I thought Big Fish was great! Perhaps it is because my dad is a teller of tall tales… I could totally get the characters…

I would add American Psycho (IMDB) to this list. I thought that Mary Harron (IMDB) did a superb job with balancing the extreme violence with the banal, and presented what I think Bret Easton Ellis was trying to do better than he did himself.

His book was shocking and new, but just not great.

The one problem I have with the film is that people who haven’t read the book invariably end on a disappointment; that the whole thing was evidently taking place only in Patrick Bateman’s head. My interpretation of the film (and book) is that we’re left not knowing whether he really butchered people, and that society just sweeps these things under the carpet, or whether it was his fertile (and twisted) imagination. Chloë Sevigny (IMDB) deserves a special mention for her part, which while relatively minor was essential for some of the key scenes of the film, and played to perfection.

But I don’t like Big Fish.

And Shoot the Pianist is great.
Although I assumed from watching the interviews with Truffaut that he’d based it on a good story. Maybe not. Or maybe the french translation was much better than the original.

Dunno.
Didn’t find Anne and Muriel to be his finest piece.

If you want a great parody of Heinlein’s book then run, don’t walk, to your nearest bookstore and buy a copy of “Bill the Galactic Hero” by Harry Harrison (of Stainless Steel Rat fame).