[3] January 4, 2013
For years it was accepted that Evan S. Connell’s novels were unfilmable. But the unshowy approach of the 1990 film Mr. and Mrs. Bridge [4] nicely approximates the experience of reading the book.
[3] For years it was accepted that Evan S. Connell’s novels were unfilmable. But the unshowy approach of the 1990 film Mr. and Mrs. Bridge [4] nicely approximates the experience of reading the book.
[6] Throughout the 1950s and ‘60s, Sidney Poitier was pretty much the only African American leading man in Hollywood. With Lilies of the Field [7] he became the first African American man to win the Oscar for best actor.
[9] Perhaps Charles Dickens was writing musicals and didn’t realize it. Scrooge [10] has all the hallmarks of musical theater - emotional catharsis, bigger-than-life characters, and innate moral sense.
[14] Is Scrooged [15] (1988) a Dickens movie or a Bill Murray movie? A bit of both, actually. If the tale’s overall arc is familiar, some of the details are delightfully oddball.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/Film+Blog/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-mr-and-mrs-bridge-1990
[4] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Paul+Newman%22+title:%22Mr.+Mrs.+Bridge%22
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19201#comment-form
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-lilies-field-1963
[7] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Sidney+Poitier%22+title:%22Lilies+of+the+Field%22
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19184#comment-form
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-scrooge-1970
[10] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Albert+Finney%22+title:%22Scrooge%22
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19161#comment-form
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/teen-blog/not-your-daughters-book-club-just-your-daughters-books
[13] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19160#comment-form
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-scrooged-1988
[15] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Bill+Murray%22+title:%22Scrooged%22
[16] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19047#comment-form
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=8
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=5
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=6
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=7
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=10
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=11
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=12
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=13
[26] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=42