Wow…swamped with my last semester in MLS. I found this list to be interesting.. so figure I’ll write a quick update. I don’t imagine that I have time to go to the movie to watch these movies.. but when it comes to DVD possibly. Although I wonder.
SEPT 26 – Limited release
OCT 03 — Wide release
Movie Title: Blindness
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Starring: Jullianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo
Based on: Blindness by Jose Saramago
OCT 03
Movie title: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
Director: Robert B. Weide
Starring: Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Danny Huston, Megan Fox, Jeff Bridges
Based on: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young
DEC 5
Movie Title: Youth in Revolt — no trailer yet
Director: Miguel Arteta
Starring: Michael Cera, Justin Long, Steve Buscemi, Ray Liotta
Based on: Youth in Revolt by C.D. Payne
DEC 19
Movie title: Yes Man
Director: Peyton Reed
Starring: Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel
Based on: Yes Man by Danny Wallace, 2005
DEC 26 – Limited release
Movie title: Revolutionary Road
Yates biographer Blake Bailey looks at the rocky road from book to movie: Slate, 6/26/08
Director: Sam Mendes (American Beauty)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio — Frank Wheeler, Kate Winslet — April Wheeler
Based on: Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
FEB 6, ‘09
Film Title: Coraline
Director: Henry Selick
Animated, featuring the voices of: Dakota Fanning, Ian McShane, Teri Hatcher
Based on the book: Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Filed under: Trends/News
Coraline looks pretty good; it’s amazing how many big name actors they get for these animated flicks
It should be…. I actually wouldn’t mind seeing it.. but it seems that The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is getting rave reviews… and there is a read-alike book in the The Confessions of Max Tivoli.