Submitted by thebookstudio on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 11:29am 
Where the Wild Things Are
Some people love the new Spike Jonze movie "Where the Wild Things Are," others... not so much. For a different perspective, here's a 2004 interview Bill Moyers conducted with Maurice Sendak - "an unexpectedly candid interview that reveals the surprisingly dark influences at play in his complex work."
Did you see the movie, read the book?
Submitted by Bethanne on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 8:30pm
Seen the Oscar-Winning Movie?
You can probably guess what I’m going to say: Now read the book!!!We all know that “Slumdog Millionaire” swept the Oscars, and Slumdog Fever seems to be sweeping America, too: The strains of the film’s final song, “Jai Ho,” are all over the airwaves right now. (By the way, did you know that “Jai Ho” means “May you be victorious?” Yeah, me neither, until I read it here.)
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Submitted by Bethanne on Fri, 01/09/2009 - 3:27pm
Page to Screen: "The Reader"
Today's video is of WETA's "Around Town" critic Jane Horwitz reviewing "The Reader," a recently released film starring Kate Winslet as a German woman whose past is definitely prologue. Horowitz loved Winslet's performance, but took issue with one of the movie's main points: that one woman's struggle with stories led to her job as a death-camp guard.
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Submitted by Bethanne on Mon, 12/22/2008 - 3:16pm
The Curious Case of the Adapted Short Story
It's holiday week, and you know what that means -- lots of us will be going to the movies!
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Submitted by Bethanne on Mon, 07/28/2008 - 10:44pm
Adaptation Trepidation
I knew it wouldn't be the same. I knew I'd never feel the same frisson as I did when Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews gamboled across the small screen as Charles and Sebastian in the ITV mini-series of Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited.
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Submitted by Bethanne on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 11:45pm
Two Posts about Summer Movies from My Other Blog
Most of you probably know, from links or from my bio or from me, that I write a blog for Publishers Weekly called The Book Maven. (That's my photo from over there; it should be captioned "Once upon a time...")
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