Sentences with phrase «first cinematic adaptations»

1931 saw the first cinematic adaptations of one of Coward's most well - known plays, Private Lives.

This week, the first cinematic adaptation of Suzanne Collins» «Hunger Games» trilogy is hogging the home video spotlight.

So we come to Coriolanus, the first cinematic adaptation of one of Shakespeare's lesser - known plays.

Not exact matches

This cinematic adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel stars Myrna Loy in her first starring role.

It is the first cinematic feature by Dominic Cooke, an acclaimed theatre director whose stage expertise shines from this sad, sensitive, altogether enthralling adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel.

The Oscar - winning director Peter Jackson returns to the Middle Earth of his deservedly acclaimed The Lord of the Rings movies for this cinematic adaptation of Tolkein's first visit to that mythical land.

Fourteen years later, a literary and film franchise has grown from that first effort, spanning six text sequels and eight cinematic adaptations.

Acclaimed filmmaker Steven Spielberg is all set to helm his first superhero movie and it is going to be none other than DC's cinematic adaptation of the comic - book character Blackhawk.

In retrospect, I should not have read Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation — the first volume of his «Southern Reach» trilogy — just before watching director Alex Garland's cinematic adaptation of it.

Just like their first effort drastically altered the landscape of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, their followup brings back nearly every hero we've met in the franchise and pits them against one another in a politically charged adaptation of one of Marvel Comics» most popular crossover events.

That knowledge makes the already graceful cinematic language of Lynne Ramsay's film adaptation (the Scottish director's third feature, and her first in a regrettable period of nine years) all the more remarkable: altering not a jot of narrative detail, Ramsay and co-writer Rory Kinnear have ingeniously hollowed out Shriver's wordy text into a largely tacit, imagistic memory collage that substitutes sound and vision for dialogue as extensively as possible.

Captain America: Civil War marked the character's first live - action adaptation, and as part of the unfolding Phase Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe he will soon be at the center of his very own solo movie.