"A Room with a View (1985 film) A Room with a View is a 1985 British romance film directed by James Ivory, screenplay written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and produced by Ismail Merchant, of E. M. Forster's novel of the same name (1908). The film closely follows the novel by use of chapter titles to distinguish thematic segments. Set in England and Italy, it is about a young woman named Lucy Honeychurch in the restrictive and repressed culture of Edwardian England, and her developing love for a free-spirited young man, George Emerson. It stars Helena Bonham Carter as Lucy and"
"as British author Enid Blyton in the TV film ""Enid"" (2009). Bonham Carter began her film career, playing the title character in ""Lady Jane"" (1986), and playing Lucy Honeychurch in ""A Room with a View"" (1985). Her other film roles include Ophelia in ""Hamlet"" (1990), ""Where Angels Fear to Tread"" (1991), ""Howards End"" (1992), Elizabeth Lavenza in ""Mary Shelley's Frankenstein"" (1994), Woody Allen's ""Mighty Aphrodite"" (1995), Marla Singer in ""Fight Club"" (1999), Bellatrix Lestrange in the ""Harry Potter"" series (2007–11), Skynet in ""Terminator Salvation"" (2009), Miss Havisham in ""Great Expectations"" (2012), Madame Thénardier in ""Les Misérables"" (2012), the Fairy Godmother"
"which is the third of the film series. The character of Lucy Pevensie was inspired by June Flewett, a devout Catholic London girl evacuated by her convent to The Kilns, Lewis' country home in 1942, and named after Lewis' goddaughter Lucy Barfield, to whom he dedicated The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. Lucy is described in the book as being fair-haired: ""But as for Lucy, she was always gay and golden-haired, and all princes in those parts desired her to be their Queen, and her own people called her Queen Lucy the Valiant."" Lucy was the most faithful of"
"and staged at the Albery Theatre on 27 November 1975 by directors Toby Robertson and Timothy West. Merchant-Ivory produced an award-winning film adaptation in 1985 directed by James Ivory and starring Maggie Smith as ""Charlotte Bartlett"", Helena Bonham Carter as ""Lucy Honeychurch"", Judi Dench as ""Eleanor Lavish"", Denholm Elliott as ""Mr Emerson"", Julian Sands as ""George Emerson,"" Daniel Day-Lewis as ""Cecil Vyse"" and Simon Callow as ""The Reverend Mr Beebe"". BBC Radio 4 produced a four-part radio adaptation written by David Wade and directed by Glyn Dearman (released commercially as part of the BBC Radio Collection) in 1995 starring Sheila"
"his Preface to its Everyman's Library Edition. ""A Passage to India"" was adapted as a play in 1960, directed by Frank Hauser, and as a film in 1984, directed by David Lean. ""Maurice"" (1971) was published posthumously. It is a homosexual love story which also returns to matters familiar from Forster's first three novels, such as the suburbs of London in the English home counties, the experience of attending Cambridge, and the wild landscape of Wiltshire. The novel was controversial, given that Forster's homosexuality had not been previously known or widely acknowledged. Today's critics continue to argue over the extent"
"to which Forster's sexuality and personal activities influenced his writing. ""Maurice"" was adapted as a film in 1987 by the Merchant-Ivory team. Early in his writing career, Forster attempted a historical novel about the Byzantine scholar Gemistus Pletho and the Italian condottiero Sigismondo de Malatesta, but was not satisfied with the result and never published it - though he kept the manuscript and later showed it to Naomi Mitchison. Forster's first novel, ""Where Angels Fear to Tread"", was described by reviewers as ""astonishing"" and ""brilliantly original"". ""The Manchester Guardian"" (forerunner of ""The Guardian"") noted ""a persistent vein of cynicism which"
"The books share many themes with his short stories collected in ""The Celestial Omnibus"" and ""The Eternal Moment"". ""Howards End"" (1910) is an ambitious ""condition-of-England"" novel concerned with different groups within the Edwardian middle classes, represented by the Schlegels (bohemian intellectuals), the Wilcoxes (thoughtless plutocrats) and the Basts (struggling lower-middle-class aspirants). Critics have observed that numerous characters in Forster's novels die suddenly. This is true of ""Where Angels Fear to Tread"", ""Howards End"" and, most particularly, ""The Longest Journey"". ""Howards End"" was adapted as a film in 1991 by the Merchant-Ivory team and as a miniseries in 2017. An opera"
"an inspiration for his Daisy Buchanan character in ""The Great Gatsby"". The first film version of the novel was created in 1924, adapted by Dorothy Farnum. Directed by Harry Beaumont, it starred Irene Rich, Matt Moore, June Marlowe, and John Roche. It would also be adapted very loosely into a film of the same name in 1934 by Gene Markey, and starred Barbara Stanwyck as Marian Forrester. The film did not live up to the novel's reputation and is generally regarded as mediocre. A Lost Lady Willa Cather's A Lost Lady was first published in 1923. It tells the story"
