Sentences with phrase «early novel by»

Directed by Blake Edwards and adapted from an early novel by Michael Crichton (writing under a pseudonym), The Carey Treatment is an existential murder mystery with a pathologist standing in for the P.I.

Directed by Blake Edwards and adapted from an early novel by Michael Crichton (writing under a pseudonym), The Carey Treatment is an existential murder mystery with a pathologist standing in for the P.I.

Win a bundle of prizes to celebrate the release of the deliciously devious comedy of manners Love & Friendship, adapted by Whit Stillman from an early novel by Jane Austen

Although she is careful not to spell it out, Heard is probably alluding to the hoopla surrounding her recent engagement to Johnny Depp, her costar in 2011's The Rum Diary, which was based on an early novel by Hunter S. Thompson.

This entertaining film, from a delicious early novel by Henry James, takes place in a New England Arcadia that stands for everything beautiful, pure, and good.

Not exact matches

The Obama Administration's Wall Street managers have kept the debt overhead in place — toxic mortgage debt, junk bonds, and most seriously, the novel web of collateralized debt obligations (CDO), credit default swaps (almost monopolized by A.I.G.) and kindred financial derivatives of a basically mathematical character that have developed in the 1990s and early 2000s.

All of the worlds visited by the communal «I» early in the novel are in the throes of a social crisis caused by a lack of communal spirit.

The Russian Formalists of the early twentieth century rightly pointed out that her novels exclusively follow the Cinderella plot: A young woman falls in love with a man of superior social standing and has to wait for him to make the first declaration of love ¯ to be followed, even more excruciatingly, by the hoped - for offer of marriage.

The rapture has become an accepted part of the Christian vocabulary with the publication of the megaselling «Left Behind» novels and a heavily publicized prediction earlier this year by a Christian radio broadcaster that the rapture would occur in May.

The bestselling Left Behind novels, written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins between 1995 and 2007, dramatize the premillennial view of the End Times favored by earlier generations of American fundamentalists, in which Christ «raptures» his followers to heaven before a series of apocalyptic events unfold on earth.

I had just seen their Howards End, based on the novel by E. M. Forster, a writer whose work Merchant and Ivory had earlier mined successfully with A Room with a View and, less successfully, Maurice.

We have, he says — probably in direct reaction to Wittgenstein in his Tractatus (a book that appeared just a few years earlier and that Whitehead certainly knew about)-- we have to «rationalize mysticism»: not by causal reasons, but «by the introduction of novel verbal characterizations, rationally coordinated» (Modes 174).

With the approach of Updike's 50th birthday, and with the publication of this his 25th book, it is time to offer an assessment of his work as a whole: to trace his natively Lutheran vision of life as cast by God into an indissoluble ambiguity, to examine his treatment of death and sex as the two phenomena wherein the human contradiction is most sharply focused, to set this new novel in relation to the earlier «Rabbit» books, and to determine what is religiously troubling and compelling about Updike's art.

Early episodes of The Handmaid's Tale waste no time in establishing the alternate reality of its own world, first conceived by Margaret Atwood in her 1985 novel of the same name.

In that novel, the great Russian writer shows Ivan, Aloysha, and Dmitri as caught in this dilemma of choice; and they are appraised, in their personal quality, as blessed or damned, as we might put it, not by the arbitrary fiat of a deus ex machina, but by the ineluctable working out of what they have made of themselves, what they have become, as this is evaluated in terms of what in an earlier chapter we called whatever ultimately determines and assesses true values in the scheme of things.

Girard began in the early 1960s, with such works as Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, by explaining how triangular relations form among characters in fiction.

A solution had to be found, but it would have to come from sources other than the old English order [that is, the «ancient realm or the Anglican tradition»] The deep - seated tensions of early seventeenth - century English society had to be solved by some rather novel rearrangements of political and legal institutions.

I plan to begin work on a children's book / graphic novel inspired by folk tales, while continuing to promote my work on Brighton the Graphic novel with some university presentations early in spring onwards.

One early problem will see MPs required to vote to agree to Mr Straw's novel voting process, which will ask them to list their options by preference.

So says Kit, a character in The Quarry, the final novel by the Scottish writer Iain Banks — who himself died earlier this month from cancer.

Note added in proof: Additional evidence for CA1 - CA3 differences is provided by a recent study measuring immediate early gene activation in two different novel rooms (36).

By the time he graduated, in 2005, Justin had decided he wanted to design novel enzymes that are able to carry out interesting organic reactions, echoing Brock Siegel's earlier idea.

High levels of two novel urinary biomarkers early in critical illness are associated with adverse long - term outcomes in patients with acute kidney injury (AKI), according to an international, multi-center study led by University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Researchers.

Researchers found this massive overdensity of early galaxies, called a «protocluster,» through a novel survey project led by Zheng Cai, a Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Santa Cruz.

Published in Urology in April 2007 by Johns Hopkins University researcher Robert Getzenberg and his team, the paper reported that a novel protein in blood could be used as a sensitive test for detecting early prostate cancer.

