Sentences with phrase «leonard novel»

He is the basis and namesake for the foreign correspondent in the Elmore Leonard novel, Cuba Libre.

I'd pictured a bit of time off, maybe a trip some place cheap, where I could lounge in the sun and read the latest Elmore Leonard novel while sipping on a rum drink with a paper umbrella stuck in a piece of fruit.

Frank (John Goodman) is a gangster and loan shark that is straight out of an Elmore Leonard novel.

68 Kill travels down the rabbit hole of hyperactive violence, akin to a Looney Tunes cartoon sprung to life and thrust into the pages of an Elmore Leonard novel.

But the real star here is Soderbergh, who proves Sex Lies and Videotape was no fluke and pulls off another gem in this adaptation of an Elmore Leonard novel.

After the Sunset mixes the quirky plot of To Catch a Thief, the plucky tongue - in - cheek humor of Ocean's Eleven, and the character driven interactions of damn near every Elmore Leonard novel ever written (The Big Bounce's beach locale comes to mind).

As directed by Steven Soderbergh («Sex, Lies & Videotape «-RRB-, «Out of Sight» is the third Leonard novel to make it to the big screen with all of the quirks and perks one expects from a Leonard book.

Now I'm not trying to compare the movie to Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, which was a adaptation of the 1992 Elmore Leonard novel Rum Punch, but I was at least expecting a cool crime drama set in the early 1970's in the same style with bit of humor sprinkled in for good effect.

Last but not least, Tarantino is not finished with westerns and would love to do a mini-series based on the Elmore Leonard novel, «Forty Lashes Less One,» based at the Yuma territorial prison.

Writing a «Life of Crime» review poses a challenge in that the movie, even though it's based on an Elmore Leonard novel, is so slight and so bland I'd forgotten most of it by the next morning.

The film is an adaptation of a Elmore Leonard novel about a real estate developer's wife who gets kidnapped.

Based on an Elmore Leonard novel (adapted by the screenwriting team of Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, who collaborated eight times with director Ritt) and resplendent with an exceptional number of sharp exchanges (most of them reserved for Richard Boone's oily villain and Diane Cilento's no - nonsense Audra), Hombre is the nickname given John Russell, a half - Apache member of the tribal police who inherits a house from his biological father.

The first Life of Crime trailer has been released for director Daniel Schecter's adaptation of the Elmore Leonard novel The Switch.

Based on the Elmore Leonard novel of the same name, it's filled with the robustly eccentric characters that he dreams up... Read More»

Based primarily in spirit on the 1990 Elmore Leonard novel, the series is a fine upgrade from the almost forgettable 1995 film version.

Reportedly he has turned in his latest script, FORTY LASHES based on the Elmore Leonard novel, FORTY LASHES LESS ONE.

Lucky for us there are no ordinary circumstances in this smart, tasty adaptation of the Elmore Leonard novel and it gets quirkier, funnier and sexier as it goes.

Critics Consensus: Steven Soderbergh's intelligently crafted adaptation of the Elmore Leonard novel is witty, sexy, suprisingly entertaining, and a star - making turn for George Clooney.

Frank clinched his reputation as a screenwriter with his witty adaptations of the Elmore Leonard novels «Get Shorty» (1995) and «Out of Sight» (1999).

Not exact matches

The company is led by its founder Leonard Schleifer who maintains a culture focused on developing novel drugs.

Author of books: Atmospheres of Mars and Venus (1961, nonfiction) Planets (1966, nonfiction, with Jonathan Norton Leonard) Intelligent Life in the Universe (1966, nonfiction, with Iosif S. Shklovskii) Planetary Exploration (1970, nonfiction) Planetary Atmospheres (1971, nonfiction, with Tobias C. Owen and Harlan J. Smith) U.F.O.'s: A Scientific Debate (1972, with Thornton Page) The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective (1973, nonfiction) Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (1973, nonfiction) The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (1977, nonfiction) Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record (1978, nonfiction) Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science (1979, nonfiction) Cosmos (1980, nonfiction) Comet (1985, nonfiction, with Ann Druyan) Contact (1985, novel) Nuclear Winter (1985, nonfiction) A Path where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race (1990, nonfiction, with Richard P. Turco) The Demon - Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1996, essays) Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are (1992, nonfiction, with Ann Druyan) Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994, essays) Billions and Billions (1996, essays) The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006, nonfiction, posthumous, with Ann Druyan)

Screenplay: Niall Leonard, adapted from the novel by E.L. James.

In this made - for - TV movie, based on the novel by Elmore Leonard, a call girl's death leads a Miami police detective and a lounge singer from Atlantic City on a hunt for the killer.

Anyone familiar with Leonard's novels will be fully aware of his colourful characters and sharp, snappy dialogue.

Credits: Directed by James Foley, script by Niall Leonard (screenplay by), based on the E.L. James novel.

Steven Soderbergh directed this crime caper adapted from the novel by Elmore Leonard.

He changed the ethnicity of the lead female character in Leonard's novel from the white Jackie Burke to a black Jackie Brown which allowed him to cast Pam Grier and reference her blaxploitation films «Foxy Brown» and «Coffy» as well as, employing the use of Bobby Womack's «Across 110th Street».

