Friday, August 8, 2008

Books Into New Movies

The Dying Animal by Philip Roth has been adapted into a film, Elegy, starring Academy Award nominee Penélope Cruz and Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley. Roth is a Pulitizer Prize winner.

Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited is a new film starring Emma Thompson. There also is a TV mini series starring Jeremy Irons which came out in 1981. Waugh's novel is poignant tale of lost innocence. Time Magazine included the novel in its list of "All Time 100".

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