List of films based on arts books explained

This is a list of films based on arts books.

Architecture

Architects

Circus

Performers

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	Basis
Dumbo α	1941		US	Dumbo	Helen Aberson	193?	Children's book	-
Horton Hatches the Egg α	1942	Robert Clampett	US	Horton Hatches the Egg		1940	Children's book	-
The Man Who Laughs	1928	Paul Leni	US	The Man Who Laughs		1869	Novel	-

• α Animated film.

Carnies

Dance

Dancers

Fine art

Painters

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	Basis
Moulin Rouge	1952	John Huston	UK			1950	Novel	Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Lust for Life	1956	Vincente Minnelli	US	Lust for Life		1934	Novel	Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin
The Agony and the Ecstasy	1965	Carol Reed	US	The Agony and the Ecstasy		1961	Novel	Michelangelo
Pollock	2000	Ed Harris	US	^[1]		1989	Biography	Jackson Pollock
Frida	2002	Julie Taymor	US			1983	Biography	Frida Kahlo
Girl with a Pearl Earring	2003	Peter Webber		Girl with a Pearl Earring		1999	Novel	Jan Vermeer
Carrington	1995	Christopher Hampton				1994	Biography	Dora Carrington
Goya – oder der arge Weg der Erkenntnis	1971	Konrad Wolf		Goya oder der arge Weg der Erkenntnis		1951	Novel	Francisco Goya
Charlotte	2021	Éric Warin and Tahir Rana	Canada, Belgium & France	Life? or Theatre?		1981	Autobiography	Charlotte Salomon^[2]

Sculptors

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	Basis
Camille Claudel	1988	Bruno Nuytten		?		198?	Biography	Camille Claudel, Auguste Rodin
Savage Messiah	1972	Ken Russell	UK	Savage Messiah		1931	Biography	Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

Life models

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	Basis
The Naked Civil Servant *	1975	Jack Gold	UK	The Naked Civil Servant		1968	Autobiography	Quentin Crisp
Girl with a Pearl Earring	2003	Peter Webber		Girl with a Pearl Earring		1999	Novel	"Girl with a Pearl Earring" (incognita)

• * TV movie.

Literature

Authors (fiction)

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	Basis
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man	1962	Martin Ritt	US	Nick Adams stories		1920s	Stories	Ernest Hemingway
The Shining	1980	Stanley Kubrick	US	The Shining		1977	Novel	-
The Moderns	1988	Alan Rudolph	US	A Moveable Feast	Ernest Hemingway^[3]	1964 (posthumous)	Memoir	Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein
Old Gringo	1989	Luis Puenzo	US	The Old Gringo	Carlos Fuentes^[4]	1985	Novel	Ambrose Bierce
Naked Lunch	1991	David Cronenberg		Naked Lunch		1959	Novel	William S. Burroughs
Hammett	1993	Wim Wenders	US	Hammett		1975	Novel	Dashiell Hammett
In Love and War	1996	Richard Attenborough	US	Hemingway in Love and War	Henry S. Villard & James Nagel (editors)	1989 ^[5] ^¤	Diary	Ernest Hemingway
Hamsun	1996			Processen mod Hamsun		1978	Non-fiction	Knut Hamsun
				Regnbuen		1953	Autobiography
Misery	1990	Rob Reiner	US	Misery		1987	Novel	-
Children of the Century	1999	Diane Kurys		The Confession of a Child of the Century		1836	Novel/ Memoir	George Sand, Alfred de Musset
Secret Window	2004	David Koepp	US	Secret Window, Secret Garden		1990	Novella	Stephen King (simulacrum)
Capote	2005	Bennett Miller	US	Capote		199?	Biography	Truman Capote, Harper Lee
Infamous	2006	Douglas McGrath	US			1997	Biography	Truman Capote, Harper Lee
Miss Potter	2006	Chris Noonan	UK	The Tale of Peter Rabbit		1901/ 1902	Children's book	Beatrix Potter
Daphne *	2007	Clare Beavan	UK			1993	Biography	Daphne du Maurier
The Hours	2002	Stephen Daldry	US & UK	The Hours		1998	Novel	Virginia Woolf

• * TV movie.

