6 Films Portraying Hemingway
Hemingway on film: 6 films that take him from a WWI hotshot almost to the bitter end Hemingway has been portrayed in film regularly over the last 20 years. He has been written about significantly more than F. Scott Fitzgerald—perhaps because his life was longer and with a few more highs to focus on—but often […]
THE TRUE GEN: Hemingway and Gary Cooper (Part One)
Reprint from last year as there was some interest in the Coop/Hem friendship. Best, Christine THE TRUE GEN: HEMINGWAY’S PHRASE FOR DISTINGUISHING THE REAL FROM THE FAKE, THE GENUINE ARTICLE FROM THE PHONY PART ONE I re-watched The True Gen, a documentary about Hemingway’s relationship with Gary Cooper. It’s narrated by the wonderful Sam Waterston […]
Romance: Hemingway and Marlene Dietrich
Hemingway was a romantic. Sure, he was macho and tough and a man’s man in many ways, but he enjoyed women greatly and always had a close and loving relationship with Marlene Dietrich. One of Hemingway’s love letters to her is going up for auction. It is expected it will garner something in the vicinity […]
Review of New Movie: Papa Hemingway in Cuba–Not too good
I am sorry to report that one of the early reviews of the new movie with Adrian Sparks as Hemingway and Giovanni Ribisi as Ed Meyers, a young journalist, was pretty sour. Beyond loving the Cuban scenery, the description of the movie as wooden is an “ouch” moment. Instead of flashing back to some of […]
Random Hemingway News
News in the Hemingway World 1. The 2016 winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award is a young woman name Ottessa Moshfegh. Ms Moshfegh was raised in Newton, MA is being honored for her first novel, “Eileen.” Patrick Hemingway, the son of Ernest Hemingway, presented the award on April 10th in Boston. A $25,000 prize was […]
Hemingway’s Only Play: The Fifth Column
Ernest Hemingway wrote only one play, “The Fifth Column.” Written in the late 30’s as his relationship with journalist Martha Gellhorn began to take root, the action takes place in Madrid and features an American who is hard drinking and posing as a correspondent although actually he is acting on behalf of the rebels. […]
Biopic: Papa: Hemingway in Cuba (Movie)
A trailer has been unveiled for the Papa: Hemingway in Cuba movie. This biopic features the story of a friendship shared between Ernest Hemingway, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, and Ed Myers, a journalist. I just viewed the trailer and it looks good to me. It echoes Hemingway’s relationship with his great friend, Aaron Hotchner, although […]
Movie to be made of “Across the River and Into the Woods”
Plierce Brosnan will bring a little-known Ernest Hemingway novel to the screen, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Across the River and Into the Woods was one of Hemingway’s poorly received books. It was written while Hemingway was infatuated with Adriana Ivancich who was the prototype for Renata. It still sold decently and at one point, there was […]
Film about Hemingway and his boat Captain, Gregorio Fuentes
Hemingway’s boat played an integral role in his story, and now its sister ship is in South Florida and ready to make her film debut.
What’s Percolating in the Hemingway World?
I subscribe to a number of RSS feeds and google alerts that keep me posted on all things Hemingway. So here are a few random developments. 1) Mariel Hemingway is producing a movie of Hemingway’s last book, A Moveable Feast, finished after his death and published initially in 1964. (Hemingway died in 1961). 2) Andy Garcia […]