Re: "Reflections In a Golden Eye", I meant "followed the BOOK scene by scene" (not "film"), of course.

I've always wondered how good the film "Name of the Rose" actually is, and how much I was filling into it from the book, but Tom liked the film a lot without having read the book.

The book "Year of Living Dangerously" by Christopher Koch is much much more complex and layered than the film, but I really thought Peter Weir (and the script writers -- Weir, Koch, and David Williamson) did an incredible job at distilling the book into a single story line.

"Diva" was by far superior to the book. And every time I watch that film I see something else in it...in reflections, facial expressions, something in the background. But the problem with the book may have been the translation and I have no way to tell.

Linn