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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2023 17:56:21 GMT
Dangerous Liaisons.
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Post by dsbeadle on Apr 13, 2023 22:48:57 GMT
The godfather Apocalypse Now Blade runner
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Post by jeffersoncody on Apr 14, 2023 4:22:46 GMT
The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a brilliant adaptation of Milan Kundera's supposedly "unfilmable" novel. ![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/films/f5bde7f40764659ed929c9b5084e4210/KRE057aFxKLtffTA6Q4u4DuCEzZYq6_large.jpg)
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Post by jeffersoncody on Apr 14, 2023 4:55:55 GMT
Irving is one of my favorites, too. Read, saw and loved the first two. Never got around to HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE. Maybe one of these days. I'm so far behind, it's a bit overwhelming. Anyway, I'm glad to see another Irving fan. I seem to recall that petrolino is a big fan of his, too. Yes, I think he had (or still has) a quote by Irving as his profile signature. While HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE is a weak film, the book is absolutely stunning. Have you seen THE DOOR IN THE FLOOR - which is based on the first section of A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR? I love John Irving's books. My favorites are IN ONE PERSON and the dense, sprawling, tattoo-strewn, unforgettable UNTIL I FIND YOU. I would dearly love to see screen or cable TV adaptations, but I don't think anybody in Hollywood would have the balls to film these novels. Also, cinemagoers in this sickeningly politically correct age would struggle with the content. But wow, they are sensitive, shocking, sexually charged and sensational novels. If UNTIL I FIND YOU was filmed, I always thought Viggo Mortensen would have made a great (movie star who was sexually abused by a maid when he was a boy) Jack Burns - he's too old now, but my dream would be to see Johnny Depp make his comeback in the supporting role of Jack's missing father, Williams Burns - a church organist who is addicted to being tattooed. I say Depp was burn to play William Burns. At least I can still dream. ![](https://ia801401.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/32/items/l_covers_0008/l_covers_0008_38.tar&file=0008384953-L.jpg)
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Post by Pippen on Apr 14, 2023 5:01:41 GMT
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Post by SixOfTheRichest on Apr 14, 2023 5:01:50 GMT
Yes, I think he had (or still has) a quote by Irving as his profile signature. While HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE is a weak film, the book is absolutely stunning. Have you seen THE DOOR IN THE FLOOR - which is based on the first section of A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR? I love John Irving's books. My favorites are IN ONE PERSON and the dense, sprawling, tattoo-strewn, unforgettable UNTIL I FIND YOU. I would dearly love to see screen or cable TV adaptations, but I don't think anybody in Hollywood would have the balls to film these novels. Also, cinemagoers in this sickeningly politically correct age would struggle with the content. But wow, they are sensitive, shocking, sexually charged and sensational novels. If UNTIL I FIND YOU was filmed, I always thought Viggo Mortensen would have made a great (movie star) Jack Burns - he's too old now, but my dream would be to see Johnny Depp make his comeback in the supporting role of Jack's missing father, Williams Burns - a church organist who is addicted to being tattooed. I say Depp was burn to play William Burns. At least I can still dream.
I loved watching The World According To Garp, but struggled with Hotel New Hampshire. Couldn't ever bring myself to watch it again despite the cast. It was just flat and strange. George Roy Hill got the black tone right in his film.
I have read Cider House Rules in its entirety and thought it was quite brilliant, except for the distorted pro-circumcision stance Irving took. Pleased this was jettisoned from the excellent movie. I have read majority of Garp, but just found it too much toward the end and way too discombobulated would be a perfect word to describe the narrative.