"starred Marilyn Hassett as Esther Greenwood, the protagonist and featured the tagline: ""Sometimes just being a woman is an act of courage."" In the film, Joan attempts to get Esther to agree to a suicide pact, an incident which is not in the book. Joan is implied to be a lesbian in Plath's novel. In the 1999 film, ""10 Things I Hate About You"", titular character Kat Stratford is seen reading ""The Bell Jar"". In July 2016, it was announced that Kirsten Dunst would be making her directorial debut with an adaptation of ""The Bell Jar"" starring Dakota Fanning as"
"the four siblings in the novels. Lucy is a principal character in three of the seven books (""The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"", ""Prince Caspian"", and ""The Voyage of the Dawn Treader""), and a minor character in two others (""The Horse and His Boy"" and ""The Last Battle""). Lucy is portrayed by Georgie Henley in the 2005 film """" and she returned to reprise her role in the 2008 film """". Georgie's elder sister, Rachael Henley, portrays the older Queen Lucy at the end of the first film. Georgie Henley also reprised her role in the 2010 film """","
"finished a seventh novel, ""Arctic Summer."" His first novel, ""Where Angels Fear to Tread"" (1905), is the story of Lilia, a young English widow who falls in love with an Italian, and of the efforts of her bourgeois relatives to get her back from Monteriano (based on San Gimignano). Philip Herriton's mission to retrieve her from Italy has features in common with that of Lambert Strether in Henry James's ""The Ambassadors."" Forster discussed that work ironically and somewhat disapprovingly in his book ""Aspects of the Novel"" (1927). ""Where Angels Fear to Tread"" was adapted as a 1991 film directed by"
"""I Love Lucy"" television episode, and commissioned another writer (Leonard Spigelgass) to rewrite the script. Mr. Spigelgass does not seem to have succeeded in breaking free of Lucy's television work, so producer Robert Blumofe hired yet two more writers (Mickey Rudin and Bernie Weitzman) to make an attempt. When this failed, Blumofe hired Melville Shavelson, who eventually directed. All further rewrite efforts came to an abrupt end at the insistence of United Artists, the film's eventual distributor. At this point in the production cycle, Helen Beardsley's book ""Who Gets the Drumstick?"" was actually released in 1965. Like many film adaptations,"
"House of Seven Gables"", and ""Tale of Two Cities"". Wuthering Heights (1970 film) Wuthering Heights is a 1970 film directed by Robert Fuest. It is based on the classic Emily Brontë novel of the same name. Like the 1939 version, this film depicts only the first sixteen chapters concluding with Catherine Earnshaw Linton's death and omits the trials of her daughter, Hindley's son, and Heathcliff's son. This film version differs from the book in several ways, and most of the differences involve Hindley Earnshaw. First it takes a more sympathetic look at Hindley. Usually portrayed as being a cruel oppressor"
"of Percy Hamilton Close, in Chelsea in London. The wedding was attended by Alice Baines and James Douglas. Five times Locke's books made the list of best-selling novels in the United States for the year. His works have been made into 24 motion pictures the most recent of which was ""Ladies in Lavender"", filmed in 2004 and starring Dame Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. Adapted to the screen by Charles Dance, it was based on Locke's 1916 short story of the same title that had been published in a collection entitled """"Faraway Stories""."" Probably the most famous of Locke's books"
"the leading role, and many written by John Baldwin Buckstone, who created Céleste's best-known and favorite role of Miami, the half-Native American, half-French heroine of ""The Green Bushes"" (1845). Miami, who at one point kills her unfaithful Irish lover but later atones by returning his child to its homeland, is a 'subtle blend of sympathetic innocence and raw, almost anarchic energy'. Céleste and Webster became lovers, and by 1869 their liaison seems to have been generally known and accepted in their social circle, with Charles Dickens referring to their daughters in one of his letters that year. They later quarrelled"
"hospitalized students recover, and the case is declared closed. Hangman's Curse (film), a film based on ""Hangman's Curse"", was released in 2003. It stars David Keith as Nate, Mel Harris as Sarah, Leighton Meester as Elisha, and Douglas Smith as Elijah. The movie was filmed largely at John R. Rogers High School in Spokane, Washington. The movie differed greatly from the book, leaving out key scenes and turning the character of Crystal into a main character as Ian Snyder's girlfriend. Hangman's Curse Hangman's Curse is a 2001 novel by Frank E. Peretti. It is the first book in the Veritas"
