A Movie Recommendation: "The Lady in the Van"

Since I've talked movies here earlier today, it occurs to me to recommend another film Steve and I saw this past weekend — Nicholas Hytner's "The Lady in the Van," which was written by Alan Bennett and based on his play of the same name, which in turns was based on material in Bennett's book of memoirs, Untold Stories (NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005). I blogged about Untold Stories here several years ago (and here and here), and, when I did so, included a posting about "The Lady in the Van."

More Alan Bennett: Inverary, Ely, and Coventry

Alan Bennett again (he kept me entertained all day long yesterday, through one plane change after another, with these and other hilarities), from his Untold Stories (NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005):

More Tidbits from Alan Bennett: On Sermons and M.F.K. Fisher

Excerpts from Alan Bennett's diaries in his Untold Stories (NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005):

Alan Bennett on Coming of Age as a Gay Teen in Yorkshire, 1950s

Alan Bennett, "Written on the Body," in Untold Stories (NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005):