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...

Comments

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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.

[marri.livejournal.com]

Ohmygod. Oh. Mahgawd. OHMAGAWD!

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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!