CategoryFILM AND TV

The series adaptation of Garth Risk Hallbergs bestselling novel, City on Fire, premieres on Apple TV+ today, so we asked Hallberg about the uncanny experience of seeing his book come to life, handing over the creative reins (with a license to kibitz), ingenious acts of translation, and more. * How does it feel to see your characters and story come to life on screen?Theres that scene at the end of...

Today, celebrities tell their stories in memoirs as a duty forced on them by their agents and their fans. They can publish them to supplement a thriving career or to give a declining career a boost with the allure of finally-let-it-all-hang-out details. Sometimes a memoir launches a career all on its own, as in the case of Frank McCourts Angelas Ashes. Regardless of its purpose, however, every...

The Eight Mountains is a skilled adaptation of Paolo Cognettis 2016 novel that adheres strictly to both the books tone and the authors intent, with nary the kind of adjustments that might anger devoted readers. Filmmaker Felix van Groeningen (The Broken Circle Breakdown) and actress Charlotte Vandermeersch, in her directorial debut, skillfully translate the lauded book, winner of Italys Strega...

Across Asia on the Cheap: A Complete Guide to Making the Overland Trip began life in 1973 as a sheaf of mimeographed pages stapled together into a pocket-sized booklet, which was passed around by hand in the counter-cultural enclaves of Sydney, Australia. The guide helped readers navigate the hippy trail that led from Europe through Turkey, Iran, and Afghanistan, down into the Indian...

No animal was harmed serves a taxonomic purpose, separating the two principal film genres, fiction and documentary. Why arent similar reassurances applied to human beings?Akira Lippit, The Death of an Animal* Akira Lippit continues this thought by reference to the prolific representation of violence against men and women in fiction films and suggests that the human counterpoint to this disclaimer...

May 2, 2023, 1:25pm Does Taika Waititiever sleep? It seems like every other week brings news that the Oscar-winning New Zealander has attached himself to another Hollywood project. Time Bandits, Interior Chinatown, The Incal, Thor 6: OMGods, some Glup ShittoStar Wars nonsense…the list goes on. How does this man find the time, or the energy, to work on a half dozen major Hollywood projects...

For tens of thousands of years, human beings have been using fictional devices to shape their worlds and communicate with one another. Four thousand years ago they began writing down these stories, and a great flourishing of human achievement began. We know it today as literature, a term broad enough to encompass everything from ancient epic poetry to contemporary novels. How did literature...

Every month, all the major streaming services add a host of newly acquired (or just plain new) shows, movies, and documentaries into their ever-rotating libraries. So whats a dedicated reader to watch? Well, whatever you want, of course, but the name of this website is Literary Hub, so we sort of have an angle. To that end, heres a selection of the best (and most enjoyably bad) literary film and...

Dont worry about the class. You just concentrate on getting well. The class will still be there when you come back. Though this statement might read like an email from a kind faculty member to a student sick with COVID-19, it actually hails from a much more historically distant source: the hit television series Murder, She Wrote (1984-1996). In this episode, the shows heroinethe substitute...