Sentences with phrase «fewer of the film adaptations»

I've only read the first five books (and even that was a few years ago) and seen even fewer of the film adaptations.

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After winning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her wild - eyed turn as a mental patient in Girl, Interrupted, she attempted a few other serious acting roles but only seemed to find blockbuster success when she took on the lead role in the feature - film adaptation of the video game Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

Truth be told, it is mysterious that DC has managed to churn out three Batman movies, two Superman movies, a Green Lantern movie, a Green Arrow TV show and a planned Flash TV show (and that's all ignoring the previous film adaptations of these characters) without turning its attention to one of its heaviest hitters (aside from a famously disastrous attempt at a television show a few years back).

And despite less - than - enthused early reviews, Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of The Great Gatsby has garnered heightened anticipation and excitement over the past few months of lavish themed parties, soundtrack leaks and previews and even special edition fashion lines in the film's honor.

Sure to delight X-fans everywhere and thrill action - lovers all around, this movie is most likely the best comic - to - film adaptation produced yet, despite a few changes made for the sake of creating an original story.

Unfortunately that means that the film is an extremely streamlined adaptation, with few of the subplots, and a fair amount of condensing of the main story.

Few famous novels have been filmed as often as Alexandre Dumas» The Count of Monte Cristo — and few versions are as enjoyable as this 1934 adaptation starring Robert DonFew famous novels have been filmed as often as Alexandre Dumas» The Count of Monte Cristo — and few versions are as enjoyable as this 1934 adaptation starring Robert Donfew versions are as enjoyable as this 1934 adaptation starring Robert Donat.

The adaptation of the long - running and occasionally beloved video game series has been filming for a few months now, but details of any kind have been shaky at best.

A few unexpected minor pleasures: the time - travel flick Predestination, an adaptation of a Robert A. Heinlein short story that's one of those rare sci - fi movies that feels like it was made by people who read sci - fi; the horror Western Bone Tomahawk, which feels, in the best way, like someone filmed a first draft script and didn't cut anything, all its little quirks of character kept intact, narrative expediency be damned; and In The Heart Of The Sea, the cornball sea adventure of which I enjoyed every minutof a Robert A. Heinlein short story that's one of those rare sci - fi movies that feels like it was made by people who read sci - fi; the horror Western Bone Tomahawk, which feels, in the best way, like someone filmed a first draft script and didn't cut anything, all its little quirks of character kept intact, narrative expediency be damned; and In The Heart Of The Sea, the cornball sea adventure of which I enjoyed every minutof those rare sci - fi movies that feels like it was made by people who read sci - fi; the horror Western Bone Tomahawk, which feels, in the best way, like someone filmed a first draft script and didn't cut anything, all its little quirks of character kept intact, narrative expediency be damned; and In The Heart Of The Sea, the cornball sea adventure of which I enjoyed every minutof character kept intact, narrative expediency be damned; and In The Heart Of The Sea, the cornball sea adventure of which I enjoyed every minutOf The Sea, the cornball sea adventure of which I enjoyed every minutof which I enjoyed every minute.

This young century alone has seen Finding Neverland dramatizing the play's creation, no fewer than nine stage adaptations, NBC's live television special, Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson's Starcatchers series of bestselling prequel novels, the major 2003 filming, and the Syfy miniseries Neverland.

For a few years now a cult as formed around Michael Mann's film adaptation of his own 80's TV series.

The Ice Storm — Ang Lee's adaptation of Rick Moody's novel is one of the few films I can say is actually better than the book.

A golden age of comic book movies may be dominating Hollywood right now, but over the past few years there have also been signs of an effort to turn around the thus - far lackluster genre of video game - turned film adaptations.

With a few exceptions — the Roald Dahl adaptation The Witches (1990), or the non-Vietnam War Joseph Conrad adaptation Heart of Darkness (1993)-- the subsequent films failed to pierce public consciousness as keenly as his earlier works.

We've got a few new images from the following films for you to check out: Vampire Academy — Mark Waters» adaptation of Richelle Mead's novel, starring Zoey Deutch, Lucy Fry and Olga Kurylenko.

Life of Riley, the final film from the director (he passed away in 2014, a few months after the film's debut), is his third adaptation of British playwright Alan Ayckbourn and, like his penultimate feature You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet (2012), revolves around the theater.

While it riffs on a few notable sci - fi / action films and traffics in storylines audiences have seen in other YA adaptations, there is a sense of urgency that doesn't let up, a lot of well - constructed action, and propulsion to a film series fitting of the title Maze Runner.

From the start, the film sweeps away the period choreography of the conventional literary adaptation, sweeps it away so thoroughly that for the first few minutes I thought that this Wuthering Heights must be set a hundred years after a nuclear strike.

Assassin's Creed only added to another failed video - game adaptation and his work with Ridley Scott on Prometheus, Alien: Covenant and The Counselor also failed to impress (although, I was admittedly one of the few admirers of the latter film).

