List of films based on arts books
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This is a list of films based on arts books.
Architecture
[edit]Architects
[edit]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
[edit]Performers
[edit]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
[edit]Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Basis |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
7 Faces of Dr. Lao | 1964 | George Pal | US | The Circus of Dr. Lao | Charles G. Finney | 1935 | Novel | - |
Dance
[edit]Dancers
[edit]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
[edit]Painters
[edit]Sculptors
[edit]Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Basis |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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
[edit]Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Basis |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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
[edit]Authors (fiction)
[edit]- * TV movie.
Authors (non-fiction)
[edit]Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Basis |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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)
[edit]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)
[edit]Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Basis |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Hoax | 2006 | Lasse Hallström | US | The Hoax | Clifford Irving | 1981 | Non-fiction | Clifford Irving |
Playwrights
[edit]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
[edit]Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Basis |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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
[edit](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
[edit](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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]Magicians
[edit]Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Basis |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Houdini | 1953 | George Marshall | US | Houdini | Harold Kellock | 195? | Non-fiction | Harry Houdini |
Music
[edit]Composers
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]Singers
[edit]Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Basis |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lady Sings the Blues | 1972 | Sidney J. Furie | US | Lady Sings the Blues | Billie Holiday with William Dufty | 1956 | Autobiography | Billie Holiday |
Instrumentalists
[edit]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
[edit]Performers
[edit]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
[edit]Burlesque
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]Actors and actresses
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]Photographers
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ 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
[edit]- Lavington, Stephen. Virgin Film: Oliver Stone, Virgin Books, London, 2004.
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