Sentences with phrase «war novel by»

The exhibition include «Amerika the Stoker» (1993), «The Red Badge of Courage» (1990) and «The River (after Duke Ellington)» (2012) works, responding to Franz Kafka's Amerika, which recounts the tale of a young immigrant shipped off to America by his parents; the American Civil War novel by Stephen Crane; and American composer, pianist, and bandleader Duke Ellington, respectively.

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The Like function has saved me so much comment - typing over the years that I likely could have written a very quippy, War - and - Peace - length novel by now.»

What is interesting here is not simply that the everyday language of «a fine day» is determined by a set of new - fangled scientific abstractions, but also the fact that a novel written after the war dares to inhabit the virtual outlook of before.

That's because in the world of Amazon's series, based on the novel by Philip K. Dick, the Axis powers won World War II and occupied America, where a scrappy resistance movement is taking shape.

Mark Bauerlein: Reading the 1991 novel A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin (a contributor to this month's magazine) is like going back to the great works of the 19th century.

Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly:: A big thick novel about three intersecting stories of women in World War II is pretty much irresistible to me.

It's an American penned story (Max Brooks, of the award winning novel World War Z) and helmed by China's greatest director, Yimou Zhang (the mind behind the spectacle of the 2008 Olympic Opening Ceremony).

Set in California during the Vietnam War, this evocative novel is a moving portrait of a young man trying to overcome the limits set for him by prejudice and poverty.

Wounded, by Emily Mayhew: Beautifully written, this harrowing trip to the trenches of World War I tells one of medicine's most pivotal chapters with the pace and tension of a novel.

Coming out in the wake of a flurry of fact - inspired (if not fact - based) World War II novels, including Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny, James Jones's From Here to Eternity, and Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, Battle Cry was highly praised by critics and was a huge seller, possibly helped by the fact that it was a much more unquestioningly patriotic work than many of those other books, most of which took a more cynical, jaundiced, and complex look at the motivations behind the men fighting the wWar II novels, including Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny, James Jones's From Here to Eternity, and Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, Battle Cry was highly praised by critics and was a huge seller, possibly helped by the fact that it was a much more unquestioningly patriotic work than many of those other books, most of which took a more cynical, jaundiced, and complex look at the motivations behind the men fighting the warwar.

By 2006, when Max Brooks published his novel «World War Z» (from which the movie is very loosely adapted), the worst has already happened: the zombies have been vanquished, but only after destroying a good bit of the world's population.

It's World War Z, based on a 2006 novel by Max Brooks that's anything but back - to - the - old - grindhouse.

Adapted by Philip Dunne from the novel by Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstacy is the story of the 16th century war of wills between Renaissance artist Michelangelo (Charlton Heston) and «warrior pope» Julius II (Rex Harrison).

Tom Cruise stars in an adaptation of Kosinski's own graphic novel, set in the year 2073 when Earth is mostly abandoned after being devastated by war.

Set in hard - times Mississippi just before, during and after World War II and based on a 2008 novel by Hillary Jordan, Mudbound focuses on two poor families: one white farmers (the McAllans); the other black sharecroppers (the Jacksons) who work the former's land.

Based on Humphrey Cobb's antiwar novel, this classic war movie starred Kirk Douglas as a French colonel in World War I who defends three doomed soldiers about to be executed for their alleged cowardice in a battle lost by an incompetent and morally bankrupt general (Adolphe Menjowar movie starred Kirk Douglas as a French colonel in World War I who defends three doomed soldiers about to be executed for their alleged cowardice in a battle lost by an incompetent and morally bankrupt general (Adolphe MenjoWar I who defends three doomed soldiers about to be executed for their alleged cowardice in a battle lost by an incompetent and morally bankrupt general (Adolphe Menjou).

Adapting a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, also the author of The Secret Garden, the film shifts the story's setting to World War I. 10 year - old Sara Crewe (Liesel Matthews) has been left in a respected New York City boarding school while her British father heads overseas to fight.

