Gilbert Adair (29 December 1944 – 8 December 2011) was a Scottish novelist, poet, film critic, and journalist. He was critically most famous for the "fiendish"...
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film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci from a screenplay by Gilbert Adair, based on Adair's 1988 novel The Holy Innocents. An international co-production...
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The Holy Innocents (1988) is a novel by Scottish writer Gilbert Adair. It is about three young cinephiles: two French siblings and an American stranger...
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translated into English by Gilbert Adair, with the title A Void, for which he won the Scott Moncrieff Prize in 1995. The Adair translation of the book also...
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Adair may refer to: Adair (name), a surname and given name Adair baronets in the Baronetage of the UK Adare Manor, a manor house in Adare, County Limerick...
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a time past, but on something that reaches beyond." British critic Gilbert Adair wrote, "Kubrick's approach to language has always been reductive and...
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Castellano, is also based on this novel. The story was adapted by the writer Gilbert Adair for his 1988 novel The Holy Innocents, which was the basis for Bernardo...
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the subject of the biography The Real Tadzio (Short Books, 2001) by Gilbert Adair. Ironically, while in the novella Aschenbach is Silesian, it was Moes...
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Bondone) The Holy Innocents (Adair novel), by Gilbert Adair The Dreamers (2003 film), a film based, in part, on the Adair novel The Holy Innocents (Delibes...
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in the graveyard on the hill of St Peter in Pilica, southern Poland. Gilbert Adair, The Real Tadzio (Short Books, 2001) "Strona główna". Jura-Pilica.com...
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Death on Long Island is a 1997 British-Canadian film adapted from Gilbert Adair's 1990 novel of the same name, directed by Richard Kwietniowski and starring...
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younger generation: Paul Buck, Bill Griffiths, John Hall, John James, Gilbert Adair, Lawrence Upton, Peter Finch, Ulli Freer, Ken Edwards, Robert Gavin...
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Gilbert Smithson Adair FRS (21 September 1896 – 22 June 1979) was an early protein scientist who used osmotic pressure measurements to establish that haemoglobin...
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reality. Sergei Paradjanov was the master of that temple." Film critic Gilbert Adair argued that "although in both style and content it gives us the impression...
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Ackroyd. London: William Collins and Sons. Adair, Gilbert (11 November 2006). "Unusual suspect: Gilbert Adair discovers the real secret of Agatha Christie's...
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death count which occurs later in the book confuse fans of Forster's. Gilbert Adair wrote that the greatest weaknesses for readers is its "unrelenting intellectuality...
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The Carer Directed by János Edelényi Written by János Edelényi Gilbert Adair Starring Coco König Brian Cox Release date 3 January 2016 (2016-01-03) (PSIFF)...
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not contain the letter "e". It has been translated into English by Gilbert Adair under the title A Void (1994). His novella Les revenentes (1972) is...
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a "lurid, violent, pretentious piece of claptrap". Scottish author Gilbert Adair called the film "repellent to the last degree", charging it with "insidious...
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direct sequel to Orwell's work. Alice Through the Needle's Eye (1984) by Gilbert Adair, a sequel to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books. The novelist...
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Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz, with an English screenplay adaptation by Gilbert Adair. The director of photography was Ricardo Aronovich, and the music was...
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developer George W. Adair Jr. (1874–1921), real estate developer Gilbert Adair (1944–2011), author and journalist Gilbert Smithson Adair (1896–1979), British...
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exceptions of Cyril and Shirley. In a review for Sight & Sound, critic Gilbert Adair posits that the film's themes are akin to those of the writings of Auberon...
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inspired by Wright's Gadsby) and its English translation A Void by Gilbert Adair. Both works are missing the letter E, which is the most common letter...
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Love and Death on Long Island (novel) (category Novels by Gilbert Adair)
Love and Death on Long Island is a novella written by Gilbert Adair and first published in 1990. It was adapted as a 1997 film, Love and Death on Long...
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not include the letter "e". It was translated into English in 1995 by Gilbert Adair. Perec subsequently joked that he incorporated the "e"s not used into...
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combinations. Perec's novel La disparition, translated into English by Gilbert Adair and published under the title A Void, is a 300-page novel written without...
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Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz, based on the 2000 novel of the same name by Gilbert Adair, about a blind author who employs an assistant to help him write his...
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Interviewers Over Rivette' by Jonathan Rosenbaum, Lauren Sedofsky, Gilbert Adair Céline et Julie Vont en Bateau: Phantom Ladies Over Paris by Jonathan...
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arpenteur de l'imagination. (Paris: Ramsay, 2008.) p.252. Interview with Gilbert Adair in The Guardian, 22 June 2010. Interview in Cahiers du Cinéma, 347 (1983)...
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