The little white attic

For this list, I imposed on myself a few rules:  a) only name adaptations of novels I have read (e.g. I can’t name Little Women );  b) exclu...

Recently I’ve been watching the Zatoichi films. Have you heard of Zatoichi, the blind masseur/swordsman? The original series consists of 26 ...

I suppose I’m part of the problem.   “Why do they keep adapting Jane Austen a zillion times instead of Frances Burney?”, I asked. And yet I ...

It was last year when I discovered Satoshi Kon. He’s now one of my favourite directors, and guess what, you should watch his films too, even...

I have seen 7 screen adaptations of Anna Karenina . That probably tells you I’m a bit mad. But as a lover of literature and cinema, I’m also...

I don’t know what possessed me, but yesterday I saw two different adaptations of Wuthering Heights : Arashi ga oka (1988) from Japan, and t...

Anyone who loves Wuthering Heights has long recognised the difficulty, if not the impossibility, of adapting it (properly) for the screen. ...

In my previous blog post about the TV series The Other Bennet Sister , I wrote about all the changes made to the characters of Pride and Pr...

With apologies to Aled, my former classmate who’s in the cast.   When I first heard there was going to be a TV adaptation of The Other Benne...

Last night I watched the Oscars. Why did I do that to myself?, some of you might ask. I don’t know. Some of the wins were shocking. I suppos...

I guess my interest in the Oscars waxes and wanes. Even now, I have seen only 2 of the 10 films nominated for Best Picture last year, and ha...

  Why do we—I mean I—keep watching different adaptations of the same novel?  Yesterday I saw the 2009 Emma , which is the 4th version I’ve n...

  Over Christmas, my family and I watched Odissea , an Italian-language adaptation of the Odyssey in 8 episodes—not a Christmas series, I k...

Filmmakers all have to make changes when adapting a literary work, which sometimes works very well, but in the case of Ulysses (1954), pret...