Feb 21, 2012 10:46 AM
The recipe for success sounds simple: take a great book, adapt it for the screen and moviegoers will flock to what is sure to be a blockbuster film. But if that was the case, every well written novel would become an instant cinematic hit.
Take for instance David Lean’s classic 1948 film version of Charles Dickens’s “Oliver Twist,” which many—including actor Alec Baldwin, writer Jon Robin Baitz and Hamptons International Film Festival’s Director of Programming David Nugent—agree is a masterpiece, one of the best film adaptations ever made. The movie, though a hit with critics at the time of its release, did not receive any Academy Award nominations, was banned in Israel for anti-Semitism, banned in Egypt for portraying a principal Jewish character too sympathetically, and was not screened in the... more
Take for instance David Lean’s classic 1948 film version of Charles Dickens’s “Oliver Twist,” which many—including actor Alec Baldwin, writer Jon Robin Baitz and Hamptons International Film Festival’s Director of Programming David Nugent—agree is a masterpiece, one of the best film adaptations ever made. The movie, though a hit with critics at the time of its release, did not receive any Academy Award nominations, was banned in Israel for anti-Semitism, banned in Egypt for portraying a principal Jewish character too sympathetically, and was not screened in the... more
