Quand la caméra, plutôt que d'être un stylo, est un couteau de boucher
Books are most usually better than their relevant, derivative movies. Books let you imagine the settings and the events happening in the stories. They are also more detailed than movies because movies sometimes must leave out some important details. Movies tend to last about two hours, while book readng takes time and lasts longer. There are cases in which it would really be impossible for Hollywood to work miracles. For example, Tennessee Williams was a great writer @Streetcar Named Desire, but he wrote a number of bad books that no director, however good, could possibly rescue.
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- DirectorZina ModianoStarsOuassini EmbarekMarie ModianoClaire NadeauHenry James' notebook entry describes the title story of this collection as " a rank fantasy". This should have been a very funny fantasy, satirizing celebrities of all sorts. The Wheel of Time is a more serious book.This, however, is impossible to abridge as a synopsis: various folk congregate at a well-appointed country house – somewhere between an artistic salon, a writers' retreat, and a gathering of pals. Mildly surreal shenanigans ensue, a bit Bunuel, a bit Rivette; one of the more unusual, weird and ultimately original literary adaptations.
- DirectorJane CampionStarsNicole KidmanJohn MalkovichBarbara HersheyAn American girl inherits a fortune and falls into a misguided relationship with a gentleman confidence artist whose true nature, including a barbed and covetous disposition, turns her life into a nightmare.I agree with the user who describes this travesty as ¨a hodgepodge of bits and pieces, wrong approaches, anachronisms and undeveloped narrative plot lines, which converge to make a most unsatisfactory adaptation and a completely twisted view of the heroine, Isabel Archer.¨
- DirectorJonathan ParkerStarsNoah WyleIlleana DouglasKate MaraCaught between Olive's righteousness and Gavin's affection, the idealistic and innocent Zoe must choose between a cause she's grown up supporting, or the affections of a man who stands for everything she believes is wrong."The Californians" is director Jonathan Parker's attempt to update Henry James' "The Bostonians" as a socially relevant romantic comedy. Leaden, obvious, somnambulant & unfunny.
- DirectorGeorge D. BakerStarsGeorge WalshBessie LoveCarmel MyersPoet Raphael de Valentin is down on his luck until a friend introduces him into society. He meets the Countess Fedora, and after she reads his poems, his work becomes an overnight sensation.Balzac never for a second imagined when he wrote "La Peau de Chagrin," that it would be presented years afterward in film form under the title of "Slave of Desire." It may be that the producers realizing the liberties they have taken with the author's story, decided to call it by a new name, the English one being, "The Wild Ass's Skin."
- DirectorDuane GravesJustin MeeksStarsAli FaulknerJohnny WalterDerek Lee NixonA birthday celebration at a fancy restaurant leads to some friends' encounter with flesh-peddling cannibals.Supposedly inspired by Jonathan Swift's cannibalistic tale A Modest Proposal, the Boneboys are international predators who deal in human flesh - dead or alive. Their hunting grounds are the cities of the world. No further comments.
- DirectorWagner de AssisPablo UrangaStarsDeborah SeccoLuigi BaricelliIlya São PauloRita is about to marry a wealthy physician, Dr. Augusto Vilela. One night, Vilela's best friend, Camilo, is brought to the hospital, dying from an overdose. Vilela saves his life and introduces him to his fiancée. Rita and Camilo fall in love and, confused about what to do, the girl goes to a fortuneteller to seek for advice.
- DirectorMoacyr GóesStarsMarcos PalmeiraMaria Fernanda CândidoBruno GarciaFree adaptation of Machado de Assis's "Dom Casmurro". Bento marries an actress, and soon afterwards she gets pregnant. He begins to suspect the child isn't his, but his best friend's.This one made Machado de Assis roll in his grave. Horrible dialogue and corny acting.
