ST ch 19 French 75s, Greasy Thumb Guzik

[Laura Kelber]

I wish I could step into a parallel universe where Kubrick had adapted GR.

On Wed, May 13, 2026, 4:30 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Even Lolita worked for me. Nabokov adapted it.
>
> On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 4:28 PM Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Yes to Barry Lyndon! And Dr. Strangelove, from Red Alert. I'd say the only
>> (for me, anyway) unsuccessful Kubrick adaptation was Lolita - but adapting
>> Nabokov's brilliant prose is a tough job.
>>
>> On Wed, May 13, 2026, 4:05 PM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> > Kubrick and "Barry Lyndon" – what he did with that novel is
>> > overwhelming, the structure alone. In my eyes Shining the movie is not
>> > better than Shining the novel.
>> > And Hawks made from Hemingway's underwhelming novel THAHN a
>> > wonderful movie.
>> >
>> >
>> >
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