Sentences with phrase «american adaptations of»

This divinely delicious cake is a classic southern American adaptation of Cassata Cake, the old Italian favorite.

Rooney Mara glistens like an icicle in the new American adaptation of Stieg Larsson's pulp thriller The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

His latest work was as Detective Lieutenant Gene Hunt on the American adaptation of Life on Mars.

Baran bo Odar's Sleepless is an American adaptation of the critically acclaimed French action thriller Nuit Blanche (2011).

Screenwriter Diablo Cody has the hot hand in television development these days, with Variety reporting that ABC has nabbed Cody's latest television project, an American adaptation of the British family comedy Raised By Wolves.

Maniac is an American adaptation of a Norwegian show which takes place in a psychiatric facility and sees Jonah Hill's impatient live out wild fantasies through his dreams.

Those include two previously - released films: «War Machine» starring Brad Pitt ($ 60 million dollar budget) and Adam Wingard's American adaptation of «Death Note» ($ 40 million dollar budget).

Okay, I don't know what to make of this show, which is apparently an American adaptation of an Israeli series called «Danny Hollywood,» but they had me at the phrase «romantic time - travel musical,» and they kept me when they revealed that it was about a documentary filmmaker who somehow time - travels to the»90s, falls in love with the rock star she's been making a film about, and, upon being thrust back to the present, struggles to find a way to get back to the past and save the rock star's life.

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The emerging struggles produced within American Protestantism two basic parties: the fundamentalists, who were committed to the defense of the shape of classic Protestantism and feared that any accommodation to these new currents of thought meant the demise of Christianity; and the modernists, who felt that intellectual integrity required some form of adaptation and rethinking of classical modes of articulating Christian faith.

Though many of Hollywood's Bible adaptations have faced the same sorts of criticisms (particularly when it comes to the racial makeup of their casts and creative liberties with their scripts), religious movies have become a hallmark of American cinema.

James Franco's adaptation of As I Lay Dying has just been released straight to video following a limited release, and it's a film that deserves broad consideration, partially because the novel is one of the most thought - provoking in American literature.

The growth of paid - time religious programming and its adaptation to and endorsement of the economic competitive basis of American broadcasting represents in many ways the final takeover by television of the last of its programming to be independent of its economic intentions.

The American preoccupation with and romanticisation of the press and investigative work has also seeped into the adaptation's journey across the Atlantic, to its detriment.

Kandel's newly published autobiography is called In Search of Memory and a brief adaptation from the book appears in the current issue the April / May issue of Scientific American Mind magazine.

In October 2006 the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) endorsed video games as a potential means for teaching «higher - order thinking skills, such as strategic thinking, interpretive analysis, problem solving, plan formulation and execution, and adaptation to rapid change.»

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA — A possible mechanism for the adaptation of a trait that boosts the survival of some Tibetan children, apparently by raising the level of oxygen in their mothers» tissues, was announced at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists meeting, held here from 28 to 31 March.

Birds» and bats» wings could be called exaptations of arms; however, the structural changes that followed can not be called adaptations because «you are talking about a historical incident; it's not something you can test,» said Mark Norell, a vertebrate paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History, who studied with Vrba.

(An adaptation of the book appeared in the October Scientific American.)

These regional differences signal cultural diversification and adaptation, suggesting that groups of early hunter - gatherer Americans may have changed the way they were social interacting at this time.

«Traces of adaptation and cultural diversification found among early North American stone tools: Innovative 3 - D analysis of projectile points in museum collections yield insights into changing hunter - gatherer social interactions 12,500 years ago.»

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If Bollywood music just isn't your thing, try GROOV3, a hip - hop inspired dance workout created by Ben Allen, a choreographer and instructor who's performed at the American Music Awards and in the film adaptation of Rent.

American Film Institute: AFI is America's promise to preserve the history of the motion picture, to honor the artists and their work and to educate the Batman begins making a name for himself just as the flamboyant Joker takes over the Mafia in director Tim Burton's adaptation of the comic book.

You may still find the love of your life even after 60 years, the dating rules tend to change and you must be able to make the necessary adaptations to win the 8 Simple Rules (originally 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter for the first season) is an American sitcom comedy television show, originally

8 Simple Rules (originally 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter for the first season) is an American sitcom comedy television show, originally You may still find the love of your life even after 60 years, the dating rules tend to change and you must be able to make the necessary adaptations to win the

The new adaptation of Stephen King's It earned a... Is September 2015 going to be one of the most important months in modern American history?

Hall will continue to work with SHOWTIME to develop and executive produce AMERICAN DREAM MACHINE, a serial adaptation of Matthew Specktor's acclaimed novel about two generations of Hollywood royalty.

This week, Deadline reports that Clooney is now attached to direct an adaptation of David Grann's New Yorker article, The Yankee Commandante, in which he explores the life of William Alexander Morgan, an American who helped Castro during the Cuban revolution, ultimately receiving the designation of Commandante only to be imprisoned under suspicion of spying and killed at the age of 32.