- DirectorNelson Pereira dos SantosStarsNildo ParenteIsabel RibeiroArduíno ColassantiA new priest comes to a Brazilian coastal town and builds an insane asylum. Eventually the whole population ends up in the asylum.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065430/reviews?ref_=tttr_ql_op_3
- DirectorJames FrancoStarsJames FrancoTim Blake NelsonScott HazeA look at the trials and tribulations of the Compson family, living in the Deep South during the early 20th century.I agree with critic Matt Hoffman: ¨One can say that Faulkner is unfilmable, but any work will be unfilmable when it is being adapted by a talentless director. In this case, the fault of the film’s issues stem completely from James Franco and not at all with the difficulty in Faulkner’s writing. Hopefully, after two failed outings, the actor will learn to leave Faulkner’s masterful work alone. Although knowing him, I wouldn’t be surprised to see him try his hand at adapting one of the author’s works again.¨
- DirectorJames FrancoStarsJames FrancoTim Blake NelsonJim ParrackBased on the classic novel by William Faulkner, first published in 1930, "As I Lay Dying" is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family's quest to honor her last wish to be buried in the nearby town of Jefferson.James Franco's vanity did not do anything to enhance the cinematic experience. Also, and anyway, as far as filmmaking is concerned, I nearly always demand the use of a tripod, a crane or maybe some rails. Camera movements without a steadicam make me kinda sick.
- DirectorNicolas RoegStarsTim RothJohn MalkovichIsaach De BankoléA trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.A literary massacre
jgcorrea (1 March 2023)
Why do movies usually change things from the original book? Some changes are made because they would supposedly make for better film storytelling, id est something that might work as plot exposition in the book wouldn't work as well if filmed that same way. Well, it ain't the case in here. The present changes created new conflicts for the characters, which weren't there in Conrad's novella. When you read a book, you can interpret the plot and the story to your personal liking and cutural formation. Rather than movies, books allow your mind to be more creative. Furthermore, they are much more detailed. - DirectorSean WalshStarsStephen ReaAngeline BallHugh O'ConorAdapted from James Joyce's Ulysses, Bloom is the enthralling story of June 16th, 1904 and a gateway into the consiousness of its three main characters: Stephen Dedalus, Molly Bloom and the extraordinary Leopold Bloom.I agree with critic Rachel Cameron: ¨Sean Walsh's film remains a mostly dull and uninventive affair. Workaday cinematography and sets devoid of atmosphere don't help, but it's the reliance on voiceovers that really starts to bore: Joyce's famous stream-of-consciousness is reduced to actors wandering about matching thoughtful looks to dense dialogue drawn straight from the page.¨
- DirectorAlexandre AstrucStarsJean-Claude BrialyMarie-José NatDawn AddamsFrédéric, a shy small-town man, falls in love with Anne, a middle class woman married to Didier, who cheats on her with top model Barbara. Catherine, a very determined woman, is secretly in love with Frédéric and in order to keep him away from Anne, pushes him into Barbara's arms. After a while, she gives herself to him. On the other hand, Didier is forced to leave the country due to a swindle. Anne decides to follow him but, before leaving, she exchanges a last kiss with Frédéric. Catherine understands she has lost the game. Frédéric remains by himself.Stick to the Bovary versions available, as far as Flaubertiana is concerned. Astruc was a fine ¨auteur¨ but he stumbled badly here and modernized a literary masterpiece by simplifying it grossly.
- DirectorCarlos Alberto Prates CorreiaStarsNelson DantasTamara TaxmanTânia AlvesAdventurer travels by train through the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, meeting old and new lovers and remembers love-affairs of his youth.from Guimaraes Rosa's Soroco, Sua Mãe, Sua Filha
- DirectorCliff OwenStarsNicky HensonTrevor HowardTerry-ThomasTom Jones, a maid's son adopted by the nobleman she worked for, now all grown up must run away from home when he is set up by his jealous cousin. He has several adventures and women on his way to town where his possible salvation awaits.
- DirectorTony RichardsonStarsAnn-MargretPeter FirthMichael HordernLady Booby alias "Belle" (Ann-Margret), the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby (Peter Bull), has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews (Peter Firth), a Latin pupil and protégé of Parson Adams (Sir Michael Hordern), and makes him their footman. Joseph's heart belongs to a country girl, foundling Fanny Goodwill (Natalie Ogle), but his masters take him on a fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, yet Sir Thomas really seeks relief for his sick foot, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. When the all but grieving lady finds Joseph's Christian virtue and true love resist her lusting passes just as well as the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires the boy. On his way back on foot, he falls prey to highwaymen who rob him of everything, even the clothes on his back. He's found and nursed by an innkeeper's maid, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good Parson. Meanwhile, the lady consents to her cousin marrying below his station when learning the fiancée is Joseph's sister, Pamela (Karen Dotrice). The Parson barely escapes a wicked gentleman's totally unjust, all but gentle justice after being accused of the attempted rape committed by a squire he actually prevented, and comes to learn ever more about a relevant child-theft by Gypsies, but meanwhile, he, Joseph, and Fanny, fall prey again to the rapist's utter debauchery.Henry Fielding was neither Voltaire nor Benny Hill. As his kind of irony was completely different, the notes here sound false.
