De Palma: Carrie (1976)
Carrie was the first adaptation of a novel by Stephen King, and it’s still one the best, holding its own against the massive progeny of King adaptations that it spawned, [...]
September 2017
Moverman: The Dinner (2017)
The Dinner is the third adaptation of Herman Koch’s 2009 novel, after a Dutch and Italian version, and starts from much the same premise – a group of four friends meeting [...]
Aronofsky: mother!
One of the most daring films in Darren Aronofsky’s career, mother! is a damning allegory of the ways in which the female body is used as collateral damage within male [...]
Veep: Season 6 (2017)
Few series have launched into late work as vertiginously as Veep, which in its sixth season almost feels like an entirely new entity, despite the recent announcement that it [...]
Columbus: Only the Lonely (1991)
Chris Columbus followed up Home Alone with his very own version of a John Hughes joint – an adaptation of Delbert Mann’s 1955 film Marty, transplanted from the Bronx to [...]
Carax: Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (Lovers on the Bridge) (1991)
One of the high points of the “Cinema du Look” that dominated French screens in the early 1990s, Lovers on the Bridge is based on an original screenplay by Leos Carax, [...]