"the masters of cinema"". After completing ""2001: A Space Odyssey"", Kubrick searched for a project that he could film quickly on a more modest budget. He settled on ""A Clockwork Orange"" (1971) at the end of 1969, an exploration of violence and experimental rehabilitation by law enforcement authorities, based around the character of Alex (portrayed by Malcolm McDowell). Kubrick had originally received a copy of Anthony Burgess's novel of the same name from Terry Southern while they were working on ""Dr. Strangelove"", but had rejected it on the grounds that Nadsat, a street language for young teenagers, was too difficult"
"River"", ""Marie Beginning"", ""Dove Creek Rodeo"" and ""The Tuck"" - but none were made. Skullduggery (1970 film) Skullduggery is a 1970 American science fiction film directed by Gordon Douglas, produced by Saul David, and stars Burt Reynolds, Susan Clark and Edward Fox. The screenplay is based on the French novel ""Les Animaux dénaturés"" (1952) (variously titled in English as ""You Shall Know Them"", ""Borderline"", and ""The Murder of the Missing Link"") by Jean Bruller (writing under the pseudonym ""Vercors""). On an expedition in Papua New Guinea, Tropis, a tribe of apelike creatures, are being used as slaves by humans. When"
"Skullduggery (1970 film) Skullduggery is a 1970 American science fiction film directed by Gordon Douglas, produced by Saul David, and stars Burt Reynolds, Susan Clark and Edward Fox. The screenplay is based on the French novel ""Les Animaux dénaturés"" (1952) (variously titled in English as ""You Shall Know Them"", ""Borderline"", and ""The Murder of the Missing Link"") by Jean Bruller (writing under the pseudonym ""Vercors""). On an expedition in Papua New Guinea, Tropis, a tribe of apelike creatures, are being used as slaves by humans. When one of the Tropis is allegedly murdered, the following murder trial centers round the"
"Straw Dogs (1971 film) Straw Dogs is a 1971 psychological thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George. The screenplay, by Peckinpah and David Zelag Goodman, is lightly based upon Gordon M. Williams's 1969 novel, ""The Siege of Trencher's Farm"". The film's title derives from a discussion in the ""Tao Te Ching"" that likens people to the ancient Chinese ceremonial straw dog, being of ceremonial worth, but afterwards discarded with indifference. The film is noted for its violent concluding sequences and a complicated rape scene. Released theatrically in the same year as ""A Clockwork Orange"","
"by John Sturges, and ""A Clockwork Orange"" (1971) by Stanley Kubrick. When the directors of ""Marooned"" changed their minds about including a soundtrack, Carlos chose to work with Kubrick, as she and Elkind were fans of his previous films, adding: ""We finally wound up talking with someone who had a close connection to Stanley Kubrick's lawyer. We suddenly got an invitation to fly to London."" Before Carlos knew about the offer, she read the book and began writing a piece based on it named ""Timesteps"". A soundtrack containing only the film cuts of the score was released as ""Stanley Kubrick's"
"Hugo Award for Best Novel for 1954. In the 1960s, director Stanley Kubrick was interested in making a film adaptation of the novel, but blacklisted director Abraham Polonsky had already optioned it. Instead, Kubrick collaborated with Clarke on adapting the short story ""The Sentinel"" into what eventually became ""2001: A Space Odyssey"" (1968). Months before his performance at Woodstock in 1969, folk singer and guitarist Richie Havens told ""Ebony"" magazine about his appreciation of Clarke's story and expressed his interest in working on a future film adaptation of ""Childhood's End"". Screenplays by Polonsky and Howard Koch were never made into"
"also inserts himself into the novel (as a character). The novel was made into a 1993 film directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco, Pat Morita, Angie Dickinson, Keanu Reeves, John Hurt, Rain Phoenix, Ed Begley, Jr., Carol Kane, Victoria Williams, Sean Young, Crispin Glover, Roseanne Arnold, Buck Henry, Grace Zabriskie, and Treva Jeffryes. Robbins himself was the narrator. """"Cowgirls ..."""" has been considered by Gus Van Sant to be a 'hippy' novel. Robbins writes short chapters filled with philosophical asides and quips (such as noting that because amoebae reproduce by binary fission, the first amoeba"