- DirectorJean-Marie StraubDanièle HuilletStarsHelmut FärberMichel DelahayeGeorges GoldfaynA group of actors declaim excerpts from Mallarmé's 'A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance' in the cemetery where the martyrs of the Paris Commune were shot in 1871.Rather a tasteless joke
- DirectorCarlos Hugo ChristensenJerry WarrenCarlos SchlieperStarsErnesto VilchesJohn CarradineChela BonCompilation of two Chilean titles, the first adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Suicide Club," the second the tale of younger siblings dominated by their evil elder brother.from Stevenson's ¨Suicide Club¨
- DirectorHiroaki YoshidaStarsJeff FaheyBridget FondaHiroaki MurakamiIn Corinth, a dying town 15 miles from Pittsburg: One evening, a Japanese businessman, who wanted to tear down the closed iron mills to build an amusement park, is found half dead in his mill. Bellboy Barry admits to have done it - in self defense. Chief Ruhle interrogates him and Sugito's young wife and business partners, but it takes a while, until he gets through the maze of apparently contradictory statements.from Akutagawa's In a Grove
- DirectorJames ScottStarsRobert LindsayMolly RingwaldMarianne PriceA London accountant on his honeymoon gets swept away by gambling fever.from Graham Greene's Loser Takes All
- DirectorGeorge GalloStarsOrlando JonesEddie GriffinGary GrubbsA man on the run takes another man's passport, only to find himself stuck with the identity of a street hustler.from Graham Greene's Across the Bridge
- DirectorManuel PeluffoStarsAyres CamposMaria de Lourdes LebertJosé Gomesfrom Nelson Rodrigues' lesser trash
- DirectorBilly DavisStarsJece ValadãoOdete LaraLia RossiMillionaire Heitor Wernek asks his son in law Peixoto to look amidst his employees someone that could marry his youngest daughter Maria Cecília, who had her honour disgraced after she was raped by three men.Pure garbage. The original play wasn't that good, though.
- DirectorNeville de AlmeidaStarsAntônio FagundesAna Maria MagalhãesLima DuarteNoronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their four elder daughters. The fifth and youngest one, virginal Silene, is unexpectedly sent back home. Noronha discovers she has been expelled from boarding school for having killed a female cat and her seven newborns in a hysterical fit. Many dark family secrets will emerge from that episode leading to tragic events.How not to transplant a stage play into the silver screen
- DirectorWilliam J. CowenStarsDickie MooreIrving PichelWilliam 'Stage' BoydAn orphan boy in 1830s London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves.Oldie but NOT goodie
- DirectorKostas KaragiannisStarsAliki VougiouklakiAngelos AntonopoulosHaritini KarolouStuck in an unhappy marriage, a famous theatre star summons up the courage to seek happiness and love anew, in the shape of a young lawyer. But, is it love at first sight? Will her decision lead to an ignominious end in the show business?from SOmerset Maugham's play ¨Theatre¨ (Adorable Julia)
- DirectorDavid BurtonStarsCatherine Dale OwenPaul CavanaghTyrell DavisA young woman married into an aristocratic English family finds life with her husband dull and decides to elope with a Canadian. However her mother-in-law, who did something similar thirty years before, tries to prevent her.from S. Maugham's play The Circle. Frank Borzage directed a rather superior version
- DirectorJacques WeberStarsJacques WeberMichel BoujenahEmmanuelle BéartSpain in the mid-seventeenth century. A series of bloody wars has ravaged the nation. Don Juan the nobleman and his valet, Sganarelle, roam the countryside on horseback, on the run and lost. Don Juan promised to marry Donna Elvira and then forsook her. He is such a womanizer - when being saved by a fisherman from ship wreck, he causes two beautiful girls from the fishing village, Mathurine and Charlotte, fighting with each other to win his heart (and yet he never takes them seriously). Alonso and Don Carlos, Donna's brothers, are pursuing him like textbook medieval heroes bent on avenging the insult to their family's honor.from Molière
- DirectorSven Strömerstén HolmStarsPeter HaberRobert GustafssonIng-Marie CarlssonTartuffe, an impostor and seducer, is terrorizing a family.
