Sentences with phrase «novel moving from»

An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North - West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty.

Not exact matches

In terms of Whitehead's total philosophy the move toward a temporal nature of God seems easy enough, but it was such a novel departure from traditional Western classical theism that it is no wonder that Whitehead was so long blind to these possibilities.

To move from Paton's novel to works by C. S. Lewis and Charles Williams is to move to another universe.

In his contemporary novel The Blue Mountains of China, Rudy Wiebe tells the story of Mennonites who moved from Germany to Russia, China, Canada, and South America — modern pilgrims in search of religious freedom.

Fox - Genovese's historical survey is even more general, organized vaguely to move from Genesis («male and female God created them»), to a literary analysis of 19th - century novels and the turn to romantic love, to the 20th - century denouement of marriage as a personal choice.

For James, the genres of the novel and the detective story have merged: «The modern detective story has moved away from the earlier crudities and simplicities.

I see Christ in the wilderness shadows, moving from salt pillar to boulder much like the Christ of Hazel Motes in Flannery O'Conner's novel Wise Blood.

Mysterious characters from the city surrounding the hospital will be crucial in determining the baby's fate, as will a workaholic British doctor with whom Mariam finds herself falling in love... Alice Allan's debut novel is an original, vivid and moving story about attachment and loss.

Young Moroccan scribe Abdellah Taia moves into the director's seat with the screen version of his autobiographical novel» Salvation Army,» losing much of the texture in translation from pen to camera.

Director Uli Edel made the harrowing Last Exit To Brooklyn in 1989, an adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr's cult novel and he moves the action along very adeptly here, helped by an excellent cast and a strong screenplay from Eichinger, no stranger to controversial subjects.

Still, pig farms in several countries have reported infection from humans to pigs of the novel H1N1, indicating that it can easily move back into its original host.

A team of researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Sussex in collaboration with Ultrahaptics has built a novel sonic tractor beam that can lift and move objects using sound waves.

Researchers from the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel discovered novel mechanisms of cell migration by observing cells moving on lines of connective tissue.

While translational research has traditionally moved basic immunology knowledge forward into clinical application, varying clinical presentations of human immune - related disease processes, as well as variability in therapeutic outcomes, have provided opportunities for discovery of novel mechanistic hypotheses directly from patients.

«We are trying to build a novel technology that enables us to control a selected protein simply using light, moving the resolution of optogenetics from the cellular level to the molecular level,» said Wang, associate professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry.

Scientists from the University of Chicago and Johns Hopkins University have developed a new technique that promises to significantly enhance the rate of novel - gene discovery, a process that becomes increasingly difficult as the Human Genome Project moves closer to completion.

In a move that could improve the energy storage of everything from portable electronics to electric microgrids, University of Wisconsin — Madison and Brookhaven National Laboratory researchers have developed a novel X-ray imaging technique to visualize and study the electrochemical reactions in lithium - ion rechargeable batteries containing a new type of material, iron fluoride.

Moving the Needle provides quarterly updates from PATH's Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access (CVIA) on our vaccine development efforts, as well as related supporting work, such as developing human challenge models, building capacity of developing - country vaccine manufacturers, and evaluating new adjuvants and other novel vaccine technologies.

Results from an initial study combining a microbicide candidate and experimental vaccine are promising enough to at least keep Imperial College virologist Robin Shattock coming back for more in pursuing what could be a novel move in preventing HIV infection.

The standard story of Bram Stoker's original novel is re-created here: the undead count arranges to move from his home in Transylvania to Whitby, and once there, a reign of terror begins.

For the rest of us - the scornful, the uninterested, those too old to fully believe - the films derived from J.K. Rowling's seven best - selling fantasy novels have waxed and waned, moving from the formulaic fun of the early entries to the darkening adolescent gloom of the middle installments to the grim Wagnerian conflict of the final haul.

Moving away from the cruel halls of high school, McAdams next appeared opposite Ryan Gosling in The Notebook, the feature adaptation of author Nicholas Sparks» top - selling novel.

Synopsis: Arturo Bandini (Colin Farrell) is a writer who moves from Colorado to Los Angeles with aspirations of completing a great novel.

Andrew Dominik adapted the novel and moved it from Boston in the 70's to New Orleans in 2008.

Extras are, per Anderson's M.O., exasperatingly abstract: The cover copy refers to the bonus features as «special trailers,» but one is just a deleted scene of Shasta and Doc watching the waves lap against the shore at dusk (their lips are moving, but a dreamy Greenwood composition mutes everything they say), while the fourth and final, «Everything in this Dream,» is an artful 6 - minute montage of cutting - room scraps, including a few shots of Doc and Sauncho watching a schooner leave port that could be construed as the ending from Inherent Vice the novel.

Where the later films move away from the painstakingly literal translations of J.K Rowling's increasingly sprawling novels, these first two films are perfect replicas created with a kind of funhouse spectacle of the wonders of the magical world come to life.

