Francis Coppola and the New Hollywood , Durham: Duke University Press, 1995, p. 91. Dominique Deruddere directed the movie version of Wait Until Spring, Bandini, which was released in 1989.Harry Waldman, Hollywood and the Foreign Touch , Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1996, p. 83. In March 2006, Paramount Pictures released Ask the Dust, directed by Robert Towne and starring Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek and Donald Sutherland. In December 2006, a 2001 documentary film about Fante, entitled A Sad Flower in the Sand (directed by Jan Louter), aired on the PBS series Independent Lens. Yvan Attal directed and starred in the French film My Dog Stupid (Mon chien Stupide), released in October 2019, based on the story of the same name in West of Rome. On January 18, 2001, the play 1933 by Randal Myler and Brockman Seawell, based on Fante's novel 1933 Was a Bad Year, premiered at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Writings NovelsThe Road to Los Angeles (1936, published posthumously in 1985) (Bandini Quartet: 2)Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938) (Bandini Quartet: 1)Ask the Dust (1939) (Bandini Quartet: 3)Full of Life (1952)Bravo, Burro! (1970, with Rudolph Borchert)The Brotherhood of the Grape (1977)Dreams from Bunker Hill (1982) (Bandini Quartet: 4)1933 Was a Bad Year (posthumously, 1985; incomplete) NovellasWest of Rome (posthumously, 1986) Short story collectionsDago Red (1940)The Wine of Youth: Selected Stories (1985)The Big Hunger: Stories, 1932–1959 (2000)The John Fante Reader (2003, edited by Stephen Cooper) LettersFante/Mencken: John Fante & H. L. Mencken: A Personal Correspondence, 1932–1950 (1989)Prologue to Ask the Dust (1990)John Fante: Selected Letters, 1932–1981 (1991) References Further reading Stephen Cooper, Full of Life: A Biography of John Fante, New York: North Point Press, 2000 Dan Fante, Fante: A Family's Legacy of Writing, Drinking, and Surviving, 2011 External links Italian-English website about Fante's family 1940 John Fante story about Bunker Hill, from the Los Angeles Times'' 1909 births 1983 deaths 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American screenwriters American male novelists American male screenwriters American male short story writers American short story writers American writers of Italian descent American blind people Blind writers Novelists from Colorado People from Echo Park, Los Angeles Screenwriters from California Screenwriters from Colorado University of Colorado alumni Writers from Denver Writers from Los Angeles