The phrase
"literary adaptation" refers to the process of taking a written work, such as a book or a play, and transforming it into another form, like a movie or a television series. It involves bringing the story, characters, and themes from the original work to life in a different medium.
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literary adaptations of this kind, subjective impressions are filtered through physical details.
, has delivered not only one of the best films of the year, but also one of the most intelligent
literary adaptations in recent history.
But there are better movies about the obfuscating evils of peeping and misunderstandings and injustices, not to mention
better literary adaptations, better romances, and better period pieces.
The film demonstrates not only Fassbinder's usual superb technical control and ability to elicit superbly nuanced performances from his actors, but also an unprecedented affinity
for literary adaptation and historical sensitivity.
The company also focussed on straight
literary adaptations from novels by the likes of Denis Wheatley, H. Rider Haggard and J.B. Priestley.
The co-production with BBC films is perfectly cast (Mia Wasikowska as Jane, Michael Fassbender as Mr. Rochester), beautifully produced and terribly engaging, and one of the best British
literary adaptations since the 1995 «Pride and Prejudice» mini-series.
For his follow up, a somewhat surprising move: the
British literary adaptation of Julian Barnes bestseller «The Sense of an Ending,» which just opened in limited release.
The Age of Innocence (Criterion, Blu - ray, DVD) The Age of Innocence (1993) is not the only costume drama or historical picture that Martin Scorsese made but it is his only
classical literary adaptation from the filmmaker that, all these years later, we still remember for edgy violence and cinematic energy.
For his second
straight literary adaptation — and third consecutive period piece — German director Christian Petzold has brought the past to bear on the present through a simple but striking conceptual conceit.
Zama By José Teodoro The wondrous Argentine director Lucrecia Martel is back after too long an absence with her
first literary adaptation, a tale of isolation and madness
This is his 18th feature as a director, and his most mainstream effort to date; after years of hacking
unwatchable literary adaptations out of the American canon (John Steinbeck's In Dubious Battle was the most recent victim), he has matured into mediocrity.
Davies — who began his career as a master of autobiographical films but has since shifted to very personal
literary adaptations like The House Of Mirth and The Deep Blue Sea — has zero intention of bringing this world to life.
This is the
second literary adaptation this year for Jolie, who will also play Patricia Cornwell's M.E. Kay Scarpetta in an upcoming feature film.
It's unlikely to win over Merchant - Ivory skeptics, but it does represent an intriguing transition from the India - centered social realism of their earlier work to the
lavish literary adaptations for which they would become famous.
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.
Martin Scorsese has hit a career high with this searing,
thoughtful literary adaptation about two Jesuit priests venturing into seventeenth - century Japan
If this could perform on the order of Nanny McPhee ($ 47.1 M in 2006), perhaps the last commendable family film to open in January, or The Giver ($ 45 M), Weinstein's
last literary adaptation, the studio should probably be pleased.
There's been a lot of back and forth over whether David Fincher changed Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl ending, but maybe all this time we should have been fretting over a different auteur -
driven literary adaptation.
That's set to change as Optimum dips into the British canon to bring two
major literary adaptations to the screen: Charles Dickens's «Great Expectations» and Graham Greene's «Brighton Rock.»
Stone will also be showing up briefly this summer in comedies like Friends with Benefits and Crazy, Stupid, Love, and is headlining the
pop literary adaptation, The Help.
Beyond that, this category contains a funny olio of broad biopic comedy, superhero drama, gambling thriller, and
hefty literary adaptation.
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.
Alcon Entertainment, whose previous projects include «The Blind Side» and the
unlikely literary adaptation of «What to Expect When You're...
Though associated with heritage films set in Britain's imperial past, producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala have collaborated on a variety of masterfully
constructed literary adaptations since the early 1960s.
Just a year later, Stone starred in two hits, the summer rom - com Crazy, Stupid, Love (the first of her three on - screen pairings with Gosling, with 2013's Gangster Squad coming between it and La La Land) and the
fall literary adaptation The Help (which brought her and her castmates the best ensemble SAG Award and also garnered a best picture Oscar nomination).
Too much darkness and too much yelling mars the prolific Franco's latest all - star stab at literary adaptation
He won strong reviews for his
unsettling literary adaptations Young Adam (2003) and Asylum (2005), but since the limited release of the latter, his work has gone unnoticed, despite the fact he's gotten more adventurous with each film.
Directed by Return to Never Land perpetrator Donovan Cook and co-scripted by David Mickey Evans, whose name I haven't seen on a picture since The Sandlot, The Three Musketeers isn't one of Disney's
loose literary adaptations so much as a riff on a household concept, with Mickey, Donald, and Goofy Wizard of Oz - ian screw - ups given a shot at redemption by the nefarious bloated - Goofy they call Pete, who hires them to guard Princess Minnie as part of a plan to steal the throne from her.
For example, I was going to add Martin Scorsese's gorgeous adaptation of The Age of Innocence (which plays better than ever in the wake of Baz Luhrmann's ludicrously extravagant Bollywood version of The Great Gatsby) because it was received with unenthusiastic respect and because I meet Scorsese fans who haven't seen it or who prefer the more popular James
Ivory literary adaptations of the time.
Presented for your pre-minted approval: Joe Wright's costume follow - up to his costume debut Pride & Prejudice, another
snooty literary adaptation of a well - regarded British novel likewise starring Keira Knightley, shot in the dappled, golden light of fantasy - novel cover art and housewife shower - nozzle daydreams.
by Beth Wilson «Lynne Ramsay has delivered not only one of the best films of the year, but also one of the most
intelligent literary adaptations in recent history.»
Usually, it's his smaller, lightly experimental films which are his most satisfying — the time - lapse family saga of 2012's Everyday, his
lopsided literary adaptation A Cock and Bull Story, or the blokey bants of The Trip and its sequels.
These are professionals who know how to be flamboyant; they pull out all the visual stops to comically illustrate the script, but not in a way that makes you wince as you do when you're over-bombarded with cute and amusing stimuli — I'm thinking of the Jean - Pierre Jeunet school, or last year's
German literary adaptation Wetlands.
Why we're dying to see it: Great source material, and Ang Lee's first film since another eye -
catching literary adaptation, «The Life of Pi.»
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.
He's written columns, pursued four graduate degrees at the same time, and directed movies, including esoteric and critically
derided literary adaptations of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Cormac McCarthy's Child of God.