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Book Vs. Film

  • Book vs. Film My Week With Marilyn

    Colin Clark worked with Marilyn Monroe in the 1950s. But his memoirs and the film My Week With Marilyn tell two different versions of the story. 

    January 20, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • Let The Right One In

    Book vs. Film Let The Right One In

     A Swedish bestseller gets pared down to an acclaimed Swedish film that finds its freezing heart.

    March 20, 2009 | 2:17pm -

  • Not even Dr. Manhattan can pick just one.

    Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film: Watchmen

    So is the film as faithful to the book as everyone says? Yes. And no.

    March 6, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film: Who Framed Roger Rabbit

    There's a surprisingly complicated mystery in Gary K. Wolf's comic novel, and it isn't the one from the film.

    September 12, 2008 | 7:49am -

  • Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film: Fast Times At Ridgemont High

    One has naked boobs, the other has twice as many comic vignettes. No surprise which is more interesting.

    July 11, 2008 | 1:12am -

  • Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film: The Graduate

    Book + personality = classic.

    May 30, 2008 | 11:51am -

  • Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film: The Ruins

    How do you make a killer plant scary? Apparently if you're making a movie based on a bestseller, you don't.

    May 2, 2008 | 1:20pm -

  • Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film: Paranoid Park

    This is what it's like to be a teenager: kinda dopey and kinda painful.

    April 18, 2008 | 8:08pm -

  • Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film: The Other Boleyn Girl

    Was Anne Boleyn a vengeful sister or a psycho bitch? Depends on which version you check.

    March 27, 2008 | 11:02pm -

  • Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film: Oil!

    The 1927 novel that inspired There Will Be Blood could have been called There Will Be Ranting About The Evils Of Capitalism.

    February 29, 2008 | 4:27pm -

  • Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film: Jumper

    A morality tale becomes an anti-morality tale, but at least throws in some rad explosions.

    February 21, 2008 | 11:04pm -

  • Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film: Into The Wild

    One story seen from two perspectives: journalistic vs. idealistic.

    February 14, 2008 | 10:36pm -

  • Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film Special Mega Bonus Edition: I Am Legend

    One novella. Four films. How do they stack up?

    February 8, 2008 | 12:00pm -

  • Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film: Atonement

    A film that's all on the outside meets a book that's all on the inside.

    January 25, 2008 | 4:11pm -

  • Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film: The Diving Bell And The Butterfly

    How a painstakingly collected series of thoughts became an excruciating biography.

    January 11, 2008 | 4:03am -

  • Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film: The Golden Compass

    The disappointing but dynamic film adaptation of a fantasy bestseller doesn't promise good things to come for the other two books in the series — if they make it to film at all.

    December 17, 2007 | 2:15am -

  • Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film: The Mist

    One version has more monsters and a darker ending, one has more details and better characters. Guess which is which?

    December 6, 2007 | 11:43pm -

  • Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film: No Country For Old Men

    How does the book version of No Country For Old Men stack up against the new film version? The inaugural entry in a new column finds out.

    November 27, 2007 | 4:02am -