Sentences with phrase «of a stage play»

Movies didn't truly flourish until they stopped being filmed versions of stage plays.

I also pen short stories and am the author of a stage play.

Yet a third event comes in the form of a stage play.

He may give the effect of a stage play, in part to put creative types like himself on the spot.

Besides her career as a writer, she works as a radio personality as well as a host of TV programs and a writer and a director of stage plays.

A seriously funny movie that avoids making fun of its characters by painting their various plights with sympathy and understanding, Toc Toc is an adaptation of the stage play by Laurent Baffie.

The natural feel of a staged play approach works perfectly into the Winger and Letts» wheelhouse, displaying marriage as the difficult, often mature topic that it is.

The adaptation of the stage play by Terry Johnson speculates on what might have happened if Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio and Senator Joseph McCarthy had encountered each other one evening in a hotel.

Alfred Hitchcock's Rope, an adaptation of a stage play based on the true life case of Leopold and Loeb, is an interesting experiment that Hitch himself admitted «didn't work out.»

«Naming Number Two» (TBA): Toa Fraser's adaptation of her stage play stars the venerable Ruby Dee as the matriarch of a Fijian family who throws a feast to name her successor.

But the play was a deeply religious work, metaphorical, the imagery of man merged with horse essential to its message, so while Richard Burton and Peter Firth gave excellent, Oscar nominated performances in the film, the picture never quite captured the power of the stage play.

There is no effort to open up the material as many film versions of stage plays do, rather there seems to have been a conscious effort to convey a theatrical feel to the presentation a decision that works to the absurdist material's favour.

While women in the audience may find resonance in the comical prickliness, this film remains more of a stage play than an actual movie.

Washington, working from a script by Wilson, himself, delivers a raw and powerful movie that may not entirely escape the conventions of a stage play, but is filled with vibrant performances from actors — including himself — at the top of their craft.

Each of these players grasps the cadence required to make this work... they have the rhythm of a stage play — a new direction that Tarantino has hinted at.

In conceptual accordance, instead of staging a play, Hamlet now makes an experimental video to incriminate his stepfather.

The return of the «Potter» movies follows the debut earlier this year of a stage play set in the «Potter» universe, «Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,» which is currently being staged in London.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses: Read by the Cast of the Stage Play by Choderlos de Laclos, narrated by Dominic West, Janet McTeer, Una Stubbs, Elaine Cassidy, Adjoa Andoh, Edward Holcroft, and Morfydd Clark, published by Audible Studios

After all, we're in the midst of the «Naruto New Era Opening Project,» which has seen the announcement of a stage play, a new film, and today a new manga mini-series, set to start next spring.

The story is much more extensive than many other games of a similar ilk, as you travel through many different acts all in the style of a stage play.

Weather will depend of the stage your playing but some conditions can be clear skies, rain or cloudy.

As the Gunstringer, whose squinty, slant - jawed grimace and ragged poncho more than suggest Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name, you'll perform in a series of stage plays, each taking you to a different, somewhat fantastical corner of the Wild West, and each ending in a confrontation with one of your former compadres.

Often with the feel of a stage play, Snow Cake is a delicate little drama that shows real understanding of its characters.

Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley star in the film adaptation of the stage play: a torturer becomes the victim of his previous captive.

In «Ides of March» we get an adaptation of a stage play that comes alive with a brilliant script, wonderful, tight direction, and solid performances across the board from the likes of Evan Rachel Wood, Melisa Tomei, Phillip Seymore Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, and in particular Ryan Gosling.

This is one of those stage plays that surely derive a lot of their oomph from unfolding live in a small theater, so a movie version inevitably loses something, but Friedkin's treatment of the crazed material is ingenious.

We'll next see her in an adaptation of a stage play, Lady in the Van, which she starred in, before the year ends.

Hateful assumes the feel of a stage play, as these characters come together in this one place and get to know each other, while the wind howls outside.