Sentences with phrase «filmed classic novel»

In an early movie version of the beloved and oft - filmed classic novel, Hepburn gets the juiciest role in «Little Women» as Jo, the tomboy of the four March sisters in a genteelly impoverished family struggling with their father's absence during the Civil War.

As he fights for funding, Terence Davies explains why he wants to film the classic novel Sunset Song.

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According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film «would chronicle the key moments in Tolkien's life that shaped him and led him to write» his now classic novels...

Share Facebook 769 Twitter 0 Culture Mindy Kaling, Reese Witherspoon and Oprah are among the stars currently in New Zealand filming a big - screen adaptation of the classic sci - fi novel A...

Author Chuck Palahniuk plans to revisit Tyler Durden and the whole gang in an upcoming graphic novel that takes place 10 years after the events of Fight Club, his novel which David Fincher later adapted into the now - classic film.

In 1999 Alan Moore created The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen which pulled characters from a number of classic (and public domain) novels and placed them together as a sort of super team (this innovative series was scrubbed into an abysmally average 2003 film).

Andrew Stanton on his new film, John Carter Almost a century after it was written, Edgar Rice Burroughs's classic sci - fi novel, the swashbuckling interplanetary romance A Princess of Mars, is finally coming to the big screen.

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The Virginian (1929) is a classic western - a film adaptation of Owen Wister's 1902 western play and original novel.

Alfonso Cuaron, who did the amazing third «Harry Potter» film, brings us the well - done adaptation of the classic novel, «A Little Princess».

After a change of pace with the action film Hanna 65, director Joe Wright returns to the world of literary adaptations starring Keira Knightley (they previously collaborated on Pride & Prejudice 82 and Atonement 85) with this highly stylized take on Leo Tolstoy's classic novel.

Baz Luhrmann hasn't directed a film since 2008's Australia, but, over the past few weeks, rumors have started swirling about Luhrmann taking on F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby.

Has the distinction of being the very worst of all the many film versions of Alexandre Dumas» classic novel, «The Three Musketeers.»

Mira Nair's film version of the classic novel by William Makepeace Thackery introduces a new audience to the beautiful, funny, passionate and calculating heroine Becky Sharp (Witherspoon).

Charlotte Brontë's classic Victorian novel, Jane Eyre, has been adapted for TV and film multiple times, but that did not deter director Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre) and screenwriter Moira Buffini (Tamara Drewe) from giving it another go.

Mike Newell, whose last two films couldn't be more different (Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time 50 and Love in the Time of Cholera 47) directs this latest adaptation of Charles Dickens» classic novel.

Spawning a juggernaut of a franchise featuring a number of sequels, comic books, toys, novels, and Internet videos, «Predator» has become completely immersed in pop culture and gone from a cult classic to an iconic film.

Based on the hit novel by Ernest Cline, the film pays homage to the classic favorites of the last forty years.

Compare its plot to those of the classic Gothic novels and films in which a young, naïve woman marries a mysterious man, moves into his ancestral home where she is greeted by sinister domestic staff, and goes on to find clues that suggest a horrible family secret.

James Franco has been on an experimental film kick as of late with his rendition of the classic 1930 Faulkner novel As I Lay Dying and his upcoming project Child of God (another novel adaptation), so it really comes...

An updated re-imagining of Jack London's classic novel based on the adventures of White Fang, whose viewpoint matches the book in that it can be captured in the animated film treatment.

The film, from director Ava DuVernay, based on Madeleine L'Engle's classic novel, stars Oprah Winfrey as Mrs. Which, Reese Witherspoon as Mrs. Whatsit, Mindy Kaling as Mrs.. Who, Chris Pine as Mr. Murry, Gugu Mbatha - Raw as Mrs. Murry, Zach Galifianakis as The Happy Medium, André Holland as Principal Jenkins, Levi Miller as Calvin, Deric McCabe as Charles Wallace, and introducing Storm Reid as the iconic literary character Meg Murry.

The eighth major screen adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's classic novel, and the fifth film from hit - or - miss Brit Joe Wright, this spare - no - expense movie wears its grandiosity on its ruffled sleeve, as the recently released trailer certainly attests.

The film will follow Don Quixote and how he believes an advertising executive played by Adam Driver is Sancho Panza, the main character from the classic Do Miguel de Cervante's novel from 1605.

One of the landmarks of silent cinema, this adaptation of Gaston Leroux's novel was also the film that firmly cemented Lon Chaney's standing as a superstar as well as set the stage for Universal Pictures to continue producing definitive horror classics throughout the 1930s and 1940s.

2017 TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Adapted from an acclaimed Ian McEwan novel («Atonement»), set in 1960s Britain, and starring the luminous Saoirse Ronan, «On Chesil Beach» has all the makings of a classic «prestige» period fFILM FESTIVAL: Adapted from an acclaimed Ian McEwan novel («Atonement»), set in 1960s Britain, and starring the luminous Saoirse Ronan, «On Chesil Beach» has all the makings of a classic «prestige» period filmfilm.

