<p>On the historical note: </p>
<p>Guadalcanal Diary based loosely on Richard Tregaskis’s book of the same name; A Bridge Too Far (Cornelius Ryan); HBO’s or was it History Channel’s “Band of Brothers” (Stephen Ambrose).</p>
<p>Ken Burn’s/PBS Civil War series, from original source materials.</p>
<p>(sigh) Maybe I am biased, but I am yet to see a Hollywood movie where Russia looks somewhat authentic. Dr Zhivago was no exception. On the other hand I never liked the novel( in my opinion prose writing was not Pasternak’s strength) . So it’s all just as well. I am also yet to see an adaptation of Count of Monte Cristo which is true to the book.</p>
<p>Did not read whole thread so may be repeating: The Remains of the Day is an A+</p>
<p>Ha ha- I just remembered a movie I drug my then boyfriend to ( its over three hours long)
[Dedicated</a> to Sharon Tate](<a href=“http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080009/]Dedicated”>Tess (1979) - IMDb)</p>
<p>I didn’t see Little Women mentioned. I loved the version that has Winona Ryder as Jo, Kirsten Dunst as Amy, Clair Danes as Beth, Susan Saranden as Marmie–can’t remember who played Meg!!!</p>
<p>Why is Tess dedicated to Sharon Tate?</p>
<p>I enjoyed visiting the Alcott House in Concord last summer. There are sketches on the walls - very fun. </p>
<p>I added Julia, The Remains of the Day and A Bridge too Far to my queue.</p>
<p>Tess is dedicated to Sharon Tate because Roman Polanski directed it not so long after Tate, his wife, was murdered by Charles Manson and “family”.</p>
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The director, Roman Polanski was married to her. I had always thought the untimely fate of both Tess and Tate suggested the dedication, but according to Wikipedia: "“Tate had read Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles during her final stay with Polanski in London, and had left the book for him to read, with the comment that it would be a good story for them to film together.”</p>
<p>Kollegkid:</p>
<p>If you watch Julia, you may like to know that Lillian Hellman was accused of stealing from the memoirs of Muriel Gardiner and passing her experience as her own in Pentimento. It was the basis for Mary McCarthy’s accusation that every word Lillian Hellman wrote was a lie, including “the” and “and.”
Speaking of these two writers, I believe that McCarthy’s The Group was made into a movie; Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man were also made into movies.</p>
<p>Among Henry James’ works, did anyone bring up The Turn of the Screw?</p>
<p>Anyone here brought up “Jean de Florette” and “Manon of the Spring” directed by Claude Berri? The two films (should have been just one that goes four hours) was based on Marcel Pagnol’s “L’Eau des Collines”. Pagnol is better known as a film maker and playwright than as a fiction writer. As such, I enjoyed the the film version quite a bit.</p>
<p>Padad:</p>
<p>I should have mentioned those films! Pagnol also wrote a story that was made into a film, La Guerre des Boutons, about boys from different communities who wage war among themselves by cutting off the buttons that keep their trousers up (obviously from before zippers!) It was charming; I believe it was remade into an English-language film. In France, he is considered a regional writer (about the South).</p>
<p>It’s funny: I just realized that no one had yet mentioned The Ten Commandments, Prince of Egypt, or The Passion of the Christ – three well-known films based pretty clearly on some very highly-regarded literature.</p>
<p>Not to mention Troy (probably no one should mention it).</p>
<p>Also, has anyone mentioned Fellini’s Satyricon? Or Pasolini’s trilogy of The Decameron, Canterbury Tales, and Arabian Nights? (I’ve never seen those.)</p>
<p>EDIT: Yes to the Claude Berri Pagnol films! I’ve never read the books though. Didn’t he write Fanny and Marius as well? I remember all my friends who took French reading Marius as the second French book they were assigned. (Speaking of which, there HAS to be a movie of Le Petit Prince somewhere.)</p>
<p>Yes, Pagnol wrote Fanny and Marius. They’re the books that made him famous.</p>
<p>Padad, I think it’s “Manon des sources”. My D French class showed these movies last year.</p>
<p>Michener’s Tales of the South Pacific and the film *South Pacific<a href=“although%20not%20the%20best%20film%20musical”>/I</a></p>
<p>Uris’ Exodus and the movie.</p>
<p>It is hard to believe that everyone missed the Bible, of all books. </p>
<p>For non-classic books, how about The Da Vinci Code? The Bourne Identity, et al?</p>
<p>tooRich, Yes but I am using the title of the films as shown in the US.</p>
<p>Pagnol died the year I was in France and they showed a couple of films made from his books Marius, Fanny and Cesar - all made in the 1930s. The Marseilles accent was hard to follow in Marius!</p>
<p>Little Women and Little Men</p>
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<p>Post 52. The Da Vinci Code was a pale simulacrum of Follett and le Carre, but The Bourne Identity was pretty good.</p>
<p>(Leonardo da Vinci literally means “Leonardo of Vinci.” So, the title of the book is “of Vinci Code.” Pretty dumb, really. It should have been “The Leonardo Code.” Not that this is the worst thing about the book.)</p>