MetaFilter posts tagged with book and movie

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There is just stuff people do.

miss lynnster — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:08:19 -0800

John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath on May 6, 1940. The "Wrath" link is the Henry Fonda film in its entirety.

The Floating Neutrinos

janetplanet — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:22:31 -0800

"An extended family of nonconformists travels the world on rafts, teaches its own brand of philosophy, joins the circus, starts a popular jazz band, and sets a new world record along the way." And now, the movie (previously)

Franky

Mblue — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:03:03 -0800

Mary Shelly's (awful/wonderful) Frankenstein rap. They read the book, eh?

A film for those who read

rushmc — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:56:42 -0800

"Stone Reader makes you want to pick up a great novel and consume it in one long gulp. It’s a love letter to literature and literacy, a bibliophile’s dream film, dedicated to the joys of fiction and the passions of those who need books like they need food, water and air." (The Dallas Morning News)

twiggy — Thu, 23 May 2002 16:55:17 -0800

Finally some more news about Orson Scott Card's book Ender's Game, and the plans to make it into a movie. Obviously I do have the fear that they'll make it suck - but if they do a good job with this, I'll be more excited about it than any movie I've seen in years!