Sentences with phrase «literary adaptations»

The industrious and accomplished comic artist Dan Spiegle, who drew the later Nester's Adventures strips in Nintendo Power — as well as many movie, television, and literary adaptations in an Inkpot Award - winning career — died on January 28, 2017 at the age of 96.

We've got the rundown on the night's big winners and the most acclaimed literary adaptations of the year.

Lunches with Blake Lively and workshops with Rebecca Hall had rumors swirling, but the director chose Carey Mulligan, who'd been something of a dark horse (although we already know she's a favorite for literary adaptations).

Frankfurt, 11 October 2017 — The Frankfurter Buchmesse (11 - 15 October 2017) is once again recognising outstanding literary adaptations.

These three are just a few of the upcoming literary adaptations.

To back up the «relevance» argument, there has also been an abundance of literary adaptations and references on TV and the big screen that have struck a populist chord.

An appreciation of Audrey Hepburn by Molly Haskell, Oscar predix, George Sluizer's The Vanishing, Republic Pictures, Albert Brooks interviewed, Richard Corliss on literary adaptations, remembering Irene Dunne, Joan Bennett, Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus, Zhang Yimou, Eric Bogosian's Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, Robert Aldrich's Ulzana's Raid

Historical romance, literary adaptations, arthouse drama, star - studded comedies, children's pics, animated fare and a high - profile documentary are among the many German films and co-productions on offer at this year's Cannes Film Market.

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.

Howle will be appearing on movie screens soon in two other literary adaptations, Julian Barnes» The Sense Of An Ending and Chekov's The Seagull.

Hossein Amini has penned a few literary adaptations in his time, including a pair of wildly - contrasting gems (Drive and The Wings Of The Dove), and his first stab at directing his own material can stand proudly in the same company.

It is narrated in proper English lit style by Fiona Shaw (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I), giving the feeling of one of those olden literary adaptations, promising happily - ever - after romance, ribald pith, and fairy - tale whimsy.

This film basically forgets all the sequels and literary adaptations to make a film that's just like The Muppet Movie, only better.

It has a poetic interiority lacking from most prestige literary adaptations.

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.

Michael Caine: His breakthrough role was in 1966 as the ladies» man title character in «Alfie,» and he has delivered iconic performances in everything from period drama («The Man Who Would be King») to literary adaptations (an Oscar - winning performance in «The Cider House Rules») to Alfred in the Batman movies.

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.

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.

After years of making mostly comedies and literary adaptations, Raffaello Matarazzo turned to melodrama with this intense tale of a tight - knit working - class family shattered by temptation.

This is Franco's 18th feature as a director, and after years of hacking out unwatchable biopics and literary adaptations (including this year's In Dubious Battle), he has matured into completely anonymous, tone - deaf semi-competence.

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 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.

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.

Well - acted and directed, it's a cut above most teen - oriented literary adaptations and requires no prior reading to enjoy.

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.

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.

Together, with their regular screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, they more or less wrote the book on literary adaptations with films such as «Remains of the Day,» «Howard's End,» «Maurice,» «A Room With a View» and «The Golden Bowl.»

In the book, I describe the film as kind of a dorm room standard during the late»90s, when I was a college student, and I've since praised it in other forums (http://goo.gl/kL3jl2) as really one of the more faithful literary adaptations in recent cinema.

Huston gravitated toward literary adaptations throughout his career and Moby Dick was a personal project for Huston.

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.»

Not sure why we've waited more than seven year's for Pascale Ferran's fourth feature film which proposes a sort of Before Sunrises meets Terminal as her 2006 epic Lady Chatterley was perhaps one of the best literary adaptations we'll have seen in the past decade.

Unlike most literary adaptations this one actually conveys the pleasure of fiction, lingering suggestively on small details of character and place.

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.

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.

It was he, along with Ismail Merchant, who filmed Howards End and so many other literary adaptations some years ago, many of them quite good.

I've also seen similar jokes made about zombies and Jesus (which, after all, are just a literary adaptation of vampires to avoid copyright issues).

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.

A literary adaptation that continually begs detrimental comparison with the novel, this relies too much on appearance, making little attempt to explore behind the beguiling»20s façade.

Jenkins» cast roster is currently bare, but New York's Cindy Tolan is on the lookout for actors to take on the literary adaptation.

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.

A literary adaptation of a coming - of - age story, with links to Charles Dickens» classic «Great Expectations,» the film leaves you with the wish that Adamson would stick to fantasy — at least in that world there's some fun to be found.

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.

Having not even seen the trailer, I didn't know what to expect from Hollywood's latest literary adaptation.

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.

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.

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

Premiered in Venice and recently screened in the New York Film Festival, Zama marks not only the long - awaited return of Lucrecia Martel, but also her first literary adaptation.

Richard Linklater chases his underrated Last Detail sorta - sequel Last Flag Flying with another literary adaptation, this one based on Maria Semple's novel about a 15 - year - old investigating the disappearance of her agoraphobic mother (played here by Cate Blanchett).

The source material here is a novel by David Ebershoff, which plunks The Danish Girl somewhere between biopic and literary adaptation; among other things, the movie de-queers its 1920s art world milieu, with Gerda portrayed as more or less straight here, despite the fact that her real - life equivalent had a significant sideline drawing lesbian erotica.

Today's TV Bits runs the gamut from highbrow (a literary adaptation on HBO) to lowbrow (a modeling industry reality show on The CW), with plenty of stuff in between.