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Melville Takes To The Sky In THE AGE OF THE DRAGONS
From Swimming Mammal To Flying Reptile, Ahab Will Hunt It All The Same!
Ray Bradbury on Adapting Melville’s Allegorical Sea Monster, Moby Dick
Moby Dick is not an obvious choice of material for adaptation to the screen. Nor is Ray Bradbury the obvious choice to have collaborated with famed director John Huston on a sea-going adventure that had little appeal to Hollywood studio chiefs. The science fiction author’s prose work, filled with different combinations of nostalgia, atmosphere and a [...]
Moby Dick (1998) – TV Review
By Frederick C. Szebin
[EDITOR'S NOTE: I am posting this review by Fred Szebin, which originally appeared in Cinefantastique magazine. Because of the way the website works, the person who posts an article shows up as an author. To avoid any confusion, I wanted to state clearly that the authorship belongs solely to Szebin.]
It is usually [...]
