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The Marriage Plot Heads for the Big Screen: What’s Behind Hollywood’s 19th Century Novel Infatuation?

The Marriage Plot Heads for the Big Screen: What’s Behind Hollywood’s 19th Century Novel Infatuation?

Hollywood seems to be getting serious in its on-again, off-again romance with the nineteenth-century novel.


'Submarine' Director, Richard Ayoade, Delves into Dostoevsky's The Double

'Submarine' Director, Richard Ayoade, Delves into Dostoevsky's The Double

Ayoade hardly fits the profile of the dark and brooding artist you’d expect to wade into the bleak and beautiful moral murk of a Fyodor Dostoevsky adaptation.


5 Classic Novels and Historic Figures Primed for a Seth Grahame-Smith Genre Mashup

5 Classic Novels and Historic Figures Primed for a Seth Grahame-Smith Genre Mashup

There is something dangerously addictive about the process of melding unlike parts to create a monstrously compelling whole.


"Submarine" Director Richard Ayoade Explains How He Built a Perfect Bildungsroman

"Submarine" Director Richard Ayoade Explains How He Built a Perfect Bildungsroman

It’s been a long time since a film or fiction served up such a supreme coming-of-age tale.


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Richard Ayoade's 'Submarine': Is New Leaked Footage a Strategic Salvo Against Harvey Scissorhands?

We can’t help but wonder whether the above empirically undeniably hilarious scene from the film wasn’t leaked to galvanize a grass roots campaign to keep Weinstein from altering the current cut of the film,


Is Harvey Weinstein Aiming His Torpedoes at 'Submarine'? Say it Aint So!

Is Harvey Weinstein Aiming His Torpedoes at 'Submarine'? Say it Aint So!

We felt the white-hot outrage of a thousand suns upon reading Harvey Weinstein’s comments about re-editing “Submarine.”


Sundance Day 2 Moviegoing Revelation: 'Submarine'

Sundance Day 2 Moviegoing Revelation: 'Submarine'

A shining example of what every Sundance film should aspire to be; art-house sublime. It’s like the runty love child of Harold and Maude and Rushmore.


Sundance 2011: Word & Film's Pre-festival Primer

Sundance 2011: Word & Film's Pre-festival Primer

Long before anyone had the incentive or inclination (technologically or otherwise) to create a publication like this one, which caters to the ardent and expansive community of culture buffs fascinated by literary storytelling in all formats — words and images; pages and screens; pods and pads. Back in its early ’90s heyday, the Sundance Film Festival espoused a similar sensibility in its approach to creating a gathering place for the kind of serious film fans and filmmakers alike. It was a crowd not unlike the book-loving cineastes who are Word & Film’s raison d’etre.


Casting Call: Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding

Casting Call: Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding

Chad Harbach’s character portraits, throughout the novel, are so vivid, it’s hard not to imagine The Art of Fielding being adapted for the screen.


Where the Wild Things Are: First Love According to Wes Anderson, Richard Ayoade, and Andrea Arnold

Where the Wild Things Are: First Love According to Wes Anderson, Richard Ayoade, and Andrea Arnold

Here’s to the news of an authentic version of sisterhood.


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