Gilbert Adair

Known for

Writing

Born

Dec 29, 1944

Died

Dec 8, 2011

From

Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Gilbert Adair was a Scottish novelist, poet, film critic and journalist. He was critically most famous for the "fiendish" translation of Georges Perec's postmodern novel A Void, in which the letter e is not used, but was more widely known for the films adapted from his novels, including Love and Death on Long Island (1997) and The Dreamers (2003)

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Film '72

19715.1out of 10

François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - Love & Death

19967.7out of 10

Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’

20047.3out of 10

The Sorceror's Apprentice

19777.5out of 10

The Dreamers

20037.2out of 10

The Territory

19816.0out of 10

A Closed Book

20125.5out of 10

Klimt

20065.2out of 10

Love and Death on Long Island

19986.3out of 10

The Carer

20166.6out of 10