Sentences with phrase «on the adaptation front»

My point is simply that we need to try to get a handle on what's most likely to be most heavily impacted in the nearest term future, so that we can (hopefully) take appropriate actions on the adaptation front.

On the adaptation front, water security was the main concern, with many already counting the costs of drought and flooding.

Not exact matches

His adaptation has been tremendous, able to battle his way through physical challenges when the need to cease a counter-attack arises, and then follow up with a vital pass to set Wolves» electric front players on.

In all the marathons I have run I have yet to see a barefoot or minimist runner (vibram 5 fingers etc) finish in front of me, or someone on keto adaptation.

After making his mark in the early thirties with two very different films, the anarchic send - up of the bourgeoisie Boudu Saved from Drowning and the popular - front Gorky adaptation The Lower Depths, Renoir closed out the decade with two critical humanistic studies of French society that routinely turn up on lists of the greatest films ever made: Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game (the former was celebrated in its time, but the latter was trashed by critics and audiences — until history provided vindication).

Things aren't so quiet on the Western front this morning — following the news of some forward movement on that Dark Tower adaptation, The Hollywood Reporter has just learned that Christian Bale will team up with his Out Of The Furnace director Scott Cooper for the Western drama Hostiles.

Given that Universal had enjoyed an uncommon prestige success with All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Whale had a unique opportunity to return to a study of male bonding with The Road Back, an adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's sequel dealing with the problems of returning veterans.

Director Joe Wright's film — which tells the origin story of Peter Pan with Hugh Jackman as Blackbeard, Garrett Hedlund as Hook, and Rooney Mara as Tiger Lily — was poised to square off against Sony's action - comedy Pixels, the Jake Gyllenhaal - fronted boxing drama Southpaw, and the John Green adaptation Paper Towns on its late July release date.

Before the Oscar nominations were announced it was pretty clear to pundits that Gillian Flynn's adaptation of her novel «Gone Girl» was the front - runner for Best Adapted Screenplay, but something funny happened on the way to the Dolby Theater.

Flanagan's adaptation streamlines the storytelling, reviving Gerald (or, at least, Jessie's hallucination of Gerald) early on to serve as the voice of every primal fear and traumatic memory that leaps to the front of Jessie's mind as the hours turn into days.

Testament of Youth (PG - 13 for mature themes and disturbing images) Adaptation of Vera Brittain's (Alicia Vikander) coming - of - age memoir recounting her service as a nurse in London during World War I while awaiting word about the fate of her brother (Taron Egerton) and fiance (Kit Harington) fighting on the front lines.

It was more than two years ago when we first reported on a film adaptation of Gerald's Game, Stephen King's book about the heartbreak of not knowing where you left your keys, be they to the front door or the handcuffs chaining you to a bed long after your husband has unexpectedly died.

Right up front, Getting On, HBO's adaptation of the BBC series of the same name, establishes itself as something in which I have little to no interest.

Playing a retrenched, relapsed alcoholic who, thrown out of house and home, defiantly camps out on his front lawn until made to do otherwise (if you recognize that pitch, yes, it's an adaptation of Carver's story «Why Don't You Dance?»)

The list of icons making appearances was truly unprecedented: Superman soars twice — once in the «return» and the other as Ben Affleck; Crockett and Tubbs exude cool; Ethan Hunt falls short; Captain Jack Sparrow sets the stage for the finale; Jack Black sometimes wears stretchy pants; Huey Long is resurrected and somehow over-played by Sean Penn; the mass appeal of the DaVinci Code novel fizzled onscreen; Robert Altman's amazing career ended with an excellent adaptation of a radio series starring Garrison Keillor's made for radio face; Johnny Depp tried to untrack his career with The Libertine; Nicolas Cage was front and center in the disastrous remake of The Wicker Man, but if the preview is any indication, his sleep - walk was merely a tune - up for this year's Ghost Rider; Woody Allen (with Scarlett Johansson as his muse) re-emerged with his best comedy since Crimes and Misdemeanors; amazingly, Jen and Vince's real life break - up was more entertaining than the film version; and while on - set hook - ups seem to the norm, how could the dreadful You, Me and Dupree have been an aphrodisiac for Kate and Owen?

The Front Row on dream projects and Darren Aronofsky's Noah Theater Mania Bullets Over Broadway opens on Broadway today in the effort to make the Great White Way an all 90s film adaptation monopoly.

The release from Criterion is also stacked with special features, including an entirely different film, 1931's «The Front Page,» based on the same source material, a radio adaptation, and fantastic interviews and featurettes.

Things have gone a little quiet on the impending Best Video Game Adaptation Ever front.

We find a rare fabric - bodied example / Morris 8: front gardin rebuild — Part 2 of Roy Cattle's account of doing it the hard way / Ice and Snow Rally — A report on this year's Rallye Neige at Glace by Michael Elder / Taking liberties with Lizzie — Brian Demaus describes some Model T Ford adaptations / Summit achieved — Part two of this restoration report by Dennis Harrison / Bangkok concours — Our flying reporter Bill Bishop keeps us in touch with events as far afield as Siam.

What with Lifetime's adaptations of At Risk and The Front and news that Angelina Jolie will play Scarpetta on the big screen, it's been a busy year for Patricia Cornwell.

The adaptation will be a made - for - TV movie on Lifetime, and the heroine is Monique Lamont, the Boston District Attorney of At Risk (2006) and The Front (2008).

(Progress on each front becomes dependent on progress, or lack of, on other fronts: adaptation awaits «better» science; energy policy is wedded to disputed science - based targets; science is justified for its promise of reduced uncertainties.)

For example, the UN Capital Development Fund's Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) helps build the capacity of local governments, who are on the front lines of adapting to climate change, to access and utilize adaptation finance.

«Bali must advance a negotiating agenda to combat climate change on all fronts, including adaptation, mitigation, clean technologies, deforestation and resource mobilization,» says UN secretary - general Ban Ki - moon.