Whether or not you're looking forward to the film, the original remains as of the few video game adaptations that stayed...

As a talented writer, Patricia Highsmith has been responsible for the source material of some great film adaptations; Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley and Hossein Amini's The Two Faces of January are a notable few.

8:00 pm — TCM — The Wizard of Oz Breakout role for Judy Garland, one of the earlier Technicolor films (and one of the first to mix black and white with Technicolor to dramatic effect), and one of the few adaptations where the film is better than the book.

They've also announced dates for some forthcoming films like the sequels to Fifty Shades of Grey, and also shifted some films arriving over the next few years, such as the video game adaptation Warcraft from Duncan Jones, the sci - fi sequel Pacific Rim 2 from Guillermo del Toro and the first official movie that kicks off Universal's classic movie monsters franchise reboot, The Mummy.

The past few weeks has been a blessing for the upcoming release of Love, Simon (directed by Greg Berlanti), the new young - adult adaptation centered around Simon Spier and his one little secret that sets the film in motion.

Films of such bold physicality and excessive splendour are few and far between since the days of Bernardo Bertolucci and the intellectual, worldly literary adaptations typical of Merchant - Ivory films.

Few know that the film is actually a loose adaptation of a book by Roderick Thorp from the late 1970s, although the joys of the film lie mostly in the well - developed set - up and characterizations, not to mention great action sequences, rather than the rather straightforward terrorist plot at the heart of the film.

Much of his output since the turn of the millennium has been disappointing, save perhaps a few films like Big Fish and (to some extent) his adaptation of Sweeney Todd, heavily relying on frequent collaborator Johnny Depp and (now former, so it seems) wife Helena Bonham Carter and generally losing the depth that made his early output so intriguing, leaving nothing but what could best be described as quirky kitsch.

White hasn't called the shots on a feature - length film since his comic book adaptation The Losers in 2010, having since then directed for TV shows like Person of Interest, Hawaii Five - O, Lethal Weapon, and The Americans, to name but a few.

It's been far too long since we had a film from the brilliant mind of writer / director Charlie Kaufman («Being John Malkovich,» «Adaptation,» and «Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind»)-- he spent a few years trying to make a bizarre Hollywood musical that never got made.

James Whale's 1931 film classic went wildly off - book to define cinema's long relationship with the text, and the past few years alone have seen adaptations both faithful (Danny Boyle's stage version, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternating roles) and freestyle (I, Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful's heady stew, Paul McGuigan's Victor Frankenstein); even Ex Machina could be seen as an AI - themed retelling of the Frankenstein story.

All of these films will join the others we've been announcing over the last few months at this new edition of the Festival, marked by the new manifestations of evil, as is the case with Only God Forgives, the new film from Nicolas Winding Refn; Jim Jarmusch's most recent work, Only Lovers Left Alive, a unique story of eternal love between two vampires; a bizarre, surreal, comedy from Roman Coppola, A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swann III; The Congress, the spectacular Stanislaw Lem adaptation directed by Ari Folman; Real, director Kiyoshi Kurosawa's return to fantastic cinema; or La danza de la realidad, the new work by multifaceted Alejandro Jodorowski.

A true classic of the comedy genre, 1985's previous film adaptation has earned a massive cult following over the years and is considered one of the few successful film adaptations of a game or toy.

The Coens» first outright adaptation is of a Cormac McCarthy novel so attuned to them that the film feels — at least until the final few scenes — as if it's based on one of their own original screenplays: «Blood Simple» meets «Fargo», almost.

However, Branagh (Theory of Flight, Wild Wild West) is in a small slump in his career, and the last few film adaptations of Shakespeare were much less than spectacular.

There have been quite a few adaptations of Christie's classic mystery since its publication in 1934, but the latest film version might be the most star - studded with — deep breath — Penélope Cruz, Johnny Depp, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Michelle Pfeiffer, Derek Jacobi, Daisy Ridley and Kenneth Branagh.

If you're not interested in Dan Brown or the film adaptation of his hit novel, «Angels & Demons,» you may want to avoid the travel pages for the next few days — I haven't seen travel - movie - mania on this scale since last year's Sex and the City movie transfixed shoe - loving travel writers everywhere.

With Spider - Man Homecoming swinging into theaters next month, I got a few minutes to chat with director Jon Watts about his take on Spidey, integrating with the larger Marvel cinematic universe, and what the success of films like Logan and Deadpool mean for comic adaptations.

These are but a few of Jafa's chosen pictures: a still from the closing credits of Lars von Trier's film Dogville (2003), sleek photographs of cameras, an image of a tattered copy of Walden, a Justin Bieber red - carpet photo stolen from the internet (its URL is included at the bottom), pin - up calendars, the actress Rooney Mara performing as Lisbeth Salander in the movie adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), a W. E. B. Du Bois book cover.