I thought I’d slaughter two birds with one pebble by bringing this part of the CCL webpage to your attention. The idea behind it is to appeal to film buffs who also read and may want to try the book before they see the film. As well, it is intended to make librarians au fait with what is coming up and even maybe a half step ahead of their customers so they don’t get a surprise when they hear that there’s a new version of Brideshead revisited coming up. Here’s a sample from the latest:
Cheri
Here’s a new adaptation of the classic novel by Colette which tells the story of the end of a six year affair between an aging retired courtesan, Léa, and a pampered young man, Chéri. This has been filmed a number of times before and is also a staple on stage as it offers a terrific role for the older actress. In this version Michelle Pfeiffer plays the main role and she reunites with director Stephen Frears and playwright/scriptwriter Christopher Hampton with whom she made Dangerous liaisons some years back. This time her dangerous liaison is with Rupert Friend who plays Cheri with Kathy Bates, Anita Pallenberg, Harriet Walter and Felicity Jones supporting.
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The damned Utd
David Peace’s excellent 2006 novel is a fictionalised account of Brian Clough’s 44 days in charge of Leeds United Football Club in 1974. It will be interesting to see if a movie about football will do well at the box office since sports movies have not traditionally brought in the crowds. Peter Morgan, who has written most of the recent documentary dramas (The Queen, Longford, Frost/Nixon,etc), has adapted the novel and Michael Sheen, who has done excellent impersonations of Tony Blair, Kenneth Williams, David Frost and others, plays the controversial football manager Clough, with Timothy Spall as his right hand man Peter Taylor, Colm Meaney playing Clough’s bitter rival Don Revie and Jim Broadbent as Derby Chairman Sam Longson.
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Easy virtue
Noel Coward’s 13th play, first produced in 1925, is regarded as a precursor of his much more well known drawing room comedy Private lives. It’s set in the usual setting of the English country house and is about what happens when the prodigal son of the family returns with a glamorous trophy wife in tow. Ben Barnes, from the current Narnia film, and Jessica Biel are the couple and the disapproving parents are played by Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas. It has been filmed at Engelfield House in Berkshire and in Oxfordshire and is directed by Stephan Elliott, the Australian born director of Priscilla, Queen of the desert.
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