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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a 1966 American drama film directed by Mike Nichols in his directorial debut. The screenplay by Ernest Lehman is an adaptation of Edward Albee's 1962 play of the same name. It stars Elizabeth Taylor as Martha, Richard Burton as George, George Segal as Nick, and Sandy Dennis as Honey. The film depicts a late ...
The Hours is a 2002 psychological period-drama film directed by Stephen Daldry, from a screenplay by David Hare based on Michael Cunningham's 1998 novel.It stars Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep as three women whose lives are connected by Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel Mrs Dalloway.
Night and Day is an upcoming British/German film adaptation of the Virginia Woolf novel of the same name. It has an ensemble cast including Haley Bennett, Timothy Spall, Jennifer Saunders, Jack Whitehall, Sally Phillips, and Lily Allen.
The only music on the album is a song, "Virginia Woolf Rock", that plays while Martha and Nick are dancing (but plays a little differently than it does in the film). In at least two instances alternative takes were used: Taylor's memorable "Goddamn you!"
Reviewing the film in The New York Times, John J. O'Connor began by noting, "Few works of literature would seem to lend themselves less readily to dramatization than Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, but the BBC and Colin Gregg Ltd. have made the effort and the result is very special indeed"; although, he added, "Purists should be warned that changes have been made".
Orlando is a 1992 film [6] loosely based on Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel Orlando: A Biography, starring Tilda Swinton as Orlando, Billy Zane as Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, and Quentin Crisp as Queen Elizabeth I.
The film grossed £200,892 ($0.3 million) in the United Kingdom [2] and $3,309,421 in the United States and Canada. [3] Mrs Dalloway received positive reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 71% based on 34 reviews.
Set in the 1920s, Vita & Virginia tells the story of the love affair between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf. The film had its world premiere as a Special Presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival on 11 September 2018. [3] [4] It was released in the United Kingdom on 5 July 2019, and in the United States on 23 August 2019.