Sentences with phrase «faithful adaptations of»

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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!

Samuel Brace on adapting material for the big screen... You're not entitled to a faithful adaptation of your favourite book.

If you've ever wanted a more faithful adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's The Little Mermaid, give Agnieszka Smoczynska's The Lure a watch.

In this faithful adaptation of Carol Shields's final novel, a Toronto couple (Catherine Keener and Matt Craven) learns that their university - aged daughter, Norah, has removed herself from the world, choosing to spend her days on the sidewalk outside Honest Ed's, holding a sign that says «Goodness.»

Clearly you have not seen the 1992 film The Resurrected, a reasonably faithful adaptation of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward in which Sarandon appears as psychotic cannibal sorcerer Josepf Corwen.

Now Rose and Todd are reunited again on Rose's latest film, a freewheeling yet deceptively faithful adaptation of Mary Shelley's gothic horror, Frankenstein, also starring Xavier Samuel, Danny Huston and Carrie - Ann Moss.

is the most faithful adaptation of The Odyssey there ever was despite having almost no relationship to the literal text — indeed doesn't seem all that bad when most of what he confesses is lying to his wife (Alison Pill) about quitting cigarettes.

Preminger's last film — a faithful adaptation of Graham Greene's dark, knowing novel about a British defector / putative spy (Nicol Williamson)-- has a good, smart script, inspired by the Kim Philby case, written by playwright Tom Stoppard.

Revering the accumulated weight of dread and love to present a chilling and faithful adaptation of King's novel, IT is a little more than the exact sum of its parts.

And, though not manga, I was pretty giddy to first read about the new Pokemon anime that is a more faithful adaptation of the original games.

Also, a faithful adaptation of a Suess book would be thirty minutes tops.

As the name suggests, Castle Of Illusion HD is an attractive and fairly faithful adaptation of the legendary platformer.

They have the credentials to help us launch a faithful adaptation of Street Fighter as a major TV series.»

It's an incredibly faithful adaptation of the town, including the Ticket Booth and even the...

Fallout: The Board Game is as faithful an adaptation of the source material as you could possibly hope for.

While SAO: LS is a faithful adaptation of the popular anime — albeit set in a different continuity — that's not necessarily a good thing.

Henry Fonda produced and starred in this faithful adaptation of Reginald Rose's critically acclaimed stage play chronicling the hostile deliberations of a jury in a death penalty case.

Not exact matches

Therefore, I do not know how faithful the new adaptation of the film is to the novel.

Just as unsettling, though for less noble reasons, is the suicide humor (albeit delivered by a fish) tossed randomly into «Horton Hatches the Egg», a cartoon that as a whole is the least faithful of all the adaptations on the DVD — while the gag of following «now I've seen everything!»

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 such, «Django Unchained» isn't much of an adaptation for the screen as it is a completely faithful distended adaptation of a screenplay that reads better as a book.

In this faithful film adaptation of the longest - running non-musical play in Broadway history, William Powell stars as Clarence Day, the benevolent despot of his 1880s New York City household.

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.

On the plus side it is very faithful to the original source material, a good adaptation with retains all elements of gore and atmosphere.

Although it isn't a line - for - line adaptation, it is almost excruciatingly faithful to the tone of Christie's book, building tension as skillfully as the author did....

The film is a faithful if rather rushed adaptation of the Dickens original, encompassing within its 100 - minute running time such unforgettable characters as the vindictive recluse Miss Havisham, the arrogant Estella, the likeable blacksmith Joe Gargery and Joe's less likeable wife.

In this adaptation of James M. Barrie's Quality Street, Marion Davies plays Phoebe, a pretty young thing who agrees to be faithful to her sweetheart Dr. Valentine Brown when he marches off to war.

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.