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Post by SixOfTheRichest on Apr 14, 2023 5:03:56 GMT
The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a brilliant adaptation of Milan Kundera's supposedly "unfilmable" novel. Loved the title, never got the film. I wasn't relating to it.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Apr 14, 2023 6:26:20 GMT
The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a brilliant adaptation of Milan Kundera's supposedly "unfilmable" novel. Loved the title, never got the film. I wasn't relating to it. I adore THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING, an intimate epic, it is so erotic. And Juliette Binoche's Tereza reminds me so much of the fascinating and lovely woman I have loved on and off nearly my whole adult life. Of course, there was a Sabina too - only more lascivious, and, like Day Lewis's Tomas it took me a while to commit to the long run with the only woman I have ever really loved with all my heart and soul.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2023 7:01:52 GMT
Yes, I think he had (or still has) a quote by Irving as his profile signature. While HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE is a weak film, the book is absolutely stunning. Have you seen THE DOOR IN THE FLOOR - which is based on the first section of A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR? I love John Irving's books. My favorites are IN ONE PERSON and the dense, sprawling, tattoo-strewn, unforgettable UNTIL I FIND YOU. I would dearly love to see screen or cable TV adaptations, but I don't think anybody in Hollywood would have the balls to film these novels. Also, cinemagoers in this sickeningly politically correct age would struggle with the content. But wow, they are sensitive, shocking, sexually charged and sensational novels. If UNTIL I FIND YOU was filmed, I always thought Viggo Mortensen would have made a great (movie star who was sexually abused by a maid when he was a boy) Jack Burns - he's too old now, but my dream would be to see Johnny Depp make his comeback in the supporting role of Jack's missing father, Williams Burns - a church organist who is addicted to being tattooed. I say Depp was burn to play William Burns. At least I can still dream. ![](https://ia801401.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/32/items/l_covers_0008/l_covers_0008_38.tar&file=0008384953-L.jpg)
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![](https://images.randomhouse.com/cover/9780676977172) No, I haven't seen The Door In The Floor. I've added it to my watch-list. Thanks for the recommendation. But I have seen Simon Birch (1998), which is loosely based on A Prayer For Owen Meany, another one of his masterpieces. . I've read most of his novels except for The Last Chairlift because I somehow got stuck into the preceding one, Avenue of Mysteries. His books are flaming pleas for minorities and their human rights. Therefore, they are difficult to be filmed without violating political correctness. I agree with you on that. Btw, Irving was the reason why I tried to learn English because I wanted to read his books in their original language, which is quite a challenge.
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Post by spiderwort on Apr 14, 2023 12:46:10 GMT
Oh, I didn't remember that this was first a novel. I always think of it as only being Christopher Hampton's play. Thanks for the reminder.
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Post by spiderwort on Apr 14, 2023 12:49:22 GMT
I love this film, Pippen, and now I want to read the book. When I looked up the author, Dick King-Smith, I found that he wrote another book that became a film I also love:
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Post by SixOfTheRichest on Apr 14, 2023 14:47:16 GMT
Loved the title, never got the film. I wasn't relating to it. I adore THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING, an intimate epic, it is so erotic. And Juliette Binoche's Tereza reminds me so much of the fascinating and lovely woman I have loved on and off nearly my whole adult life. Of course, there was a Sabina too - only more lascivious, and, like Day Lewis's Tomas it took me a while to commit to the long run with the only woman I have ever really loved with all my heart and soul. I don't connect with hetero romances, nor their relationships for the most part. I am too far advanced to think a woman will make me whole. I like some breeder film depictions. I have always liked 9/12 Weeks for some reason.
I like films too when the relationships fall apart and there is suffering all round. What the breeder does to each other gives me some sadistic glee.
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Post by Teleadm on Apr 14, 2023 16:26:22 GMT
Think it was Patricia Highsmith's first novel, and picked up by Alfred Hitchcock... ![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81IrnVRfAmL.jpg) ![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNWJjOGM4NmEtNDE2YS00OGEyLTkwZWItMGM4YzdhZDZhMzNhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMDI2NDg0NQ@@._V1_.jpg)
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 14, 2023 16:45:51 GMT
Think it was Patricia Highsmith's first novel, and picked up by Alfred Hitchcock... Very cryptic blurb on that second poster: "You'll Be in the Grip of Love's Strangest Trip!"
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Post by Bluesman on Apr 14, 2023 17:04:19 GMT
I love this movie and the book on which it's based - a major influence on my becoming a vegetarian!
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