- DirectorZoltán VárkonyiStarsSándor PécsiÁgi MészárosTivadar UrayMolière's Georges Dandin
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsSophia LorenPeter SellersAlastair SimA millionairess and a doctor cannot marry until they meet conditions set up by their respective parents.from Bernard Shaw
- DirectorGabriel PascalStarsClaude RainsVivien LeighStewart GrangerAt the height of the Roman Civil War, a young Cleopatra (Vivien Leigh) meets a middle-aged Julius Caesar (Claude Rains), who teaches her how to rule Egypt.
- DirectorDan WolmanStarsKatya BergerJean-Pierre AumontYehuda EfroniA beautiful and willful prostitute puts her appearance and body to use to become the toast of the town.
- DirectorGuy FerlandStarsBenjamin BrattMili AvitalBarbara AndresWhen a luxury yacht goes down in a violent storm the race is on to salvage the bounty at any cost, causing two couples to commit the ultimate betrayal.from Hemingway
- DirectorJohn IrvinStarsJack HustonMena SuvariCaterina MurinoA young American writer completes his service in WWI and travels across Europe with his wife and her attractive Italian girlfriend. Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway.
- DirectorGeorgi Yungvald-KhilkevichStarsMikhail BoyarskiyDanila DunaevAlisa FreyndlikhAfter the deaths of d'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis the Queen Anna of Austria has to ask for help of the heroes' sons. They, however, cannot fulfill her request on their own. The original musketeers have to literally return to live and embark on a new adventure.from Vingt Ans Après
- DirectorStephen HerekStarsCharlie SheenKiefer SutherlandChris O'DonnellFrance, 1625: Young d'Artagnan heads to Paris to join the Musketeers but the evil cardinal has disbanded them - save 3. He meets the 3, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, and joins them on their quest to save the king and country.
- DirectorAlan RobertsStarsHarlee McBrideEd QuinlanAdam WestCynthia, new lady of Chatterly, feels neglected by her husband. During his absences she tries to amuse herself with gardener Thomas, but always gets interrupted by new visitors. While she's busy her staff amuses itself. One of her guests is a professor who wants to do research in her land-seat. He's quite repressed, but she knows how to lighten him up.
- DirectorAmy GreenfieldStarsBertram RossJanet EilberAmy Greenfieldfrom Sophocles
- DirectorPietro FrancisciMario BavaStarsSteve ReevesSylva KoscinaGabriele AntoniniWhile negotiating peace between two brothers contesting the throne of Thebes, an amnesiac Hercules is seduced by the evil Queen Omphale.from Sophocles ... (story based on: play "Oedipus at Colonus") &
Aeschylus ... (story based on: play "The Seven Against Thebes")
- DirectorPhil HawkinsStarsMairi HayesWunmi MosakuDavid OnokoponoAfter the fall of Troy to the Greek invading army, the Trojan women weep over their lost city, families, and honor, as they are taken away as Greek slaves.from Euripides
- CreatorDavid FarrStarsLouis HunterChristiaan SchoombieBella DayneRetells the story of the 10 year siege of Troy, which occurred in the 12 or 13th century BC.from Homer
- DirectorCarlos AtanesStarsAntonio VladimirManel SolásArantxa PeñaFree adaptation based on Kafka's "Metamorphose". The action is in Praga occupied by Germans, at home of a Jew family (maybe the Kafka's). Novel's room of G. Samsa is replaced by an enormous library.
