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MONTHLY THEME: HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD
We've matched a few books here with their DVDs. We've got several more on display in the Adult Services area at the library. Read a book, watch the movie, or both. Then let us know which you liked best! Come on by the Adult Services area of the library to check out our Hollywood "Books into Movies" theme.
====>>>The Mid-Continent Public Library in Missouri has compiled a list of over 1,200 books, novels, short stories, and plays that have been made into motion pictures. They call it Based on the Book and it's searchable by year, book title, movie title or author. Definitely worth a look.<<<====
Books into Movies...at Theatres Near You (or soon to be!)
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.
The love story of Henry and Claire whose lives are punctuated by Henry's disappearance to different points in time--sometimes even back to visit Claire as a young woman. When Henry meets Claire, he is twenty-eight, and she is twenty. He's a hip, handsome librarian; she is an art student with Botticelli hair. Henry has never met Claire before; Claire has known Henry since she was six....
Place hold for the Book: The Time Traveler's Wife
See the trailer for: The Time Traveler's Wife.
A Few Books with their DVDs...At the Library!
Atonement by Ian McEwan.
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed forever...
Place hold for the Book: Atonement
Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile.
Put the Tom Clancy clones back on the shelf; this covert-ops chronicle is practically impossible to put down. No thriller writer would dare invent Wilson, a six-feet-four-inch Texas congressman, liberal on social issues but rabidly anti-Communist, a boozer, engaged in serial affairs and wheeler-dealer of consummate skill.
Place hold for the Book: Charlie Wilson's War
Q & A by Vikas Swarup .
Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after correctly answering all twelve questions on India's biggest quiz show, Who Will Win a Billion? It is hard to believe that a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or gone to school could win such a contest. But through a series of exhilarating tales Ram explains to his lawyer how episodes in his life gave him the answer to each question.
Place hold for the Book: Q & A
Oil! by Upton Sinclair.
This novel originates from the 'Teapot Dome' oil scandal of President Warren Harding as oil barons bribe politicians. It is about greed and the oil boom of Southern California in the 1920's. It is wrapped up in evangelic crusades by shifty preachers and leftist labor activists. "Oil" is a provoking novel as a man and his son plunge into the oil drilling business and all that they do and what is around them. Bunny the son becomes a 'red millionaire' and is a radical strike leader. The 2007 highly acclaimed movie "There Will Be Blood" starring Daniel Day-Lewis is an adaptation of Sinclair's Oil!
Place hold for the Book: Oil!
Online Reference Sources for Book and Movies...
Like some ideas on what to read? Try our NoveList and FictionConnection databases. These two resources can help you discover titles similar to books you already enjoy as well as find books by subject headings and reviews.
Interested in a little more Hollywood? These websites should come in handy.
• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences http://www.oscars.org Information about the Academy awards, a database of motion picture credits, history of the organization, past award winners, and more. A database of past winners and nominees (complete through 2006) is also available.
• AllMovie http://www.allmovie.com Browse by title, genre, locate box office statistics or read an essay . Movie trailers, lists of new releases, and a glossary are also available.
• American Film Institute http://www.afi.com Details about the organization and its work. Offers top 100 lists and information about jobs, education, and workshops.
• British Film Institute http://www.bfi.org.uk Information about the BFI National Archive, statistics, in-depth features, a film and tv database, research guides, and more.
• Disney Archives http://disney.go.com/vault/archives/characters_ai.html Three browsable categories: movies, characters, and villains. Results include a description and downloadable images.
• Film.com http://www.film.com Movie news and reviews.
• Film Reference http://www.filmreference.com A free online encyclopedia offering information about movies, actors, directors, and writers.
• Film Site http://www.filmsite.org History, trivia, quotes, and resources about classic films.
• Golden Globe Awards http://www.goldenglobes.org The official site of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Offers a video and photo gallery, lists nominees and winners, news, and more.
• Internet Movie Database http://imdb.com A database of movie information including actors, directors, writers, producers, filming locations and trivia, and provides links to reviews, show times, and fan sites on the web.
• Metacritic.com http://www.metacritic.com Reviews for film, tv, and video. The unique scoring shows "the critical consensus at a glance by taking a weighted average of critic grades."
• The Motion Picture and Television Photo Archive www.mptvimages.com/cgi-bin/imageFolio.cgi Search the "vault" by keyword, personality, event, photographer, and more. Thumbnail image results can be enlarged for viewing.
• Motion Picture Association of America http://www.mpaa.org Information about film ratings, research and statistics, and top issues.
• Moviefonehttp://www.moviefone.com Movie schedules, tickets and information about the movies.
• Movie Quotes http://www.moviequotes.com A database containing over one million movie quotes.
• New York Times Movies http://www.nytimes.com/pages/movies/index.html This section includes reviews, trailers, articles, and a complete list of reviews from the New York Times dating back to 1929.
• Rotten Tomatoes http://www.rottentomatoes.com/movie Scores movies and provides both positive and negative reviews. Also allows users to select a movie by genre, "tomatometer," and MPAA rating.
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