Until recently, the literary pedigree of a motion picture could clear a path to an Oscar nomination and often a win. Best Picture champs such as “No Country for Old Men” (2007), “Million Dollar Baby” (2004) and “The English Patient” (1996) all began their lives on the page in works by Cormac McCarthy, F.X. Toole and Michael Ondaatje, respectively. This year, “White Noise,” Noah Baumbach‘s Netflix film based on Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel, is angling for such a Best Picture nomination.
The tradition dates back to the earliest days of the Academy Awards when classic novels were regularly adapted for the screen. The 1930s saw “All Quiet on the Western Front” (by Erich Maria Remarque), “Mutiny on the Bounty” (by Charles Nordoff and James Norman Hall) and “Gone With the Wind” (by Margaret Mitchell) walk off with the top prize. The subsequent decade was also fortunate for novelists, as adaptations of “Rebecca...
The tradition dates back to the earliest days of the Academy Awards when classic novels were regularly adapted for the screen. The 1930s saw “All Quiet on the Western Front” (by Erich Maria Remarque), “Mutiny on the Bounty” (by Charles Nordoff and James Norman Hall) and “Gone With the Wind” (by Margaret Mitchell) walk off with the top prize. The subsequent decade was also fortunate for novelists, as adaptations of “Rebecca...
- 11/30/2022
- by Robert Rorke
- Gold Derby
Jack Johnson weathers the storm of 2020 in “The Captain Is Drunk,” a new single out Friday.
“Hey what do I do/If the captain is drunk?” Johnson sings over tranquil acoustic chords. “And the winds are too much/He’s out looking for something.”
Speaking about the track with Rolling Stone, Johnson recalled that his favorite books growing up were the Men Against the Sea trilogy by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, which also includes 1932’s Mutiny on the Bounty and 1934’s Pitcairn’s Island. “With how divided our...
“Hey what do I do/If the captain is drunk?” Johnson sings over tranquil acoustic chords. “And the winds are too much/He’s out looking for something.”
Speaking about the track with Rolling Stone, Johnson recalled that his favorite books growing up were the Men Against the Sea trilogy by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, which also includes 1932’s Mutiny on the Bounty and 1934’s Pitcairn’s Island. “With how divided our...
- 12/3/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
John Ford and Samuel Goldwyn's South Seas disaster picture can boast spectacular action and compelling romance. The unjustly imprisoned Jon Hall crosses half an ocean to rejoin his beloved Dorothy Lamour under The Moon of Manakoora, before an incredible (and incredibly expensive) hurricane blows the island to smithereens. Ford's direction is flawless, as are the screenplay by Dudley Nichols and the Hollywood-exotic music score by Alfred Newman. The Hurricane Blu-ray Kl Studio Classics 1937 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 110 min. / Street Date November 24, 2015 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith, Thomas Mitchell, Raymond Massey, John Carradine, Jerome Cowan, Al Kikume, Kuulei De Clercq, Layne Tom Jr., Mamo Clark, Movita, Inez Courtney, Chris-Pin Martin. Cinematography Bert Glennon Film Editor Lloyd Nosler Special Effects James Basevi, Ray Binger, R.T. Layton, Lee Zavitz Original Music Alfred Newman Written by Dudley Nichols, Oliver H.P. Garrett from the...
- 11/24/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Michael Curtiz's wartime tale of Devil's Island convict Humphrey Bogart fighting to get back and defend France has a still-controversial scene of violence. The convoluted storyline nests enough flashbacks-within-flashbacks to confuse any viewer, and packs the screen with every actor on the Warner lot who can handle a foreign accent. With Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, George Tobias, and Michèle Morgan. Passage to Marseille Blu-ray Warner Archive Collection 1944 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 109 min. / Street Date November 10, 2015 / available through the WBshop / 21.99 Starring Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michèle Morgan, Philip Dorn, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, George Tobias, Helmut Dantine, John Loder, Victor Francen, Vladimir Sokoloff, Eduardo Ciannelli. Cinematography James Wong Howe Art Direction Carl Julius Weyl Film Editor Owen Marks Original Music Max Steiner Written by Casey Robinson, Jock Moffitt from a novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall Produced by Jack L. Warner Directed by Michael Curtiz...
- 11/14/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
James P. Blaylock's The Aylesford Skull releases on January 25, 2013. Fans will be able to jump into this 440-page science fiction novel soon, and we recently sat down with the author himself to give readers a more in-depth look into the Steampunk adventure to come.
Amanda Dyar: During your earlier years, you were mentored by one of the all-time great science fiction novelists, Philip K. Dick. What were some of the most important lessons you learned during this time, and what did it allow you to incorporate into you future novels, including The Aylesford Skull?
James P. Blaylock: It’s often suggested that I (along with Tim Powers and K. W. Jeter) were mentored by Phil Dick. Actually, there wasn’t much mentoring going on. We talked about what we were reading, of course, but rarely about what we were writing. We chatted about cats, growing up, rock music, stereo equipment,...
Amanda Dyar: During your earlier years, you were mentored by one of the all-time great science fiction novelists, Philip K. Dick. What were some of the most important lessons you learned during this time, and what did it allow you to incorporate into you future novels, including The Aylesford Skull?
James P. Blaylock: It’s often suggested that I (along with Tim Powers and K. W. Jeter) were mentored by Phil Dick. Actually, there wasn’t much mentoring going on. We talked about what we were reading, of course, but rarely about what we were writing. We chatted about cats, growing up, rock music, stereo equipment,...
- 1/4/2013
- by Amanda Dyar
- DreadCentral.com
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