The City of Your Final Destination - Peter Cameron
An American graduate student travels to a plantation in Uruguay to persuade a dead writer's family to allow him to write the biography and, crossing the line between critical biographer and active character, soon becomes involved himself. The lush Ivory-produced film features veterans Laura Linney, Anthony Hopkins and Charlotte Gainsborough.
Winter's Bone - Daniel Woodrell
Adapted in a film that wowed the audiences at Sundance and Berlin (and certain bookstore employees). Deep in the Ozarks, seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly is looking for her father, who has jumped bail on meth charges. Woodrell's redneck lyricism propels a story that is bleak and brutal.
WScott Pilgrim - Bryan Lee O'Malley
Michael Cera, indie-nerd darling, will star as the eponymous hero in the film adaptation of Bryan Lee O'Malley's popular comic book series about a Canadian teenager who, among other things, must defeat his new girlfriend's seven exes.
Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
Julia Roberts stars in a film adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling memoir of a year's travels to Italy, India and Indonesia. Be entertained and enlightened by Gilbert's prose before being won over by Roberts' customary charisma.
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
A star of our recent Dystopian Fiction table, Ishiguro's novel about three children in an English country boarding school growing up with only a distant realization of what is in store for them is sure to be a sensational period piece starring Kiera Knightley, Andrew Garfield and Oscar-nominee Carey Mulligan.
Can anyone tell me where HOLES was filmed (based on the YA novel by Louis Sachar)? I swear it was in Northern California...before the olive tree groves. It felt and looked like that brutal site as we drove down I-5 yesterday....dry, desolate, hot hot hot. Cheryl
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