Gilbert Adair

Gilbert Adair

Birthday: 1944-12-29

Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Biography: Gilbert Adair was a Scottish novelist, poet, film critic and journalist. He was critically most famous for the "fiendish" translation of Georges Perec's postmodern novel A Void, in which the letter e is not used, but was more widely known for the films adapted from his novels, including Love and Death on Long Island (1997) and The Dreamers (2003)

Movies

François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - Love & Death
François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - Love & Death

A fascinating glimpse into Truffaut’s creative process and how his life informed his art, told from ...

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Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’
Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’

The making of The Dreamers, its background and relation to the May 1968 student riots in Paris....

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The Sorceror's Apprentice
The Sorceror's Apprentice

A thriller in which the characters are Latin-American exiles living in Paris. It is also a comedy ab...

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