Literary Movies

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With Fall and the new school year, also comes the Serious Movie Season (yay!!). Get out your handkerchiefs! All these look rather promising

Here's the first trailer for Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones on Apple.com (hasn't Peter Jackson got thin!).

The Time Traveller's Wife opens this week. I adored this book and had the usual concerns about a movie adaptation, but the trailer made me tear up; that's not all that difficult, but still..

And then there's Jane Campion's movie about the relationship between Keats and Fannie Brawne. Of course we know it's not going to end well...

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Heart. Beating. Faster.

Seriously, the Keats thing looks like good drippy fun, and Ms. Campion knows her way around an image, that's for sure. I notice that Paul Schneider is in the movie in a small part. I've always found him attractive and convincing.

The Lovely Bones looks better on film that it seemed to look in print. The story may be enriched by Jackson's grandiose imagery. I also see fantastic actors: Kevin Bacon, Susan Sarandon, Rachel Weisz, Saorsise Ronan (I think I spelled that wrong).

The Time Traveller's Wife is at the Capitol 6 as of Friday. I have plans through the weekend, but I could go next week (Monday? Tuesday?) if you're interested.

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ooh! ooh! Yeah, sure!! That would be great. Either Monday or Tuesday would be fine.

I wasn't wild about the book of LB - the movie looks a bit more new-agey, but also more suspenseful. That was one of those annoying trailers that seems to give away too much.

The Jane Campion was well received at Cannes.

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Ohmygod. Oh. Mahgawd. OHMAGAWD!

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Okay, shall get back to you. Isn't the girl who plays Fanny luscious?

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Yes, that's how I meant to put it. Or it could be put this way: thump thump, me like.

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I kind of want to molest Keats

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I suspect that any resistance would be of the charmingly token variety.

I would agree.

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And I know just where he's waiting for me.

http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/keats.htm

Peanut Gallery

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I was a little repulsed by The Lovely Bones as a novel - I thought it sucked hard & was self-righteous. But the movie makes it look amazing and far more emotionally involved than the novel! I was pissed that Ryan Gosling left the cast (Walberg replaced him), but despite lacking Gosling it looks really great.

The preview for The Time Traveller's Wife actually turned me off of the prospect of reading the book - I LOVE Rachel McAdams, but I cannot tolerate Eric Bana. Everything about him irritates me so hard, even his stupid face.

OH MY GOD THE GUY WHO IS KEATS IS THE DUDE FROM PERFUME!!! BONER ALERT!!!!! FUUUUUUU-
I will totally see this. The preview is super lame what with the voice-over, but I LOVE THAT DUDE, and it seems like he will make an amazing Keats.

Thanks for the movie post! :D I never would've checked out The Lovely Bones or Bright Star if I hadn't seen them here!

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Always happy to be of service, and anyway you know how I feel about Keats.

Yeah, I think The Lovely Bones looks like it might be a better movie than it was a book.

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Yes, very - it's hard to imagine meek little Keats ("little Johnny Keats" as Kim Blank always used to refer to him) pulling such a ripe birdy.

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Hey - hands off. He's MINE I tell you MINE (or I might consider a menage a trois with Fanny...)

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I never read the LB book, but I'm excited that it has Mark Wahlberg in it, and that will probably even make me see it in a theatre instead of waiting for the DVD.

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Can I pull a Byron and watch through the keyhole?

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heh ;-)

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Wow, I had to watch it again to see that it wasn't Kevin Bacon but Mark Walberg. I wish it was Bacon because I think he's great, but I'll give Walberg a chance. Kind of glad it's not Gosling, actually. I really like him, but I'm not sure he'd be right for this.

I haven't seen Eric Bana in much, except that he was in what is for me Spielberg's best movie, Munich, and I thought he was good in that.

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Chick fight!

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I think the Keats guy was also in I'm not There as one of the "bobs."

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YES! He was indeed, and he was also amazing in that.

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After seeing the preview, I have to agree that Wahlberg looks like he will suit the role quite well. In the preview they show the father in some of the pivotal scenes (and better scenes in the novel), and Wahlberg does them pretty darn well, in my opinion.