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Posted February 25, 2011 to photo album "David Nicholls’ Five Favorite Novel to Screen Adaptations"
In addition to Jane Eyre, what other classic novels have made great films. We asked Novelist/Screenwriter David Nicholls.
Barry Lyndon (1844/1975)
I love this film, the most under-rated of Kubrick's work. Like all of his work its leisurely-paced, beautiful, a little chilly. The attention to detail is phenomenal - watching it you get the sense that, yes, this is what 18th century Britain looked like. It's impossible to imagine Kubrick taking on, say, Pride and Prejudice or Jane Eyre or, god forbid, Dickens, whose ebullient energy would never survive the Kubrick treatment, but there's a perfect match here between the director's vision and the sardonic, wry tone of the 18th century novel. So slow and measured, it almost feels like reading...
The World's End
We Steal Secrets
Closed Circuit
The Deep
The Place Beyond The Pines
Greetings from Tim Buckley
Admission
Promised Land
Anna Karenina
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Brokeback Mountain
Lost in Translation
Pride & Prejudice
The Pianist
Gosford Park