BOOKS MADE INTO MOVIES JUNE 2023

Have you read any books that were made into awesome movies? Have you read any books that SHOULD be made into an awesome movie? Tell us about it.

One of my favorite books The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage has not long been made into a movie, with great acclaim. Looking forward to viewing.

>2 Aussi11: I want to see that film and read the book!

>4 JulieLill:
I suggest you read the book first, always better. If you google the movie you will be impressed.

Not quite within criteria, but yesterday I just finished re-watching Le Rayon vert, an Eric Rohmer film from 1986 on Criterion Channel, one I hadn't seen since it came out, but which affected me a good deal when I did. Struck by a connection to Saoirse Ronan's Jo March in the Greta Gerwig Little Women, that brief but telling mention of loneliness. The Rohmer is an entire film about loneliness, as wonderfully portrayed by Marie Riviere as Delphine, unable to articulate her feelings. She overhears a group of older people talking about Jules Verne's Rayon vert about an un-Verne-like quest to see the green ray, and how seeing it allows the privileged viewer to see into her feelings and the feelings of others. Hopefully I'll get a chance to write about the film (& second thoughts about the end of Gerwig's Little Women). But in any case, I just downloaded an English translation of Verne's The Green Ray & started reading it last night, though I doubt it serves as the key to the Rohmer film. (I notice that Delphine is reading The Idiot so there's another book to look into)