Sentences with phrase «faithful adaptations»

I suppose that may be one inherent problem with faithful adaptations from stage to screen — the stage version, with its intimacy and dialogue, often suits the story better.

Others are faithful adaptations of well known, or little known, books.

Some of these end up as faithful adaptations (Miami Vice, The Dukes of Hazzard), while others take...

Two examples that come to mind — Stephen Frears's 1990 The Grifters and James Foley's 1990 After Dark, My Sweet — have in common that they're too - faithful adaptations of the books they're based on, both of them novels by Jim Thompson, one of the great sources for film noir.

For an audience that takes pleasure in the all - too - rare art of faithful adaptations that vivify rather than embalming their sources -LSB-...] Asquith's conservative handling is just what the confirmed and secret Bunburyist ordered.

That was the concept behind these muffins, that add ripe bananas, dark chocolate chips, and walnuts together in a faithful adaptation of this popular ice cream.

Nevertheless this sufficiently faithful adaptation should please most fans of the book, and is a promising start to the new trilogy when it rests on the shoulders of its strong cast by playing to their strengths and accentuating the once again stunning production design and Howard Shore's damn near perfect score.

As a moody and essentially faithful adaptation of Carr's novel, the series gets off to a chilly yet satisfying start, an adequate entry to a particular genre that features dim lighting, resourceful urchins, a class - conscious tone and the sort of arftul staging of corpses that signifies brilliant derangement on the part of the killer.

Harry Potter's adventures in wizard - land are cozy and comfortable in Chris Columbus» faithful adaptation.

I'm told that Alex Garland's film, out February 23, veers considerably from the plot of Jeff VanderMeer's hit 2014 novel; those going in expecting a faithful adaptation will be disappointed, and may spend the bulk of the movie frustrated about what's not there instead of appreciating what is.

The Kite Runner is a powerful, riveting, emotional film that is a faithful adaptation from the excellent novel.

This may have been a faithful adaptation of James Ellroy's book, but I didn't like it, and much of doesn't deal with the Dahlia case anyway.

, this will be a more faithful adaptation — and a new kind of screenwriting challenge — for Mr. Anderson.

For a faithful adaptation of a short story, the film is packed with plot twists and narrative surprises and the challenge faced by the Spierig Brothers is obscuring details that would give away the twists without making it obvious.

Alan Rudolph's previous feature, Breakfast of Champions (1999), probably his best since Choose Me (1984), is an abrasive, angry, formally imaginative, and generally faithful adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s book of the same name.

Supergiant describes this as a «faithful adaptation» of the original version.

Unless you're really fond of Evelyn Waugh's novel and a stickler for faithful adaptation, in which case you might take issue and rightfully so.

The change of culture and locale aside, it's a faithful adaptation of the most influential Hong Kong crime drama since John Woo made The Killer (1989) and Hard Boiled (1992).

The Disaster Artist is a pretty faithful adaptation of its source material, but leaves some crucial - and crazy - moments out.

This was a good mindset going in, because it isn't a very faithful adaptation, but it's a decent movie on its own.

Yet even at two - and - a-half hours, the first installment of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling's conclusion to the saga of an orphaned wizard destined to battle a Hitler - like menace, sacrifices some particulars of the author's story but emerges as the most faithful adaptation in the series.

This complex crime caper was first brought to the big screen by Sidney Lumet in a fairly faithful adaptation co-starring Lauren Bacall, Sean Connery, Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Sir John Gielgud, Albert Finney and Jacqueline Bisset.

It's not as poignant or as rich as the comic book treatment, so those expecting a faithful adaptation will be disappointed, but it does benefit by being an isolated story that is easy for even the most casual of Superman fans to follow (indeed, it doesn't really fall under any current Superman project continuity).

Based on the award winning book «The Invention of Hugo Cabret» by Brian Selznick, the film is a faithful adaptation that unfolds beautifully thanks to its heart, director Scorsese.

If you're familiar with the story of The Little Prince — about a little boy who travels to various planets in his plane, encountering animals, humans and a rose — a faithful adaptation of that tale is at the heart of this film.

And though True Grit is as literal and faithful an adaptation of the novel as one could hope for, the brilliance of it is that it's captured the immersive feeling of Portis's prose.

It not only sounds like it was going to be a faithful adaptation, but one that was going to be something big and scary while creating its own voice.