"to enjoy the act of violation"". The BBFC wrote that: ""Home Alone"" production designer John Muto identified that film as a ""kids version of ""Straw Dogs"""". Director Jacques Audiard cited ""Straw Dogs"" as the basis for his 2015 film ""Dheepan"". Straw Dogs (1971 film) Straw Dogs is a 1971 psychological thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George. The screenplay, by Peckinpah and David Zelag Goodman, is lightly based upon Gordon M. Williams's 1969 novel, ""The Siege of Trencher's Farm"". The film's title derives from a discussion in the ""Tao Te Ching"" that likens people"
"Boogie Nights Boogie Nights is a 1997 American drama film written, produced and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. It is set in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley and focuses on a young nightclub dishwasher who becomes a popular star of pornographic films, chronicling his rise in the Golden Age of Porn of the 1970s through to his fall during the excesses of the 1980s. The film is an expansion of Anderson's mockumentary short film ""The Dirk Diggler Story"" (1988), and stars Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Heather"
"book was adapted as a screenplay by Marguerite Roberts for the Western film ""True Grit"" directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Kim Darby as Mattie Ross, Robert Duvall as ""Lucky"" Ned Pepper, Glen Campbell as LaBoeuf, Jeff Corey as Tom Chaney, and John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn (a role that won John Wayne Best Actor at the Academy Awards). A film sequel, ""Rooster Cogburn"", was produced from an original screenplay in 1975, with John Wayne reprising his role, and Katharine Hepburn as an elderly spinster, Eula Goodnight, who teams with him. The sequel was not well received, and the plot"
"However, each of these instances came after the release of Stanley Kubrick's popular 1971 film adaptation of ""A Clockwork Orange"", itself the subject of much controversy. ""The Sunday Telegraph"" review was positive, and described the book as ""entertaining ... even profound"". ""The Sunday Times"" review was negative, and described the book as ""a very ordinary, brutal and psychologically shallow story"". ""The Times"" also reviewed the book negatively, describing it as ""a somewhat clumsy experiment with science fiction [with] clumsy cliches about juvenile delinquency"". The violence was criticised as ""unconvincing in detail"". Burgess dismissed ""A Clockwork Orange"" as ""too didactic to"
"(1957) concerns a woman who becomes aware that she is a character in a novel; ""The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"" (1961), at times takes the reader briefly into the distant future, to see the various fates that befall its characters. Anthony Burgess is especially remembered for his dystopian novel ""A Clockwork Orange"" (1962), set in the not-too-distant future, which was made into a film by Stanley Kubrick in 1971. In the entirely different genre of Gothic fantasy Mervyn Peake (1911–68) published his highly successful Gormenghast trilogy between 1946 and 1959. One of Penguin Books' most successful publications in the"
"Cook has range too. He captures the icy, flooding charm of a first beer on a heat-struck day. He knows what it feels like to catch luck's eye and hold the gaze across a smoky room, to feel the irrational ""deservedness"" of it, to hear fortune singing sweet in the veins. And he knows dark things—the frightening chasm that opens when certainty disappears, the savagery in the human heart. ""Wake in Fright"" has the power to disturb, a rare thing in any novel."" The novel was adapted for the screen in 1971. The film was directed by Ted Kotcheff, from"
