The next month sees a slew of literary adaptations, the first and weirdest being Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, which plays with the original plot but perfectly catches the otherworldly spirit of what Burton calls "one of the few American horror stories", Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (read the full text).

Angela's Ashes is a rich adaptation of Frank McCourt's stirring memoir of childhood poverty in Ireland. Take a tour of McCourt's Limerick, watch a clip of Frank McCourt talking about the adaptation at Film Unlimited, or read a digest of his sequel, 'Tis, in 400 words.

Presumptions of Proust's unfilmability are proved wrong by Raul Ruiz's inventive Time Regained, based on the final volume Remembrance of Things Past, out now; while Neil Jordan's finely balanced adaptation of Graham Greene's The End of the Affair is released on February 4.