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Clip Notes: From Book to Movie

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Movie goers can look forward to lots of films based on best sellers and works by favorite authors. The Nanny Diaries staring Scarlett Johansson is already out in theatres as is 3:10 to Yuma, a remake of a film based on Elmore Leonard’s story. Silk with Keira Knightley (from the director of The red Violin) based on the novel by the Italian author Alessandro Baricco is already in limited release and the Feast of Love based on the novel by Charles Baxter which evokes Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is coming soon. October brings Reservation Road (partially shot in neighboring Easton) staring Joaquin Phoenix while November reminds us this is No Country for Old Men based on the book by Pulitzer Prize winner Cormac McCarthy and lets us recall Love in the Time of Cholera based on the novel by Noble laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez. And the much anticipated film adaptation of The Kite Runner is scheduled for release. December brings Keira Knightley (again) to the American screen in Atonement and early next year offers Scarlett Johansson (returning to her period piece penchant) in The Other Boleyn Girl adapted from Philippa Gregory’s book.

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