List of films based on arts books
This is a list of films based on arts books.
Architecture
Architects
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
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The Fountainhead | 1949 | King Vidor | US | The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand | 1943 | Novel | - |
Circus
Performers
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
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Dumbo α | 1941 | Ben Sharpsteen | US | Dumbo | Helen Aberson | 193? | Children's book | - |
Horton Hatches the Egg α | 1942 | Robert Clampett | US | Horton Hatches the Egg | Dr. Seuss | 1940 | Children's book | - |
The Man Who Laughs | 1928 | Paul Leni | US | The Man Who Laughs | Victor Hugo | 1869 | Novel | - |
- α Animated film.
Carnies
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
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7 Faces of Dr. Lao | 1964 | George Pal | US | The Circus of Dr. Lao | Charles G. Finney | 1935 | Novel | - |
Dance
Dancers
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
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Nijinsky | 1980 | Herbert Ross | US | Life of Nijinsky | Romola Nijinsky | 1934 | Memoir | Vaslav Nijinsky |
Fine art
Painters
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
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Moulin Rouge | 1952 | John Huston | UK | Moulin Rouge | Pierre La Mure | 1950 | Novel | Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
Lust for Life | 1956 | Vincente Minnelli | US | Lust for Life | Irving Stone | 1934 | Novel | Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin |
The Agony and the Ecstasy | 1965 | Carol Reed | US | The Agony and the Ecstasy | Irving Stone | 1961 | Novel | Michelangelo |
Pollock | 2000 | Ed Harris | US | Jackson Pollock: An American Saga [1] | Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith | 1989 | Biography | Jackson Pollock |
Frida | 2002 | Julie Taymor | US | Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo | Hayden Herrera | 1983 | Biography | Frida Kahlo |
Girl with a Pearl Earring | 2003 | Peter Webber | UK & Luxembourg | Girl with a Pearl Earring | Tracy Chevalier | 1999 | Novel | Jan Vermeer |
Carrington | 1995 | Christopher Hampton | UK & France | Lytton Strachey: The New Biography | Michael Holroyd | 1994 | Biography | Dora Carrington |
Goya – oder der arge Weg der Erkenntnis | 1971 | Konrad Wolf | East Germany & USSR | Goya oder der arge Weg der Erkenntnis | Lion Feuchtwanger | 1951 | Novel | Francisco Goya |
Charlotte | 2021 | Éric Warin and Tahir Rana | Canada, Belgium & France | Life? or Theatre? | Charlotte Salomon | 1981 | Autobiography | Charlotte Salomon[2] |
Sculptors
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
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Camille Claudel | 1988 | Bruno Nuytten | France | ? | Reine-Marie Paris | 198? | Biography | Camille Claudel, Auguste Rodin |
Savage Messiah | 1972 | Ken Russell | UK | Savage Messiah | H.S. Ede | 1931 | Biography | Henri Gaudier-Brzeska |
Life models
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
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The Naked Civil Servant * | 1975 | Jack Gold | UK | The Naked Civil Servant | Quentin Crisp | 1968 | Autobiography | Quentin Crisp |
Girl with a Pearl Earring | 2003 | Peter Webber | UK & Luxembourg | Girl with a Pearl Earring | Tracy Chevalier | 1999 | Novel | "Girl with a Pearl Earring" (incognita) |
- * TV movie.
