Sentences with phrase «cult novel»

Cast: Aml Ameen, Shantol Jackson, Stephen Graham, Fraser James, Sheldon Shepherd, Everaldo Cleary, For his feature directorial debut, Elba chose an adaptation of the Victor Headley cult novel about a youth who witnesses his idealistic brother's assassination in Jamaica.

Now Yossarian's quest... In Joseph Heller's cult novel Catch - 22 the anti-hero Captain John Yossarian vows to «live for ever or die in the attempt».

With exactly a week to go until Ready Player One arrives in cinemas, IMAX has released a behind the scenes featurette for the upcoming big screen adaptation of Ernest Cline's cult novel which includes interviews with director Steven Spielberg, author Cline, stars Lena Waithe, Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, and Ben Mendelsohn, producers Kristie Macosko Krieger, Donald -LSB-...]

COLD IN JULY, Jim Mickle's feature adaptation of the Joe Lansdale cult novel in which Hall stars with Sam Shepard and Don Johnson, recently premiered to significant acclaim in US Dramatic Competition at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.

With just two weeks to go until the release of Ready Player One, theatre chain Cinemark has revealed an exclusive poster for the upcoming big screen adaptation of Ernest Cline's cult novel featuring Tye Sheridan's Wade Watts and The Iron Giant; check it out here... SEE ALSO: Ready Player One pays homage to classic movie posters Ready -LSB-...]

Sparklingly adapted from Winifred Watson's beloved cult novel, it sees downtrodden, middle - aged governess Miss Pettigrew (dowdy - haired Frances McDormand) about to hit the soup line unless she can bag a last, long - shot job.

He foundered with a superhero parody -LRB-» The Green Hornet,» 2011), made a few documentaries, and adapted a French cult novel that was ruinously edited down before it crossed the Atlantic as «Mood Indigo» (2013).

Not far into Lynne Ramsay's adaptation of Alan Warner's 1995 cult novel Morvern Callar, the heroine walks down a street at night in black tights and platform shoes, casting a long, fingerlike shadow on the pavement as a cat meows in the darkness.

Hardback versions of much - hyped new works such as Harper Lee's Go Set A Watchman also proved bestsellers, along with cult novels such as The Girl of the Train by Paula Hawkins.

Rosedale hopes that a fully immersive 3D world, like the OASIS world described in a more recent cult novel (Ernest Cline's Ready Player One, 2011), will be both more appealing and easier to use than Second Life.

Jeremy Irons and Bruno Ganz star in the adaptation of Pascal Mercier's cult novel about a mild - mannered teacher suddenly who takes an impetuous sleeper train ride in search of an enigmatic author.

In Joseph Heller's cult novel Catch - 22 the anti-hero Captain John Yossarian vows to «live for ever or die in the attempt».

Director Uli Edel made the harrowing Last Exit To Brooklyn in 1989, an adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr's cult novel and he moves the action along very adeptly here, helped by an excellent cast and a strong screenplay from Eichinger, no stranger to controversial subjects.

Based on the cult novel of the same name by Hideo Okuda, the film enters a world where slick talking pimps, naive porn stars, and a couple of lady - repelling nerds come together to reveal the many tentacles of the Tokyo sex industry.

This slick and entertaining 1975 film of Ken Kesey's cult novel will inevitably disappoint admirers of director Milos Forman's earlier work.

«Scrooge» (Paramount) is the 1970 musical incarnation of «A Christmas Carol» with Albert Finney and «Last Exit to Brooklyn» (Summit) is Uli Edel's adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr.'s cult novel.

THE IMPOSSIBLE director Juan Antonio Bayona is said to be leading the Brad Pitt starring sequel to this year's surprise hit, which was based on the cult novel by Max Brooks.

Based on the cult novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by English author Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), the BBC America television adaptation has reportedly cast Elijah Wood (Lord of the Rings) in a key role.

Based on a cult novel by Jean - Patrick Manchette and Jean - Pierre Bastid, «Let the Corpses Tan» tells the story of a woman and her two lovers who see their idyllic Mediterranean home invaded by a carload of robbers with a trunk of gold, and then the cops show up.

Youth in Revolt is based on a cult novel, albeit one I haven't read (yet, although what must've been the last B. Dalton in the northern hemisphere just closed nearby, so I picked it up for half price... go me!).

«High - Rise» was his controversial take on a cult novel that felt more ambitious than successful, and he follows that up quickly with a film that almost feels like a response to the scope of last year's piece in its minimalist structure.

Eminently inventive auteur Michel Gondry finds inspiration from french novelist Boris Vian's cult novel to provide the foundation for this visionary and romantic love story starring Audrey Tautou (Amélie, Coco Before Chanel) and Romain Duris (The Beat My Heart Skipped).

For decades, the Jodorowsky's attempt to film the cult novel was the stuff of cinephile lore — a crazy myth about a crazy idea.

Directed by Danny Boyle and based on Irving Welsh's 1993 cult novel, «Trainspotting» was impeccably cast, was acted, shot and directed with a kinetic frenzy that was impossible to deny and featured the greatest music supervision of the 1990s.

Freeman's other notable roles in the past have been in the Emmy - nominated FX series «Fargo», in which he plays the small - town insurance salesman Lester Nygaard as he undergoes a mid-life crisis, and in the 2005 movie adaptation of the cult novel The Hitch - Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

James McAvoy takes a depraved walk on the wild side in this gleefully lurid adaptation of a cult novel by Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh.

This marks iconic horror director Don Coscarelli's return to the director's chair with the adaptation from David Wong's cult novel.

Based on Michael Faber's cult novel The Book of Strange New Things, Oasis follows a chaplain (Madden) who is sent into space to help establish a colony on a distant planet.

Dirk Gently Holistic Detective Agency, 2012 (BritBox Premiere) See where it all began as BritBox brings back the original episodes of the popular series based on the cult novel by Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy).

Author Ernest Cline is set to hit continue on Ready Player One, with the writer revealing during a Facebook Livestream for Steven Spielberg's upcoming movie adaptation of his cult novel that he is working on a sequel to the 2011 novel.

Coinciding with its UK release, Flickering Myth's Thomas Harris has been chatting to author Ernest Cline about Steven Spielberg's acclaimed adaptation of his cult novel Ready Player One, and collaborating with Spielberg on the movie; watch the interview below, or check it out over on our YouTube channel here... SEE ALSO: Steven Spielberg's involvement allowed -LSB-...]

Amazon provides its own creepy version of Joan Lindsay's cult novel, most memorably adapted by Weir in 1975.

The actor plays a supporting role in his first feature, a 1970s gangster story based on the cult novel by Victor Headley.

Featuring a startling and era - defining lead performance from David Bowie in his debut feature role, and based on the cult novel by Walter Tevis, The Man Who Fell to Earth endures, not only as a bitingly caustic indictment of the modern world, but also as a poignant commentary on the loneliness of the outsider.»

Comment: Reiss takes us on an intriguing search to uncover the true identity of the author of the 1930's cult novel, Ali and Nino - Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who became a Muslim prince, who became a bestselling author in Nazi Germany.

«Trocchi's 1954 cult novel is written in the first person, but Mackenzie rejects the obvious solution of giving his anti-hero, Joe Taylor, a doomy noirish voiceover.

Adapted from the cult novel by Chris Kraus, who recently appeared in the Women Galore festival at The Wild Detectives in Oak Cliff, I Love Dick explores the author's obsession with «Dick,» played in the TV series by Kevin Bacon.

Based on award winning writer Tom McCarthy's cult novel, the film's global release is highly anticipated following its successful premiere at Tate Modern during the 2015 London Film Festival.