While his stories have remained popular for 80 years, H.P. Lovecraft’s work presents difficulties to filmmakers who try to translate his work into movies.
Adapting Lovecraft
Tag: Adaptation
Stanley Kubrick 7: The Shining (1980)
The first time I saw Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Stephen King’s third novel, The Shining, when it was released in 1980, I lined up for an hour to get into the Colony Theatre on opening night. Just as my friend and I were reaching the door, an usher came out counting heads; she dropped her […]
Stanley Kubrick 6: Odd Man Out – Barry Lyndon (1975)
My project of revisiting all of Stanley Kubrick’s movies in chronological order has, once again, been stalled for some time, although the delay in looking at Barry Lyndon again has nothing to do with the kind of reluctance I felt with Spartacus. Rather, it’s just been difficult to find a clear window of three-plus hours […]
Stanley Kubrick 4A: America in England – Lolita (1962)
After the experience of directing Spartacus, Stanley Kubrick got as far away from Hollywood as he could. He moved to England, where he stayed for the rest of his life and made his eight subsequent features. Interestingly, the first two of those films were both set in the United States, as if despite making the […]
Hangover Square and the mysteries of adaptation
Given the vast differences between the written word and the moving image, it’s not surprising that the translation from text to screen can sometimes produce strange results. David Selznick treated source text as gospel, using Margaret Mitchell’s novel as a virtual script for his massive and very popular 1939 adaptation of Gone With the Wind […]
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