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Can anyone recommend a film about books or reading books? I've been asked to teach an adult evening class which includes a session on reading as a form of play and feel the need to pep it up by smuggling in some film. Thanks.

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La Lectrice combines reading and sex in a way only the French can
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Fahrenheit 451 (1966) is set in a future where the authorities burn all the books and an underground organisation trains recruits to remember important books word for word.
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The Princess Bride has a small boy initially disinterested in the book his grandfather reads him but he gets caught up in the magic of the story.

It's also a very funny film in its own right.
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Jingle bells Batman smells ... I heard that at school Daddy.

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And although I've never seen it, what about Prospero's Books?
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The Name of the Rose and Please Turn Over.

That's quite a double bill...
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Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book

As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from "The Pillow Book", the diary of a 10th-century lady-in-waiting. Nagiko grows up, obsessed with books, papers, and writing on bodies.
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A great one !! and Miou-Miou at her best !!....

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If you get a class that's not quite attuned to these cinephile suggestions (god knows, most of mine aren't) then can I suggest BLACK BOOKS as a more populist choice to fall back on. There's an episode in Series 2 (I think) where Bernard has to teach a menacing gangster to read - très amusant as I recall
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Can anyone recommend a film about books or reading books? I've been asked to teach an adult evening class which includes a session on reading as a form of play and feel the need to pep it up by smuggling in some film. Thanks.
"Shadowland" can also be viewed as a film on a relation between a child and his favourite author...but, it's a sad story...also A.Hopkins is very good in it .

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Notting Hill is based in and around a bookshop

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I think the original story is from "The 1000 and one Nights" (sorry for the traduction !!), it's a very good tale, for childrens (and others)...not talking of books, but captivating !!

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