Authors (non-fiction)

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	Basis
Paper Lion	1968	Alex March	US	Paper Lion		1967	Memoir	George Plimpton
Reds	1981	Warren Beatty	US	Ten Days that Shook the World (uncredited)	John Reed (uncredited)	1919	Memoir	John Reed
Stealing Heaven	1988	Clive Donner	UK ?	Stealing Heaven		1979	Novel	Peter Abelard
Regeneration	1997		UK & Canada	Regeneration ^[6]		1991	Novel	Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves ♠
Passage †	2008		Canada	Fatal Passage		2001	Non-fiction	Charles Dickens
Carrington	1995	Christopher Hampton				1994	Biography	Lytton Strachey
Out of Africa	1985	Sydney Pollack	US	Out of Africa		1937	Memoir	Isak Dinesen ♠

• ♠ Certain authors have written well-known fiction, in addition to their non-fiction.
• † Dramatized documentary.

Authors (ghostwriting)

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	Basis
Winchell *	1998		US			1976	Non-fiction	Herman Klurfeld
The Ghost Writer	2010		France, Germany, UK	The Ghost		2007	Novel	-
The Front ^[7]	1976		US	(uncredited)		1996	Memoir	Hollywood blacklist

• * TV movie.

Playwrights

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	Basis
Reds	1981	Warren Beatty	US	Ten Days that Shook the World (uncredited)	John Reed (uncredited)	1919	Non-fiction/ Memoir	Eugene O'Neill
Wilde	1997	Brian Gilbert	UK	Oscar Wilde ^[8]		1989	Biography	Oscar Wilde
En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud	1993	Gérard Mordillat		En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud		1974	Journal/ Memoir	Antonin Artaud
The Trials of Oscar Wilde	1960	Ken Hughes	UK	The Stringed Lute		195?	Play	Oscar Wilde
						1948	Non-fiction

Poets

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	Basis
Beautiful Dreamers	1990		Canada	Walt Whitman		1883	Biography	Walt Whitman
Regeneration	1997		UK & Canada	Regeneration		1991	Novel	Wilfred Owen
Bright Star		2009			Keats (uncredited)		1998	Biography	John Keats
In My Country	2004		UK ?	Country of My Skull		1998	Memoir	Antjie Krog
Hedd Wyn	1992		Wales^[9] ^[10]	Yr Arwr		1917	Poem	Hedd Wyn

Scriptwriters

(radio drama)

Publishers

(books and magazines)

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	Basis
Bright Lights, Big City	1988	James Bridges	US	Bright Lights, Big City		1984	Novel	-
The Devil Wears Prada	2006	David Frankel	US	The Devil Wears Prada		2003	Novel	Anna Wintour (simulacrum)

Readers

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	Basis
The Jane Austen Book Club	2007	Robin Swicord	US	The Jane Austen Book Club		2004	Novel	Jane Austen (œuvre)
Misery	1990	Rob Reiner	US	Misery		1987	Novel	-
The Hours	2002	Stephen Daldry	US & UK	The Hours		1998	Novel	Virginia Woolf (œuvre)

Bibliophiles

Magic

Magicians

Music

Composers

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	Basis
Voices from a Locked Room	1995	Malcolm Clarke	UK & US	Double Jeopardy		198?	Novel ?	Peter Warlock
Amadeus	1984	Miloš Forman	US	Amadeus		1979	Play	W. A. Mozart, Antonio Salieri

Conductors

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	Basis
Taking Sides	2001	István Szabó		Taking Sides		1995	Play	Wilhelm Furtwängler
				? (uncredited)	Wilhelm Furtwängler (uncredited)	194?	Diary
Voices from a Locked Room	1995	Malcolm Clarke	UK & US	Double Jeopardy		198?	Novel ?	Thomas Beecham