Adapted from the 1924 novel by Ernest Perochon, the narrative covers several years in the life of the Paridier farm in rural France, beginning in 1915 and running through the end of World War I. With husbands, sons and brothers all shipped off to combat, it's up to the matriarch Hortense (Baye) to run the show, plowing the fields and reaping the crops with the help of her daughter, Solange (Laura Smet), and a brand - new farmhand, Francine (Bry), whom she brings on during the harvest season.

Based on the novel by Joseph Kanon, The Good German takes place in the ruins of post-World War II Berlin, where U.S. Army was correspondent Jake Geismar (Clooney) becomes embroiled with Lena Brandt (Blanchett), a former lover whose missing husband is the object of a manhunt by both the American and Russian armies.

Based on the series of novels by James S.A.Corey, this space opera is set 200 years in a future where humanity has colonized the solar system, which is divided and on the brink of war.

Based on Max Brooks» novel and directed by Marc Forster (Machine Gun Preacher, Quantum of Solace), World War Z also stars Mireille Enos, Matthew Fox, David Morse, and James Badge Dale.

Based on the novels by Joe Lansdale, the six - part series stars James as Hap Collins, a working class laborer who spent time in federal prison as a young man for refusing to serve in the Vietnam War — Watch the trailer below!

Although it shares many similarities with the first film adaptation of the novel directed by Kon Ichikawa in 1959, Tsukamoto chose to bring some of his more traditional genre film experience to the project in order to create a more vivid portrait of the horror and obscenity of war.

Based on RC Sherriff's play and novel of the same name, JOURNEY»S END is set in March 1918 as C - Company, led by a war - weary Captain Stanhope (Sam Claflin) arrives in northern France to take its turn in the front - line trenches.

This original film takes place prior to events of the Clancy's book series and is not based on any of the Cold War novel plots despite a young Ryan, who is stock broker working for a billionaire in Moscow, finding himself recruited by the CIA to foil his employer's terrorist plot to collapse the US economy.

A period drama set in post-World War II Mississippi, based on a novel of the same name by Hillary Jordan, Mudbound tells the story of two men — one African American, one white — returning home from the war to go to work on a rural Mississippi farm, each struggling to readjust to the realities of American life, including the intense racism of the periWar II Mississippi, based on a novel of the same name by Hillary Jordan, Mudbound tells the story of two men — one African American, one white — returning home from the war to go to work on a rural Mississippi farm, each struggling to readjust to the realities of American life, including the intense racism of the periwar to go to work on a rural Mississippi farm, each struggling to readjust to the realities of American life, including the intense racism of the period.

Adapted and Americanized from the 1974 novel by popular British author Frederick Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File), Dogs casts Walken as Jamie Shannon, one of several mercenaries making a narrow exit from war - torn Central America in the film's opening sequence.

By contrast, every character in Howl's Moving Castle — derived from an English novel by Diana Wynne Jones — is both lovable and seriously flawed, and though a war does rage around them, the only villains are the faceless forces on both sides that keep it goinBy contrast, every character in Howl's Moving Castle — derived from an English novel by Diana Wynne Jones — is both lovable and seriously flawed, and though a war does rage around them, the only villains are the faceless forces on both sides that keep it goinby Diana Wynne Jones — is both lovable and seriously flawed, and though a war does rage around them, the only villains are the faceless forces on both sides that keep it going.

Based on the Vince Flynn novel of the same name, the film stars Dylan O'Brien as Mitch Rapp, a CIA black ops recruit who comes under the instruction of a Cold War veteran, played by Michael Keaton.

Columbia Pictures War for the Planet of the Apes (July 14) Caesar and his apes battle a human army led by a brutal colonel in this third film in the latest series inspired by Pierre Boulle's 1963 novel.

Adapted from a novel by Kevin Powers, this is a searing antiwar drama about «kids who go to war too young and get destroyed,» Mr. Cooper said.

Perfectly capturing the pointless absurdity of war and treading the line between fantasy and realism, the novel's black humour serves to highlight the nightmarish everyday reality faced by Baghdad's residents.

