Sentences with phrase «film of the novella»

There have been several TV versions of his plays (A Cheery Soul, 1966; Big Toys, 1980; The Ham Funeral, 1990); Jim Sharman made a moderately interesting film of the novella, The Night the Prowler (1978), for which White wrote his own screenplay; and there was talk of a film version of Voss, to be directed by Joseph Losey from a screenplay by David Mercer, that never came to anything.

Not exact matches

This iconic film, adapted from Truman Capote's novella, tells the story of the free - spirited Holly Golightly, played by Audrey Hepburn, living in Manhattan and falling for her neighbour.

Kate Beckinsale, star of the new film Love & Friendship based on a Jane Austen novella, reads and reacts to Victorian - era dating advice with the help of a gentleman straight out of the 1800s.

Despite its distracting overuse of Dutch angle shots, this is a classic film noir crafted beautifully by Reed and Graham Greene (who worked on it by writing his excellent novella), with a fascinating villain, a fabulous post-war Vienna as its location and a perfect choice for a score.

However, where the film starts to falter is in dialogue that, without the exposition of the novella, is at best stilted, at worst almost a series of non sequiturs.

The overwhelming English sadness of Ian McEwan's novella On Chesil Beach has been transferred to the movie screen, adapted by the author and directed with scrupulous sensitivity and care by Dominic Cooke, known for his stage work and making his feature film debut here.

Based on Ian McEwan's novella of the same name, the film follows a pair of honeymooners (Saoirse Ronan and a revelatory Billy Howle) on their first night together, interspersed with a series of flashbacks that clarify the shaky state of their newly - sealed relationship.

«On Chesil Beach,» which premiered on opening day of the Toronto film festival, is an adaptation of Ian McEwan's 2007 novella about two young Brits on their honeymoon in 1962, and it's a lyrical and rapturous film — a repressed passion play, funny, delicate and heartbreaking.

Based on Ian McEwan's novella and directed by Dominic Cooke, longtime artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre, this is a film about British sex in the 1960s, just before the sexual revolution.

Lady Susan, an early Jane Austen manuscript that apparently never made it to the rewriting stage and was published over fifty years after Austen's death as an unfinished novella, is the unlikely source of Whit Stillman's new film, Love & Friendship.

Though hardly a great film, Bryan Singer's ambitious adaptation of Stephen King's same - named novella * is nonetheless challenging, a bleak picture destined to be misunderstood by the masses.

Tracing inspiration to a yarn from one of Giovanni Boccaccio's collected 14th century novellas in The Decameron, the new ensemble film from Jeff Baena wraps it religious habit up with wit, erotica, and practical jokes from Italian prose translated into a modern vernacular.

Adapted from Jonathan Ames's novella, it's a film distinguished by the force of its images and the compression of its narrative, and while its impact leaves you dazed, you can't quite believe that what you've just seen ever happened.

Mamoulian's version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is widely regarded as the pre-eminent film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, first published in 1886.

Adapted from Jonathan Ames's novella, it's a film distinguished by the force of its images and the compression of its narrative, and while its impact leaves you...

Stillman's fifth film and his most successful to date both critically and commercially is Love & Friendship, an adaptation of Jane Austen's little - known, posthumously - published epistolary novella Lady Susan.

The extraordinary beauty and energy of Scott's film (he not only directed but also served as camera operator) is never gratuitous, but rather keeps stylistic faith with the enigmatic Joseph Conrad novella on which it is based.

The first Fantastic Beasts film, adapted by Rowling from her novella, already has a set date of November 18, 2016, with the sequels penciled in for 2018 and 2020.

King would pull off his love letter to «losers» much more convincingly with IT, published just a few years after the novella Silver Bullet is based on, and this may account for some of the film's weaknesses.

Howle, who stars alongside Saoirse Ronan in the film adaptation of Ian McEwan's novella On Chesil Beach, told the Observer: «It's something that still bugs me about acting.

The film, based on Steve Martin's 2000 novella of the same title follows the affairs of 20 - something Mirabelle Buttersfield (Claire Danes), a part - time artist and full - time sales clerk at the glove counter of a Los Angeles - based Saks 5th Avenue department store.

The film is set in the narrowest sliver of historical time, the immediately pre-youthquake Britain of 1962, when, as Ian McEwan writes in the novella upon which the movie is based, «to be young was a social encumbrance... a faintly embarrassing condition for which marriage was the beginning of a cure.»

Written and directed by Jeff Baena, the film is based a tale from a collection of 14th century novellas titled The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio and stars stars Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, and Kate -LSB-...]

It's a notion that isn't new, with Fyodor Dostoevsky writing the classic story «The Double» ages ago, but co-writer and director Richard Ayoade takes it to absurdly comic places in his adaptation of the novella for this sophomore film.