"""Night of the Twisters"". The book told the story of Danny Hatch, a pre-teen and his family, and what happened to them as the event took place. The book inspired a made-for-cable television original movie of the same name, that premiered on February 14, 1996, on The Family Channel (now Freeform). The movie version still centered on the Hatch Family and most of the characters in the book were adapted to the film. However, there were several discrepancies from the movie and the book version. The most notable being the town in the movie is changed from Grand Island to"
"the view"" for their honeymoon, this adaptation included its own ending, with George being killed in World War I and Lucy returning in 1922 to the room in Florence. Gabriel Yared composed the original thematic score for the film. The piece 'Entree en Foret' from his score for ""Island For Pachyderms"" was featured in the film as well. A Room with a View (2007 film) A Room with a View is televised adaptation of E. M. Forster's novel, ""A Room with a View"", written by Andrew Davies. It was announced in 2006 and filmed in the summer of 2007. ""A"
"and the spring of 1931, in which Emmeline Lucas (""Lucia"") and Elizabeth Mapp clashed for the first time, ""Lucia's Progress"" (1935) and ""Trouble for Lucia"" (1939). The novelist Susan Leg, the subject of ""Secret Lives"" (1932), re-appeared in ""Trouble for Lucia"". The first Lucia book, ""Queen Lucia"", was published in 1920. It was followed in 1927 by ""Lucia in London"". Benson's ""The Freaks of Mayfair"" (1916) provided the genesis of some of the characters of Tilling. Specifically, ""Aunt Georgie"", a bachelor with a penchant for embroidery, provided the model for George Pillson, who, as with Lucia, with whom he entered"
"& Friendship"", a film version of Austen's early epistolary novel ""Lady Susan"", was released in 2016. Directed by Whit Stillman and starring Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny, the film's title was taken from one of Austen's juvenile writings. Books and scripts that use the general story line of Austen's novels but change or otherwise modernize the story also became popular at the end of the 20th century. ""Clueless"" (1995), Amy Heckerling's updated version of ""Emma"" that takes place in Beverly Hills, became a cultural phenomenon and spawned its own television series. ""Bridget Jones's Diary"" (2001), based on the successful 1996"
"Wuthering Heights (1970 film) Wuthering Heights is a 1970 film directed by Robert Fuest. It is based on the classic Emily Brontë novel of the same name. Like the 1939 version, this film depicts only the first sixteen chapters concluding with Catherine Earnshaw Linton's death and omits the trials of her daughter, Hindley's son, and Heathcliff's son. This film version differs from the book in several ways, and most of the differences involve Hindley Earnshaw. First it takes a more sympathetic look at Hindley. Usually portrayed as being a cruel oppressor of Heathcliff, in this version he is persecuted by"
"and film for suggesting that life may not be worth living for some with severe disabilities. In 2014 MGM announced it would make a film adaptation of ""Me Before You"", to be directed by Thea Sharrock and released via Warner Bros. The film was initially set to release in August 2015 but was pushed back to 3 June 2016. Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin portray the main characters, and filming began in the spring of 2015. The film has grossed over $200 million worldwide. Me Before You Me Before You is a romance novel written by Jojo Moyes. The book"
"the novel was named Popular Fiction Book of the Year at the UK's annual Galaxy National Book Awards ceremony, and was later granted the accolade of Galaxy Book of the Year. At the time of the book's publication, Nicholls wrote that he was adapting his novel as a film script. He acknowledged the difficulties in casting people who ""could be both students and middle-aged! But I think we've found a way."" The film was directed by Lone Scherfig for Random House Films and Focus Features, with a theatrical release in August 2011. Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess portrayed Emma and"
"rid herself of the troublesome curse."" Ella Enchanted Ella Enchanted is a Newbery Honor book written by Gail Carson Levine and published in 1997. The story is a retelling of ""Cinderella"" featuring various mythical creatures including fairies, elves, ogres, gnomes, and giants. In 2006, Levine went on to write ""Fairest"", a retelling of the story of Snow White, set in the same world as ""Ella Enchanted"". On April 9, 2004, a movie loosely based on the novel was released. It was directed by Tommy O'Haver and starred Anne Hathaway and Hugh Dancy as Ella and Prince Charmont, respectively. The film"
"and adapted it into a play called ""Kiss Them for Me"" which ran for 110 performances from March 20, 1945 to June 23, 1945 and featured Richard Widmark as Crewson and Judy Holliday as Alice. The success of the novel and play led Wakeman to a seven-year writing contract with MGM where he wrote his second novel ""The Hucksters"" that was filmed by MGM with a screenplay by Davis. Producer Jerry Wald acquired the rights to both the novel and play in September 1956. When Wald acquired the property Richard Widmark was approached to reprise his Crewson role, but was"
