Sentences with phrase «adaptation of work by»

The first English language stage adaptation of work by cult Spanish film director, Pedro Almodovar, received a rapturous welcome at the Old Vic tonight.

She gave one of her very best performances in Michael Winterbottom's «The Claim» (2000), another adaptation of a work by Thomas Hardy.

It includes some 20 paintings, reliefs and works on paper by the artist known for his paintings based on comic strips, advertising imagery, and adaptations of works by other artists.

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As evidenced by the unheralded emergence and blossoming of youngsters like Rashford — who has scored four goals in his first two senior games — and the successful adaptation and upgrading of squad members such as Fellaini, Ashley Young and Chris Smalling, there have been individual improvements, especially with regards to players ready to work for the system over themselves.

A good indicator of the adaptation of republican thought to the question of work is given by Etienne Vacherot's treatment of it in his celebrated 1859 work, Democracy.

He lauded the Governing Board, Executive Management and Staff of the Centre for their strategic direction and hard work, noting especially the tireless efforts by staff of the Training Department who worked directly with GIZ and the Consultants on the adaptation of the elearning model.

So what this shows is it sort of gives us a window to say, well, one way the gene duplication allows novelty or specialization or adaptation is by having more genetic parts to work with — each part can be optimized and specialized in a way that if you just have one part, you can do.

Offering that «it's very hard to do a systematic change,» Girard cited her work as the chairwoman of Boston's interagency green building committee, in which every major construction project has to pass a checklist produced by the agency to comply with new adaptation codes.

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Released on April 6 from Brussels, Belgium, Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability presents years of research by IPCC Working Group II.

The adaptation by the body producing rT3 is not useful in our high - demand society when we must work and take care of our children, spouse, parents, etc..

She was also fortunate in working at the National Theater with Peter Gill in his stage adaptation of Faulkner's AS I LAY DYING; to play Masha in THREE SISTERS at the Greenwich Theater directed by Elijah Moshinsky; and the lead in the LULU PLAYS by Wedekind at the Almeida Theater.

Director David Gordon Green, working with screenwriter John Pollono's adaptation of the book by Mr. Bauman and Bret Witter, maintains a brisk pace.

By all accounts Fincher and writer Gillian Flynn had a monster of a book to adapt in Flynn's popular novel and what's stunning is not just how well the adaptation works but on how many levels it successfully operates on.

Carrie is a film adaptation of Stephen King's work, which got turned into a cult horror classic in 1976 and was directed by Brain De Palma.

«21 Jump Street «It shouldn't have worked — yet another tired reinvention of a preexisting property (in this case a beloved but marginal eighties television series), gussied up with of - the - moment stars and a more comedic bent (something found, time and time again, in the television - series - adaptation subgenre — see also: «The Addams Family,» «The Brady Bunch,» and «Charlie's Angels «-RRB-, shepherded by a pair of directors making the shaky transition from animation to the much woollier world of live action.

There's a reason more established directors stay away — Mike Newell (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Donnie Brasco, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) saw his reputation permanently dinged by the box - office failure of Prince of Persia, a Disney adaptation of a famed platform game, while Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code) took on the mighty task of adapting Warcraft to the screen and was greeted by punishing reviews for his years of work.

Ten years later, working from an adaptation of the caper novel by W.R. Burnett scripted in collaboration with the author, he essentially launched the heist film as a genre of its own and set the blueprint that all subsequent heist dramas built upon.

Working from an adaptation of James Sallis» eponymous novel by Academy Award nominee Hossein Amini, director Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronson) delivers a movie that pulses with an unwavering, premium - unleaded sense of purpose, giving its no - frills story a sense of supremely heightened stakes.

Though he once described his screenplays as more craft than art, Stoppard's literate film adaptations of various works by major authors have matched him with some of the most esteemed directors in international cinema, beginning with Joseph Losey's The Romantic Englishwoman in 1975.

