Movies about authors and writing

The HoaxSaw The Hoax Sunday afternoon with a friend. It’s about Clifford Irving, who came thiiis close to pulling off a scam “autobiography” of Howard Hughes. Richard Gere, Hope Davis, and Marcia Gay Harden were very good in it, but I thought Alfred Molina stole the show as Irving’s researcher-fixer-sidekick, Richard Suskind.

On the way home I got to thinking about the good movies I’ve seen just in the last year or so that were about authors or writing: Capote and Infamous, of course, and also Stranger than Fiction. Any others that have slipped my mind?

Writing — not an easy thing to portray in a movie, you would think.

12 Responses

  1. Finding Neverland. Iris. Quills. Sylvia. Isn’t She Great.

    Some of these are not as recent, but still in this decade.

  2. I hadn’t heard of Isn’t She Great — worth seeing? I read one of Michael Korda’s memoirs and he had some interesting things to say about Ms Susann as I recall.

  3. You shouldn’t get your hopes up on the basis of the cast, but it’s worth adding to your Netflix queue.

  4. I think that your hopes are Ok if that;s what you really want continue like that.

  5. Finding Forester.

  6. The Long Weekend.

  7. The Long Weekend, or The Lost Weekend?

  8. Well, you can’t deny it was a long one :)

  9. Sunset Boulevard.

  10. If we’re going to include screenwriting, then we have to include Adaptation.

  11. Becoming Jane

  12. Ah, with Anne Hathaway. Is it good?

    A visitor to WriterHouse mentioned another one to me this afternoon: Miss Potter, with Renee Zellweger http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482546/

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