Tag: Novel adaptation to film

Film review: WUTHERING HEIGHTS, from Built For Speed

The dark romantic undertow of Charlotte Bronte’s novel Wuthering Heights and its story of the forbidden relationship between Cathy and wild man Heathcliff on the Yorkshire moors has drawn in many filmmakers over the years with perhaps the most famous interpretation being William Wyler’s 1939 version which starred Larry Olivier and Merle Oberon. The latest adaptation, which comes from director

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Film review: ON THE ROAD, from Built For Speed

Through the adventures of would be writer Sal paradise and his crazed buddy Dean Moriarty, Jack Kerouac’s largely autobiographical 1957 novel On the Road attempted to articulate the restlessness of intellectually ambitious but disillusioned post-war American youth. The film adaptation by Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) turns the story into a weird bromance as Sal (Sam Riley) and Dean (Garrett Hedlund)

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