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HIS DARK MATERIALS - FILMMAKER ALFONSO CUARON IS KNOWN FOR PUTTING HIS DISTINCTIVE STAMP ON THE WORKS OF OTHERS. IN HIS NEW FILM, 'CHILDREN OF MEN,' HE ADDS BLEAK ECHOES OF OUR TIME TO P.D. JAMES'S FUTURISTIC TALE.

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20061224
Author:Ethan Gilsdorf

It's one thing to adapt literature to the screen and to do so by the book. It's another for a director to dare to make the works his own. Steve Zaillian took the first direction with his remake of "All the King's Men," and results were cautionary. When the Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron has adapted books to the screen - Frances Hodgson Burnett's "A Little Princess" in 1995, Dickens's "Great Expectations" in 1998," and "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" in 2004 - the results have been transforming. His new film, "Children of Men," based on the dystopian thriller by British mystery ...

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