Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451, A Failed Movie

François Truffaut had had a wonderful career. This self-educated film buff directed The 400 Blows, along with twenty-some other movies, founded the French New Wave movement, developed the auteur theory, and acted in Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He wrote movie reviews, books, and screenplays. But in any ambitious career, there is… Continue reading Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451, A Failed Movie

Thoughts about Kristen Stewart Playing Peyton Loftis

The conventional wisdom of scriptwriters, as I understand it, is that when you adopt a novel into a screenplay for a movie, you are creating something different from the novel. In this way, Hollywood justifies bastardizing the best novels ever written. Now I learned that they are planning to adopt one of my favorite novels,… Continue reading Thoughts about Kristen Stewart Playing Peyton Loftis