- DirectorJochen Alexander FreydankStarsKristina KlebeErwin LederMirjam NovakThe story of a man in his prime who, having seemingly achieved everything, has entrenched himself in his burrow, a fortress-like apartment complex. But no matter how hard he tries to ignore it, there it is: the world outside.from Kafka's The Burrow
- DirectorJean-Marie StraubStarsGiorgio PasseroneBarbara UlrichJean-Marie StraubKafka's Jackals and Arabs
- DirectorJuan BoschStarsChet BakonDiana LorysRoberto CamardielA murder-mystery set in the old wild-west. A wandering gunman/lawman comes to a town in the old west where lawlessness and crime roam.Hammett's Red Harvest
- DirectorArvo KruusementStarsTõnu KarkAarne ÜkskülaRein MalmstenBased on the novel by D. Hemmet "Glass Key". On the eve of the senate elections, the head of the large trust Paul Medvig, the leader of the city mafia, is doing everything to re-elect his man - Senator Henry. However, the unexpected murder of the senator's son confuses Medwig's cards: his employee, formerly a private investigator, Ned Beaumont, returns to the old craft - and undertakes to investigate this case, with clear grounds to consider Henry to be the murderer himself.from Hammett's The Glass Key
- DirectorHans SteinhoffStarsGustaf GründgensKäthe DorschFriedrich KayßlerOscar Wilde adaptation ,a satire of British society, in which the father of a bastard son returns after two decades in India and challenges the son who doesn't know him to a duel over a woman they both want.from Wilde's A Woman of No Importance
- DirectorAllan A. GoldsteinStarsMalcolm McDowellEthan EricksonVictoria SanchezA modern retelling of the Oscar Wilde novel.Wilde's D. Gray
- DirectorYann SamuellStarsAudrey FleurotMichaël YounMichèle LaroqueIn the depths of a British legend, the ghost of Eleanor Canterville is condemned to haunt the castle of his family and to scare away any inhabitant. It fulfills this task perfectly, helped by Gwilherm, his faithful servant. But when Otis, a family fleeing Parisian life, buy the castle, Eleanor is upset because she cannot scare this tribe of the twenty-first century. Worse yet, children ridicule and parents are unaware. Only Virginia Otis, aged fifteen, moved by the fate of Canterville Ghost, will seek to deliver from curse on it.
- DirectorAndreas MorellStarsUdo SamelFriederike KammerDaniel Christensenfrom Ibsen's Ghosts
- DirectorHans SteinhoffStarsHeinrich GeorgeHerbert HübnerFranziska KinzDr. Stockmann discovers that the mineral spring in the spa is polluted by toxic waste. But the affair is hushed because the thriving economy of the resort is in danger. To silence him Stockmann is declared an enemy of the people.from Ibsen's An Enemy of the People
- DirectorPeter ReichhardtStarsTrine AppelJesper HyldegaardMorten Kirkskovfrom Ibsen's Wild Duck
- DirectorMarcello PaglieroStarsPierre BrasseurEleonora Rossi DragoGabriele Ferzettifrom Pirandello
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsMarcello MastroianniClaudia CardinaleLeopoldo TriesteDeranged after a fall from a horse, a man has lived for twenty years in a castle laboring under the delusion that he is Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV. His psychiatrist concocts an elaborate scheme to shock him out of his medieval reverie.from Pirandello
- DirectorEloy de la IglesiaArmando LealStarsAssumpta SernaFernando Guillén CuervoSancho Graciafrom Albert Camus
- DirectorLuis PuenzoStarsWilliam HurtSandrine BonnaireJean-Marc BarrIn the 1990s, a South American city suffers the outbreak of a plague. The people react in different ways: Dr. Rieux tries to cure the sick, two French journalists expect sensational headlines, pious believers lament this God-given scourge.
- DirectorPierre ChevalierStarsArlette DidierOlivier MathotFrançoise Blanchardfrom De Maupassant
- DirectorMichel FerryStarsJohn BerryFrancis BoespflugMarina Golovinefrom Maupassant's masterful Le Horla
- DirectorJohn SmithStarsJohn Smith(laughing out loud)
- DirectorCristiana MirandaStarsFelipe CataldoMag MagrelaEzra PoundThe city of Rio de Janeiro transformed through graffiti and poetry.A private joke on the great French symbolist poet Mallarmé
- CreatorMaria Adelaide AmaralStarsIsabelle DrummondFábio AssunçãoAna Paula ArósioPortrait of the decadent Portuguese aristocracy in the second half of the 19th century, through the tragic history of a traditional Lisbon family.OS MAIAS was a big flop as far as tv audiences are concerned, not because its audience wasn't on the intellectual side, but plainly because it is monotonous, pretentious and too dark. Based on a novel by the great Portuguese writer Eça de Queiros, it was supposed to be a rich, sumptuously textured series. It was indeed very difficult to watch, especially for those who hadn't read the novel. Mind you, I had. Hard it was to follow each chapter.
