Sentences with phrase «of novellas by»

The latest exercise in this genre, premiering Sunday on BBC America, is «Killing Eve,» an eight - part series (already renewed) created by Phoebe Waller - Bridge from a series of novellas by Luke Jennings, collected as «Codename Villanelle.»

The screenplay is based on the first tale of the third day from The Decameron (1971) which is of course based on a collection of novellas by the 14th - century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 — 1375).

A contemporary America - set adaptation of the novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky, co-written by Ayoade with Harmony Korine «s brother Avi, the film features a promising cast — Jesse Eisenberg, Noah Taylor, Mia Wasikowska, Yasmin Page and more — in a decidedly oddball story.

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Most of the world saw nothing remarkable about indie director Whit Stillman's decision to adapt Lady Susan, a relatively obscure epistolary novella by Jane Austen, into a movie called Love & Friendship.

No, our problem was that Stillman's title reminded us, distractingly, of another relatively obscure epistolary novella by Jane Austen, Love and Freindship (misspelling in the original).

, a novella following the love affair between Lady Madeline Parker and Colonel Harland Sanders... «The only thing better than being swept away by the deliciousness of our Extra Crispy Chicken is being swept away by Harland Sanders himself,» George Felix, KFC's U.S. director of advertising, said in a statement.

She has also written a novella, Juliet's Journey, which was inspired by a visit to the northern Italian village of Baiardo.

Wireless by Charles Stross This lively collection from the Hugo Award — winning author of Accelerando includes recent short stories plus the fast - paced original novella Palimpsest.

Captivated by the idea of backyard self - sufficiency, Novella Carpenter transforms an abandoned lot next to her ramshackle house in inner - city Oakland into a wonderful urban farm.

This iconic film, adapted from Truman Capote's novella, tells the story of the free - spirited Holly Golightly, played by Audrey Hepburn, living in Manhattan and falling for her neighbour.

This period drama is an adaptation of the classic novella by Henry James.

Despite its distracting overuse of Dutch angle shots, this is a classic film noir crafted beautifully by Reed and Graham Greene (who worked on it by writing his excellent novella), with a fascinating villain, a fabulous post-war Vienna as its location and a perfect choice for a score.

Ramsay's screenplay is based on a novella by Jonathan Ames, which scans as the leanest of prose.

The overwhelming English sadness of Ian McEwan's novella On Chesil Beach has been transferred to the movie screen, adapted by the author and directed with scrupulous sensitivity and care by Dominic Cooke, known for his stage work and making his feature film debut here.

First there was a novella, The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson.

Adapting an 1848 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky of the same name, Luchino Visconti transposed the action from the canals of Tsarist St Petersburg to the back streets of 1950s Livorno — to this day, one of the oddest and most idiosyncratic of Italian cities.

Based on Ted Chiang's 1998 novella Story of Your Life, Villeneuve's first full foray into the sci - fi genre will have its world premiere at Venice International Film Festival, followed by a showing at the Toronto International Film Festival.

What I will say is that as I was watching Ghost Story, there's this part where Krige, as the ghost Eva, promises her lover that she «will show [him] things [he's] never seen» in a supernaturally menacing sort of way that will be echoed exactly by Clive Barker's Cenobites in the novella The Hellbound Heart from 1986.

The idea of updating a classical tale to modern Mississippi was apparently inspired in part by the Howard Waldrop novella A Dozen Tough Jobs, which offered a contemporary version of the 12 labors of Hercules.

Based on Ian McEwan's novella and directed by Dominic Cooke, longtime artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre, this is a film about British sex in the 1960s, just before the sexual revolution.

Released: September 29 Cast: Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Henry Thomas, Carel Struycken Director: Mike Flanagan (Hush) Why it's great: Like 128 Hours for BDSM amateurs, this adaptation of Stephen King's psychological novella gifts Gugino — long overlooked by Hollywood and underappreciated by her directors — the role of a lifetime, as Jessie, a woman handcuffed to a bed by her recently deceased husband who struggles to break free before starvation, dehydration or something worse sets in.

King wrote both the novella, Cycle of the Werewolf, and the much better named screenplay, but it's all completely ruined by awful special effects and either ham - fisted or lackluster performances by the likes of Gary Busey and the late Corey Haim, the kind of actors who were great in the right roles.

Directed by Dennis Villeneuve, from a script by Eric Heisserer which adapts Story of Your Life, a novella by Ted Chiang.

