November 23, 2021 ‘Passing’ by Nella Larsen, from Novella to Screen Chicago born author Nella Larsen is the daughter of a Dutch mother and a father of mixed race Afro-Caribbean from Danish West Indies. With…
July 9, 2021 Nomadland: From Book to Screen By Diana Cheng It first started with journalist Jessica Bruder camping in a tent then later in a van for three winters in the…
October 13, 2016 Of Food and Film at TIFF16 By Diana Cheng I just came back home from the Toronto International Film Festival. Of the eight features I had watched, there are two…
April 5, 2016 Five Fascinating Facts about… Vita Sackville-West Compiled by Simon Vita Sackville-West is probably best remembered today as the inamorata of Virginia Woolf or the garden designer behind Sissinghurst. Less remembered, on…
January 21, 2016 Brooklyn: From Book to Film By Diana Cheng When Alex Garland was writing the screenplay for Never Let Me Go, the book author Kazuo Ishiguro told him: ‘Your only duty…
October 20, 2015 Upcoming Books to Films By Diana Cheng Autumn ushers in major film festivals, a springboard to the Awards Season. The following is a list of new movie adaptations,…
July 16, 2015 In Development – Books into Films: A Summer 2015 Reading List By Diana Cheng In recent months, several actresses at different occasions had spoken out about the lack of female lead characters in movies. Seeing the…
April 14, 2015 From Z to A, how Zweig inspired Anderson’s ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ By Diana Cheng The Grand Budapest Hotel won four Oscars at the 87th Academy Awards this February. At the end of the film, leading the credits,…
January 20, 2015 2015 Books into Films Written by Diana Cheng By now, you probably have seen some of the movie adaptations listed in the previous BookBuzz, like Gone Girl, Unbroken, and The Imitation Game….
October 7, 2014 Upcoming Books into Films: Autumn 2014 By Diana Cheng The harvest of films releasing in the latter part of the year for me is the compensation for fallen leaves and…
