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ESSAY: Literary Cinephilia: A Survey

Affliction
The Age of Innocence

Agnes Browne
Along Came a Spider
Amelia Lópes O'Neill
Anatomy of Hell
Anna and the King
Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
À tout de suite
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Babe
The Basketball Diaries
Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
La Belle noiseuse
Beloved
Besieged
The Big Bounce
Big Fish
The Big Sleep
The Birthday Party
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant 
Black Robe
Blackfellas
Blade Runner
Blood Work
The Borrowers
The Bridges of Madison County
Bridget Jones's Diary
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Bringing Out the Dead
Broadway Bound
Brother of Sleep
Buffalo Soldiers
The Captive
Carlito's Way
The Cat in the Hat
The Chamber
Chocolat (2000)
The Cider House Rules
Circle of Friends

Cloak and Dagger
The Coca-Cola Kid
Cold Heaven
The Color Purple
The Comfort of Strangers
The Commitments

The Constant Gardener
The Convent
Cosi
Crash
The Crucible
A Cry in the Night
Cujo
Damage
The Dark Half
Death and the Maiden
The Deep End
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
The Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
Disclosure
Don't Say a Word
Double Vision
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Drive My Car
Emma
Enduring Love
Enemy
The English Patient
The Evening Star
Everynight ... Everynight
Eyes Wide Shut
Fail-Safe
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Feast of July
Felicia's Journey
Fever Pitch
Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
Five Children and It
Flowers in the Attic
Focus
For Better and for Worse
Forrest Gump
The Four Feathers (2002)
Frankenstein Unbound
Frankie Starlight
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Get Shorty
Girl 6
Gods and Generals
The Golden Bowl
Goodfellas
Grand Jeté
The Grass Harp
Great Expectations (1998)
Hideous Kinky
Holes
A Home at the End of the World
The Horse Whisperer
Hostage: The Christine Maresch Story
The House of Mirth
The House of the Spirits
In Dreams
In My Father's Den
The Indian in the Cupboard
India Song
Innocence (2004)
Instinct
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Jackie Brown
James and the Giant Peach
Jane Eyre (1996)
Jarhead
The Joy Luck Club
Judge Dredd
King of the Hill
Lady Chatterley
Lady Chatterly (2006)
The Lady from Shanghai
The Last of the Mohicans
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Le Divorce
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The Leopard
A Little Princess
Little Women
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Lost Horizon (1973)
The Lost World
Macbeth (2006)
Madame Bovary (1949)
Madame Bovary (1991)
The Magic Pudding
Malmkrog
Man on Fire
The Man Who Fell To Earth
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Mansfield Park
Mephisto
Metal Skin
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
The Mighty
MirrorMask
Les Miserables (1998)

The Monkey's Mask
Morvern Callar
Mother Night
The Mothman Prophecies
Mrs 'Arris Goes to Paris
My Fair Lady
My Foolish Heart
My Life Without Me
Mysteries of Lisbon
Mysterious Skin
Mystic River
The Naked Country
Naked Lunch
The Name of the Rose
The Night of the Hunter
The Night the Prowler
The Ninth Gate
Not as a Stranger
Not Without My Daughter
Of Mice and Men (1992)
One True Thing
Orlando
Oscar and Lucinda
Othello (1995)
The Other
Partie de campagne
The Pelican Brief
The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
The Piano Teacher
The Player
The Pledge
Pocket Money
Praise
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Querelle
A Rage in Harlem
Red Dragon
Red Lights
Red Sorghum
The Remains of the Day
Richard III (1995)
The Right Stuff
A River Called Titas
Romeo + Juliet 1996
Rumble Fish
Salt on our Skin
Sátántango
The School of Flesh
The Secret Agent (1996)
Sense and Sensibility
The Silver Brumby
A Simple Plan
Slightly Scarlet
Snow Falling on Cedars
Solaris (2002)
Strangers on a Train
The Tailor of Panama
The Tenant
Tess
That Eye, the Sky
Thinner
The Tin Drum
The Tommyknockers
Touch
Transit
Trapped
Tristana
Two English Girls
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Underneath
Up at the Villa
Vanity Fair
Voyager
Wake in Fright
Washington Square
Waterland
What I Have Written
Wide Sargasso Sea
Wild River
The Wings of the Dove
Wise Blood
Young Adam
Zama


Film Critic: Adrian Martin
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