"an exclusive Pennsylvania prep school. The novel charts this dislocation and the impact it has on Ellis and those he leaves behind. The film rights were optioned by Christopher Neil in 2002. The movie was filmed in 2011 in Tucson and Pennsylvania, adapted by the author and directed by Neil. The film stars David Duchovny, Vera Farmiga, Ty Burrell, Justin Kirk, and Graham Phillips. The film premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and is currently seeking distribution. Goats (novel) Goats is a 2000 novel written by Mark Jude Poirier published by Hyperion with the strapline ""Girls, ganga and goat-trekking"""
"were ""Dr. Doomsday or: How to Start World War III Without Even Trying"", ""Dr. Strangelove's Secret Uses of Uranus"", and ""Wonderful Bomb"". After deciding to make the film a black comedy, Kubrick brought in Terry Southern as a co-writer in late 1962. The choice was influenced by reading Southern's comic novel ""The Magic Christian"", which Kubrick had received as a gift from Peter Sellers, and which itself became a Sellers film in 1969. Southern made important contributions to the film, but his role led to a rift between Kubrick and Peter George; after ""Life"" magazine published a photo-essay on Southern"
"on Blu-ray in December 2010. Although the film was very close to the book, there were a few changes: Novelist and essayist Louis Bayard, writing for Salon.com, described this adaptation as ""the definitive version of a beloved literary classic"", praising its fidelity to Dickens' original story, the strength of the supporting cast, and especially Scott's performance as Scrooge. A Christmas Carol (1984 film) A Christmas Carol is a 1984 British-American made-for-television film adaptation of Charles Dickens' famous 1843 novella of the same name. The film is directed by Clive Donner, who had been an editor of the 1951 film ""Scrooge"","
"main characters are again named David and Amy Sumner. In this adaptation the besiegers die in a variety of violent ways. Williams received royalties for the remake. The Siege of Trencher's Farm The Siege of Trencher's Farm (1969) is a psychological horror/thriller novel by Scottish author Gordon Williams. It was first published by Secker & Warburg, and is better known for the 1971 film adaptation ""Straw Dogs"" (starring Dustin Hoffman) by Sam Peckinpah. A remake of that film (Straw Dogs (2011 film)) under the same name was made to less favourable reviews, both films bearing little resemblance to the novel."
"they must do as soon as possible, ""Fuck."" While Stanley Kubrick was interested in making a film about sexual relations as early as 1962, during production of ""Dr. Strangelove"", the project only took off after he read Arthur Schnitzler's ""Dream Story"" in 1968, when he was seeking a work to follow """". Kubrick got interested in adapting the story, and with the help of then-journalist Jay Cocks, bought the filming rights to the novel. In the 1970s, Kubrick had thought of Woody Allen as the Jewish protagonist. For the following decade, Kubrick even considered making his ""Dream Story"" adaptation a"
"acting. With regard to this scene, playwright Edward Albee's 1981 stage adaptation of the novel follows Kubrick's film rather than the novel. The movie retains the novel's theme of Quilty (anonymously) goading Humbert's conscience on many occasions, though the details of how this theme is played out are quite different in the film. He has been described as ""an emanation of Humbert's guilty conscience"", and Humbert describes Quilty in the novel as his ""shadow"". The first and last word of the novel is ""Lolita"". As film critic Greg Jenkins has noted, in contrast to the novel, the first and last"
"In practice, the screenplay developed in parallel to the novel, and elements were shared between both. In a 1970 interview, Kubrick said: Clarke and Kubrick wrote the novel and screenplay simultaneously. Clarke opted for clearer explanations of the mysterious monolith and Star Gate in the novel; Kubrick made the film more cryptic by minimising dialogue and explanation. Kubrick said the film is ""basically a visual, nonverbal experience"" that ""hits the viewer at an inner level of consciousness, just as music does, or painting"". The screenplay credits were shared whereas the ""2001"" novel, released shortly after the film, was attributed to"