The action is more intense and the drama is better portrayed with a closer adaptation of the original novel and while the classic westerns hold a certain place in my heart I doubt they've ever been able to portray the west as well and as beautifully as they did in this film.

Little Women — The 1994 film adaptation of this classic novel stars Winona Ryder, Trini Alvarado, Samantha Mathis, and Claire Danes as sisters living alone with their mother while their father is away fighting in the Civil War.

Based on Mary Norton's classic novel The Borrowers, this film features striking animation and a story that's rich, detailed and full of vividly engaging characters.

by Walter Chaw Steven Soderbergh's best film since sex, lies, and videotape (and the film most like it in theme and execution), Solaris is a moving, hypnotic adaptation of the classic Stanislaw Lem novel, which was first made into a film in 1972 by Andrei Tarkovsky.

Based the outstanding novel by William Peter Blatty, which was turned into the classic film directed by William Friedkin, THE EXORCIST has all the potential to be a great TV show, as it can explore the characters over time and have a very slow build up.

The film is a re-imagined version of «Moby - Dick,» the classic Herman Melville novel.

«Anna Karenina»: Joe Wright's adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's classic novel may have been set in Imperial Russia, but filming took place half a world away.

Based on Jack Finney's classic sci - fi novel «Invasion of the Body Snatchers», the film emphasises the tensions and lack of trust in the Malone family as an alien plot to turn all humans into emotionless, unfeeling «pod people» unfolds around them.

Farran Smith Nehme writes about classic film on her blog, Self - Styled Siren, and recently published her first novel, Missing Reels.

Still, Rebecca is clearly a superior classic film, one that is immensely engrossing, leaving you forever haunted by its memory, much the way Rebecca does to those she left behind in this terrific story from Daphne du Maurier's novel.

Sci - Fi Movie Page Pick: Based on the classic Robert Heinlein story about alien invaders taking over humans (which served as inspiration later on for the famous 1940s Invasion of the Body Snatchers novel by Jack Finney, which has been filmed three times!).

The occasion was the New York Film Festival screening of Sony Pictures Classics» Call Me by Your Name, the film adaptation, by Italian director Luca Guadagnino, of André Aciman's coming - of - age novel.

I briefly mentioned Sundance and Sony Classics» «An Education,» but another film worth discussing in that vein is «Precious» (formerly «Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire»), which dominated Park City this year.

John Huston's 1956 film of Herman Melville's whaling drama turned epic odyssey, a classic of American literature and a staple of high school and college literature courses, remains the most famous screen version of the novel.

Novel Romance is a classic case of being a film that isn't awful in any particular area, but by the same token, it isn't nearly fresh enough to overcome the routine nature of the story.

Pennywise the clown is back to terrify a new generation of kids in this year's new feature film remake of the classic Stephen King novel It, and the first official teaser trailer has just emerged from the sewer for you to check out.

LAURA *** / **** Image B Sound B - Extras B starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson screenplay by Jay Dratler and Samuel Hoffenstein and Betty Reinhardt, based on the novel by Vera Caspary directed by Otto Preminger PINKY * / **** Image C Sound B - Extras A + starring Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan screenplay by Philip Dunne and Dudley Nichols, from a novel by Cid Ricketts Sumner directed by Elia Kazan by Walter Chaw A camp classic of a very particular variety, Otto Preminger's stylish, pedigreed Laura might best be read as a satire of Hitchcock's Rebecca, reuniting that film's Judith Anderson with another late, lamented mistress and acres more scenery to chew.

With «The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies», Peter Jackson has completed a second trilogy of films based on J.R.R. Tolkien's classic novels «The Hobbit» and «The Lord of the Rings».

The 1962 film, still chilling today, had all the ingredients for success: accomplished director J. Lee Thompson (who also made Peck's 1962 adventure classic, «The Guns of Navarone»), a near - perfect cast, top - notch material (James R. Webb's screenplay is based on John D. MacDonald's novel «The Executioners»), a Bernard Herrmann score, cinematography by Sam Leavitt, art direction by Robert Boyle and editing by George Tomasini.

There's also a fair amount of discussion regarding the influences on the movie's design, which include classic art, previous film adaptations, and the novel itself.

Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Kenneth Branagh, Daisy Ridley, Michelle Pfeiffer, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Josh Gad, Derek Jacobi, Leslie Odom Jr., Tom Bateman, Olivia Colman, Lucy Boynton, and many more round out the cast for the film based on the classic Agatha Christie novel of the same name.

Loosely based on Agatha Christie's classic mystery novel Ten Little Indians, the film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and centers on a DEA task...

That film is Call Me by Your Name, an adaptation of the 2007 André Aciman novel that is something of a modern classic of gay literature.