Sentences with phrase «song about your novel»

Did any cool bands record a song about your novel?

Not exact matches

He was doing a book tour, and we were hanging out and talking about his graphic novels, and I had told him that I was interesting in maybe collaborating with him on something if he had any pages he didn't know what to do with to send them over to me, and I would try to write some songs or something.

Great swaths of the novel are devoted to listing out everything Wade knows about one movie or another, one game or another, or one song or another.

In his novel High Fidelity, Nick Hornby asks why people worry so much about sexy, violent, and perverse rock songs, and so little about the many more rock songs that luxuriate in beautiful sadness, usually a sadness fueled by love.

He produced The Grapes of Wrath (1940) starring Henry Fonda, directed by John Ford from the novel by John Steinbeck, The Song of Bernadette (1943) by Henry King with Jennifer Jones, that won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress at the first Golden Globes in 1944, Laura (1944) by Otto Preminger with Gene Tierny, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) and Gentleman's Agreement (1949) with Gregory Peck, both directed by Eliza Kazan, All About Eve (1950) with Bette Davis directed by Joseph Mankiewicz.

Take «The Crystal Ship» (a song about acid) and the mysterious schooner Golden Fang (in both novel and film) that ships heroin in from the Golden Triangle in Asia.

Significantly, when he's asked at Shakespeare & Company what his next novel might be about, Jesse says he wants to write a story that takes place in the time a pop song could be played.

Based on Kōbō Abe's novel of the same name, Woman in the Dunes is in one way the best, most insightful and evocative adaptation of T.S. Eliot's «The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock» there ever was, from Eliot's winsome protagonist looking to escape regret into experience to, literally, these lines about entomology as a metaphor for being seen clearly and judged wanting:

With its imitations of Robert Bresson close - ups, pointless references to European political change, actors talking about acting, junkies who are never seen doing drugs, «unexpected» pop songs, and deliberately obscured narrative (probably because — wait for it — it has the arc of a bad Victorian social novel), Schanelec's studious bore seems intended for an audience of people who write film festival catalogue descriptions.

Instantly, the class was 1) excited that this «assignment» was a song they loved, 2) blown away that their teacher, Mr. Macomber, knew who No Doubt was, and 3) poised to read the novel from an emotional perspective — about a girl whose environment keeps her from being all that she really wants to be.

Haunted by his own past, his inability to sleep, and a song, «Blue Light Yokohama,» Iwata is at the center of a compelling, brilliantly moody, layered novel sure to be one of the most talked about debuts in 2017.

Beautiful Maria of My Soul is the title of both Oscar Hijuelos» new novel and the song Nestor Castillo writes about his lost love in Hijuelos» Pulitzer Prize - winning novel, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.

Most recently, I've returned to my YA roots with Passion Blue and Color Song, a pair of historical novels set in fifteenth century Padua and Venice, about a talented girl's struggle to become a painter in defiance of the rigid social conventions of her time.

Yes, it's true — the Queen of Tennessee (and angel of literacy) herself is writing original songs for the upcoming film adaptation of Murphy's fabulous novel about the plus - sized teen beauty queen named Willowdean.

Of course now that I've written this novel, I'm always being asked questions about songs and I love that.

When it hit me that the songs people remember may say something about them, I decided to test the theory on my family and friends, just like Mary Beth does in the novel.

Jiles includes carefully chosen background details — Model Ts, saddle shoes, number three washtubs, Disney's Snow White, Movietone news shorts and the songs that play on the family's console radio — giving the reader a real sense of time and place that makes Stormy Weather seem more like a novel written in the 1930s than a historical novel about the 1930s.

On a Skyros holiday you can start the novel you've been thinking about, create your own artistic masterpiece, join a comedy - improvisation workshop, sing your favourite songs or take a look at what you really need in life.

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