Ben - Hur Stars: Jack Huston (Ben - Hur), Toby Kebbell (Messala), Morgan Freeman (Sheik Liderim), Rodrigo Santoro (Jesus), Pilou Asbaek (Pontius Pilate), Nazanin Boniadi, Sofia Black D'Elia, Ayelet Zurer, Marwan Kenzari and James Cosmo Director: Timur Bekmambetov Scriptwriters: Keith Clarke and John Ridley from the novel «Ben - Hur: A Tale of the Christ» by Lew Wallace Composer: Mario Beltrami Cinematographer: Oliver Wood MGM Rating: R for violence including war, slavery, chariot racing Running Length: 125 minutes

Fey stars as real life war correspondent Kim Barker, whose novel The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan has here been adapted for the screen by Fey's fellow 30 Rock / Saturday Night Live / Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt scribe Robert Carlock.

Official Synopsis: Based on Frank Miller's latest graphic novel Xerxes, and told in the breathtaking visual style of the blockbuster «300,» this new chapter of the epic saga takes the action to a fresh battlefield — on the sea — as Greek general Themistokles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war.

The title of Spike Lee's war drama, based on the novel by James McBride, suggests a war miracle movie where all are saved by kindness or luck or divine intervention, but there is no such otherworldly benevolence here, merely the sacrifice of four black servicemen — Buffalo Soldiers — to protect the folks of a small mountain village in Tuscany surrounded by the Germans.

The World Made Straight (R for violence, drug use, sexual references and profanity) Adaptation of the Ron Rash novel of the same name, set in the Seventies, about a troubled young man (Jeremy Irvine) eager to escape a rural Appalachian community stained by the legacy of a Civil War massacre.

(In Spanish with subtitles) Tomorrow, When the War Began (R for violence) Screen adaptation of John Marsden's novel of the same name about seven Australian teenagers who band together to survive when they return from a weeklong camping trip in the bush to find the country invaded by a hostile nation.

In his novel The Terror, Arthur Machen imagined that the animals, sickened by the carnage of World War I, turned on humankind with tooth and claw.

Based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo, it tells the story of a young boy named Albert (Jeremy Irvine) whose horse is sold to the cavalry during World War I.

George R.R. Martin's fantasy cycle A Song of Ice and Fire — five very large novels deep now — is concerned with impassioned monarchs and their desperate ministers, as well as the deformations wrought by their egotistical wars.

Based on the Robert C. O'Brien novel of the same name, «Z for Zachariah» centers on Ann (Margot Robbie) a farm girl who's become a woman on the fringe of a world ravaged by nuclear war.

Based on the novel by Philip Roth, Indignation is set in 1951 and focuses on Marcus (Lerman), the 18 - year - old son of a kosher butcher in Newark who grapples with anti-Semitism, sexual repression and the escalating Korean War as he comes of age at a Midwestern Lutheran college.

He will also star in Alan Rickman's A Little Chaos, which will close the Toronto film festival in September; romantic war drama Suite Francaise; and novel adaptation Far from the Madding Crowd, directed by Thomas Vinterberg and starring Juno Temple, Michael Sheen and Carey Mulligan.

The plot itself isn't particularly novel, involving Hercules being employed by the withering King of Thrace, Lord Cotys (John Hurt) to mold his men into soldiers in hopes of putting an end to a brewing civil war.

Based on the graphic novel and original screenplay by Kevin Grevioux (creator of the Underworld series), the film stars Aaron Eckhart as Adam, a contemporary Frankenstein monster now living in a dark, gothic metropolis who finds himself caught in an all - out, centuries old war between two immortal clans.

Adapted from the novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, All You Need Is Kill follows a soldier fighting a war against aliens, who's caught in a time loop so that he dies...

Adapted from the novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, All You Need Is Kill follows a soldier fighting a war against aliens, who's caught in a time loop so that he dies over and over again.

William Shatner is nothing if not diverse in hos interests and nothing shows that more than the announcement today that comics imprint Shatner Singularity has been launched by LNL Partners — publishers of Shatner's Man O» War graphic novel in the company's Cinematic Graphic Novel fonovel in the company's Cinematic Graphic Novel foNovel format.

Adapted by Rees and co-screenwriter Virgil Williams from the 2008 novel by Hillary Jordan, it is a period epic spanning about five years, from America's 1941 entry into World War II to the immediate postwar era.