A couple of interesting movie-related links:
The Guardian has a list of the top 50 best book-to-film adaptations. I have to confess that there are surprisingly few where I’ve both read the book and seen the film, and I can barely remember the quality of the crossover on those.
In a project of truly mammoth proportions, Paul Kerensa has started The Movie Timeline of history you can contribute to. It charts events in the movies against a timeline of the world, ignoring real world events (unless featured in a film). Some classics he quotes are:
Who’d have thought that while Gangs of New York’s Amsterdam Vallon was killing Butcher Bill, down the road Abraham Lincoln was being kidnapped by Bill & Ted…
And lucky Al Capone - he was sent to Alcatraz by Eliot Ness just in time to miss King Kong rampaging around New York…
Andy Dufresne was wrongly sentenced to Shawshank a few short months before someone else was framed - Roger Rabbit…
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