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...MATRIX TRILOGY. The movies' premise that the world we know is neither good nor real but the creation of a malign power echoes early texts that are now known as Gnostic. Similar themes mark the work of science-fiction patriarch Philip K. Dick, whose stories have been turned into movies like Blade Runner, Minority Report and John Woo's Paycheck, opening on Christmas...
...Twenty years later, just before his death in 1968, Woolrich remembered one thing about ?Rear Window,? the most famous movie made from his fiction (which his agent had sold to Hollywood, along with five other stories, for a measly $5,000). ?Hitchcock wouldn?t even send me a ticket to the premiere in New York,? the writer told his young agent, Barry Malzberg. ?He knew where I lived. He wouldn?t even send me a ticket...
...fact is that Woolrich?s rep rests largely on the movies, good or bad, made from his fiction. Here, then is a festival of Woolrich films spanning seven decades and five countries. Most of the movies are available for purchase online, or can be rented from netflix.com. I found all but two in three Manhattan video stores (World of Video, Kim?s and, for the Indian film, Naghma House). A Woolrich starter set would comprise ?Phantom Lady,? ?The Window,? ?No Man of Her Own,? ?Rear Window,? ?The Bride Wore Black,? ?Kati Patang,? ?Martha? and ?Original...
...write about preferring fiction. Do you suspect that most women feel the same...
...would imagine so. For very educated people, there's still a little whiff of disapproval of fiction. If I say I'm staying home and reading a biography of William Randolph Hearst, you would think I was one kind of person. If I said I was staying home reading Heartburn by Nora Ephron, you would think I was another kind of person. I think that's where the chick-lit moniker comes from, which I find a bit offensive...