Have been in Toronto all week for the Toronto International Film Festival. Taken a lot of photos but these few I’m going to share with you first for Saturday Snapshot Sept. 14, for they are what Ripple Effects is all about: Books and Films.
Saw this sign in a major bookstore beside a TIFF screening venue:
The movie is in the book.
Indeed, many of this year’s TIFF selections are based on literary sources.
From biographies to biopics:
If you or your book group are starting a new season of reading, you may find some interesting titles in the following list of films screened at TIFF this year (click on link to the film adaptation):
12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts (Pulitzer Prize-winning play)
Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Double by Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago (Film: Enemy)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro (Film: Hateship, Friendship)
The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin
Known and Unknown by Donald Rumsfeld (Film: The Unknown Known)
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
Mary Queen of Scotland by Stefan Zweig (Film: Mary Queen of Scots)
Salinger by David Shields and Shane Salemo
The Switch by Elmore Leonard (Film: Life of Crime)
Under the Skin by Michel Faber
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The book list sounds great. Thanks for sharing!
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Yes Kaye, there are a few that I’d like to read, and to see. Thanks for stopping by.
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My movie list starts at your posts. And I love these photos — sure would like to find that book store!
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Jeanie,
This is the benefit of FF. They screen films that you just might not be able to see on our theatre screens because they just might not find distributors. So I’m glad I’ve seen a few this week.
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What a wonderful week that must have been. Love that first photo with the sign.
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Louise,
Definitely an exciting week staying right in downtown Toronto where TIFF takes place. Yes, isn’t that an interesting message on the sign? So true too.
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Cagey merchandising for a bookstore! Yeah!
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True… advertising for all, author, publisher, filmmaker, director, cast… all good. 😉
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Oh that looks like fun!
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Sheila,
Sure is! 😉
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What an interesting list, and I love all the stacks of books. My Snapshot is at http://goo.gl/1SXA7W – still on my other blog,
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Christine,
For some reasons, piles of books always make good photos. Even just looking at them is interesting enough.
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Great idea, movie in a book…”where’s my movie” I might have to blog about that!
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Jackie,
I guess the key is… to kill two birds with one stone, write a book with a movie in mind.
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Thanks for sharing the pics and info. I wasn’t aware of all of these adaptations. Cool!
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Martha,
Yes, lots to read, and to see come award season, which is soon.
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That is quite a list of films. And I love looking at the book stacks! You make me want to visit a bookstore. The movie theater is a little harder to get to these days 🙂
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Rebecca,
I’m reading John Banville’s The Sea while in TO and saw the beautiful film adaptation at TIFF. And you know what, I even saw the main actor in the film Ciaran Hinds. (He was Captain Wentworth in Persuasion way back when)
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GREAT shots of the books…thanks.
Elizabeth
Silver’s Reviews
My Saturday Snapshot
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Ohhh a movie of The Dinner – now that could be interesting!
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Brona,
Oh have you read the book? I plan to… A film based on one dinner. I can smell it’s not to everyone’s taste. But I just might like it. 😉
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Yes I’ve read the book. I loved it in an awful kind of way. The people are ghastly, they do and condone despicable deeds, but I couldn’t stop reading!!
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Somehow it reminds me of the film ‘Carnage’ based on the play written by Yasmina Reza. A film in one setting with two sets of married couples disputing.
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Looks like a fun trip!
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It sure was! 😉
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Amazing how many movies are based on books, always an interesting lineup at the TIFF, I’m waiting to see Half of Yellow Sun as a family member was involved in the film making and spent many months in Nigeria and having to overcome many obstacles (which could almost be a story in itself) to help bring that film to fruition.
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Claire,
That must be exciting, to know someone so closely involved in the making of the film. You have brought out a point that was reiterated by the filmmakers I heard at the end of the films which I watched. In a couple of the screenings I attended, it took the director/producer a decade to get it all together. You see, that’s why I love the special features on DVD’s and Blu-rays. The making-of itself is a film on its own. I’m sure you know it first hand. 😉
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I hope you had a good time at the festival. Whenever I would hear something about it or see a news headline about it I would think of you and wonder what you were up to!
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Stefanie,
I sure had the most exciting trip to Toronto this time. Film reviews coming up, as soon as I can gather and organize my thoughts in writing. And… thanks for thinking of me. 😉
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