Read a novel that changes your life, inspire the greatest Hollywood filmmakers. That’s what happened to French director and novelist Pierre Schoendorffer, who died yesterday at his home in France. In 1942 he read Joseph Kessel’s Fortune Carrée and set out on a new course. In an interview he said, “I wanted to become a sailor, travel the world and verify that the earth was round.” Beyond the wonders of discovery lied the need for expressing what he saw: filmmaking came naturally. He would enlist in the Indochina War so that he could make movies. As army video recordist