Henry Carter Hull

Dramatized selections from six popular adolescent novles stimulate interest and provoke discussion, causing students to interact with the characters and their problems. The novels are on a 7th to 12th grade interest level and have a 5th to 6th grade reading level. Each part dramatizes protions of two novels. Students are asked to speculate on what will happen as a result of the actions of the principal characters. Featuring: "The Pigman"; "The Contender";...

James Franco stars in this adaptation of the classic William Faulkner novel, the tragic story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family's quest to honor her last wish. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**.

Charlotte Kestner (played by Lilli Palmer) was the love of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s youth, who became famous as Lotte in his renowned epistolary novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, published in 1774. After four decades, in late summer 1816, Charlotte travels to Weimar to see Goethe again. The posturing of high society she finds there and her disappointing encounter with her former love lead her to an unexpected conclusion: she no longer loves...

Three brothers live at home where their father is the self-appointed God and rules in his robe. After deciding to write his memoirs - turning the home insane - the boys must fight their father's rule in a showdown with 'God'. The newest from award-winning madcap director Henrik Ruben Genz and based on the best selling novel. Official Selection at the **London Film Festival**.

Based on the novel by Roberto Saviano (Gomorrah), PIRANHAS follows fifteen year-old Nicola (newcomer Francesco Di Napoli) who lives with his mother and younger brother in the Sanità neighborhood of Naples, a place that has been controlled by the Camorra mafia for centuries. Dreaming of a life lush with designer clothing and elite nightclub bottle service, Nicola and his group of friends begin selling drugs, an entryway into the violent, power-hungry...

With over 10 million copies of her “Neapolitan Novels” sold in over 50 countries, Elena Ferrante is a global literary sensation. She was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World and HBO recently turned the first book in the quartet, *My Brilliant Friend*, into a subtitled miniseries hit with more seasons to come. A journey between New York City’s cultural hub and Ferrante’s native Italy, the film explores how...

A thoughtful look at the late outlaw writer and punk icon whose formally inventive novels, published from the ’70s through the mid-’90s, challenged assumptions about gender roles, sexuality, and the literary canon. A beguiling and intensely contradictory figure, Acker is best known for books which creatively appropriated texts from Great White Male writers, retelling them in an emotionally raw, sexually blunt, and politically questioning female...

In the cruel world of junior high, Edwin suffers in a state of anxiety and alienation alongside his only friend, Flake. Misunderstood by their families and demoralized at school daily, their fury simmers quietly until an idea for vengeance offers them a terrifying release. Based on the acclaimed novel by Jim Shepard, this unflinching look at adolescence explores how the powerful bonds of childhood friendship and search for belonging can become a matter...

A finely nuanced portrait of Violette LeDuc, one of the foremost French writers of the 20th century. VIOLETTE depicts LeDuc's extraordinary life, from her low beginnings as the illegitimate daughter of a servant girl to becoming ensconced in France's literary elite. In spite of her wretched years as an unwanted child, followed by tense years as a black marketeer during WWII, Violette LeDuc is determined to make something of her life. Writing is her...

It is said that Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez never allowed for a film adaptation of his singular masterpiece *One Hundred Years of Solitude*, arguably the most influential novel in any language of the second half of the twentieth century, to be produced. However, the prolific Colombian writer had strong ties to the movies. GABO & CINEMA is a commendable and well documented contribution to the general study of Gabriel García Márquez’s...