The Lovely Bones

It is no wonder that director Peter Jackson was fascinated by the idea of adapting Alice Sebold's bestselling novel The Lovely Bones into film. First of all, it would allow him to revisit the subject of suburban murder, which he so brilliantly approached in 1994's Heavenly Creatures, while at the same time he could give free rein to his visual imagination by recreating the Middle-Earthesque heavenly fragments of the novel.

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Silent classic The Wind in CINEMATEK

The Wind is generally recognised as one of the last great silent films. I'll admit from the outset the ugly fact that I have never seen the film, so I'll refrain from commenting on the accuracy of the statement. However,  judging by director Victor Sjöström's immediately previous collaboration with actress Lillian Gish in the free but excellent adaptation of Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter, I can't but look forward to tomorrow's screening of this 1928 classic in Brussels CINEMATEK..

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