That knowledge, combined with earlier research by Rey and others, could hint at novel ways to block the virus from infecting cells, says virologist John Roehrig of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Vector - Borne Diseases in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Lovelace died early on into her friendship with Babbage, and the Analytical Engine was never built — except for in the pages of The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage (Pantheon, April 2015), a graphic novel by artist and animator Sydney Padua.

We aim to close this gap by implementing a novel assay to simultaneously assess the integrity of the axonal cytoskeletal structure (using electron microscopy) and a functional (physiological) correlate of healthy cytoskeletal structure, namely active axon transport, within individual RGC axons at an early stage of experimental glaucoma.

The study, led by the SciLifeLab member Marene Landström, might open new possibilities for early detection of aggressive prostate tumors and novel therapeutic strategies.

The first novel finding of this study was that mTOR signaling and rates of myofibrillar protein synthesis (MPS) following concurrent resistance, continuous and intermittent high - intensity exercise, designed to mimic the metabolic profile of many team sports, were impaired during the early (8 h) recovery phase by the ingestion of large amounts (1.5 g • kg − 1 BM) of alcohol.

In the novel, she repeats a joke early on that had been told to her by an Irishman: America is the land of milk and honey, but «the milk's gone sour and the honey's stolen.»

Based on the best - selling novel by James Ellroy and directed by Curtis Hanson, this award - winning crime drama explores both the dark side of the Los Angeles police force and Southern California's criminal underbelly in the early»50s, when Hollywood was still seen as America's capital of sophistication, glitter, and glamour.

The problem with the early episodes — written and directed by Jim Mickle, who also made the film «Cold in July,» based on a Lansdale novel — has to do with a slow pace and a sameness that muffle the humor and menace we expect from smart noir.

That much quoted line's origin is in this early sound version of the Owen Wister novel, The Virginian, directed by Victor Fleming.

Joanne Whalley was born in Manchester, England and became interested in acting at an early age, appearing in small television roles including the television adaptation of JOBY, a novel by Stan Barstow, and A QUIET LIFE, about writer Beryl Bainbridge.

Films Reviewed this Week: The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Planet 51, The Blind Side and Precious: Based on the Novel «Push» by Sapphire and Not to Be Confused with the Psychic Warrior Movie That Came Out Earlier This Year That No One Really Remembers Because Sapphire Doesn't Know Squat About Psychic Warriors

The stage role will be a first for Ronan, who earlier this week was touted as a potential Oscar winner for her role in the upcoming film Brooklyn, which is based on the novel by Irish author Colm Toibin.

Based on the novel by Max Brooks, the film focuses on Lane — who, early on, hears about an outbreak of rabies on the television news.

Lush, evocative and loosely based on a novel by Andre Aciman, it's set in rural Italy in the early 1980s, where a family's peaceful summer is disturbed by the arrival of a charismatic stranger.

First up from Deadline is news that Steinfeld is in early talks to join Ten Thousand Saints, a feature adaptation of Eleanor Henderson's 2011 novel set in 1980s New York City, an age encapsulated by CBGB, yuppies and gentrification, all leading to 1988 ′ s Tompkins Square Park riots.

Earlier this year, it was announced he was teaming with Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska for «Carol,» based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith, but not much has been heard since.

Granted, I'm also not sure if this movie is aimed squarely at me or if I'm the last person who should see it: the screenplay by Zak Penn and Ernest Cline (based on Cline's novel) seems to be weaponizing my own personal nostalgia for John Hughes, Monty Python, «Buckaroo Banzai» and other objects of obsession from my late teens and early 20s.

We just mentioned The Girl on the Train earlier today when talking about the Liam Neeson movie The Commuter — Girl is based on the novel of the same name by Paula Hawkins, and follows a woman whose problems haunt her after she is pulled into a mystery involving a couple that she imagines to enjoy the perfect marriage.

Loosely based on (or «inspired by,» per the credits) Sarah Waters» 2002 novel Fingersmith, which was set in Victorian England, The Handmaiden gets progressively trashier and more overheated as it goes along, serving up multiple plot twists and replaying earlier scenes from a radically different perspective.

Set in northern Italy during the early 80's, the story is based on André Aciman's 2007 novel about 17 year - old Elio who is jolted by his first glimpse of his professor father's visiting American doctoral student who arrives to spend the summer at the family's villa.

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.

(By Wong's own account, what he mostly took from the novel is two characters who appear in the book only as old men; much of Ashes of Time is an extrapolation of the early lives of «Evil East» and «Poisonous West,» as the two are known in the original.)

As in the earlier film, and the Charles Portis novel on which it is based, Cogburn is hired by a headstrong 14 - year - old girl, Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld), to track down and punish Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), the lowlife who murdered her father and fled into Indian territory.

The Hunger Games is a trilogy of young adult, dystopian novels written by Suzanne Collins, a woman previously known for writing for Nickelodeon's early»90s sitcom Clarissa Explains It All.

If you've never seen the previous adaptations, or read Christie's novel, you don't have to; Branagh establishes relationships and histories early on and does so in an efficient, concise manner, no doubt helped by Michael Green's script.