"Keith was the
anti-image of myself."
--Martin Amis, in The Scotsman (22 January 2001).
Follow the navigation buttons below and at right for articles, interviews,
information concerning Dead Babies, the film, including excerpts from the
23 January 2001 Guardian interview
with Amis about the film.
"Amis
Film in Trouble." From peoplenews.com (22 February 2001): "The
distributors of the film of Martin Amis's novel Dead Babies are having
difficulty finding cinemas brave enough to put it on."
"Martin's
Bad Night at the Movies." Cosmo Landesman of the Sunday Times
lets Amis have it for all his film involvements, using Dead
Babies, the movie, as his news peg (28 January 2001).
Cosmo
Landesman (what kind of name is that?) of the Sunday Times
indulges in more alliteration than James Diedrick as he trashes Dead
Babies, the film in a mini-review (28 January 2001).
"The
Drugs Don't Work." Adam Mars-Jones reviews Dead Babies, the
film for the Times (London)--"Away from the toxic splendour of
Amis’s writing, the story seems thin and stagy, like The Mousetrap
sprinkled with bad sex and Class-A drugs" (25 January 2001).
"The
Living V-Sign." "Martin Amis, the most stylish author in
Britain, describes himself as an insult to egalitarianism. But, he tells Lewis
Jones, he hopes the film of his novel Dead Babies will be popular"
(The Electronic Telegraph, 26 January 2001).
"Amis's
Uneasy Book-to-Film Ride." Jasper Rees of the Evening Standard
writes about the film adaptation of Dead Babies and other Amis-celluloid
liaisons (22 January 2001).
Adam
Keen interviews Amis for bigbluespot.com [!?] in conjunction with the
release of Dead Babies, the movie (January 2001) (excerpt: When we
finally meet Amis, he is sunk deep in an old Victorian club lounger...his
hands are shaking...the sense that he is counting backwards towards some
softly spoken finality becomes overpowering").
"Dead
Babies
- the low-down." A Virgin.net interview with Amis (22 January 2001
in conjunction with the release of Dead Babies, the movie.
"Being Martin Amis." Despite the
misleading title, this is the first detailed article on the just-completed
film adaptation of Dead Babies, courtesy of the "This is
London" web site (3 April 2000).
"They made a film of Dead Babies which I've seen. Very
faithful to the novel. Wonderfully acted, horribly comic." --Martin
Amis quoted in "Father
and Son Reunion"--John Walsh's article on the forthcoming
Martin-Kingsley Amis books: Experience and The Letters of Kingsley
Amis (The Independent, 31 March 2000).
Information about Dead Babies film-- director, cast, crew, shooting
schedule-- at
the REELTIME web site (Winter 1999).