An adaptation of Patricia Highsmith «s «Carol» (also known as «The Price Of Salt «-RRB-, penned by Phyllis Nagy («Mrs. Harris «-RRB-, the»50s New York - set tale follows the story of two women — one a 20 - something girl working in a department store while harbouring bigger dreams, the other a middle - aged wife trapped in a money - driven, loveless marriage — and the relationship that brews between the twof Patricia Highsmith «s «Carol» (also known as «The Price Of Salt «-RRB-, penned by Phyllis Nagy («Mrs. Harris «-RRB-, the»50s New York - set tale follows the story of two women — one a 20 - something girl working in a department store while harbouring bigger dreams, the other a middle - aged wife trapped in a money - driven, loveless marriage — and the relationship that brews between the twOf Salt «-RRB-, penned by Phyllis Nagy («Mrs. Harris «-RRB-, the»50s New York - set tale follows the story of two women — one a 20 - something girl working in a department store while harbouring bigger dreams, the other a middle - aged wife trapped in a money - driven, loveless marriage — and the relationship that brews between the twof two women — one a 20 - something girl working in a department store while harbouring bigger dreams, the other a middle - aged wife trapped in a money - driven, loveless marriage — and the relationship that brews between the two.

The Little Nightmares TV show is also being developed by DJ2 Entertainment, a production company that is also working on adaptations of Life Is Strange and Sonic The Hedgehog.

But Heyman hasn't forgotten the other highly anticipated fan project he's working on, namely Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the first Harry Potter film not be a direct adaptation of one of the books, and the first to have a screenplay written by J.K. Rowling herself.

Andrew Haigh's adaptation of a novel by alt - country singer - songwriter Willy Vlautin concerns a teenage boy (All The Money In The World's Charlie Plummer) who gets a summer job working for a grizzled race - horse trainer (Steve Buscemi) and ends up bonding with one of his new boss» aging meal tickets.

For now, though, the few remaining unadapted King works are being snapped up at a break - neck pace, all thanks to the King adaptation resurgence spawned by the blockbuster success of It.

If you don't know the man by name, then you surely know him by his work: he directed the movie - adaptation of 30 Days of Night several years back, the indie - gem Hard Candy, as well as episodes of (the incredible) Hannibal, and American Gods.

After its success of their adaptation of Big Little Lies, the network will work on another adaptation, this time on the 1998 novel I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb, Deadline reports.

«That doesn't really bother me,» he said last week by phone from New York, where he is working on the film adaptation of the bestselling novel «The Goldfinch.»

The original script draft was co-penned by Guillermo del Toro shortly after he made Pan's Labyrinth nine years ago, but the project was put on hold while del Toro worked on a couple films (Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Pacific Rim), a TV series (The Strain), an At the Mountains of Madness adaptation that stalled in pre-production, and The Hobbit before Peter Jackson took over... among other things, that is.

A number of other major restorations will have their World Premieres at the Festival: Carol Reed's atmospheric Graham Greene adaptation of OUR MAN IN HAVANA (1959), set in Cuba at the start of the Cold War, makes timely viewing as US / Cuba relations thaw; Ken Russell's reworking of D.H. Lawrence scandalous classic WOMEN IN LOVE (1970) stars Oliver Reed, Alan Bates and Glenda Jackson and shows two couple's contrasting searches for love, and was restored by the BFI National Archive working alongside cinematographer Billy Williams; A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (1966) is directed by Fred Zinnemann from a script by great British screenwriter, Robert Bolt from Bolt's play about Sir Thomas More, a perfect companion piece to Wolf Hall; Henry Fonda stars in the ripe - for - discovery WARLOCK (1959), a seething study of vengeance and repressed sexuality in a Utah mining outpost; and Bryan Forbes» THE RAGING MOON (1971) starring Malcolm McDowell and Nanette Newman in a tender story between two young people in wheelchairs which was ahead of its time in its attempts to change attitudes to disability.

