Hello! It’s that time again – the obligatory end of year list-athon (I’m aware this sentence in itself is also cliche). I thought this year it I’d be a bit more old school and also fair in my end of year recommendations. In previous years, I’ve listed the best seen and that found that most … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Adaptation
LFF 2016 Round-up: PART 2
LOST IN PARIS (2016/2014)/ Dir. Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon (France) MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (2016)/Dir. Kenneth Lonergan (US) One of the more anticipated films on my list, MANCHESTER BY THE SEA will almost certainly quietly asserts itself in many a year-end best films list. Kenneth Lonergan, a meastro of slice-of-life film and observing the ‘ordinary’, … Continue reading
A RAGE IN HARLEM (1991)
Based on the 1957 crime-noir novel by Chester Himes, this 1991 film adaptation is a strange beast, a sort of R-rated BUGSY MALONE. While I wasn’t expecting Native Son, I wasn’t anticipating so much slapstick which I think tries to reflect the darkly comic absurdity of its source material (which I’ve yet to read), if … Continue reading
LFF Round-Up: Carol
While reading the beautifully melancholic but hopeful Patricia Highsmith pulp classic, The Price Of Salt a few years ago, I had a passing thought that this would be the perfect Todd Haynes venture – an apt follow-up in some respects to one of the most graceful odes to the 1950s era, Far From Heaven. His … Continue reading