Screen interpretation of Franz Kafka's novel 'The Trial': Interaction of the author with the s­cript writer and film director by K.V. Arjantzeva

“…Pinter and the screen version of the novel by David Hugh Jones, the film director. In accordance with this aim, the work has been conditionally divided into two parts. …”
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Henri La Barthe, l’inventeur de Détective by Dominique Kalifa

“…This article highlights the unsung fate of “Detective Ashelbé” (HLB), who acquired an ephemeral notoriety when the film director Julien Duvivier adapted his novel Pépé le Moko. …”
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Quand le crime donne un visage au journal à sensation by Will Straw

“…This article highlights the unsung fate of “Detective Ashelbé” (HLB), who acquired an ephemeral notoriety when the film director Julien Duvivier adapted his novel Pépé le Moko. …”
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Racial Violence at the Crossroads of West and South in Rosewood (John Singleton, 1997) by Claire Dutriaux

“…Almost twenty years before Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, African American film director John Singleton’s Rosewood (1997) told the violent racial history of the South during the Jim Crow era and the real suffering they experienced at the hands of Whites, via a combination of a western-style narrative with a black cowboy hero and a historical drama. …”
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« There are kisses for all » : Le defilé des jeunes hommes by Luc Bouvard

“…The initial title of Coppola’s film version of Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula : the Untold Story, was probably closer to the finished product. However, the film director chose to claim his film adaptation as the most faithful rendition on screen of the famous gothic novel. …”
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Almodóvar’s Baroque Transitions in the Early Films (1980–1995) by Frederic Conrod

“…Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar has been detected early on by film critics as a Baroque filmmaker, a qualification to which he has agreed in interviews. …”
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Les Madrilènes et les espaces de la ville : de Surcos (José Antonio Nieves Conde, 1951) à Barrio (Fernando León de Aranoa, 1998) by Marianne Bloch-Robin

“…Through six emblematic films produced throughout the second half of 20th century, we analyze how the representation of Madrid inhabitants evolves, what its functions and characteristics are in the construction of urban and suburban spaces and how it changes depending of the time frame and the singular views of the film directors.…”
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Dances with Westerns in Poland’s Borderlands by Piotr Skurowski

“…This article deals with the influence of American Westerns on the work of the Polish film directors who chose to adapt the language of the film Western to construct their narrations about Poland’s postwar borderlands, including the so-called Recovered Territories and the Bieszczady region. …”
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Historias de la debacle y la migración en el imaginario fílmico argentino-español by Susana Schmidt

“…In the 2001 Argentina, different film directors linked, in their fictional movies, crisis to emigration of Argentines abroad, looking for better opportunities. …”
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Madrid, la ciudad quimera by Bénédicte Brémard

“…In a parallel step, film directors are inspired by the real city, sometimes fantasized, sometimes nightmarish. …”
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Un Éros de celluloïd : l’érotisation cinématographique de Paris (1945-1975) by Frédéric Hervé

“…Consequently, in translating clichés about the city to film, directors had to break ground in terms of form more than content. …”
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De la paix à la guerre, de la fiction au documentaire. Alexandre Dovjenko et Youlia Solntseva by Vanessa Voisin

“…For private as well as public reasons, the by then famous Soviet director refused the mission ascribed to feature film directors -- that is contributing to general mobilisation of the country from the rear areas, in the evacuated studios. …”
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