Sentences with phrase «eponymous novel»

An eponymous novel is a book whose title is the same as the name of the main character or the person it is based on. Full definition
Working from an adaptation of James Sallis» eponymous novel by Academy Award nominee Hossein Amini, director Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronson) delivers a movie that pulses with an unwavering, premium - unleaded sense of purpose, giving its no - frills story a sense of supremely heightened stakes.
In Dragon in Clouds - Red Mutation the «red dragon» recalls Thomas Harris» eponymous novel where the author describes an encounter with the dragon from William Blake's watercolor painting The Great Red Dragon.
The third film adaptation of Herman Koch's eponymous novel (following Menno Meyjes's 2013 «Het Diner» and Ivano De Matteo's 2014 «I nostri ragazzi»), Oren Moverman's «The Dinner» indeed plays out like a European art thriller — perhaps one by Thomas Vinterberg (despite that he's Danish and Mr. Koch is Dutch).
Moss did nothing less than invoke words from Margaret Atwood's eponymous novel, giving notice to the world that women would no longer live in the blank white pages at the edge of print.
Even peripheral characters — Mary - Louise Parker as James's wife, Zee; Kailin See as the unhappy bride of a despised old man — make the most of limited screen time thanks to Dominik's meticulous direction and the literate script he adapted from Ron Hansen's eponymous novel.
I have not read the eponymous novel on which MISS PEREGRINE»S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN Is based, but a quick check of the of the Wikipedia entry for it reveals that for the screen adaptation many of the characters have been modified and plot point changed.
Based on the eponymous novel by Jonathan Ames, YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE brings Ramsay's signature poetic grittiness to this brutal and unsettling thriller that's been rightfully hailed as a modern - day Taxi Driver — but with a disquietude and visual flair that is firmly its own.
THE FAULT IN OUR STARS by Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber Based on the eponymous novel by John Green, a teenage girl stricken with cancer falls for a boy in her support group and the two form a bond as they deal with their illnesses.
Based on the eponymous novel it is the next film based on the works of Gillian Flynn, who also penned last year's hit Gone Girl.
Like those popular film franchises, «The 100» has its origins in young adult fiction, though the eponymous novel by Kass Morgan wasn't even completed before the show was conceived.
In a slight deviation from author Colm Tóibín's eponymous novel, Eilis is tempted by the prospect of a better life when her sister Rose (Fiona Glascott) arranges work for her in America.
The Wanderer, a six - part film, is an adaptation of British artist Rory Macbeth's eponymous novel, written in 2009, itself a mistranslation of The Metamorphosis (1915).
The Relic envisages scenes from the eponymous novel (1887) by Eça de Queiróz; Stone Soup illustrates a new book by her daughter Caroline Willing.
A House of Leaves references US novelist Mark Z. Danielewski's eponymous novel, in which a house is impossible to measure as its interior dimensions become larger than its exterior.
For Fahrenheit 451: Reprinted (2013), Öğüt reversed the role of the fire fighters in Ray Bradbury's eponymous novel from 1953: instead of burning banned books, they were printed and distributed from a re-purposed fire truck by members of the Fire Department from Espoo, near Helsinki, one of whom — Jaakko Liesivouro — took part in the event at Chisenhale.
The group exhibition lends its framework from the prologue to the eponymous novel by van Dubravka Ugre?i?
Campo Cerrado (Closed Field), which takes its title from an eponymous novel by Max Aub, is a review of Spanish art during the complex 1940s, a period that has received scant attention.
Coyle often uses errors of speech or mishearings as raw materials — here, his performance and related sculpture (made in situ) pull and prod at elements of the Murakami story that inspired the exhibition as well as the eponymous novel of the gallery's name.
For Fahrenheit 451: Reprinted (2013), the artist reversed the role of the fire fighters in Ray Bradbury's eponymous novel from 1953: instead of burning banned books, they were printed and distributed from a repurposed fire truck by members of the Fire Department from Espoo, near Helsinki.
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