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Best Adapted Screenplay: 2022
“Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear.” (p 295, tr. A.W. Wheen) My Top 10...
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Best Adapted Screenplay: 2021
“I like to be in America” My Top 10 West Side Story Nightmare Alley Cyrano The Power of the Dog Dune: Part One Spider-Man: No Way Home The Tragedy of Macbeth The Lost Daughter The Last Duel Shiva Baby...
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Best Adapted Screenplay: 2020
“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.” (opening line) My Top 10 The Personal History of David Copperfield...
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Best Adapted Screenplay: 2019
My Top 10 Little Women Jojo Rabbit Toy Story 4 Avengers: Endgame The Man Who Killed Don Quixote A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood The Two Popes Les Miserables Captain Marvel Spider-Man: Far from...
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Best Adapted Screenplay: 2018
“I hope that nobody has ever had to look at anybody they love through glass.” (p 4) My Top 10 If Beale Street Could Talk First Man BlacKkKlansman A Star is Born Black Panther Paddington 2 Incredibles...
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Best Adapted Screenplay: 2017
” ‘I just played it the way Liszt would have played it had he jimmied around with it.’ ‘Just play it again, please!’ I liked the way he feigned exasperation. So I started to play the piece again.” (p...
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Best Adapted Screenplay: 2015
“Therese waited. Then as she was about to go to her, Carol saw her, seemed to stare at her incredulously a moment while Therese watched the slow smile growing, before her arm lifted suddenly, her...
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Best Adapted Screenplay: the second half-century
Watch it and read it. They’re both magnificent. I already did the first half of this post and after I started the blog again was asked if I would ever cover the second half. The point of this is things...
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Best Adapted Screenplay: 2014
The book doesn’t use a framing device. But it has a lot of math. Unless you’re a math student, I recommend the film. My Top 10 The Imitation Game Gone Girl Inherent Vice Still Alice Paddington Into the...
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Best Adapted Screenplay: 2013
I have no interest in reading anything this man has written. My Top 10 The Wolf of Wall Street 12 Years a Slave Philomena Blue is the Warmest Color The Wind Rises August: Osage County The Hobbit: The...
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Best Adapted Screenplay: 2012
My Top 10 “I am President of the United States, clothed with immense power, and I expect you to procure those votes.” (p 697) Lincoln Argo Anna Karenina Skyfall The Dark Knight Rises Silver Linings...
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The Best Endings
Best Film Endings (not including credits, songs or lines listed below) 1931: City Lights 1938: Bringing Up Baby 1939: The Wizard of Oz 1961: One, Two, Three 1969: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance...
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Best Adapted Screenplay: 2011
“Smiley shrugged it all aside, distrustful as ever of the standard shapes of human motive, and settled instead for a picture of one of those wooden Russian dolls that open up, revealing one person...
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Great Read: If Beale Street Could Talk
If Beale Street Could Talk Author: James Baldwin Published: 1974 Publisher: The Dial Press Pages: 197 First Line: “I look at myself in the mirror.” Last Lines: “Fanny is working on the wood, on...
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Great Read: Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs Author: Walter Isaacson Published: 2011 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pages: 630 First Line: “When Paul Jobs was mustered out of the Coast Guard after World War II, he made a wager...
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Best Adapted Screenplay: 2010
“You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you’re going to go through life thinking that girls don’t like you because you’re a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of...
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Best Adapted Screenplay: 2009
The most memorable moment in the film – described in the book but not with dialogue. My Top 10 An Education Up in the Air A Single Man Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince The Informant Precious...
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Best Adapted Screenplay: 2008
Actually, it is only written in the screenplay. The book is very different. My Top 10 Slumdog Millionaire The Dark Knight Revolutionary Road Doubt OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies Let the Right One In The...
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Best Adapted Screenplay: 2007
“And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there....
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Best Adapted Screenplay: 2006
Nothing Wahlberg says in the film is anything like the dialogue in the original film but damn it’s brilliant. My Top 10 The Departed Children of Men Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story The Prestige...
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