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Directed by Monica Gutierrez and produced by Galen Brown, 3004 Studios, and the Toronto Public Library, this documentary follows slam poets and mentors from the Poetry Saved Our Lives writing and performance workshops in Toronto, Canada.
Carol, based on the novel The Price of Salt (Coward-McCann, 1952) by Patricia Highsmith, premiered at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, where actress Rooney Mara tied for Best Actress. The film is directed by Todd Haynes with a screenplay by Phyllis Nagy.
"That villainous abominable misleader of youth, Falstaff, that old white-bearded Satan." Primarily an adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2, Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight traces the relationship between beloved characters Falstaff and Prince Hal. A new, expert restoration is being reintroduced in theaters across the country.
The Danish Girl, a film adaptation of David Ebershoff's first novel, follows the story of married painters Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener, and Lili's journey as a transgender pioneer. The film is directed by Tom Hooper and stars Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander.
"I ain't afraid to die anymore. I done it already." The Revenant, based on Michael Punke's 2002 novel of the same name, follows one man's journey across the frozen American West to avenge the murder of his son. Directed by Academy Award-winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu, the film will be released in December 2015.
"Oh, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!" A new film adaptation of William Shakespeare's beloved tragedy Macbeth, directed by Justin Kurzel, stars Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard.
The newest film adaptation of William Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury, directed by James Franco, premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2014 and is currently in limited release and on video on demand. Franco previously directed a film adaptation of As I Lay Dying, another of Faulkner's novels, which was released in 2013.
"We do what everyone says we can't. We write." Trumbo tells the story of legendary screenwriter and novelist Dalton Trumbo, played by Bryan Cranston, who was blacklisted by Hollywood in the 1940s after he was accused of being a Communist. The film is directed by Jay Roach with a screenplay by John McNamara.
The film adaptation of Emma Donoghue's award-winning novel Room (Little, Brown, 2010) will be released this fall. The film is directed by Lenny Abrahamson with a screenplay by Donoghue.
An updated version of director Mary McDonagh Murphy's documentary Harper Lee: Hey, Boo airs tonight on PBS. Harper Lee's second novel, Go Set a Watchman, will be released by HarperCollins on July 14, fifty-five years after the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird (Lippincott, 1960).
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