Literature
Authors (fiction)
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man | 1962 | Martin Ritt | US | Nick Adams stories | Ernest Hemingway[3] | 1920s | Stories | Ernest Hemingway |
The Shining | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick | US | The Shining | Stephen King | 1977 | Novel | - |
The Moderns | 1988 | Alan Rudolph | US | A Moveable Feast | Ernest Hemingway[3] | 1964 (posthumous) | Memoir | Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein |
Old Gringo | 1989 | Luis Puenzo | US | The Old Gringo | Carlos Fuentes[4] | 1985 | Novel | Ambrose Bierce |
Naked Lunch | 1991 | David Cronenberg | Canada, UK, Japan | Naked Lunch | William S. Burroughs | 1959 | Novel | William S. Burroughs |
Hammett | 1993 | Wim Wenders | US | Hammett | Joe Gores | 1975 | Novel | Dashiell Hammett |
In Love and War | 1996 | Richard Attenborough | US | Hemingway in Love and War | Henry S. Villard & James Nagel (editors) | 1989 [5]¤ | Diary | Ernest Hemingway |
Hamsun | 1996 | Jan Troell | Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark | Processen mod Hamsun | Thorkild Hansen | 1978 | Non-fiction | Knut Hamsun |
Regnbuen | Marie Hamsun | 1953 | Autobiography | |||||
Misery | 1990 | Rob Reiner | US | Misery | Stephen King | 1987 | Novel | - |
Children of the Century | 1999 | Diane Kurys | France | The Confession of a Child of the Century | Alfred de Musset | 1836 | Novel/ Memoir | George Sand, Alfred de Musset |
Secret Window | 2004 | David Koepp | US | Secret Window, Secret Garden | Stephen King | 1990 | Novella | Stephen King (simulacrum) |
Capote | 2005 | Bennett Miller | US | Capote | Gerald Clarke | 199? | Biography | Truman Capote, Harper Lee |
Infamous | 2006 | Douglas McGrath | US | Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career | George Plimpton | 1997 | Biography | Truman Capote, Harper Lee |
Miss Potter | 2006 | Chris Noonan | UK | The Tale of Peter Rabbit | Beatrix Potter | 1901/ 1902 | Children's book | Beatrix Potter |
Daphne * | 2007 | Clare Beavan | UK | Daphne du Maurier: The Secret Life of the Renowned Storyteller | Margaret Forster | 1993 | Biography | Daphne du Maurier |
The Hours | 2002 | Stephen Daldry | US & UK | The Hours | Michael Cunningham | 1998 | Novel | Virginia Woolf |
- * TV movie.
Authors (non-fiction)
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
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Paper Lion | 1968 | Alex March | US | Paper Lion | George Plimpton | 1967 | Memoir | George Plimpton |
Reds | 1981 | Warren Beatty | US | Ten Days that Shook the World (uncredited) | John Reed (uncredited) | 1919 | Memoir | John Reed |
Stealing Heaven | 1988 | Clive Donner | UK ? | Stealing Heaven | Marion Meade | 1979 | Novel | Peter Abelard |
Regeneration | 1997 | Gillies MacKinnon | UK & Canada | Regeneration [6] | Pat Barker | 1991 | Novel | Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves ♠ |
Passage † | 2008 | John Walker | Canada | Fatal Passage | Ken McGoogan | 2001 | Non-fiction | Charles Dickens |
Carrington | 1995 | Christopher Hampton | UK & France | Lytton Strachey: The New Biography | Michael Holroyd | 1994 | Biography | Lytton Strachey |
Out of Africa | 1985 | Sydney Pollack | US | Out of Africa | Isak Dinesen | 1937 | Memoir | Isak Dinesen ♠ |
- ♠ Certain authors have written well-known fiction, in addition to their non-fiction.
- † Dramatized documentary.
Authors (ghostwriting)
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
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Winchell * | 1998 | Paul Mazursky | US | Winchell: His Life and Times | Herman Klurfeld | 1976 [5] | Non-fiction | Herman Klurfeld |
The Ghost Writer | 2010 | Roman Polanski | France, Germany, UK | The Ghost | Robert Harris | 2007 | Novel | - |
The Front [7] | 1976 | Martin Ritt | US | Inside Out: A Memoir of the Blacklist (uncredited) | Walter Bernstein | 1996 | Memoir | Hollywood blacklist |
- * TV movie.
