The 50 best films about writers, ranked

[jochen stremmel]

The music isn't bad, too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arX8xf_p1vk&list=PLF2ayhcb2yRXc5R9EtTywXXfuZfo-NrkT

And about the house, a paragraph of the German Wikipedia:
Villa Malaparte

Erwähnenswert ist Malaparte auch als Bauherr der *Villa Malaparte
<http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Malaparte>*, einer wegen ihrer
architektonischen Formensprache gerühmten Villa am Capo Massullo auf Capri
<http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capri>, die er Ende der 1930er Jahre von dem
prominenten Architekten Adalberto Libera
<http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adalberto_Libera> errichten ließ. Er
bezeichnete das Haus als „una casa come me: triste, dura, severa“ („ein
Haus wie ich: traurig, hart, streng“). Das Haus wurde von Malaparte der
Volksrepublik China vermacht, ist aber nach einem langjährigen Rechtsstreit
derzeit wieder Privatbesitz. Es zählt auch heute noch zu den bekanntesten
und eindrucksvollsten Gebäuden der Welt. Detailliert zu sehen ist das Haus
in dem Godard <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_Godard>-Film *Die
Verachtung <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Verachtung>*.
Now, tell us your anecdote, Mark


2014-10-18 16:38 GMT+02:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:

> CONTEMPT is a great, great, film.
>
> Maybe I will tell a personal anecdote about seeing it to the P-list but,
> if not, did you know that the house where it was filmed was--or had been,
> dunno--writer Curzio Malaparte's digs?
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Oct 18, 2014, at 9:22 AM, Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > A good one, Kai.
> >
> > I haven't seen #1 either, would love to. Barton Fink, yes, but I'm quite
> > surprised to see Wilder's The Lost Weekend (1945) missing from the list
> > completely as I think it's on a par with BF. And, the photo accompanying
> > Godard's Contempt is from Truffaut's Day for Night... Whick makes this
> > European elitist realize that Godard's Moravia adaptation is the best
> > fílm in the lot.
> >
> >
> > Heikki
> >
> >> On Sat, 18 Oct 2014, John Bailey wrote:
> >>
> >> Touche, Kai.
> >>
> >> I would rank #2 (Barton Fink) in that top spot but I haven't heard of
> >> the number one film so I'll give it a chance.
> >>
> >> But Wonder Boys at #3? In fact, any "campus novel" let alone a film
> >> adaptation starring Michael Douglas in any top ten anywhere? Convince
> >> me that's acceptable, people.
> >>
> >>> On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Dave Monroe <
> against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> We really need a "like" button here ...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Saturday, October 18, 2014, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
> lorentzen at hotmail.de>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Why didn't "The Robert Musil Story" with Pee-wee Herman make it to the
> >>>> list?
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 18.10.2014 11:04, Dave Monroe wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> http://flavorwire.com/481487/50-best-films-about-writers-ranked
> >> -
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> >>
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