Director Uli [Ulrich] Edel’s 1981 German drama Christiane F [Christiane F – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo] is based on Christiane’s bestselling story as told to reporters at the Hamburg-based Stern weekly news magazine, and […]
It has been left to the Germans to make a film version of Hubert Selby Jr’s harrowing, controversial novel Last Exit to Brooklyn, banned following a private prosecution in July 1966, after its publication in […]
Director Nicolas Winding Refn’s 2003 surreal neo noir thriller Fear X stars John Turturro, Deborah Kara Unger and James Remar. Refn co-writes the screenplay with Hubert Selby Jr, who wrote the books of Last Exit […]
Co-writer/ director Claire Denis’s 1996 Nenette and Boni [Nénette et Boni] is a difficult, edgy, sometimes un-realised picture, with some good scenes and dialogue as well as a couple of persuasive, even attractive, star performances […]
Director Robert Altman’s 1985 drama Fool for Love is a rather tedious and disappointing film version of a riveting Sam Shepard stage play, which seems ideally cast with the author himself as the cowpoke Eddie, […]
Elia Kazan was Oscar-nominated as writer, producer (Best Picture) and director for this uplifting, if seemingly endless chunk of his own family biography about a young Anatolian Greek, living in the oppressions of Turkey more […]
Director Autumn de Wilde’s period romantic comedy drama Emma. is based on the beloved classic novel by Jane Austen. The ultra-stylish novel has everything: wit, wisdom, great characters, great dialogue, great plotting, true romance, witty […]