The story, which takes full measure of the spookiness and unknowability of children, has worked in every format — first James's novella The Turn of the Screw, then the chamber opera of the same name, and finally this liminal black - and - white film.

Written by Alice Birch, and based on Nikolai Leskov's 1865 novella «Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District», the film is set in Northern England of the 1860s.

The novella about a couple on their wedding night is the latest of the British author's works to be filmed.

The film is an adaptation of a Stephen King novella, and it's the fourth time Darabont has adapted one of King's works (the first was a short «The Woman in the Room» from a collection of adaptations from King's short story anthology Night Shift).

Based on Ted Chiang's novella The Story of Your Life, the film is directed by Denis Villeneuve, whose last movie — the 2015 drama Sicario starring Emily Blunt and Benicio Del Toro — earned three Oscar nominations.

The film is based on the Jonathan Ames» novella of the same name.

Nightflyers is a supernatural thriller based on the novella by George R.R. Martin (Game of Thrones) and the 1987 film.

It's loosely based on parts of a 14th - century collection of Italian novellas called The Decameron, and there's a shaggy, improvised feel to the film which at times feels fresh, given the setting, and at others gives it a feather - light flimsiness.

James Marsden («X-Men,» «Westworld») is in talks to star in Netflix's new thriller film adaptation of Stephen King and Joe Hill's novella «In the Tall Grass».

Adapted from a Jonathan Ames novella, Ramsay's film has been billed as an «enticing challenge» and an «elegant homage to a mold of scrappy detective stories that often collapses into a concise pileup of stylish possibilities,» but there's no doubt that it offers Phoenix one of his best roles yet, and more proof of Ramsay's ability to turn complex material into something thoroughly her own.

A contemporary America - set adaptation of the novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky, co-written by Ayoade with Harmony Korine «s brother Avi, the film features a promising cast — Jesse Eisenberg, Noah Taylor, Mia Wasikowska, Yasmin Page and more — in a decidedly oddball story.

Stir of Echoes writer - director David Koepp returns to the genre with Secret Window, the film version of the Stephen King novella, «Secret Window, Secret Garden».

Based on a Henry James novella and filmed against a lush jungle backdrop in Venezuela, a young American publisher sets out from New York City, to search for the lost manuscripts of a famous deceased poet.

Although Whit Stillman's beautiful but draggy film adaptation of the novella «Lady Susan» bursts with the frilly hats, passionate sighs and the gorgeous ball gowns that we fondly associate with the Regency era, money is the real aphrodisiac in this drawing room comedy.

SYFY today announced a series pickup for Nightflyers, based on author George R.R. Martin's novella and the 1987 film of the same name.

Expanded from the short novella «Lady Susan», Stillman's new film is one of the stand out comedies of the year, whilst remaining faithful to it's Austen roots.

Novellas are like the visuals of film — I like this aspect.

You've probably already heard that Whit Stillman, novelist and director of films like Metropolitan and The Last Days of Disco, has adapted Jane Austen's unfinished novella, Lady Susan, for the big screen as Love & Friendship, with Kate Beckinsale in the title role.

After the fall of the Taliban in 2002, Rahimi returned to Afghanistan, where he filmed an adaptation of his novella Earth and Ashes (Other Press).

Several of his stories and novellas have been adapted into films, including In the Bedroom (based on «Killings») and We Don't Live Here Anymore (based on «We Don't Live Here Anymore» and «Adultery»).

His best - selling novella Legends of the Fall was adapted into an award - winning film in 1994 starring Anthony Hopkins and Brad Pitt.

Next, it seems she'll play the role of Florence Ponting in the film adaptation of Ian McEwan's novella On Chesil Beach.

His film The Secret Agent, 2015, restages the plot of Joseph Conrad's novella — a story of espionage, double - crossing and political entanglement — within the aftermath of Portugal's «carnation revolution,» which overthrew Europe's oldest dictatorship, in April 1974.

Filmed on location in Lisbon with a cast of local actors, the feature - length The Secret Agent, 2015, restages the plot of Joseph Conrad's novella — a story of espionage, double - crossing and murky political entanglement — within the aftermath of Portugal's «carnation revolution,» which overthrew Europe's oldest dictatorship, in April 1974.

S.A with a book signing of the film's graphic novella 6 - 8 pm Goode Crowley Theater, Marfa Free and open to the public

His film The Secret Agent, 2015, restages the plot of Joseph Conrad's novella — a story of espionage, double - crossing and political entanglement — within the aftermath of Portugal's «Carnation Revolution,» which overthrew Europe's oldest dictatorship, in April 1974.