Directed by London stage veteran William Oldroyd, is an adaptation of Russian writer Nikolai Leskov's 1865 novella «Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk.»

Reportedly, Bennett was inspired by the John Steinbeck novella, «The Pearl», although without the serious themes and dramatic turns of events — or really anything else that matters.

Few of his books drew you in quite as powerfully as «Cycle of the Werewolf», a short novella featuring fantastic artwork by the late, great Bernie Wrightson.

Though hardly a great film, Bryan Singer's ambitious adaptation of Stephen King's same - named novella * is nonetheless challenging, a bleak picture destined to be misunderstood by the masses.

It's the same kind of rapport that was also found in Stand By Me, which was based on King's novella «The Body.»

The BBC is teaming up with Harry Potter producer David Heyman's Heyday Television for a new miniseries adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1952 novella The Birds, famously adapted for the big screen by Alfred Hitchcock in 1963.

Adapted from Jonathan Ames's novella, it's a film distinguished by the force of its images and the compression of its narrative, and while its impact leaves you dazed, you can't quite believe that what you've just seen ever happened.

Then there's the allusion to J.D. Salinger's novella, an account of the precocious genius of the Glass family, by now something of an American literary legend.

Adapted from Jonathan Ames's novella, it's a film distinguished by the force of its images and the compression of its narrative, and while its impact leaves you...

The first Fantastic Beasts film, adapted by Rowling from her novella, already has a set date of November 18, 2016, with the sequels penciled in for 2018 and 2020.

Screenwriter Eric Heisserer has adapted the novella Story of Your Life by the SF author Ted Chiang; he brings to it a Shyamalanesque lilt, and cleverly finesses the inevitable problem of how to end this kind of story: whether there is going to be any kind of departure.

This is a deft, clever adaptation by director Stephen Frears and screenwriter Christopher Hampton of Colette's Chéri novellas, with a commanding star turn by Michelle Pfeiffer as the aging courtesan, Léa, who falls for the corrupted youth, Chéri.

Unfortunately, all is not on the level, and a big surprise lays in wait in House of Sleeping Beauties, a macabre mystery based on the Japanese language novella by Yasunari Kawabata.

An expanded version of the novella will come out in 2018, published by Vintage.

Lady Macbeth is an adaptation of the well - known novella by Russian writer Nikolai Leskov, transposed to northeast England.

The series is based on a 19th century Gothic novella of the same name, written by Sheridan le Fanu.

And so, with a fifth child on the way and Italian interior decorators to pay, the writer decides to dash off and self - publish a novella about Christmas — after, of course, being rejected by his publisher, whose dismissive comments about the holiday partly inspire the old cheapskate Scrooge.

Syfy dropped trailers for two very promising new shows during NBCUniversal's Upfront presentation on Monday: Nightflyers, a sci - fi horror series based on a novella by A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin, and Deadly Class, an comic book adaptation that's executive - produced by Avengers: Infinity War directors the Russo brothers.

Written and directed by Jeff Baena, the film is based a tale from a collection of 14th century novellas titled The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio and stars stars Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, and Kate -LSB-...]

One of my personal favorite horror flicks from the legendary horror director Stuart Gordon is Dagon, based on The Shadow Over Innsmouth novella by American author H.P....

You Were Never Really Here is adapted from a Jonathan Ames novella by the Scottish director Lynne Ramsay, and like her other work it is powerfully imagistic and nearly bereft of dialogue or a conventional plot.

There have been several TV versions of his plays (A Cheery Soul, 1966; Big Toys, 1980; The Ham Funeral, 1990); Jim Sharman made a moderately interesting film of the novella, The Night the Prowler (1978), for which White wrote his own screenplay; and there was talk of a film version of Voss, to be directed by Joseph Losey from a screenplay by David Mercer, that never came to anything.

SECRET WINDOW (Grade: C --RRB-: In this adaptation of a Stephen King novella, Johnny Depp plays a successful author holed up in a lakeside cabin trying to finish a novel while being tormented by a scary aspiring writer (John Turturro) who accuses him of plagiarism.

By turns and chances this brief novella will perfectly fill the interval while I await the imminent release of Acceptance, the third and final book in VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy (see Annihilation and Authority below).

Written by Alice Birch, and based on Nikolai Leskov's 1865 novella «Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District», the film is set in Northern England of the 1860s.

Based on Ted Chiang's novella The Story of Your Life, the film is directed by Denis Villeneuve, whose last movie — the 2015 drama Sicario starring Emily Blunt and Benicio Del Toro — earned three Oscar nominations.