Melville at the Movies

Philippe Ramos's Capitaine Achab is the most recent adaptation of Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851) for the Cinema. It won the International Critics Prize at the Festival of Locarno in 2007.

Gregory Peck starred as Captain Ahab in an earlier version of the novel produced for film by John Huston in 1956.

Links:

Dominique Widemann, "Philippe Ramos 'J'essaie de montrer ce qu'est un être humain,'" L'Humanité (February 13, 2008).

"Moby Dick" at Teach With Movies (www.teachwithmovies.org).