Authors (forgery)
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
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The Hoax | 2006 | Lasse Hallström | US | The Hoax | Clifford Irving | 1981 | Non-fiction | Clifford Irving |
Playwrights
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Reds | 1981 | Warren Beatty | US | Ten Days that Shook the World (uncredited) | John Reed (uncredited) | 1919 | Non-fiction/ Memoir | Eugene O'Neill |
Wilde | 1997 | Brian Gilbert | UK | Oscar Wilde [8] | Richard Ellmann | 1989 | Biography | Oscar Wilde |
En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud | 1993 | Gérard Mordillat | France | En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud | Jacques Prevel | 1974 | Journal/ Memoir | Antonin Artaud |
The Trials of Oscar Wilde | 1960 | Ken Hughes | UK | The Stringed Lute | John Furnell | 195? | Play | Oscar Wilde |
Famous Trials: Oscar Wilde | Montgomery Hyde | 1948 | Non-fiction |
Poets
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
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Beautiful Dreamers | 1990 | John Kent Harrison | Canada | Walt Whitman | Maurice Bucke | 1883 | Biography | Walt Whitman |
Regeneration | 1997 | Gillies MacKinnon | UK & Canada | Regeneration [6] | Pat Barker | 1991 | Novel | Wilfred Owen |
Bright Star | 2009 | Jane Campion | UK, Australia, France | Keats (uncredited) | Andrew Motion | 1998 | Biography | John Keats |
In My Country | 2004 | John Boorman | UK ? | Country of My Skull | Antjie Krog | 1998 | Memoir | Antjie Krog |
Hedd Wyn | 1992 | Paul Turner | Wales[9][10] | Yr Arwr | Hedd Wyn | 1917 | Poem | Hedd Wyn |
Scriptwriters
(radio drama)
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tune In Tomorrow | 1990 | John Amiel | US | Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter | Mario Vargas Llosa | 1977 | Novel/ Memoir | Mario Vargas Llosa (simulacrum) |
Publishers
(books and magazines)
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bright Lights, Big City | 1988 | James Bridges | US | Bright Lights, Big City | Jay McInerney | 1984 | Novel | - |
The Devil Wears Prada | 2006 | David Frankel | US | The Devil Wears Prada | Lauren Weisberger | 2003 | Novel | Anna Wintour (simulacrum) |
Readers
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Jane Austen Book Club | 2007 | Robin Swicord | US | The Jane Austen Book Club | Karen Joy Fowler | 2004 | Novel | Jane Austen (œuvre) |
Misery | 1990 | Rob Reiner | US | Misery | Stephen King | 1987 | Novel | - |
The Hours | 2002 | Stephen Daldry | US & UK | The Hours | Michael Cunningham | 1998 | Novel | Virginia Woolf (œuvre) |
Bibliophiles
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Ninth Gate | 1999 | Roman Polanski | Portugal, Spain, France, US | The Club Dumas | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | 1993 | Novel | - |
Magic
Magicians
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Houdini | 1953 | George Marshall | US | Houdini | Harold Kellock | 195? | Non-fiction | Harry Houdini |
Music
Composers
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Voices from a Locked Room | 1995 | Malcolm Clarke | UK & US | Double Jeopardy | Mark A. Stuart | 198? | Novel ? | Peter Warlock |
Amadeus | 1984 | Miloš Forman | US | Amadeus | Peter Shaffer | 1979 | Play | W. A. Mozart, Antonio Salieri |
Conductors
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Taking Sides | 2001 | István Szabó | France, UK, Germany, Austria | Taking Sides | Ronald Harwood | 1995 | Play | Wilhelm Furtwängler |
? (uncredited) | Wilhelm Furtwängler (uncredited) | 194? | Diary | |||||
Voices from a Locked Room | 1995 | Malcolm Clarke | UK & US | Double Jeopardy | Mark A. Stuart | 198? | Novel ? | Thomas Beecham |
Songwriters
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bound for Glory | 1976 | Hal Ashby | US | Bound for Glory | Woody Guthrie | 1943 | Autobiography | Woody Guthrie |
The Buddy Holly Story | 1978 | Steve Rash | US | Buddy Holly: His Life and Music | John Goldrosen | 197? | Non-fiction | Buddy Holly |
Great Balls of Fire! | 1989 | Jim McBride | US | ? | Myra Lewis with Murray M. Silver, Jr. | 197? | Autobiography | Jerry Lee Lewis |
The Doors | 1991 | Oliver Stone | US | notes[11] (unpublished) for No One Here Gets Out Alive (uncredited) | Jerry Hopkins & Danny Sugerman (both uncredited) | 1980 | Non-fiction | Jim Morrison, The Doors |
Riders On The Storm: My Life With Jim Morrison and the Doors[12] (uncredited) | John Densmore (uncredited) | 1990 | Memoir | John Densmore, Jim Morrison, The Doors | ||||
Illustrated History of the Doors[12] (uncredited) | Danny Sugerman (uncredited) | 198? | Non-fiction | Jim Morrison, The Doors | ||||
Whale Music | 1994 | Richard J. Lewis | Canada | Whale Music[13] | Paul Quarrington | 1989 | Novel | Brian Wilson (simulacrum) |
