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Never one to downplay the power of film, Stanley Kubrick once said that “almost every novel could be successfully adapted”. He carried this confidence into his own filmmaking, working not from original screenplays, but from adaptations of novels as different as William Makepeace Thackeray’s historical romp Barry Lyndon (1844) and…

With certain films, you're not at all surprised to see the characters break into a joyous dance at the end: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies. Bollywood musicals. Animated films like "Shrek" or "Despicable Me." Even the odd raucous comedy like "The 40-Year-Old Virgin."

Director Noah Baumbach always has made original films, earning respect for efforts he’s written or co-written that include “Kicking and Screaming” (1995), “The Squid and the Whale” (2005) and “Frances Ha” (2015).

This week’s new entertainment releases include a streaming concert from 21 Savage, a Netflix film starring Adam Driver made from Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel “White Noise” and a movie marathon on Turner Classic Movies featuring the martini-swilling detectives Nick and Nora Charles from “The Thin Man.”

Noah Baumbach doesn't often look for books to adapt

Noah Baumbach's latest movie for the streamer, starring Driver and Greta Gerwig, smushes together sci-fi, noir and black humour, with a sprinkling of existential dread.

The take-away is: “Oh, we’re so doomed. Let’s dance!”

Almost two decades in development, “White Noise,” a film adaptation on the acclaimed 1985 novel by American author Don DeLillo (“Libra”) arrives, and it is probably doomed at the box office, in spite of being one of the most relevant, personal and accomplished films of the year.

In this week’s newsletter: From Triangle of Sadness to Yellowjackets, everyone is being sick on screen – and it’s starting to make me queasy

"White Noise," Noah Baumbach's jittery and inventive adaptation of Don DeLillo's 1985 novel, begins with what you might call a love letter to cinema. We've had a lot of those recently, but this one — a college lecture on car crashes in American movies — is appreciably sharper, funnier and…

If you were looking for a director to stage a spectacular cataclysm onscreen, Noah Baumbach would probably not be on your short list.