The Burnt Orange Heresy: Book vs. Movie
In which Charles Willeford’s steamy Floridian art-noir is moved to Italy. Hm.
Category Archives: Print Is Dead
Let’s Film the Hawkline Monster
At one time Greer thought he saw something different but he was mistaken. What he saw was exactly the same as what he had been seeing. He thought that it was smaller but then he realized that it was exactly the same size as everything else.
Nightmare Alley: Book Vs. Movie
Come on in, and let’s watch the geek bite the head off this chicken…
True Grit Vs. True Grit Vs. True Grit
An unusual case study of two movies based on the same book, each trying to be faithful in its own way.
Gilliamesque, In Which Terry Gilliam Insists He’s Not Dead
Gilliam writes a memoir from beyond the grave. The grave which he is not in. Because he’s still alive. Or so he would have us believe.
Can’t Stand Losing You: Surviving The Police Vs. One Train Later
Andy Summers tells tales of life in The Police.
Klaus Kinski Is Insane
In which I plunge into the obscene depths of the most outrageous autobiography ever written.
John Carter Vs. A Princess Of Mars
In which I suffer the slings and arrows of John Carter, Disney’s ludicrous adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s A Princess of Mars, for your amusement and edification.
The Remains of The Day: Book Vs. Movie
It’s a fight to the death! Ishiguro vs. Ivory. Who will dance victoriously over the broken corpse of their enemy?
Let’s Get Utterly Alien: Annihilation, Stalker, and Solaris
There have been all too few films that have addressed the utterly alien in a way that’s even vaguely adequate.
Vollmann’s Argall vs. Malick’s The New World vs. Disney’s Pocahontas
In which three versions of the same history shed light on the story-tellers behind them.
The Broken Circle Breakdown Is Broke, All Right
Woe to thee who dares view this broken down turd of a movie.
The Shining: King vs. Kubrick
King still thinks the movie is cold, distancing, misogynistic, not about the characters he invented, poorly directed, and not scary.
Steven Soderbergh, Richard Lester, And The Knack
Nobody ever told me about Getting Away With It, a ’99 book in which Steven Soderbergh interviews Richard Lester, director of such movies as A Hard Day’s Night, Help!, Petulia, […]