Sentences with phrase «cult novel morvern»

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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

Based on a Steven Gould cult novel I read years ago (but not long ago enough to love it), its high concept is that there are genetic anomalies among us who are capable of teleporting anywhere they've been before; the catch is that a group of witch hunters is eager to kill them because they're abominations before God.

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-...]

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-...]

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.

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).

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.

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

Director Peter Care's adaptation of Chris Fuhrman's cult novel The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys tries to address this essential «Blake - ian» paradox (extolling the virtues of experience in the act of static creation) by splitting its protagonists between the primogenitor (Kieran Culkin as Tim) and the chronicler (a fantastic Emile Hirsch as Francis), with Jena Malone's haunted Margie left a metaphor for the balance between innocence and experience (explored by Blake in his most well - known works («Songs of Innocence,» «Songs of Experience»)-RRB-.

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

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.

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.

Based on a cult novel by Walter Kirn, Thumbsucker works when its obsession with flight and freedom from dependency is carried in images and song (its soundtrack by Polyphonic Spree and the last new recordings by the late Elliott Smith will be the chief reasons for the picture's nominal success) as opposed to all the dark musings meant to underscore each character's own obvious dependencies.

Based on Reif Larsen «s cult novel «The Selected Works Of T.S. Spivet,» the film, which seems to be right in Jeunet's quirky wheelhouse, is toplined by young newcomer Kyle Catlett, with Helena Bonham - Carter, Callum Keith Rennie, Kathy Bates and Judy Davis also on board, and marks the Gallic helmer's first time shooting in 3D, which, as with Martin Scorsese and Ang Lee in recent years, is surely worth the price of admission alone.

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).

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.

«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.

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!).

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.

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

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 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-...]

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.

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.

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.

Teaming with the maverick Scottish director Lynne Ramsay, the actress would essay the enigmatic, directionless title character in Morvern Callar, a dreamy, elliptical adaptation of Alan Warner's cult novel.

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.

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.

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.

His body of remix artworks includes published cult novels, pioneering works of Internet art, digital video and surround sound museum installations, large - scale video projections in public spaces, live audio - visual / VJ performance, and most recently, a series of feature - length «foreign films» shot with different image - capturing devices in various locations throughout the world.

Not exact matches

No profession should model itself on Russian novels — or, for that matter, a cult, a Ponzi scheme, or organized crime.

The result — a tale of a young teenage boy who believes his epic sci - fi novel has been stolen for use by one of his writer heroes, and the battle that ensues between them — is a movie that this time might be too strange for a mainstream audience, but based on the Hesses» track record, could very well gain a cult following for years.

A. Rand won a cult following with two best - selling novels presenting her belief that all real achievement comes from individual ability and effort, that laissez - faire capitalism is most congenial to the exercise of talent, and that selfishness is a virtue, altruism a vice.

David TaylorCritic, novelist and Orwell biographerI've always found it diffi cult to view 1984 outside the context of the four novels Orwell wrote in the decade before the World War II - Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Keep The Aspidistra Flying and Coming Up For Air.

As you probably know, he came up with the idea of Newspeak in this novel Nineteen Eighty - Four with the cult slogans «War is peace», «Freedom is slavery» and «Ignorance is strength» which were used in this fictional world to manipulate public opinion.

But with last year's success of Emma Cline's novel The Girls (and it's eventual film adaptation), it seems as though a slew of Fashion Girls were inspired by the look of some cults / religious subcultures (tomato / tomatoe?).

With the adaptaion of cult gothic novels (Dracula, Frankenstein...) and a growing morbid interest for all things dark, there has been an increasing appeal for tormented, yet old fashioned, female characters.

This inventive pic version of U.K. author Irvine Welsh's cult 1993 novel, set among a group of self - destructive no - hopers and junkies in Edinburgh's underbelly,

Three years after «The Sudden Departure,» where two percent of the world's population disappeared suddenly, the townspeople of Mapleton struggle with life including Police Chief Kevin Garvey (Justin Theroux), who has to deal with mysterious happenings in town, his two rebelling teenaged children, as well as a cult called the Guilty Remnant that includes Laurie (Amy Brenneman), a self - proclaimed prophet named «Holy Wayne» (Paterson Joseph), Rev. Matt Jamison (Christopher Eccleston), and Mayor Lucy Warburton (Amanda Warren) in this drama series based on Tom Perrotta's novel of the same name.

Spawning a juggernaut of a franchise featuring a number of sequels, comic books, toys, novels, and Internet videos, «Predator» has become completely immersed in pop culture and gone from a cult classic to an iconic film.

Directed by Chuck Russell («The Mask») and based on Cathy Cash Spellman's novel, «Bless the Child» pits Maggie (Kim Basinger), an unmarried psychiatric nurse, against a fiendish devil cult led by the supercilious Eric Stark (Rufus Sewell).

Josh Hartnett (The Black Dahlia, Pearl Harbor) crosses over to the dark side in this bone - chilling adaptation of the cult - hit graphic novel, brought to the screen in all its demonic glory.

Joseph Gordon - Levitt has walked away from a high - profile big - screen adaptation of the cult graphic novel Sandman, citing creative differences with studio Warner Brothers.

Having powered his way through the «Lord of the Rings» trilogy, which had its occasional majesties, director Peter Jackson now feels compelled to give us this prequel, based on the Tolkien novel that spawned the cult I never joined.

It's an adaptation of a 1971 novel by cult Seventies neo-polar writer Jean - Patrick Manchette, whose Nada became an underrated 1974 film by Claude Chabrol, and whose 1981 novel The Prone Gunman has just been adapted by Taken director Pierre Morel with Sean Penn, Javier Bardem, Idris Elba, and Mark Rylance under the rather uninspiring truncated title The Gunman.

Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, and Helen Mirren star in Red, an explosive action - comedy based on the cult DC Comics graphic novel by Warren Ellis.