The Book & the Movie: A Man Asleep / Georges Perec, 1967 | Un homme qui dort / The Man Who Sleeps / Bernard Queysanne, 1974
“It is a life without surprises. You sleep, you walk, you continue to live. Like a laboratory rat abandoned in...
The Book and the Movie
The Book and the Movie: Shoot the Piano Player | David Goodis, 1956 / François Truffaut, 1960
“But you know, it is a curious thing – what you do yesterday is always part of what you are...
The Book & the Movie: The Collector / John Fowles, 1963 | William Wyler, 1965
“You don’t know what being alone is.” John Fowles, The Collector, 1963 “People won't admit it, they're too busy...
The Book & the Movie: The Incredible Shrinking Man | Jack Arnold / Richard Matheson (1957)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) Director: Jack Arnold Writers: Richard Matheson (screenplay) Stars: Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent Horror...
The Book & the Movie: A Taste of Honey | Shelagh Delaney / Tony Richardson (1961)
A Taste of Honey (1958) is the first play by the British dramatist Shelagh Delaney, written when she was 18....
The Book and the Movie: Le feu follet / Will O’ the Wisp | Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, 1931 / Louis Malle, 1963
"Alain gave a long, hollow laugh. Never had he such a precise feeling of his impotence. For him, the world...
The Book and the Movie: Young Man With A Horn | Dorothy Baxter (1938) / Michael Curtiz (1950)
''He opened the trumpet case, took the trumpet respectfully in hand, and fitted the mouthpiece into place. He held it...
The Book & the Movie: The Night of the Hunter | Davis Grubb, 1953 / Charles Laughton, 1955
Harry Powers was a convicted serial killer who was hanged in Moundsville, West Virginia, in 1932. He lured his victims through...
The Book and the Movie: Mouchette | Georges Bernanos / Robert Bresson, 1966
“ You know that on any other day you’d be pulling faces already. But today your heart’s asleep. Don’t try...
The book and the movie: Les Enfants Terribles / The Holy Terrors | Jean Cocteau, 1929 / Jean-Pierre Melville, 1950
Jean Cocteau, Les enfants terribles (The Holy Terrors), 1929 “At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be...