Sentences with phrase «first feature film adaptation»

The first feature film adaptation of Matt Helm starred Dean Martin, a renowned member of the Rat Pack, who played the titular spy in a series of 1960s spoof films.

Not exact matches

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.

But it's unfair to judge on a book on its cover (or title) and after seeing Matthew Vaughn's film adaptation which releases this weekend, I can honestly say that Kick - Ass is much better than I first expected and Vaughn's big - screen version of the graphic novel features sharp writing, brilliant performances, and of course, indulgent action sequences and story - telling.

We'll have the Patrick DeWitt book to film adaptation of Jacques Audiard's The Sisters Brothers drop at Cannes in May, and then we wouldn't be surprised if Kelly Reichardt begins lensing on her eight feature film — and not unlike Claire Denis, moves into the direction of comedy — a first for the helmer.

Ahead of its release next month, Warner Bros. has debuted a new interactive poster for Paul Thomas Anderson's upcoming film Inherent Vice, which offers up some information on the characters featured in the Thomas Pynchon adaptation... SEE ALSO: First poster and trailer for Inherent Vice Inherent Vice is the seventh feature from Paul Thomas Anderson -LSB-...]

Focus Features has released the first trailer for Fifty Shades of Grey, the film adaptation of E. L. James novel of sexual fantasy, and I can already hear the exasperated gasps.

The first «talkie» adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel, «The Picture of Dorian Gray» won for Best Black - and - White Cinematography, although the film features two Technicolor inserts of Dorian Gray's portrait for effect.

Her TV movie This Little Life (2003) concerned a couple's struggles after the premature birth of their son; her first feature film was an adaptation of Monica Ali's novel Brick...

DreamWorks Studios has announced that Steven Spielberg has found his Sophie for the upcoming adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic tale The BFG, with 10 - year - old newcomer Ruby Barnhill securing the role in what will be her first feature film.

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.

In fact, two of the first ten animated feature films on record were adaptations of it:

The animated film adaptation of Persepolis (US release December 2007) has garnered huge international acclaim and won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival; in 2008 it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film and won two Cesar Awards (the French version of the Oscars) for Best First Film and Best Aadaptation of Persepolis (US release December 2007) has garnered huge international acclaim and won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival; in 2008 it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film and won two Cesar Awards (the French version of the Oscars) for Best First Film and Best AdaptationAdaptation.

Symbols of popular culture are reused and repositioned to engage with the audience, as in Scott Reeder's three - dimensional installation of the words «Real Fake» and Matias Faldbakken's adaptation of the original Peterbilt 281 big rig truck which appeared in Steven Spielberg's first feature film «Duel» (1971).

An adaptation of Tom McCarthy's 2005 novel of the same title, Remainder is director Omer Fast's first feature - length film.

Last week it was announced that New York Close Up artist Rashid Johnson will be directing his first feature length film — an adaptation of Richard Wright's 1940 novel Native Son.

Remainder (2015), the artist's first feature lenghth film, is an original adaptation of Tom McCarthy's novel of the same name.

According to AdAge, which first reported the news of the RPO deal, HQ will host a $ 250,000 game this Wednesday that will feature questions related to the film adaptation of Ernest Cline's VR - focused pop culture love letter.