"physical wellbeing. The book features contributions from many well-known women, including Helen Oyeyemi, Marian Keyes and Sarah Jones. Forrest wrote a memoir, ""Your Voice In My Head"" (2011), concerning the death of her psychiatrist and her subsequent break-up with her partner. The memoir was announced as a feature film adaptation to be written by Forrest and directed by Francesca Gregorini, with Emma Watson in the lead role. A screenplay by Forrest about the late musician Jeff Buckley, ""Becoming Music"", was bought by Brad Pitt's production company Plan B Entertainment in September 2000. In 2009 her screenplay ""LIARS (AE)"" was bought"
"Peter and Constance Cummings as Harriet. The movie was released in the United States as ""Haunted Honeymoon"". In 1983 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a six-part adaptation. This starred Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, Sarah Badel as Harriet, Peter Jones as Bunter, Rosemary Leach as Miss Twitterton, Pearl Hackney as Mrs Ruddle, Peter Vaughan as Superintendent Kirk and John Westbrook as the Narrator. Lifeline Theatre (Chicago, Illinois) presented an original adaptation of ""Busman's Honeymoon"" in the spring and summer of 2009. Frances Limoncelli adapted the script from Dorothy Sayers' novel. The show was directed by Paul Holmquist. ""Busman's Honeymoon"" was"
"to number one in nine countries, and reinvigorated her back catalogue resulting in three of her novels being on the ""New York Times"" bestseller list at the same time. Moyes would later write two sequels starring Louisa Clark, the protagonist of ""Me Before You"": ""After You"" in 2015 and ""Still Me"" in 2018. In 2013, it was announced that Michael H. Weber and Scott Neustadter had been hired to write an adaptation of ""Me Before You"". In 2016 the film adaptation ""Me Before You"" was released and the screenplay was written by Moyes. Moyes now looks back on those first"
"in a minor TV film, ""A Pattern of Roses"". Her first lead film role was as Lady Jane Grey in ""Lady Jane"" (1986), which was given mixed reviews by critics. Her breakthrough role was Lucy Honeychurch in ""A Room with a View"" (1985), which was filmed after ""Lady Jane"" but released two months earlier. Bonham Carter also appeared in episodes of ""Miami Vice"" as Don Johnson's love interest during the 1986–87 season and then, in 1987 opposite Dirk Bogarde in ""The Vision"", Stewart Granger in ""A Hazard of Hearts"" and John Gielgud in ""Getting It Right"". Bonham Carter was originally"
"of 10 CDs. In 2008 ""Brideshead Revisited"" was developed into a feature film of the same title, with Emma Thompson as Lady Marchmain, Matthew Goode as Charles Ryder, and Ben Whishaw as Lord Sebastian Flyte. The movie was directed by Julian Jarrold and adapted by Jeremy Brock and Andrew Davies. Brideshead Revisited Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. It follows, from the 1920s to the early 1940s, the life and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder, including his friendship with the Flytes, a"
"Ella Enchanted Ella Enchanted is a Newbery Honor book written by Gail Carson Levine and published in 1997. The story is a retelling of ""Cinderella"" featuring various mythical creatures including fairies, elves, ogres, gnomes, and giants. In 2006, Levine went on to write ""Fairest"", a retelling of the story of Snow White, set in the same world as ""Ella Enchanted"". On April 9, 2004, a movie loosely based on the novel was released. It was directed by Tommy O'Haver and starred Anne Hathaway and Hugh Dancy as Ella and Prince Charmont, respectively. The film received mostly mixed reviews, and was"
"novel in its list of 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. Noted critic Harold Bloom included it in his list of canonical works in the book ""The Western Canon"". The novel was adapted into the critically acclaimed film ""The Day of the Locust"" (1975), directed by John Schlesinger. ""The Day of the Locust"" was released by Paramount Pictures in 1975. The film was directed by John Schlesinger and starred William Atherton as Tod Hackett, Donald Sutherland as Homer Simpson, Burgess Meredith as Harry Greener, and Karen Black as Faye Greener. The Day of the Locust The Day of"
"in the wave of publicity surrounding the film. It consists of three unconnected novellas: the first, ""Lorraine Goes To Livingston"", is a bawdy satire of classic British romance novels, the second, ""Fortune's Always Hiding"", is a revenge story involving thalidomide and the third, ""The Undefeated"", is a sly, subtle romance between a young woman dissatisfied with the confines of her suburban life and an aging clubgoer. A corrupt police officer and his tapeworm served as the narrators for his third novel, ""Filth"" (1998). The main character of ""Filth"" was a vicious sociopathic policeman. The novel was adapted to a film"