Tim Burton's adaptation of the Tony - winning 1979 musical by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler was something the filmmaker had hoped to attempt for decades, though he only got the chance once Sam Mendes (American Beauty) dropped out.

Drive screenwriter Hossein Amini makes his directorial debut with this adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1964 novel about a vacationing American con artist and his wife (played by Viggo Mortensen and Kirsten Dunst, respectively), and a Greek - speaking American tour guide (Oscar Isaac) who forms a dangerous bond with the couple.

For those without strong feelings for the Harrison Ford - era Clancy adaptations, which were polished but largely unmemorable, American Assassin works best as a little - league version of one of those or, in more contemporary terms, as an unsurprising origin story for what the filmmakers obviously hope is the beginning of a franchise.

Heat Vision reported on Wednesday that he plans on directing an adaptation of the TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. For those unable to watch it when it aired between 1964 and 1968, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. follows two secret agents — one American and one Russian — as they work for U.N.C.L.E. (the United Network Command for Law Enforcement) against the evil organization THRUSH (Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity).

This 1920 silent is the most faithful of the other American adaptations (1932, 1936 & 1992) of the novel by James Fenimore Cooper.

Making a film adaptation of Philip Roth's Pulitzer Prize - winning 1997 novel American Pastoral, often named one of the best books of the 20th century, would be daunting to any director.

An adaptation of Mark Harris» book of the same name, the three - part series adds new vitality to the material by bring in contemporary filmmakers to discuss the five directors who most shaped the American propaganda effort in the Second World War.

In fact, Huppert got «Elle» made, after bankable American stars (like Streep) wouldn't sign onto American screenwriter David Birke's kinky thriller, an adaptation of the erotic novel by French author Philippe Dijan («Betty Blue»).

The Garden of Eden (R for profanity, nudity and graphic sexuality) Screen adaptation of the posthumously - published Hemingway novel of the same name about an American couple (Jack Huston and Mena Suvari) honeymooning on the French Riviera whose relationship becomes strained when they both fall in love with a naughty, Italian nymphet (Caterina Murino).

Jane Austin's novel goes «Bollywood» in this screen adaptation about an East Indian woman, Lalita Bakshi (Aishwarya Rai), who knows she's too good for the likes of Will Darcy (Martin Henderson), a North American with obvious prejudices about her country and culture.

On the one hand, it's not like Eastwood to take the piss out of his own work, but on the other, what better analogy for his adaptation process can there be than the conversion of a sky - blue all - American songbook to a shit - brown sung résumé, rendered all in blacks and greys save for the odd splash of salmon and the occasional scrap of tweed?

Guy Ritchie takes a break from the steampunk setting of his Sherlock Holmes adaptations to try on the bespoke suits and Cold War conflicts of American TV's strongest answer to James Bond.

Peter Weir (The Truman Show, Master and Commander), who also directed Ford to success a year before in the Best Picture - nominated Witness, directs this Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, Affliction) adaptation of the Paul Theroux novel, casting Ford as Allie Fox, a disgruntled American inventor who gets so pissed off at the loss of what he believes is a dying America, he decides to pack up his bags and family, taking them to the rain forests of South America to live a life away from civilization, and the threat of nuclear annihilation he believes is imminent.

When Jack Nicholson for About Schmidt was up against Daniel Day Lewis for Gangs of New York, Michael Caine for the Quiet American and Nicolas Cage for Adaptation, Adrien Brody won for The Pianist.

A bestseller when first published, Fannie Hurst's 1933 novel, Imitation of Life 2 has spawned two American adaptations.

It looks like enough Americans still believe in the fabled powers of intense British character actors: Less than a week after Emily Browning was cast as Laura Moon in the new TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman's American Gods, another actor has developed the requisite number of followers to grant him power to participate in...

Ewan McGregor and Jennifer Connelly plan mom and dad to Fanning's troubled Merry Levov, in McGregor's adaptation of Philip Roth's novel «American Pastoral.»

With The Hippopotamus set to receive its North American premiere this weekend at the Palm Springs Film Festival, the first poster and trailer have arrived online for director John Jencks» upcoming adaptation of Stephen Fry's 1994 best - selling comedy novel of the same name; take a look below... A country manor mystery that's actually a deliciously -LSB-...]

In this chilling adaptation of the best - selling novel by Thomas Harris, the astonishingly versatile director Jonathan Demme crafted a taut psychological thriller about an American obsession: serial murder.

Russell is currently in post-production on his adaptation of The Silver Linings Playbook starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence and recently attached himself to the 1980s - set undercover sting story American Bullshit.

HBO has released a new, full - length The Normal Heart trailer for director Ryan Murphy's (Glee, American Horror Story) adaptation of the Tony Award - winning Larry Kramer stage play.

A spokeswoman for DreamWorks Studios says Spielberg will direct Bradley Cooper in an adaptation of the best - selling book American Sniper.