Sentences with phrase «cinematic adaptation»

Sometimes cinematic adaptations are conversations with source material rather than direct representations.

This week, the first cinematic adaptation of Suzanne Collins» «Hunger Games» trilogy is hogging the home video spotlight.

The tale of a friendly stray mutt turned war hero is the kind of true story built for cinematic adaptation.

Unlike other cinematic adaptations, «Death and the Maiden's» director doesn't hide the fact that the film is based on a play.

1931 saw the first cinematic adaptations of one of Coward's most well - known plays, Private Lives.

After months of speculation, rumors, and false reports, Fox's new cinematic adaptation of «Fantastic Four» has a cast.

A false theatrical wall mirroring the backdrop of Notes on Gesture was painted in the colour purple, alluding to Alice Walker's eponymous 1982 novel and the subsequent cinematic adaptation starring Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey, while two bases for tables formerly belonging to one of the artist's relatives glowered in the shape of two black panthers.

While not as psychologically acute as The Talented Mr. Ripley or Ripley's Game, the latest cinematic adaptation of Patricia Highsmith is a gripping thriller in the key of Hitchcock.

It's true that the disorientation produced in the collision of Igorrr's frenetic style - mashing and Dumont's unadorned long - take aesthetic ensures that the film feels remarkably distinct from prior cinematic adaptations of Joan of Arc's life, but it's also hard not to wonder how this particular story might have played without the farfetched musical conceit grafted atop it.

I admit I can be too pedantic about this, as I should accept cinematic adaptations as their own beasts.

Famous science - fiction author Ray Bradbury (Martian Chronicles / Fahrenheit 451) wrote the screenplay with John Huston, and like many cinematic adaptations of classic novels, namely The Brothers Karamazov starring Yul Breynner, there's very quick pacing and they skimmed over details.

We Need to Talk About Kevin, Ramsay's hypnotic cinematic adaptation of the novel by Lionel Shriver, manages to combine her medley of heightened aesthetics with a keenly dark sense of humor and place.

A new live action cinematic adaptation of the popular fighting video game Mortal Kombat is heading our way, with Australian filmmaker James Wan

Both Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings saw cinematic adaptations skyrocket in the early 2000s, but the fantasy boomlet ultimately fizzled out, under a surge of subpar Narnia and Golden Compass movies.

Warner Bros has unleashed a chilling new TV trailer for director Andrés Muschietti's fresh cinematic adaptation of Stephen King's It, the creepy horror story about the evil clown.

«By far, it's the best cinematic adaptation of an Ellroy novel.

Disney's version — titled, like the book and little - known previous cinematic adaptation, Tuck Everlasting — would be produced by Scholastic Entertainment, the media company best known for publishing children's books, and an independent production company that was recently launched by Scholastic co-founder Jane Startz.

When she and director / writer Stephen Chbosky came to Boston, I was able to talk to them about that and plenty of other things having to do with both the book and its upcoming cinematic adaptation starring the likes of Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, and Jacob Tremblay.

I always enjoy efforts that show the actual people behind cinematic adaptations, so these featurettes add value.

by Walter Chaw Director Michael Mann's third film is the remarkable Manhunter, the second cinematic adaptation of a Thomas Harris novel (the first being 1977's John Frankenheimer - helmed Black Sunday) and the first to feature Harris's dark serial - killer antihero, Hannibal Lecter (spelled «Lecktor» in Manhunter).

From Danish director Thomas Vinterberg, who gave us the 1998 Dogme film The Celebration and the 2012 Best Foreign Language nominee The Hunt, Far from the Madding Crowd — the fourth cinematic adaptation of Hardy's novel (the most famous of which is the 1967 John Schlesinger version)-- is a gorgeously photographed period piece, and one of the fastest - paced films about the 19th century that I have ever seen.

Jennifer Merin: Dee Rees cinematic adaptation of Hillary Jordan's novel is epic in scope.

