Posts Tagged ‘adaptation’
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: Waiting for “Superman” (PG) The latest documentary by Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) details the failings of the American public education system. (Opens Friday)
Too Much Heaven
KRISTIAN LINAs far back as 2001, when Peter Jackson first took on the Lord of the Rings saga, I kept wishing that he’d find time to go back to the more life-sized films like Heavenly Creatures that first marked out this New Zealander...
Opera Festival Under Way
Big TicketIf you’re wondering what happened to the Chinese acrobats stranded in the United States after their booking agent went belly up, wonder no more. They’ve come West and will be doing their tumbling in Fort Worth.
Black Screens
Big TicketThe term “film noir” was invented by French critics in the late 1950s as a label for a set of movies that Hollywood started making in the ’40s.