film adaptation

‘White Noise’ Is a Pop Art Fever Dream of Catastrophe and Consumerism

‘White Noise’ Is a Pop Art Fever Dream of Catastrophe and Consumerism

Noah Baumbach’s bright, funny, and nervy White Noise vividly translates Don DeLillo’s classic of mid-1980s American consumerist-medicated anxieties.

Will the Film Capture the Artfulness of ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’?

Will the Film Capture the Artfulness of ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’?

With its film adaptation releasing this summer, the best-seller Where the Crawdads Sing calls a reader to open themselves to places and people on the edge.

Singer-songwriter Haroula Rose Discusses Her Debut Film ‘Once Upon a River’

Singer-songwriter Haroula Rose Discusses Her Debut Film ‘Once Upon a River’

Haroula Rose, singer, songwriter, and debut filmmaker emulates cinema from countries outside of the US in her understated adaptation of Bonnie Jo Campbell’s Once Upon a River.

‘One Deadly Summer’ and the Boundaries of Desire and Mania

‘One Deadly Summer’ and the Boundaries of Desire and Mania

There's almost never a moment in One Deadly Summer that doesn't recall a crushing nostalgia, using tone and texture to evince a sort of empathetic longing.

Single White Females: How Far Will an Incomplete Woman Go to Obtain Her Sense of Self?

Single White Females: How Far Will an Incomplete Woman Go to Obtain Her Sense of Self?

Much in the way the women of Persona and 3 Women assimilate into lives of their objects of affection, the women of Single White Female experience a similar fatal mutualism.

Casting Katniss: Is Hollywood Whitewashing ‘The Hunger Games’?

Blindness by Jose Saramago