By contrast, every character in Howl's Moving Castle — derived from an English novel by Diana Wynne Jones — is both lovable and seriously flawed, and though a war does rage around them, the only villains are the faceless forces on both sides that keep it going.

It's gyroscopic viewing features (moving the controller around to see a different view on the secondary screen) allows for a greater level of simulation depth, If a developer so chooses, imagine things like panning closely around your television with scanning in a Metroid game or having a mecha that pivots its view independently from its body orientation to quickly spot an enemy on your actual right — that's novel stuff, but nice touches possible with the GamePad..

Brooklyn is John Crowley's eagerly anticipated period drama based on Colm Toibin's award - winning novel, and stars Saoirse Ronan as a young woman from small - town 1950s Ireland who moves to New York and falls in love.

Perhaps a bit too dry or sedate for a Saturday night sleepover sort of horror experience, The Invoking does benefit from at least two performances that are worth enjoying (Miller and Midili); a calm but welcome amount of attention paid to things like mood, tone, music, and atmosphere; and a plot that starts out as the epitome of predictable and gradually grows more novel as we move on.

Casting Directors: Lindsay Graham and Mary Vernieu Director: David O. Russell Writer: David O. Russell, based on the novel by Matthew Quick Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Julia Stiles, Chris Tucker, Jacki Weaver, John Ortiz, Anupam Kher The Pitch: A man (Cooper) moves back in with his parents after being released from a mental institution.

-- Gina Prince - Bythewood wrote and directed this moving drama, based on the best - selling novel by Sue Monk Kidd, about a 14 - year old girl (Dakota Fanning) who, longing to find out more about her deceased mother, runs away from rural South Carolina home and winds up in the care of a beekeeper (Queen Latifah) and her sisters (Alicia Keys, sophie Okonedo).

This is something that's repeatedly alluded to in Melissa Mathison's screenplay (based on the novel by Roald Dahl), but it's pretty easy to forget about that detail as the film moves from one non-child-devouring plot point to the next.

Above: a 1983 interview with Michael Mann about filmmaking and The Keep, from The Electric Theatre Show: «Mann talked about the power of dreams, and moving The Keep story out of the horror genre of the novel and into a dream reality.

Adapted by Scott Neustadter («The Disaster Artist») and Michael H. Weber («The Spectacular Now») from a novel by the late Kent Haruf, Our Souls at Night was shown at the Venice Film Festival then went directly to Netflix, a move that in today's multi-layered media environment is not reflective of the film's quality, but only its box office potential.

Based on the novel by Matthew Quick, the film centers on a former teacher (Cooper) who moves home after being released from a mental institution.

The company also moved up the release date of Ava DuVernay's «A Wrinkle in Time,» a big - budget adaptation of the beloved Madeleine L'Engle novel of the same name from April 6, 2018 to March 9, 2018.

Indignation, adapted from the Philip Roth's novel of the same name, tells the story of Marcus Messner, who on moving to Ohio on a college scholarship in the 1950s meets Olivia Hutton.

It is, without doubt, a transcendent endeavor, from its exhilaratingly smart screenplay - director David O. Russell's adaptation of the novel by former South Jersey teacher Matthew Quick - to the unexpected and moving turns of its two leads.

The facts that Howl's Moving Castle wasn't his baby from the beginning and that it is adapted from a British novel only serve to make it more accessible to Western audiences, as does the commendable English language version overseen by Disney and Pixar.

Howl's Moving Castle, the latest and supposedly last film from Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki, is adapted from a 1986 fantasy novel of the same name by British author Diana Wynne Jones.

Julie Bertuccelli directs a mild tale about moving on that's adapted from Judy Pascoe's 2002 novel «Our Father Who Art in the Tree.»

Because of the whole Star Wars Legends alternate universe (the classic Expanded Universe) and the current canon universe, there's some move for changes to be made in the movie and not to play spoiler, they change it up from the previous novels.

Screenwriter / director of «The Dinner», Oren Moverman, has moved the setting of Herman Koch's best - selling novel, on which his film is based, from

Ponsoldt, whose 2012 drama «Smashed» also dealt with the drinking life, allows Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber's script (adapted from a young - adult novel) to move in natural rhythms.

Jeanne: Screenwriter / director of «The Dinner», Oren Moverman, has moved the setting of Herman Koch's best - selling novel, on which his film is based, from Holland to America.

Adapted from Andy Weir's novel, Drew Goddard's nimble script now moves between three points of action: Watney's efforts on Mars to feed himself and survive the long haul; Earth, where NASA eventually realise they have left a man behind and try to devise a rescue plan; and the space ship that is now returning to Earth, on which Watney's fellow astronauts are oblivious of his fate.

White Oleander, based on the novel by Janet Fitch, details the hellish experiences of Astrid Magnussen as she moves from foster home to foster home after the incarceration of her mother.

Darkly mischievous and painfully funny, A Monster Calls is an extraordinarily moving novel of coming to terms with loss from two of our finest writers for young adults.

, in which the usual filmmaking suspects (in addition to novelist Gregory, whom I was eager to hear from) talk about moving from non-fiction to novel to screenplay.