Part 2: John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath'2 comments

Ben wrote 12 months ago:   This novel came out in 1939. Steinbeck was trying to write, as he put it, a ‘truly American … more →

Tags: Film and Literature, Hollywood, Movies in Literature, Cinema, Entertainment, film, Grapes of Wrath, Great Depression, john steinbeck

Movies in Literature Part 1: Walker Percy's 'The Moviegoer'

Ben wrote 1 year ago:   As you’ve probably guessed from the title this post is to be the first in a series offering … more →

Tags: Film and Literature, Movies in Literature, 19.60, Cinema, ekphrasis, film, Literature, "moviegoer", Walker Percy

Jurassic Park Author Dies1 comment

thenoticeboard0809 wrote 1 year ago: By Faye Lyons-White Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton has died aged 66 in Los Angeles after losi … more →

Tags: Death of Michael Crichton, er, Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton, Michael Crichton dies at 66, state of fear

Michael Crichton: An Obituary1 comment

thenoticeboard0809 wrote 1 year ago: By Faye Lyons-White Those who loved his books and films, those who worked with him and those who wer … more →

Tags: Disclosure, er, Harvard University, Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton, Obituary of Michael Crichton

Bond Smashes Box Office Records1 comment

thenoticeboard0809 wrote 1 year ago: By Faye Lyons-White Odeon Leicester Square, where Quantum of Solace premiered Quantum of Solace, the … more →

Tags: Bond smashes Box Office Records, Quantum of Solace, CASINO ROYALE, QUANTUM OF SOLACE premiere, Daniel Craig, Bond breaks box office records, Leicester Square, Reviews of Quantum of Solace

The White Tiger: A Roaring Success1 comment

thenoticeboard0809 wrote 1 year ago: By Faye Lyons-White The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, courtesy of Atlantic Books Aravind Adiga won t … more →

Tags: Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger, the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008, Michael Portillo, judging panel, Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture, The Today Programme, BBC Radio 4

The Booker and Other Literary Awards2 comments

thenoticeboard0809 wrote 1 year ago: By Faye Lyons-White The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008 celebrated its 40th anniversary this year. … more →

Tags: Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008, Costa Book Awards, Orange Boradband Prize for Fiction, The Richard and Judy Book Club, The Times, A.S Byatt, The Orange Prize, Positive discrimination, Kirsty Lang

Body of Lies Review

darchonus wrote 1 year ago: An interesting film that stops miserably short. It’s an action-packed cat and mouse game about … more →

Sir Salman Rushdie receives James Joyce Award2 comments

thenoticeboard0809 wrote 1 year ago: By Faye Lyons-White Sir Salman Rushdie received the James Joyce Award from the Literary and Historic … more →

Tags: The Satanic Verses, James Joyce, UCD, Midnight's Children, Salman Rusdie, James Joyce Award, Literary and Historical Society, J. K. Rowling, sir salman rushdie

James Joyce Award and Sir Salman Rushdie3 comments

thenoticeboard0809 wrote 1 year ago: By Faye Lyons-White Outstanding success in specialised field The James Joyce Award is presented by t … more →

Tags: Salman Rushdie, Rushdie, The Satanic Verses, James Joyce, UCD, fatwa, The Jewel of Medina, "The Enchantress of Florence", best of the booker

On Literature and Film

darchonus wrote 1 year ago: A good piece of literature is like an onion – you need to peel off the layers to get to the in … more →

OH NO!!! I watched Slaughterhouse-Five!

Jessica Elaine wrote 1 year ago: Okay, I have studied film adaptation, and I understand that a film does not need to represent a nove … more →

Tags: literary ramblings, Rambling Ramblings, film, Movie, Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut


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