Some additions to the good suggestions of Scott Hutchins and others: Among more recent films, don't overlook AMERICAN SPLENDOR (though Harvey Pekar is an unusual writer, to say the least) THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD, with Vincent D'Onofrio as Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian PRICK UP YOUR EARS, about Joe Orton, with D'Onofrio again as his lover and killer QUILLS--the Marquis de Sade Bio-Pics: VOLTAIRE, with George Arliss THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA, with Paul Muni NORA, about Nora Barnacle and James Joyce TOM AND VIV, about TS Eliot and his first wife Danny Kaye in HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN JULIA, from Lillian Hellman's memoir (pace Mary McCarthy!) Journalists: All versions of THE FRONT PAGE, including HIS GIRL FRIDAY GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN Screenwriters: SUNSET BOULEVARD THE BIG KNIFE, with Jack Palance Others: various versions of LITTLE WOMEN I REMEMBER MAMA ENEMIES: A LOVE STORY (from an IB Singer story) Sean Connery in A FINE MADNESS LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT And don't forget Jack Nicholson's terminal writer's block in THE SHINING THE NAKED LUNCH, with its interesting typewriter Almost every other film by Woody Allen DR. ZHIVAGO Kathleen Turner as a romance novelist in ROMANCING THE STONE Albert Finney in UNDER THE VOLCANO THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP ----------------------------------------------- "Only connect!" --E.M. Forster Donald F. Larsson Department of English Minnesota State University Mankato, MN 56001 [log in to unmask] ________________________________ From: Film and TV Studies Discussion List on behalf of Scott Hutchins Sent: Fri 2/13/2004 8:13 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Films about Writers, Writing, etc. Tenebre The Wizard of Speed and Time Adaptation. King Lear (Godard) Inferno (Argento) The Dreamer of Oz Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle Mr. Write Barton Fink The Hours Hammett The Lost Weekend The End of the Affair http://akas.imdb.com/List?keywords=writer&&tv=on for more > Date sent: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 15:01:57 -0500 > Send reply to: Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]> > From: Jessica Adams <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Films about Writers, Writing, etc. > To: [log in to unmask] > Hello, > > I am putting together a bibiliography for an upcoming course on Writers and > Writing on screen. Does anyone have any suggestions for films (I already > have a lengthy list of recent American films from the early 90s on), or for > books/essays about the way that writers and the writing process are > portrayed on-screen? > > Any and all suggestions welcome via private email: [log in to unmask] > > Thanks! > > - Jessica Adams > > ---- > Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite > http://www.ScreenSite.org > ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html