"Academy Film Awards. In 1963, Stanley Kubrick cast Sellers to appear in ""Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"" alongside George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn and Slim Pickens. Sellers and Kubrick got on famously during the film's production and had the greatest of respect for each other, also sharing a love of photography. The director asked Sellers to play three roles: US President Merkin Muffley, Dr. Strangelove and Group Captain Lionel Mandrake of the RAF. Sellers was initially hesitant about taking on these divergent characters, but Kubrick prevailed. According to some accounts,"
"Sturges Dodge. The live CBS television adaptation on ""Playhouse 90"" (1956) with Evelyn Rudie as Eloise received such negative reviews that Kay Thompson vowed never to allow another film or TV adaptation. Three book sequels followed: ""Eloise in Paris"" (1957), ""Eloise at Christmastime"" (1958) and ""Eloise in Moscow"" (1959). Thompson and Knight teamed to create another sequel, ""Eloise Takes a Bawth"", working with children's book editor Ursula Nordstrom. That title was announced in the ""Harper Books for Boys and Girls"" fall 1964 catalog, but in the mid-1960s, Thompson removed the three ""Eloise"" sequels from print and did not allow ""Eloise"
"poet James Dickey had helped to adapt from his own novel of the same name, it tells the story of a canoe trip in a feral, backwoods America. Both the film and the performances of Voight and co-star Burt Reynolds received great critical acclaim, and were popular with audiences. Voight also appeared at the Studio Arena Theater, in Buffalo, New York in the Tennessee Williams play ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" from 1973-74 as Stanley Kowalski. Voight played a directionless young boxer in 1973's ""The All American Boy"", then appeared in the 1974 film, ""Conrack"", directed by Martin Ritt. Based on"
"Dorgan and the Destiny Gorilla"". First printed in ""The Incredible Adventures of Dennis Dorgan"" (1974). Also known as ""Cultured Cauliflowers"". First printed in ""The Incredible Adventures of Dennis Dorgan"" (1974). Also known as ""Iron-Clad Fists"". First printed in ""The Incredible Adventures of Dennis Dorgan"" (1974). Also known as ""A New Game for Costigan"" and ""A New Game for Dorgan"". First printed in ""The Incredible Adventures of Dennis Dorgan"" (1974). Also known as ""A Two-Fisted Santa Claus"". First printed in ""The Howard Collector #14"", Spring 1971. Also known as ""Sailor Costigan and the Jade Monkey"" and ""The Jade Monkey"". First printed"
"mini-series, starring Bryan Brown. Norman Kaye played the role of a swagman in the 1976 bushranger film ""Mad Dog Morgan"". Arthur Upfield wrote a number of novels about swagmen including ""Death of a Swagman"" (1942), ""The Bushman Who Came Back"" (1957) and ""Madman's Bend"" (1963). In the 1981 film adaptation of Ethel Pedley's 1899 children's book ""Dot and the Kangaroo"", a magical swagman helps Dot find Mother Kangaroo's lost joey. The Scottish singer-songwriter Alistair Hulett wrote a song about the 'swaggies' called ""The Swaggies Have All Waltzed Matilda Away"". In the 1946 Sherlock Holmes film ""Dressed to Kill"", a tune"
"in his review of the film as a real-life drug addict and dealer. The statement had appeared in print for nearly 25 years in Maltin's annual movie guide before Maltin publicly apologized for the error. Dusty and Sweets McGee Dusty and Sweets McGee is a 1971 American drama film written and directed by Floyd Mutrux. The film stars Clifton Tip Fredell, Kit Ryder, Billy Gray, Bob Graham, Nancy Wheeler and Russ Knight. The film was released by Warner Bros. on July 14, 1971. In the alternative Hollywood of 1970s, director Floyd Mutrux got the green light to produce a film"
"Cry Uncle! Cry Uncle!, released in the UK as Superdick (theatrical title) and American Oddballs (video title), is a 1971 film in the Troma library. It is directed by John G. Avildsen and stars Allen Garfield. The story, based on the Michael Brett novel ""Lie a Little, Die a Little"", follows the misadventures of a slobbish private detective who is hired by a millionaire to investigate a murder. The movie features one of Paul Sorvino's first screen performances, and an early appearance from TV star Debbi Morgan. The film features a great deal of nudity, sex, drug use, and explicit"