- DirectorBoris BlankStarsAndrey TashkovYuliya MenshovaMarina BakinaOlga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching but secretly longs for a home and family. Masha, unhappy with her marriage to a timid schoolmaster, falls hopelessly in love with a married colonel. Irina works in the local telegraph office but longs for gaiety. Their sense of futility is increased by their brother's marriage to Natasha, a coarse peasant girl. She gradually encroaches on the family home until even the private refuge of the sisters is destroyed. They dream of starting a new life in Moscow but are saddled with the practicalities of their quiet existence. Despite their past failures, they resolve to seek some purpose and hope when the army post is withdrawn from the town.from Chekhov's Three Sisters
- DirectorJoe WrightStarsKeira KnightleyJude LawAaron Taylor-JohnsonIn late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky.
- DirectorOleg FesenkoStarsValeriy NikolaevEvgeniya KryukovaLembit UlfsakIvan, a cynical journalist, is assigned to investigate mysterious events in a small town. During his first night, he is seduced by a strange and mysterious girl. As they embrace, she transforms into a hideous demon. Ivan fights the creature, managing to strangle it. But it is too late, Evil has been unleashed. When Ivan is charged for the brutal murder, he feels his last hope disappear. As he is overcome by the dark forces trying to pose as his soul, Ivan comes to realize that his only hope lies in his power to find the faith that he once lost.from Gogol's The Vyi (aka La Maschera del demonio)
- DirectorMykola YeriominStarsYaroslav KozakMykola YeriominLeonid SyplyiSurrealistic take on the short novel by Nikolay Gogol, filled with healthy humor.from Gogol's The Nose
- DirectorRoger CoggioStarsRoger CoggioFanny CottençonYvette EtiévantIn the nineteenth century, in St. Petersburg. Poprichtchine, a small official living almost in misery, decides not to go to the office. Coming from a noble family, he can not stand his condition anymore.from Gogol
- DirectorEdmundo GuibourgStarsMargarita XirguPedro López LagarEnrique DiosdadoOn the eve of her wedding, the bride is pursued by an ex-lover, with tragic consequences.from García Lorca
- DirectorGustavo AlatristeStarsAmparo RivellesMagda GuzmánRosenda MonterosBernarda Alba, a domineering, reclusive, ostentatiously-pious widow in a small Spanish town, keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensue among the other daughters.from G. Lorca
- DirectorFlavio MogheriniStarsBarbara BouchetRenzo MontagnaniGianni CavinaA fake marriage to collect a large inheritance transforms whoever had invented the fraud into a victim.from Feydeau's Occupe-toi d'Amélie
- DirectorHans AlfredsonStarsLena NymanMonica ZetterlundThommy BerggrenDr. Petypon wakes up after a wild party with a young lady called Räkan, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge. He has messed it up badly. How can this be explained to his wife?Feydeau's La Dame de Chez Maxim's
- DirectorGustav SkálaStarsJirí DvorákZdena HerfortováZdenek JunákFeydeau's La Puce à l'Oreille
- DirectorAgah HünStarsNeriman EsenMualla KaynakLale OralogluThe dramatic love between a married teacher and a deaf, dumb and blind girl.from Gide's Symphonie Pastorale
- DirectorPeter BogdanovichStarsCybill ShepherdBarry BrownCloris LeachmanIn this comedy of manners, Frederick Winterbourne tries to figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Miller, only to be helped and hindered by false judgments from their fellow friends.Well intended, if ill executed
- DirectorJacques RivetteStarsJuliet BertoDominique LabourierBulle OgierA mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives preempted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.
- DirectorJulien LandaisStarsJonathan Rhys MeyersVanessa RedgraveJoely RichardsonA young writer tries to obtain romance letters a poet sent to his mistress.The Lost Moment was a superior version
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsFrancisco ReigueraAkim TamiroffPepe MediavillaThe story of a Spanish gentlemen gone mad and his dim-witted squire Sancho Panza, who set forth on a journey to right wrongs and accomplish good deeds in the name of chivalry.The themes Cervantes explored in his book were hardly touched on, if at all, no doubt because most of the story wasn't told at all. The essence of Cervantes' picaresque saga is definitely not here.