Word: directors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...etiquette of war is entirely foreign to the modern viewer; for the enemy to eat lunch with his victims almost borders on the ridiculous. Von Stroheim, normally in the position of director, pleasant surprises in the role of a stiff captain serving the German Imperial Army...
...often dwindles to a simple "The book was better!" or "I hated the book but I loved the movie!" Films based on novels are so entrenched in popular culture that the original literature is often left behind when the film is discussed, with perhaps a passing reference to the director or an actor that captures a certain feel or mood of the work...
...Sometimes the novel is overwritten enough that, when chopped into its composite elements, it makes for an enjoyable film that remains somewhat true to the book's original plot, as witnessed in the critically acclaimed L.A. Confidential. Occasionally, despite a terrible novel, a masterful director can be successfully reworked into a great movie, such as the aquatic thriller Jaws. But usually, a great work of literature finds itself dismembered and crammed into a limited space of two hours. While they can still be great movies, and even capture the true spirit of the works they are based on, the audience...
...Coming out next month will be a major new example of the expanded short story: Sleepy Hollow. Already, director Tim Burton has distanced himself from the classic short story by Washington Irving--Irving's work was titled "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." The plot is drastically different. In the tale, immortalized in a short Disney cartoon, Ichabod Crane is a thin, lanky schoolteacher with romantic designs on a local landowner's daughter, Katrina Van Tassel. In Crane's way is Brom Van Brunt, a big lug who frightens Crane with a story about the Headless Horseman--a rumored supernatural denizen...
...packets are a project of the HCL's communications office, brought to life largely by Beth Brainard, the office's communications director. A formal, informational packet explaining all of the library system's components and available resources has never been composed (the system consists mainly of 11 libraries with a plethora of resources), and the communications office thought it would be a good idea to gather all important library information such as phone numbers and access policies into one packet because the library is such a "crucial part of Harvard education." Brainard uses the "common" misconception that "the Theater Library...