Kermode on films and books

I think I’ll flag this short video by Mark Kermode on the relationship between books and films up. It is a subject which fascinates me, and I touch briefly upon it in my MA. As the Good Doctor notes, there seems to be a tendency to think a book is always superior to a film. But to me they go hand-in-hand. They are vastly different art forms, but they often complement each other. They can also shed different perspectives on the same subject. As Dr. K notes, a film can inspire one to read a book, or visa versa. All this was first addressed, I need to say, on the pages of Cahiers du Cinema in the fifties and sixties, but it’s good to see Kermode touching upon it once again.

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