Two questions
How many feature films have been based on or inspired by (and most importantly, titled after) non-character-driven nonfiction books?
I wondered about this after seeing the ads for He's Just Not That Into You.
The only other one I thought of was Woody Allen's "Everything you always wanted to know about sex *But were afraid to ask"...
Which leads to my second question—what other movies have asterisks in their titles?!
Labels: lists, Woody Allen
posted by Ed Park @ 8:42 AM
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Billy Crystal's HBO movie about Maris, 61*.
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Good one!
What about M*A*S*H? Apparently only the TV series counts, the movie had no asterisks!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M*A*S*H_(TV_series)
The movie "MASH" has a "poster spelling" (aka promotional spelling) with the asterices... to use the pseudo-Latin plural.
Other movies and TV features with an asterisk or two in the promotional/poster spelling:
"K*19: The Widowmaker" (2002)
"The @r!$t* (r@t$" (2005)
"Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t!" (2003)
"Young People F*cking" (2007)
"F*ck" (2005)
Some movies with an asterisk or two:
"A*P*E" (1976)
"S*P*Y*S" (1974)
"The Visionary* - (*Tesla)" (2005)
"KatieBird *Certifiable Crazy Person" (2005)
"You Are Here*" (2000)
"W*A*L*T*E*R" (1984) (TV)
"The Adventures of an *" (1957)
"Buy One, Get One Free*" (1996)
"*69" (1998)
Singer is one step ahead of you! Here are his "Six Films Adapted From Non-Narrative Non Fiction":
http://www.ifc.com/film/film-news/2009/02/theres-no-story-in-the-book-si.php
He lists the Woody Allen, among others.
How about "Female Perversions"?
(There was also an excellent stage play based on Greil Marcus's "Lipstick Traces.")
Adaptation is an adaptation of a non-character-driven non-fiction book.
Do the Asterix films count as films with asterisks in the titles? I suppose they don't.
And then there's the biggest asterisk movie, Andy Warhol's 24-hour-long **** (Four Stars) (1966).
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