Stoned | 2005 | Stephen Woolley | UK | The Murder of Brian Jones | Anna Wohlin | 198? | Non-fiction | Brian Jones |
Walk the Line | 2005 | James Mangold | US | Cash: The Autobiography | Johnny Cash with Patrick Carr | 1997 | Autobiography | Johnny Cash, June Carter |
Man in Black: His Own Story in His Own Words | Johnny Cash | 1975 | Autobiography | |||||
Amazing Grace | 2006 | Michael Apted | UK & US | "Amazing Grace" | John Newton | 1779 | Hymn | John Newton |
The Mambo Kings | 1992 | Arne Glimcher | US | The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love[14] | Oscar Hijuelos | 1989 | Novel | - |
Crazy Heart | 2009 | Scott Cooper | US | Crazy Heart | Thomas Cobb | 1987 | Novel | Jennings, Kristofferson, Haggard, Thompson (composite simulacrum)[citation needed] |
Singers
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
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Lady Sings the Blues | 1972 | Sidney J. Furie | US | Lady Sings the Blues | Billie Holiday with William Dufty | 1956 | Autobiography | Billie Holiday |
Instrumentalists
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hilary and Jackie | 1998 | Anand Tucker | UK | A Genius in the Family | Piers du Pré & Hilary du Pré | 1997 | Memoir | Jacqueline du Pré, Daniel Barenboim |
Young Man with a Horn | 1950 | Michael Curtiz | US | Young Man with a Horn | Dorothy Baker | 1938 | Novel | Bix Beiderbecke (simulacrum) |
Radio
Performers
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Talk Radio | 1988 | Oliver Stone | US | Talked to Death: The Life and Murder of Alan Berg | Stephen Singular | 198? | Non-fiction |
Stage
Burlesque
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Night They Raided Minsky's | 1968 | William Friedkin | US | The Night They Raided Minsky's | Rowland Barber | 1960 | Novel | Minsky's Burlesque |
Applause[15] | 1929 | Rouben Mamoulian | US | Applause | Beth Brown | 1928[5] | Novel | - |
Cabaret
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Moulin Rouge | 1952 | John Huston | UK | Moulin Rouge | Pierre La Mure | 1950 | Novel | Moulin Rouge |
Theatre
Actors and actresses
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Daphne * | 2007 | Clare Beavan | UK | Daphne du Maurier: The Secret Life of the Renowned Storyteller | Margaret Forster | 1993 | Biography | Gertrude Lawrence |
Stage directors
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud | 1993 | Gérard Mordillat | France | En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud | Jacques Prevel | 1974 | Journal/ Memoir | Antonin Artaud |
Visual arts
Photographers
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Bridges of Madison County | 1995 | Clint Eastwood | US | The Bridges of Madison County aka Love in Black and White | Robert James Waller | 1992 | Novel | - |
See also
- List of biographical films
- List of fiction works made into feature films
- List of non-fiction works made into feature films
- List of films based on civics books
- List of films based on crime books
- List of films based on sports books
- List of films based on spy books
- List of films based on westerns
References
Notes
- ^ Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1991.
- ^ D'Alessandro, Anthony (21 July 2021). "Keira Knightley To Lead Voice Cast Of Animated Drama 'Charlotte'". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 22 July 2021. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
- ^ a b Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
- ^ Fuentes was awarded the Cervantes Prize in 1987.
- ^ a b c Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of the US Library of Congress. Source: Library of Congress Online Catalog.
- ^ a b Barker's sequel, The Ghost Road, was the recipient of the Booker Prize in 1995.
- ^ See List of films based on film books for more information on this title.
- ^ Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1989.
- ^ "The BFI: Hedd Wyn (1992)". British Film Institute website. British Film Institute. 2010. Archived from the original on 2009-01-17. Retrieved 2010-03-15.
- ^ "countries within a country: Number10.go.uk". Prime Minister's Office. 10 January 2003. Archived from the original on 16 April 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-09.
- ^ The families of Jim Morrison and Pamela Courson both objected to the book by Hopkins and Sugerman. The producers bought the rights to the notes, rather than the book itself. Source: Lavington (q.v.), p. 138.
- ^ a b Source: Lavington (q.v.), p. 148.
- ^ Recipient of the Governor General's Award in 1989.
- ^ Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1990.
- ^ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 2006.
Bibliography
- Lavington, Stephen. Virgin Film: Oliver Stone, Virgin Books, London, 2004.
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