Word: novelizations
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...Came In from the Cold A realist's corrective to the first flush of Bondomania, this intelligent 1965 film of the John le Carré novel saw the Cold War as a bitter stalemate in shades of gray. Richard Burton and Oskar Werner are the rival agents whose complex loyalties run into a Berlin Wall...
...hear over and over about the federal bailout of the financial industry. But what tends not to be said is that it is our tax dollars--yours and mine--that will be doing the work. A friend of mine mentioned a novel proposal: the executives of these financial companies who are getting federal dollars should not make any more than the $400,000 that we pay the President of the United States. After all, the President works for the American citizen, and now the American citizen is bailing out the high-flying executives of these financial-service companies that squandered...
...attempt to escape European civilization in search a pre-civilization good life in Tahiti. There is the sadly romantic story of the dwarfen Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, who would frequent the Moulin Rouge to pine after the beautiful, tall dancer Jane Avril.But Daniel Kehlmann, the author of the novel, “Me & Kaminski,” disputes whether one can reduce an artist’s life to such stories. Kehlmann embarks on an ambitious project to chronicle the process of creating a new iconic figure for the 21st century, ultimately finding it to be a futile endeavor. The book...
...Striped Pajamas” seems a strangely pleasant name for a film about the Holocaust, and yet such paradox is consistent with the movie as a whole. Based on the novel by John Boyne, it reveals the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp through the eyes of a naïve German boy. Throughout the film, the juxtaposition of childhood innocence with the unbelievable atrocities committed by the Nazis during Word War II facilitates poignant reflection on the divisions created by racism and torn down by friendship.Bruno (Asa Butterfield) is the eight-year-old son of a Nazi Captain (David...
Alright, so you have a problem set due tomorrow, an essay to write on a novel that you didn’t read and that isn’t listed on Sparknotes, and you’re entirely convinced that Facebook must be checked every five minutes. Perhaps you’d like some music to get you through what’s shaping up to be an all-nighter. Might I suggest experimental electronic band The Fireman’s latest release, “Electric Arguments?” Because here’s the thing: no matter...