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...purist, movie adaptations of novels are the equivalent of glorified book jackets, adaptations of comic books might be no-brainers: with the visuals already on paper, Hollywood writers and directors get to bypass the harder and, often, more imaginative steps of screen translation. But shortcutting is too often to the detriment of the films, not to mention unfair to their parent comics—the X-Men and Spiderman movies being among the rare exceptions. Hellboy, is another dark horse in this inked-up Hollywood universe, a steam-train of an adaptation that stays vividly faithful to the comic book...
...salient lesson in adapting books for film. In an age when words can be too slavishly followed on screen, In My Father's Den is neither better nor worse than the novel, but in every sense equal to it. It's a case of a filmmaker traveling far to get close to a literary classic...
Chontosh sets up a command post in the sand and lights a cigarette. "It's time for a defensive mind-set now," he says, settling back to await the insurgents' reaction. On a screen with a live satellite feed, he monitors movement in the surrounding area. There isn't much to see. Word from headquarters is that communications intercepts suggest the insurgents thought this was in fact the big showdown and had congregated in the middle of the city. But other than random bursts of small-arms fire, which is met with heavy fusillades, there is little action...
HAVE YOU SUGGESTED THAT THE WHITE HOUSE SCREEN THE FILM? I suggested it to Condi Rice...
Steve Jobs, ceo of Apple, argues that people won't watch movies on (very) small screens. Other companies are betting they will. So, will the new set of portable video players (PVPS), or "video iPods," that are flooding the market catch on like Apple's music gizmo? The Gmini400 from Archos, the French electronics company, speaks well for the pvp's future: the smallest such device, it can store as much as 80 hours of video and 200,000 digital photos, and lets the user play video games--all on a 2.2-in. color lcd screen. At $399, the Gmini400...