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Adaptation

November 2024

  • Alan Bennett.

    Alan Bennett at 90: ‘What will people think? I don’t care any more’

    In his 10th decade The History Boys writer is as prolific as ever with a war film in the works and a new sex-fuelled novella set in a home for the elderly. He talks about mourning Maggie Smith, turning down a knighthood and what he makes of Donald Trump

December 2023

  • Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny to Adaptation: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Harrison Ford returns for a final crack of the whip, and Spike Jonze’s classic meta comedy starring Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep

September 2023

  • Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot and Tina Fey as Ariadne Oliver in A HAUNTING IN VENICE

    A Haunting in Venice review – Branagh improves on his Agatha Christie formula

    With smart casting and suitably murky Venice setting, the director improves on last year’s Death on the Nile, though his moustache-fondling Poirot remains the same

November 2022

  • A scene from Channel 4’s They Were Ten

    And then there were more: Knives Out, Agatha Christie and nonstop murder mystery boom

    Classic murder yarns are back on our screens, inspired by the queen of crime fiction, but given a fresh twist to keep audiences on their toes

July 2022

  • Dakota Johnson as Anne Elliot and Henry Golding as Mr Elliot in Persuasion.

    Persuasion review – a travesty of Jane Austen

    Theatre director Carrie Cracknell’s ham-fisted adaptation misses the naunces of the author’s writing and opts instead for romcom sassiness

April 2022

  • Ruth Wilson and Tom Burke in True Things.

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    True Things review – seductively dangerous liaisons in Ramsgate

    Ruth Wilson is brilliant as a benefits officer who develops an unhealthy attraction to a charsimatic stranger in Harry Wootliff’s assured psychological drama

March 2022

  • Amazon’s adaptation of The Lord of the Rings

    Hoard of the rings: ‘lost’ scripts for BBC Tolkien drama discovered

    Original manuscripts show how author rewrote scenes for 1950s adaptation of his Middle-earth epic Lord of the Rings

January 2022

  • George MacKay and Jeremy Irons in Munich: The Edge of War.

    Munich: The Edge of War review – handsome if muted take on Robert Harris’s spy thriller

    Jeremy Irons as Neville Chamberlain leads this Netflix adaptation of the novelist’s conspiracy story set on the eve of the second world war

December 2021

  • Daniel Ranieri and Ben Affleck in The Tender Bar.

    The Tender Bar review – George Clooney’s pain-free coming-of-age tale is a gritless oyster

    This adaptation of JR Moehringer’s memoirs, directed by Clooney, is strikingly empty of plausible emotion

May 2021

  • Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley in My New York Year.

    My New York Year review – a leaden take on the literary life

    Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley are squandered in this adaptation of Joanna Rakoff’s memoir of her year working with JD Salinger

July 2020

  • Charlie Kaufman.

    Charlie Kaufman: 'Making people laugh makes me feel validated as a human'

    The screenwriter behind Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind has written a novel - about a film critic who hates Charlie Kaufman

June 2020

  • Judi Dench dons the green in Artemis Fowl.

    Artemis Fowl review – Judi Dench gruffs it out amid rogue fairies

    Kenneth Branagh directs this family-fantasy-by-numbers adapted from Eoin Colfer’s bestselling teen novels

December 2019

  • Emma Watson, Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh and Eliza Scanlen at the March sisters in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women.

    Little Women review – the freshest literary adaptation of the year

    Greta Gerwig brings the entire March family to life like never before in a respectful but bracingly current version

September 2018

  • FIRST USE SAT REV SEPT 2018 Welsh novelist Sarah Waters.

    Sarah Waters: ‘Some of my readers really did hate me. They felt let down’

    As The Little Stranger opens in cinemas, the novelist shares the betrayal felt by some lesbian readers over her supernatural whodunnit – and why it is a perfect metaphor for Brexit Britain

August 2018

  • Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck. There’s been an uptick in non-fiction articles being adapted for film and television.

    The art of the article: Hollywood looks to journalism for the future

    Long reads are proving irresistible to film executives, with Jennifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey, Ben Affleck and Robert Redford all signing on to star in fact-based projects

March 2017

  • Jack Whitehall as Paul Pennyfeather and Eva Longoria as Margot Beste-Chetwynde in Decline and Fall on BBC1.

    Decline and Fall on TV – would Evelyn Waugh have approved?

    The prospect of a new BBC adaptation of Decline and Fall, starring Jack Whitehall and Eva Longoria, is stirring mixed feelings – will Waugh’s wit be sold short once again?

May 2016

  • Kate Beckinsale and Xavier Samuel in Love and Friendship.

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Love & Friendship review – a treat

  • Evan Jonigkeit and Tina Fey in Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

    Whiskey Tango Foxtrot review – frontline follies

April 2016

  • Chris Cooper

    Five best moments
    Chris Cooper: five best moments

    The Oscar-winning actor stars with Jake Gyllenhaal in this week’s oddball comedy-drama Demolition, but what have been his smartest career choices?

March 2016

  • Adapted books

    Tom Gauld's cultural cartoons
    Tom Gauld on books adapted for the screen – cartoon

    After John le Carré talked about his book The Night Manager being adapted for TV, Tom shows books have feelings too
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