The tradition was perpetuated in the 20th century by T.H. White (The Once and Future King), Mary Stewart (The Crystal Cave and its several sequels), Marion Zimmer Bradley (The Mists of Avalon), and, of course, by countless cinematic adaptations, including Robert Bresson's Lancelot du lac, John Boorman's Excalibur, Jerry Zucker's First Knight, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

The plot of the book, of course, has little to do with the subsequent tale (Tolkien made cosmetic changes to the novel to align it better with the sequel — nothing too drastic), but The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug goes out of its way to connect these long - winded cinematic adaptations to the ones that preceded it.

Director Scott Derrickson's cinematic adaptation blends show - stopping action sequences filled with trippy, kaleidoscopic visual effects and emotional stakes.

Popova provides a list of «free versions of, tributes to, and derivatives of» Carroll's 1865 classic, from a Russian translation with awesome illustrations to a video of the earliest cinematic adaptation of the book (c. 1903).

Whilst the subject matter is ripe for cinematic adaptation, Suffragette fails to offer something truly memorable... Maud Watts is a regular working - class women in 1910s London, with a husband and son.

Directed by Gisaburo Sugii and distributed by 20th Century Fox in collaboration with other studios, the movie took on a fairly straightforward Street Fighter saga in a way that incorporated as many key characters as possible — something other cinematic adaptations have struggled mightily.

In Tom Hooper's new cinematic adaptation of the beloved musical, the song is sung by Anne Hathaway, and your response to it will likely be a good barometer of your response to the film overall.

Depending on how you feel about family dysfunction, your reaction to the latest cinematic adaptation of a Tracy Letts play may be fascination, repulsion, some combination of both, or just plain boredom.

So we come to Coriolanus, the first cinematic adaptation of one of Shakespeare's lesser - known plays.

The 1945 cinematic adaptation of Mildred Pierce, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring, of course, Joan Crawford, is a very different beast to the 2011 HBO mini-series starring Kate Winslet.

This cinematic adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel stars Myrna Loy in her first starring role.

King Kong is a lightweight compared to the trio of mutant creatures who climb atop Chicago's famed Willis Tower in Rampage, a cinematic adaptation of the classic arcade game that emphasizes big - budget spectacle over narrative substance.

Their take on the Bard is as imaginative as any other cinematic adaptation, plus a good deal funnier

Hollywood has shoved it further onto our radars with their cinematic adaptations.

Most of the time people will rather the original book to the cinematic adaptation.

The Oscar - winning director Peter Jackson returns to the Middle Earth of his deservedly acclaimed The Lord of the Rings movies for this cinematic adaptation of Tolkein's first visit to that mythical land.

French novelist Gabrielle - Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve's classic fairy tale La Belle et la Bête is no stranger to cinematic adaptations.

Writer / director Paul Thomas Anderson returns to the big screen with his cinematic adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's novel.

They're happy to see these cool moments copied from classic comics into their cinematic adaptations.

Fourteen years later, a literary and film franchise has grown from that first effort, spanning six text sequels and eight cinematic adaptations.

When it was announced that the Captain Marvel movie would see Carol Danvers going up against the Skrulls, we all instantly wondered... is a cinematic adaptation of «Secret Invasion» on its way?

While Cormac McCarthy is undeniably an American literary icon, cinematic adaptations of his work haven't always fared so well.

Franco plays Tommy Wiseau, the mastermind and star of The Room, in this cinematic adaptation of The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made, which was written by The Room co-star Greg Sestero (aka Mark).

True story: Rupert Goold's cinematic adaptation of the memoir penned by disgraced New York Times writer Michael Finkel elicits more yawns than being forced to sit through days» worth of testimony in an actual courtroom would.

2005's «Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire» remains the best film of the cinematic adaptations of J.K. Rowling's novels — a responsible, straightforward and exciting look at teenage reality through a fantasy lens.