These 13 Oscar contenders convey tales from the web page to the display with diversifications of literary classics, trendy fiction and compelling true tales.
All Quiet on the Western Entrance (Netflix)
Director Edward Berger has taken a contemporary crack at Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 World Struggle I novel, the primary German-language adaptation of the antiwar basic.
Blonde (Netflix)
Andrew Dominik’s Marilyn Monroe biopic, based mostly on Joyce Carol Oates’ novel, has garnered raves and pans in equal measure. Oates herself tweeted on Sept. 30 in assist of the film, saying “not all movies are obliged to be uplifting of their conclusions.”
Bones and All (United Artists)
Luca Guadagnino’s ’80s-set characteristic is predicated on Camille DeAngelis’ 2015 novel and follows a pair of younger cannibals in love as they roam the U.S.
Catherine Known as Birdy (Prime Video)
Lena Dunham tailored the 1994 Karen Cushman novel a couple of Thirteenth-century teenager who rebels towards the patriarchy. “What I liked about ’90s YA was the way it didn’t query younger folks’s intelligence,” Dunham informed THR.
Devotion (Sony)
Director J.D. Dillard’s movie — set amid the Korean Struggle and based mostly on Adam Makos’ nonfiction e book — tells the story of Jesse Brown, the primary Black pilot within the U.S. Navy.
The Good Nurse (Netflix)
Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain play overburdened nurses — one in all whom emerges as some of the prolific serial killers in American historical past — on this true-crime thriller based mostly on Charles Graeber’s e book.
Girl Chatterley’s Lover (Netflix)
The Crown‘s Emma Corrin and Skins‘ Jack O’Connell lead Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s titillating adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s controversial 1929 basic.
A Man Known as Otto (Sony)
Marc Forster helms this interpretation of the 2013 comedian novel A Man Known as Ove by Swedish author Fredrik Backman a couple of man thwarted in his suicide makes an attempt by his rambunctious new neighbors.
My Policeman (Prime Video)
Michael Grandage’s movie, based mostly on Bethan Roberts’ 2012 novel, stars Harry Kinds as a closeted, married policeman who has an affair with a male pal. “Gross sales of the e book simply went by means of the roof,” says Grandage of the information of Kinds’ casting. “It was completely berserk. I assumed, ‘Oh my God, that’s the ability of this boy.’ ”
She Stated (Common)
Maria Schrader’s drama recounts journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s investigation into Harvey Weinstein. “If Megan and Jodi can stroll away feeling OK about this and [the survivors] do too, then the job is completed,” Carey Mulligan, who performs Twohey, informed THR.
White Noise (Netflix)
Noah Baumbach tackled the presumed “unadaptable” 1985 novel by Don DeLillo. “I couldn’t imagine how related it felt to the second,” mentioned the director of the creator’s work on the Venice Movie Competition.
Girls Speaking (United Artists)
“The questions this e book raised for me lived with me for a very long time,” writer-director Sarah Polley informed THR of Miriam Toews’ novel, about ladies in an remoted spiritual group combating their religion within the wake of mysterious sexual assaults.
The Surprise (Netflix)
Sebastián Lelio’s drama, based mostly on the novel by Emma Donoghue, stars Florence Pugh as an English nurse who ventures to an Irish city to look at a younger woman who miraculously claims to not have eaten something for months.
This story first appeared within the Nov. 21 challenge of The Hollywood Reporter journal. Click on right here to subscribe.