In this episode, Aric and Marisa take a look at six films that stand out as unique adaptations of an original source, with inspiration drawing from music, poems, short stories, and more. They also look at how each filmmaker creatively translated that source into a one-of-a-kind film.
On the list is INTERSTELLA 5555: THE 5TORY OF THE 5ECRET 5TAR 5YSTEM (2003), the Daft Punk and Leiji Matsumoto collaboration that dazzles with hand drawn tie-dye color explosions and iconic house music, Michael Mann's THE INSIDER (1999), a paranoid-thriller adapted from the 1996 Vanity Fair article, "The Man Who Knew Too Much," that exposed the tobacco industry, Paul Schrader's MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS (1985), a narratively complex biopic representing the life of controversial Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, as well as Todd Field's indie crime masterpiece, IN THE BEDROOM (2001), Joyce Chopra's tale of female adolescence, SMOOTH TALK (1985), and BRIGHT STAR (2009), Jane Campion's tender period romance adapted from the poems of 19th-century poet, John Keats.
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