Songwriters

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	Basis
Bound for Glory	1976	Hal Ashby	US	Bound for Glory		1943	Autobiography	Woody Guthrie
The Buddy Holly Story	1978	Steve Rash	US			197?	Non-fiction	Buddy Holly
Great Balls of Fire!	1989	Jim McBride	US	?		197?	Autobiography	Jerry Lee Lewis
The Doors	1991	Oliver Stone	US	notes^[11] (unpublished) for No One Here Gets Out Alive (uncredited)	Jerry Hopkins & Danny Sugerman (both uncredited)	1980	Non-fiction	Jim Morrison, The Doors
				Riders On The Storm: My Life With Jim Morrison and the Doors^[12] (uncredited)	John Densmore (uncredited)	1990	Memoir	John Densmore, Jim Morrison, The Doors
				Illustrated History of the Doors (uncredited)	Danny Sugerman (uncredited)	198?	Non-fiction	Jim Morrison, The Doors
Whale Music	1994	Richard J. Lewis	Canada	Whale Music^[13]		1989	Novel	Brian Wilson (simulacrum)
Stoned	2005	Stephen Woolley	UK	The Murder of Brian Jones		198?	Non-fiction	Brian Jones
Walk the Line	2005	James Mangold	US		Johnny Cash with Patrick Carr	1997	Autobiography	Johnny Cash, June Carter
						1975	Autobiography
Amazing Grace	2006	Michael Apted	UK & US	"Amazing Grace"		1779	Hymn	John Newton
The Mambo Kings	1992	Arne Glimcher	US	The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love^[14]		1989	Novel	-
Crazy Heart	2009	Scott Cooper	US	Crazy Heart		1987	Novel	Jennings, Kristofferson, Haggard, Thompson (composite simulacrum)

Instrumentalists

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	Basis
Hilary and Jackie	1998	Anand Tucker	UK	A Genius in the Family		1997	Memoir	Jacqueline du Pré, Daniel Barenboim
Young Man with a Horn	1950	Michael Curtiz	US	Young Man with a Horn		1938	Novel	Bix Beiderbecke (simulacrum)

Radio

Performers

Stage

Burlesque

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	Basis
The Night They Raided Minsky's	1968	William Friedkin	US	The Night They Raided Minsky's		1960	Novel	Minsky's Burlesque
Applause^[15]	1929	Rouben Mamoulian	US	Applause		1928	Novel	-

Theatre

Stage directors

Visual arts

Photographers

See also

• List of biographical films
• List of fiction works made into feature films
• List of non-fiction works made into feature films
• List of films based on civics books
• List of films based on crime books
• List of films based on sports books
• List of films based on spy books
• List of films based on westerns

References

Bibliography

• Lavington, Stephen. Virgin Film: Oliver Stone, Virgin Books, London, 2004.

Notes and References

1. Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1991.
2. Web site: Keira Knightley To Lead Voice Cast Of Animated Drama 'Charlotte'. Deadline Hollywood. Anthony. D'Alessandro. 21 July 2021. 15 September 2022. 22 July 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210722152548/https://deadline.com/2021/07/keira-knightley-to-lead-voice-cast-of-animated-drama-charlotte-1234797506/. live.
3. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
4. Fuentes was awarded the Cervantes Prize in 1987.
5. Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of the US Library of Congress. Source: Library of Congress Online Catalog.
6. Barker's sequel, The Ghost Road, was the recipient of the Booker Prize in 1995.
7. See List of films based on film books for more information on this title.
8. Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1989.
9. Web site: The BFI: Hedd Wyn (1992). https://web.archive.org/web/20090117165926/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/479337. dead. 2009-01-17. 2010-03-15. British Film Institute. 2010. British Film Institute website.
10. Web site: countries within a country: Number10.go.uk . . 2010-03-09 . 10 January 2003 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100416083521/http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page823 . 16 April 2010 .
11. The families of Jim Morrison and Pamela Courson both objected to the book by Hopkins and Sugerman. The producers bought the rights to the notes, rather than the book itself. Source: Lavington (q.v.), p. 138.
12. Source: Lavington (q.v.), p. 148.
13. Recipient of the Governor General's Award in 1989.
14. Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1990.
15. Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 2006.