Judy Cohen Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Elsa Lanchester #BOTD BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN – James Whale, 1935 #BookToFilm: "Frankenstein" – Mary Shelley, 1818 w/ Colin Clive, Ernest Thesiger & Boris Karloff #scifi #horror “She’s alive! Alive!” https://t.co/pRcx5FvPim

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#filmmaker Robert Rossen #BOTD THE HUSTLER (1961) #cinematography: Eugen Schüfftan #screenplay: Sidney Carroll #BookToFilm: Walter Tevis, 1959 “Some men never get to feel that way about anything.” https://t.co/c2sZogHDlO

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Peter Finch #BOTD A TOWN LIKE ALICE – Jack Lee, 1956 #BookToFilm Nevil Shute, 1950 w/ Virginia McKenna An English #POW on an endless trek through Malaya meets an Australian prisoner of the Japanese. “I didn’t think the first time I’d talk to an English lady, she’d look like you!” https://t.co/Qb5Y6vmoej

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#writer Milan Kundera #BOTD #BookToFilm (1984) THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING – Philip Kaufman, 1988 #cinematography: Sven Nykvist w/ Daniel Day-Lewis & Juliette Binoche Czechoslovakia, 1968 https://t.co/PEvVbLOssa

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Ellen Burstyn #BOTD THE LAST PICTURE SHOW – Peter Bogdanovich, 1971 #cinematography: Robert Surtees #screenplay: Larry McMurtry w/ Cybill Shepherd “It’s kind of an itchy age…” https://t.co/yT8ZuJVzi1

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STRANGERS ON A TRAIN – Alfred Hitchcock, 1951 #cinematography: Robert Burks #BookToFilm: Patricia Highsmith, 1950 w/ Robert Walker & Kasey Rogers #noir #thriller Bruno tracks his victim – who seriously misunderstands his motives… #IceCreamConeDay https://t.co/lSMWNuMYN4

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#writer Bram Stoker #BOTD DRACULA – Tod Browning, 1931 #BookToFilm (1897) #cinematography: Karl Freund w/ Bela Lugosi & Dwight Frye #PreCode #supernatural #vampire #horror “I’ve explained to the driver that it’s a matter of business... I’ve got to go!” https://t.co/v7GvcJVuxx

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John Fiedler #BOTD A RAISIN IN THE SUN – Daniel Petrie, 1961 #StageToScreen: Lorraine Hansberry, 1959 w/ Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee & Diana Sands “You’ve got to admit that a man – right or wrong – has the right to want to have the neighborhood he lives in in a certain kind of way." https://t.co/MPjWD2EnVk

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Mickey Simpson #BOTD GIANT – George Stevens, 1956 #cinematography: William C. Mellor #BookToFilm: Edna Ferber, 1952 w/ Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson & Elsa Cárdenas #Western #Texas #racism #immigrants “You’re in the wrong place, amigo!” https://t.co/HafcpAMPAA

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SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING – Karel Reisz, 1960 #screenplay: Alan Sillitoe #cinematography: Freddie Francis w/ Albert Finney & Shirley Anne Field #TakeAWalkInTheParkDay Arthur & Doreen go for a walk in the #Nottingham #park where he makes a fateful offer... https://t.co/7SuAvpjkDv