With appearances by Chris Pratt as Theodore's boss, Portia Doubleday as a sex surrogate for cognitive operating systems, and if you're listening closely, voice work by Brian Cox (who appeared in Jonze's «Adaptation»), Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig, «Her» covers a lot of relatable emotional ground in just under two hours: the intoxicating rush of falling in love, heartache and longing, but also the confusion and anguish that strike when personal growth isn't in tandem with a relationship's development.

Though as early as 1996 she was reportedly at work on a film adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel The Price of Salt, later adapted by Todd Haynes into 2015's Carol, Macdonald has worked exclusively in television ever since, and has been back in view lately for directing the acclaimed new miniseries adaptation of Howards End, scripted by Kenneth Lonergan.

Carol works beautifully, but only on one level; it's a great adaptation of a novel by a great writer, and that's a lot, but that's all.

Jenkins, who is now working on high - profile adaptations of books by James Baldwin and Colson Whitehead, will return to Telluride this year as its short - film programmer.

The movie has been adapted from the E. M. Forster novel by three filmmakers who have specialized recently in film adaptations of literary works: director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

However, apparently she is eyeing two specific projects at Disney - one is this adaptation of the classic fantasy novel by Madeleine L'Engle, the other is a sci - fi screenplay by Colin Trevorrow & Derek Connolly titled Intelligent Life in the works at DreamWorks.

Wingard is currently working through post-production on his next film «Death Note,» an adaptation of the manga series by Tsugumi Ohba.

He had worked closely with director Todd Haynes for almost 14 years and was excited by the opportunity to shoot an adaptation of a Patricia Highsmith novel, especially if it was one not based in the world of crime.

The same is not quite true of True Grit, another handsome, well - wrought adaptation — in this case, of the 1968 Western by Charles Portis — but one in which novelist and filmmakers seem less in sync.

The Second Bakery Attack is based on the story of the same name by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, and stands as one of a very few adaptations of the author's works.

With decades of tried and tested adaptations, you'd think by now someone would have got the idea that maybe they don't work.

Before now, the most well - known film adaptation of Saint - Exupéry's work was the 1974 live - action movie directed by «Singin» in the Rain» director Stanley Donen, which starred actor Gene Wilder as the Fox, Richard Kiley as the pilot, and Bob Fosse as the Snake.

The Pros: Orson Scott Card «s «Ender's Game» is one of the most beloved science fiction novels around, and Summit are hoping to do for hard sci - fi what they did for vampires with «Twilight,» with this long - in - the - works adaptation, directed by «Wolverine» helmer Gavin Hood, and produced by «Star Trek» supremos Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci.

Compared to other adaptations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's work, this Sherlock Holmes (played by Robert Downey Jr.) turns the detective into more of an action hero.

After years of making mostly comedies and literary adaptations, Raffaello Matarazzo turned to melodrama with this intense tale of a tight - knit working - class family shattered by temptation.

Led by an Oscar - level performance by Frank Langella and fine work from Michael Sheen as the dapper playboy interviewer David Frost, this adaptation of Peter Morgan's play is one of the best movies of the year.

Kazan's debut screenplay is unmistakably inspired by the works of Charlie Kaufman, whose heady comedies like Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind are recalled here.

Glover will play Simba in the forthcoming live - action adaptation of The Lion King — which is being directed by The Jungle Book's Jon Favreau — with work on the movie well under way.

The director behind comedies When Harry Met Sally and The Princess Bride seems like an odd choice to helm the adaptation of Stephen King's captivity nightmare, but his work on Stand By Me convinced Stephen King himself that Rob Reiner was perfect for the job.

There has been talk (probably generating from the studio marketing department) that this is an Oscar contender, but it never distinguishes itself as anything more than an effective genre piece, graced by the usual high - standard of work by cinematographer Roger Deakins and with particular appeal to those who enjoyed the above - mentioned (and overpraised) Dennis Lehane adaptations.