Still, Mr. Albee says, he would welcome such film translations of all his 27 plays if done correctly.

His first film translation was completed during the Perestroika period, when Western productions were first introduced to Soviet viewers.

Subsequently the Alexey Mikhalyov Prize for best Russian film translation was established.

That's why "The Wings of the Dove" succeeds where virtually every other film translation of a James novel has stumbled.

Glengerry Glen Ross is the only play to film translation that's worked for me, others have always smacked of actors shouting 'look at me!'

Since film translation is a hobby for Puchkov, he translates only those films that he is interested in and does not receive any money for his translations.

They triumph again with their entertaining, richly textured film translation of Forster's fourth novel, "Howards End," opening today at the Fine Arts.

Robot Chatterbird (refers to the talking bird in The Mystery of the Third Planet) - robot specialises in poor film translations, capable of understanding E2-E4.

In traversing such complex psychological topography, Mr. Softley's film, Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times, "succeeds where virtually every other film translation of a James novel has stumbled."

King had refused to sell the novel's adaptation rights because of how other works of his were mishandled in film translations, but eventually let Reiner do Misery after his 1986's adaptation of Stand by Me.

In fact, Mr. Russell's film translation of Holst's "Planets" (no longer available on videocassette), with found footage accompanying the entire 50-minute score, is an object lesson in what can be achieved when formidable descriptive music is applied - sometimes literally, sometimes paradoxically, always creatively - to moving pictures.

The 11-day festival opened last night with the first New York screening of John Cameron Mitchell's surreal film translation of the gender-bending, glam-rock musical "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," which he created with the composer Stephen Trask and which opens commercially in mid-July.