Sentences with phrase «story adaptation»

This true story adaptation centers on a woman trying to find the son she gave up for adoption.

It's a short story adaptation for the actor - turned - filmmaker, though he's not thought to be starring in the film himself.

**** / **** Image A Sound A Extras A - story adaptation Ted Sears, Richard Creedon, Otto Englander, Dick Richard, Earl Hurd, Merrill De Maris, Dorothy Ann Blank, Webb Smith supervising director David Hand

The use of certain tropes in the narrative are also glaring given the film's inertia — when Dovid starts to read a succession speech from a piece of paper, only to go off - script in a fit of frustration — one can't help but wish that Lelio had taken more time to craft his love story adaptation by thinking through the enormity of every small artistic decision.

It is perhaps harsh to contrast the two films, but Scott Hicks» short story adaptation Hearts in Atlantis owes such an evident debt to Rob Reiner's Stand by Me in its mood, look and thematic preoccupations that the comparison is inevitable.

Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin and Jake Gyllenhaal star in this true - story adaptation about a dangerous quest to reach the top of Mount Everest.

We look at a handful of this month's films, including Star Wars spinoff prequel Rogue One, Jim Jarmusch's contemplative drama Paterson, science fiction drama Passengers, and Amma Asante's true story adaptation A United Kingdom.

story adaptation Ted Sears, Richard Creedon, Otto Englander, Dick Richard, Earl Hurd, Merrill De Maris, Dorothy Ann Blank, Webb Smith

Rather than go the «Sin City» route, where shots were lifted whole from the panels, she and co-director Vincent Paronnaud treated it as a story adaptation, with the ability visualize the tale in a new way, as she explains during the 29 - minute Cannes Film Festival question - and - answer session that's one of several extras on this disc.

Everybody hustles to survive in this true story adaptation.

Josh Brolin, John Hawkes and Jake Gyllenhaal co-star in this true - story adaptation, with Martin Henderson and Emily Watson joining the cast.

And more than most short - story adaptations, this one really captures the spirit of that format — the open - ended mystery and vividness of great short fiction, the sense that you're being plopped down for a few meaningful minutes into a hyper - specific space.