Name some of your favorite literary film adaptions.
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Bela Tarr's Satantango
Diary of a Country Priest, The Secret Garden, the 2005 Pride and Prejudice, The Makioka Sisters
I'm not really a movie person t b h
Philip K Dick adaptations tend to make good films. Minority Report, Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly...
>>8721416
Silence by Endo
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I rarely express this aloud, but the film version of The Postman (yes that one) was better than the book (yes there was a book).
Anyone know if Tess by Roman Polanski is good?
>>8721416
Solaris (especially 1972)
and Arrival is quite good too
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The Road. The book was better but it really nailed the atmosphere. Also I quite liked The Perfume.
Kon Ichikawa doing Kokoro.
The use of third person perspective added the dimension where you can examine Sensei and his wife apart from the kid, and it gives a better depth to their relationship not possible to gleam in the original novel.
The assassination of jesse James by the coward Robert Ford
LOTR
Patrick Stewart version of a Christmas Carol
Akira Kurosawa's Ran
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Apocalypse Now if you count that
Watchmenno, reallyif you count that
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No Country for Old Men
That shit was fucking good.
Manhunter if that counts. Though not the remakes and remake remakes of it.