Romance-driven adaptations from Indian novels and short stories. Drawn from novels and short stories across languages and regions, these films...
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Featured Watch: Living
A quiet reckoning with time, and the courage it takes to finally use it. Living | 2022 | 102 min Directed...
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Welcome to The Adaptation Archive
Hi, I’m Piggy. For as long as I can remember, I’ve wanted a space where I could explore books and...
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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 herself as...
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Coming-of-Age Adaptations (Part Two)
March has always felt like a threshold month to me. Not quite the beginning of the year anymore, not fully...
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Coming-of-Age Adaptations
March has always felt like a threshold month to me. Not quite the beginning of the year anymore, not fully...
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Intimacy as Something Transformative (Part Two)
February tends to flatten love into gestures: roses, dinners, grand declarations. So, for a change of pace… …this month’s list...
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Intimacy as Something Transformative
February tends to flatten love into gestures: roses, dinners, grand declarations. So, for a change of pace… …this month’s list...
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Featured Watch: What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
There’s an unhurried stillness to What’s Eating Gilbert Grape that feels almost accusatory. The town of Endora feels suspended in time, and...
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Essential Murakami Adaptations
If I were to shout Japanese Literature into a crowded room, chances are most people (and their grandmothers) would shout back Haruki Murakami....
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Featured Watch: Whisper of the Heart
Some films don’t announce themselves as favourites. They arrive quietly, sit with you for a while, and leave behind a...
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January in Japan (Part Two)
I came across the phrase “January in Japan” on booktok or somewhere online (as these things usually are), and it...
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January in Japan
I came across the phrase “January in Japan” on booktok or somewhere online (as these things usually are), and it...
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