The second season is based on Mucho Mojo, the second novel by Joe R. Lansdale where Leonard finds a skeleton.

As a big fan of crime writer Elmore Leonard and, in particular, his novel «Rum Punch» (upon which this is an adaptation), I was admittedly left with feelings of disappointment when I first seen «Jackie Brown».

In the realm of non-follies: Daniel Schechter's Life Of Crime (Grade: B), adapted from Elmore Leonard's 1978 novel The Switch, was a palate cleanser for the day.

Cast: Chloe Grace Moretz, Jamie Blackley, Mireille Enos, Joshua Leonard, Liana Liberato, Stacy Keach, Jakob Davies, Gabrielle Rose, Lauren Lee Smith Director: R.J. Cutler Screenplay: Shauna Cross (based on the novel by Gayle Forman) Review published August 23, 2014

In fact, it's becoming a family affair as her Irish husband Niall Leonard, is reportedly set to write the screenplay for the sequel to the movie adaption of her erotic novel series.

Director: John Huston Screenplay: Leonard Gardner Based on a Novel by: Leonard Gardner Starring: Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell, Candy Clark, Nicholas Colasanto Country: USA Running Time: 96 min Year: 1972 BBFC Certificate: 15

In the mid -»30s, Leonard truly hit his stride as a director, making the fine «A» pictures A Tale of Two Cities (1935) with Robert Donat and The Great Ziegfeld (1936), which took the Best Picture Oscar for that year; his version of Pride and Prejudice (1940) starring Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson also remains highly regarded, despite its rather heavy - handed adaptation of Austen's novel.

In Starting Out in the Evening (2007), Frank Langella is heartbreakingly good as author Leonard Schiller, a once - celebrated author forgotten in the years since his last novel and flattered by the attention of an appreciative graduate student (Lauren Ambrose) intent on reintroducing his work to the world with her thesis.

Cast: Sean Connery, Charles gray, Jill St. John, Jimmy Dean, Lana Wood, Bruce Cabot, Bruce Glover, Putter Smith, Norman Burton, Joseoph Furst, bernard lee, Desmond Llewelyn, Leonard Barr, Lois Maxwell, Sid Haig, Valerie Perrine (cameo) Director: Guy Hamilton Screenplay: Richard Maibaum, Tom Mankiewicz (based on the novel by Ian Fleming) Review published November 23, 2005

Life of Crime is a wonderfully wicked tale filled with outrageously eccentric characters, sly comedy and surprising twists based on Elmore Leonard's darkly funny novel, The Switch.

The screenplay is written by Niall Leonard, based on E.L. James» bestselling novel.

«Small Crimes» is based on a novel by David Zeltserman, but if you told me it was based on an Elmore Leonard classic I would have believed you.

PULP FICTION **** / **** Image A + Sound A + Extras A + starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis written and directed by Quentin Tarantino JACKIE BROWN **** / **** Image A Sound A + Extras A starring Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Robert De Niro screenplay by Quentin Tarantino, based on the novel Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard directed by Quentin Tarantino

Based on the 1981 book of the same name, the National Book Critics Circle - nominated debut novel of Leonard Michaels, The Men's Club gathers seven seasoned men from around Berkeley, California one Wednesday night for a meeting of the minds.

So said mob - debtcollector - turned - movie - producer Chili Palmer (John Travolta) in Get Shorty (1996), Barry Sonnenfeld's hilarious film adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Hollywood - baiting novel.

Perhaps going for something a little less elevated than usual, Sundance Channel went and got itself a miniseries based on Joe R. Lansdale's 1990 swamp - noir pulp novel «Savage Season,» titled «Hap and Leonard,» for its main characters.

While not as faithful to Jack Finney's novel as the 1956 adaptation, director Philip Kaufman's Me Decade take on creepy conformity works sensationally well on its own terms, thanks to sharp, semisatirical work from Donald Sutherland, Jeff Goldblum, Brooke Adams and Leonard Nimoy.

The screenplay is adapted by Niall Leonard, based on E.L. James» novel.

At the film's recent press day, Moretz, Blackley, Leonard, Cutler, Forman and Cross discussed bringing the emotional experience of the book to the screen, the challenge of finding the right cast, Blackley and Leonard's preparation for their musical roles, creating the onscreen chemistry in the relationship between Adam and Mia, Stacy Keach's heartfelt portrayal of Gramps, Forman's reaction to seeing her novel adapted to film, and Cutler's desire to recreate the roller coaster experience of the book but tell a story that's ultimately life affirming and has a positive message.

He would later direct Be Cool, an adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel of the same name.

Based on the novel The Switch, by Elmore Leonard, Louis and Ordell — two common criminals in 1970s Detroit — kidnap the housewife of a corrupt real estate developer and hold her for ransom.

Heather (Lauren Ambrose) is a feisty, impulsive grad student in her mid-20s writing her master's thesis on Leonard Schiller (Frank Langella), a Jewish New York novelist in his 70s whose four published novels are all out of print.

The screenplay is by Niall Leonard, based on the novel by James.