I'm not sure if it counts as an "artsy" film, but "The Turn of the Screw" has been made into a movie (twice, if you count the definate influence in "The Others").
"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" - one of my favorites. I had read the play a few times before I knew it was also a movie, with two of my favorite actors. That was a nice moment. A bad moment was in tenth grade, studying MacBeth. We had to do a creative writing project using MacBeth as a starting point as a companion project. Most kids wrote slasher stories about doomed productions of the scottish play, I wrote "Banqo & Duncan are Dead," a clever homage with witty dialogue and so many layered ironies any true gen x geek would be tickled pink to hear it. We all had to read them outloud in front of the class. No one had heard of or read R&GaD, so B&DaD didn't make much sense. Even the teacher had no idea what I was doing. They sat there, 60 eyes starting unblinking and silent, passing judgement on the obvious casualty of me. Bastards.
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