Sentences with phrase «cinematic adaptation of»

Kingdom Hearts χ Back Cover is a cinematic adaptation of the 2013 browser based game Kingdom Hearts χ (pronounced «chi») that was eventually made into a mobile game.

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).

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 Allan Knee's play no doubt romanticizes reality to some degree.

Ava DuVernay — American Writer, Director, Producer Nominated for the Academy Award and Golden Globe and winner of the BAFTA and Emmy, Ava DuVernay is a writer, director, producer and film distributor known for the historical drama Selma (2014), the criminal justice documentary 13TH (2016) and the recent Disney's cinematic adaptation of the classic children's novel A Wrinkle in Time.

As of this writing, Tom Hooper's cinematic adaptation of the hugely famous musical has a score of 55 on Metacritic.

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.

With its heart so clearly in the right place, it's hard to come down too hard on Martin Duffy's same - named cinematic adaptation of Brook's text, but the film is so intent on capturing the spiritual aspects of its title character and its namesake that it gives short shrift to the tragedy of its familial disintegration, discarding subtlety, too, in its proselytizing wake.

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.

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

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.

In retrospect, I should not have read Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation — the first volume of his «Southern Reach» trilogy — just before watching director Alex Garland's cinematic adaptation of it.

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

Release: Friday, April 17, 2015 [Theater] Written by: Rupert Goold; David Kajganich Directed by: Rupert Goold 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.

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

Acclaimed filmmaker Steven Spielberg is all set to helm his first superhero movie and it is going to be none other than DC's cinematic adaptation of the comic - book character Blackhawk.

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?

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.

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

What You Need To Know: Talked about almost as soon as the original cinematic adaptation of «Sin City» hit back in 2005, it seemed for a long time that Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller would never get a second go - round for their black - and - white crime tales.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Cinematic adaptations of young adult novels focusing on a dystopian future are nothing new but there are thoughtful films that truly stand out in the crowd (like The Hunger Games series and The Giver) and then there are movies like Insurgent.

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But that could have also meant that we'd get a slapdash and rushed adaptation of Sestero's book, one of the most fascinating tales of unbridled cinematic creativity ever put on paper.

De Bont's effects - riddled remake of the»63 spook - out adaptation of Shirley Jackson's novel is not nearly as creepy as either its cinematic or its literary precedents.

Nolan's vision of Batman has amounted to the best comic adaptation in cinematic history.

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

Ridley Scott, who is on the same annual cinematic trajectory as Woody Allen when it comes to churning out films, returns again to sci - fi with The Martian, an adaptation of Andy Weir's novel.

It is the first cinematic feature by Dominic Cooke, an acclaimed theatre director whose stage expertise shines from this sad, sensitive, altogether enthralling adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel.

It's been seven years since Scottish director Lynne Ramsay performed cinematic alchemy with her adaptation of Lionel Shriver's We Need To Talk...

Indeed, the director had set his sights on remaking Murnau's shuddery unauthorized Dracula adaptation, shooting both German and English language versions and applying his own unique cinematic aesthetic to the oft filmed tale of the bloodsucking undead.

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The Age of Innocence (1993) is not the only costume drama or historical picture that Martin Scorsese made but it is his only classical literary adaptation from the filmmaker that, all these years later, we still remember for edgy violence and cinematic energy.

Beautifully executed though thematically murky, Alex Garland's (Ex Machina) adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's best - seller novel is an exercise in psychedelia and cinematic dissonance.

New on Blu - ray from The Criterion Collection, this Noël Coward adaptation is a gorgeously shot slice of cinematic heartbreak that will no doubt delight Downton Abbey fans who still crave doses of unspoken passion and polite English manners.

As proven by his adaptation of Proust, Ruiz is a master at finding cinematic solution to translate «the passing time, the stalled time, the time that repeats itself».

The question is whether the adaptation of this acclaimed young adult novel can be a cinematic tearjerker it needs to be to win over Academy members.

Filmmaker Sally Potter combines the experimental tools and feminist approach of her earlier films with art - house style and more conventional narrative storytelling to find the cinematic counterpart to Virginia Woolf's writing in this 1992 adaptation of Woolf's novel «Orlando: A Biography.»

«Ex Machina» is the directing debut of writer Alex Garland, who burst onto the cinematic scene in 2000 with Danny Boyle's adaptation of his novel «The Beach».

Zack Snyder's stylishly violent swords and sandals epic, 300, was a surprise box office smash (taking in $ 456 million worldwide in the spring of 2007), but no one kids themselves into believing that his cinematic vision was not responsible for that chest - beating comic book adaptation being so enjoyable to watch.

Adaptation of the Armored Avenger's latest cinematic excursion joins preview of Bungie's shooter; Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package hits PS3 and PC.

Today, Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc. revealed the opening cinematic for the next installment in the popular video game adaptation of the MMO inspired anime, Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet.

Deakins, who'd started his cinematic career in documentaries, brought his naturalistic style to Frank Darabont's adaptation of a 1982 Stephen King novella about a man unjustly sentenced to life in prison for murder.

Terrific editing, tremendously atmospheric cinematography and Michael Kamen's great score all contribute to making this one of the most effectively cinematic King adaptations — one, furthermore, in which the thematic preoccupations of the filmmaker meet their match in gloriously dotty source material.

Those seeking a cinematic escape from this week's barrage of «Transformers» silliness couldn't find a much more sober alternative than Cyrus Nowrasteh's «The Stoning of Soraya M.,» an adaptation of the non-fiction bestseller by French - Iranian journalist Freidoune Sahebjam.

The second of three cinematic King adaptations from Frank Darabont, The Green Mile is by far the weakest of the director's efforts, too often falling into bathos, treacly sentimentality and overlong extrapolation of its central conceit.