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"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.
 

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"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." 

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"Dead Babies, Sick Jokes, and the End of State Censorship." John Sutherland considers on the film, the novel, the last taboo (The Guardian, 5 February 2001). 

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"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).

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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).

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"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).

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Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian reviews Dead Babies the movie, and finds it "boring, embarrassing, nasty and stupid--and not in a good way" (26 January 2001).

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Alexander Walker reviews Dead Babies, the film, for online Evening Standard site "This is London" (25 January 2001).

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"Just for Laughs."Aiden Smith of The Scotsman interviews Amis about Dead Babies, Dead Babies the movie, and movies (22 January 2001).

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David Gritten of the Electronic Telegraph trashes Dead Babies, the film.

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"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).

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"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).

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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").

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"Dead Babies - the low-down." A Virgin.net interview with Amis (22 January 2001 in conjunction with the release of Dead Babies, the movie.

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"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).

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"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).

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Information about Dead Babies film-- director, cast, crew, shooting schedule-- at the REELTIME web site (Winter 1999).

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Interview with Dead Babies director William Marsh at reeltime (Winter 1999).

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Rough Cut of Dead Babies film screened in London--read Jim Murphy's 12/9/99 report.

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"The Martin Amis Project" (Yahoo!Headlines Film News report on film of Dead Babies (20 September 20, 1999).

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Hayley Carr, who plays Roxanne in Dead Babies, is interviewed by ReelMind.com (no date other than "Copyright © Netribution Ltd 1999-2001").

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Dead Babies at the Internet Movie Database.

 

 



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