Snyder's film will likely stand as the most faithful adaptation of the comic, and it's one that deserves the legacy Derrickson envisions for it.

Coming from Arc Systems Works — the same developers behind Guilty Gear Xrd, BlazBlue, and Persona 4 Arena — their next game is not only looking to be a faithful adaptation of the series, but also one of the most exciting fighting games of 2018.

The theatrical release of the movie was met with a fairly divided response; some people found it to be an amazingly faithful adaptation, while others found it to be a pale imitation of its source material.

Perhaps the most intriguing thing of this remake is that this will be a much more faithful adaptation of King's first novel because there is going to be an element of found footage to the film which makes perfect sense if you have read the novel.

Fans of the book should be relieved that this is a faithful adaptation as he also wrote the screenplay.

Based on Hemingway's «To Have and Have Not,» and starring John Garfield in the Bogie part, this is a more faithful adaptation than the 1944 Howard Hawks picture, but not quite as good a movie.

A faithful adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides's popular first novel, «The Virgin Suicides» conjures the ineffable melancholy of teenage longing and ennui in its story of the suicides of the five Lisbon sisters, stifled by the rules of their overprotective religious parents — as told through the collective memory of a group of boys who yearn to understand what happened.

An extremely faithful adaptation of King's 1983 novel, Mary Lambert's Pet Sematary shares something of the spirit of The Dead Zone in that its soulful, straight - faced delivery of some ridiculous material pays off with a genuine sense of horror and sadness.

The filmmakers have confirmed it'll be a R - rated flick (duh) and they've said that it's more of a faithful adaptation of Stephen King's novel while paying homage to DePalma's film.

Not having read Roald Dahl's 1982 children's book, I can't say how faithful this adaptation is (though colleagues have suggested that darker aspects have been watered down), but it seems to follow the same basic trajectory: Cute British orphan Sophie (newcomer Ruby Barnhill) gets abducted by the title character (played, or performance - captured, by recent Oscar winner Mark Rylance), who turns out to be the smallest and kindest inhabitant of Giant Country; Sophie winds up enlisting the Queen (Penelope Wilton) in an effort to stop the other, meaner giants (led by a performance - captured Jemaine Clement) from eating England's children.

Besides the vampires, this is an oddly faithful adaptation of Emile Zola's novel Therese Raquin.

It's here that proves the biggest departure in an otherwise faithful adaptation; Jesse sees these facets emerge as images of both herself and her husband.

Like Scorsese's Hugo, a faithful adaptation of a splendid young adult novel by Brian Selznick — who both writes his stories and illustrates them with evocative, black - and - white pencil and graphite drawings — Wonderstruck follows two parallel narrative tracks.

Starring Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood, GERALD»S GAME delivers pitch - perfect performances in a faithful adaptation where the horrors of the mind are much worse than what's in front of you.

Winnie the Pooh - After years of being written off as kiddie fare, Pooh and friends are restored to their former glory in this warm, sweet, and faithful adaptation from Disney's top animators.

Green was involved with the production, so it should be known that the movie is an extremely faithful adaptation.

For one thing, it's the most remarkably faithful adaptation of a series of books in recent memory, capturing the tone and the aesthetic of the Melrose novels without sacrificing cohesion.

Given the size of the final «Harry Potter» book — 759 pages, in my family's well - read hardcover — it was clear that any filmmaker could either cut it severely, in hopes of squeezing it into a three - hour finale, or make a strictly faithful adaptation and split into two parts.

May 10, 2018 • A stellar cast, a faithful adaptation, and a director with a rhythmic sense of pacing ensure that this film version of Anton Chekhov's play takes flight.

Good and serious intentions abound in Steven Zaillian's very faithful adaptation of

His next two are a sequel and a remake of two cult classic films in the hard sci - fi genre that will only continue to stretch your minds and cinematic intelligence with the upcoming Blade Runner 2049 starring Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, and a crap ton of other people while his next project is the Watchmen of sci - fi movies where people fear that a faithful adaptation and remake of Dune feels near impossible, but if there was somebody to do it, it's Denis.

Though director David Fincher may over-Fincher-ize somewhat, he delivers a sleek, faithful adaptation of the bestselling thriller.

fittingly says that Joel and Ethan Coen's very faithful adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men comes close to a book on tape; as for There Will Be Blood, the five people in the world who've read Upton Sinclair's Oil!