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Featured Watch: Josée
Josée begins without spectacle. A university student, Young-seok, helps a woman in a wheelchair after an accident. She introduces…
The Adaptation Archive
The complete guide
to books adapted
into film and TV.
A searchable database of book-to-screen adaptations, from novels and memoirs to manga and more—the aarchive doesn’t rank or critique; it simply collects.
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Living
2022 · Directed by Oliver Hermanus
A quiet reckoning with time and the courage it takes to finally begin. Bill Nighy in the role he was made for.
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Screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro
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A clean, searchable home for book-to-screen adaptations.
The Adaptation Archive tracks films and series that began as books, novels, memoirs, manga, graphic novels and short stories.
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