"in 1969. The Beatles planned to do a live-action version with Paul McCartney as Frodo Baggins, Ringo Starr as Sam Gamgee, George Harrison as Gandalf, and John Lennon as Gollum. The group approached Stanley Kubrick to direct the film. Even though he briefly considered directing the film, Kubrick turned the offer down, as he felt the novel was unfilmable due to its immensity. Soon the plans for the film came to nothing because Tolkien didn't want the Beatles in the film. In the 1970s John Boorman was contracted by United Artists to direct an adaptation that would have collapsed the"
"Trees (Robert Silverberg), October, 1968. --Calliope and Gherkin and the Yankee Doodle Thing (Evelyn E. Smith), March, 1969. --An Adventure in the Yolla Bolly Middle Eel Wilderness (Vance Aandahl), August, 1969. --20th Anniversary, October, 1969. --The Fatal Fulfillment (Poul Anderson), March, 1970. --Making Titan (Barry N. Malzberg), July, 1970. --The Bear with the Knot on his Tail (Stephen Tall), May, 1971. --Jack of Shadows (Roger Zelazny), July, 1971. --Jack of Shadows (Roger Zelazny), August, 1971. --McGillahee's Brat (Ray Bradbury), January, 1972. --Son of the Morning (Gotlieb), June, 1972. --The Brave Free Men (Jack Vance), July, 1972. --Doctor Dominoe's Dancing Doll"
"with Searle’s illustrations, the forms jump and squiggle into shape, the strokes loose and sprightly. In each scene, swaths of colour and life pour out, white snowflakes dotting the brush strokes."" The illustrations later appeared in a book, ""Scrooge"", by Elaine Donaldson and published in 1970 by Cinema Center Films. The film was nominated for a BAFTA Film Award in the UK, one Golden Laurel award, four Oscars, and five Golden Globes in the USA, in which Albert Finney won for The Best Motion Picture Actor in a Musical/Comedy in 1971. Finney was only 34 years old at the time"
"Their adaptation focuses more on Mattie's point of view, as in the novel, and is more faithful to its Oklahoma setting. Hailee Steinfeld portrays Mattie Ross, Jeff Bridges plays Rooster Cogburn, and the cast also includes Matt Damon as La Boeuf and Josh Brolin as Tom Chaney. True Grit (1969 film) True Grit is a 1969 American western film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Kim Darby as Mattie Ross and John Wayne as U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn. It is the first film adaptation of Charles Portis' 1968 novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Marguerite Roberts."
"targeted non-sexual homosocial behavior and masculinity in inventive ways, David Dobkin's ""Wedding Crashers"" (2005), ""Zoolander"", ""Funny People"" (2009), John Hamburg's ""I Love You Man"" (2009), Todd Phillips' ""The Hangover"" (2009), and Gordon's ""Horrible Bosses"" (2011). Although J. R. R. Tolkien's novels predate what could technically be called the """"bromance era"""", the portrayal of the lifelong close relationships between Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee, Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took, and Gimli and Legolas in the novels have been characterized as bromance, as well as the depictions in the films based on them. The theme remains popular, with different genres looking at"
"Arrakis, also known as ""Dune"". The planet is the only source of the drug melange—also called ""the spice""—which allows prescience and is vital to space travel, making it the most essential and valuable commodity in the universe. After the novel's initial success, attempts to adapt ""Dune"" as a film began as early as 1971. A lengthy process of development followed throughout the 1970s, during which Arthur P. Jacobs, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Ridley Scott unsuccessfully tried to bring their visions to the screen. In 1981, executive producer Dino De Laurentiis hired Lynch as director. The film was negatively reviewed by critics"