Sentences with phrase «than fiction by»
What's on his Kindle: Stranger than Fiction by Chuck Palahniuk.
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In the world of fiction, there are few names more recognized by both readers and filmgoers than J.K. Rowling.
In an unsurprising surprise, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made good on his Friday promise and debuted the first official footage of Falcon Heavy's inaugural flight, pieced together by none other than the co-creators of the science fiction show Westworld.
In the end Gallienus decides to pay for the celebrations using direct theft (by confiscating and then selling the estates of his enemies and those of their families), but the final sentence of the above excerpt from a work of historical fiction reveals more knowledge of how monetary inflation works than is found in the writings of most Keynesian economists.
The proprietor of the shop obviously has the right to offer this type of discount, but it's sad that in this backwards, demon - haunted country we're still treating a work of fiction supposedly handed down by an magical, omnipotent being as a framework for a moral life, rather than embracing an objective, secular view of morality.
You are correct no one would believe Harry Potter is anything more than the fiction as explained by the author.
The prophet Muhammad and the Quran are essentially fiction written by misguided souls not much different than prophet Joseph Smith and Book of Mormon.
Dubbed the Queen of Christian Fiction by Time Magazine, Karen has written more than 50 of her Life - Changing Fiction ™ titles and has nearly 20 million copies in print.
Everyone has personal favorites, and I would like to close with a few of the books I have enjoyed with my children: Noel Streatfield's books about families with dancing children, including Ballet Shoes and Dancing Shoes; Cotton in My Sack and Indian Captive, books of historical fiction by Lois Lenski; the hilarious picture book Seven Silly Eaters by Mary Ann Hoberman; the gentle moral tale of Rose, «who didn't work any harder than she had to»; Seven Loaves of Bread, by Ferida Wolf; and the accurate depictions of family life in both Joanna Harrison's When Mom Turned into a Monster and Jean van Leeuwen's delightful Oliver and Amanda Pig stories.
These problems are of such magnitudes and complexity that the quality of the future of our planetary existence now confronts us as something more than just a theoretical or imaginative issue first detailed for us by the writers of science fiction.
No wonder feminists have been reluctant to feel rewarded by Bloom's designation of J as a woman (such as it is: «my personal fiction» — no sooner is the ink dry on her Book of J than she is attacked and mutilated by every soul drawing a pious or orthodox breath.
Website blacklists, storage of all your emails by intelligence services and routine monitoring of your internet connection may sound like something from a science fiction novel — or an authoritarian regime — but the truth may be stranger than fiction for Britain in 2012.
The Guardian reports: «A former minister and fiction writer, Alvarado Quesada, 38, had 61 % of the vote with results in from 95 % of polling stations, a far bigger lead than predicted by opinion polls that foresaw a tight race.»
One view, subscribed to by the towering French figure of Jules Gabriel Verne, a man with a better claim to being the Father of Science Fiction than anyone else, was that the genre should consider itself almost a legitimate field of science proper, or at least should try to hold itself to an analogous code of rigor.
By coming from an unusual angle, SF can cast a sharper light on our lives, illuminating hidden corners far better than can mainstream fiction.
A spectacular string of advances in superconductivity and nanotechnology reported by researchers at Lucent Technologies» Bell Labs since 1998 were probably more fiction than fact, according to a panel established in May to look into allegations of scientific misconduct at the company.
As theories and advice are passed along the grapevine, we often end up standing by information that is more fiction than fact.
Despite its increasing popularity (and glowing endorsements by high - profile vegan converts like Bill Clinton), The China Study is, in many ways, more a work of fiction than a nutritional holy grail.
The direction by Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace, Stranger Than Fiction) delivers a fast - paced zombie thriller, and with Brad Pitt front and center, there is a grounding of the film in seeming more intelligent and plausible than your typical scare flThan Fiction) delivers a fast - paced zombie thriller, and with Brad Pitt front and center, there is a grounding of the film in seeming more intelligent and plausible than your typical scare flthan your typical scare flick.
The special effects are laughable, but the script, co-written by acclaimed science fiction writer Moorcock, is meatier than one might expect...
Critic Consensus: The Lovers and the Despot offers a compelling — albeit by no means comprehensive — look at one of the more bizarrely stranger - than - fiction episodes in cinematic history.
Critics Consensus: The Lovers and the Despot offers a compelling — albeit by no means comprehensive — look at one of the more bizarrely stranger - than - fiction episodes in cinematic history.
PYONGYANGST - My Review of THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT (3 Stars) Evoking more questions than answers, THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT, a documentary by filmmakers Ross Adam and Robert Cannan details the stranger than fiction account of a prominent South Korean film director and his actress ex-wife who were kidnapped by North Korea during Kim Jong Il's reign and were forced to make over 17 movies for him.
Neither cracks a smile, which is its own kind of victory, but nor do they crack the code of these «characters,» two men united by circumstances that look, in movie form, not so stranger than fiction after all.
Based on the tell - all book «The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made» co-written by Sestero and Tom Bissell, «The Disaster Artist» is one of those stranger - than - fiction stories that very few people would believe if it hadn't actually happened, but here we are.
A documentary / fiction hybrid that's more effective as the former than the latter, Woodpeckers deserves to follow up its appearance in Sundance's World Dramatic competition section by serving time at festivals with a social conscience.
But Kaufman's scripts are often hampered by a rather flashy awareness (and perhaps overestimation) of their own intelligence — this is not the case with Stranger Than Fiction.
Buoyed by eye - catching dramatizations and an enthralling structure that crisscrosses time and place, The Imposter unfolds as a gripping thriller that leaves us dizzy, yet certain that truth is, indeed, stranger than fiction.»
Machine Gun Preacher is directed by Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace, Stranger Than Fiction) and is based on the true story of an alcoholic ex-con who finds purpose in his life when he becomes a missionary and begins to build an orphanage for the children of South Sudan.
However, Po has absolutely no skills whatsoever, so he is groomed by master trainer Shifu (Hoffman, Stranger Than Fiction), who is skeptical that Po was the right choice, to hone some skills to have a chance at being the kind of master he was chosen to be.
In my opinion, both the book and the movie versions of «Fifty Shades of Grey» (originally «Master of the Universe,» a «Twilight» fan fiction penned by Snowqueens Icedragon, who has since adopted the pen name E.L. James) have generated far more attention, money, and drama than they're worth.
Peggy Guggenheim - Art Addict Directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland, written by Bernadine Colish, Lisa Immordino Vreeland, and John Northrup (USA)-- World Premiere, Documentary Bouncing between Europe and the US as often as she would between lovers, Peggy Guggenheim's life story was as swirling as the design of her uncle's museum, and reads more like fiction than any reality imaginable.
Truer Than Fiction The 21st annual Truer Than Fiction Award, sponsored by LensCrafters is presented to an emerging director of non-fiction features who has not yet received significant recognition.
But Solaris is less a science - fiction film than it is an existentialist melodrama that, by winnowing itself down to the fierce romanticism at the heart of Lem's novel (and Tarkovsky's trance - like adaptation), locates the core issues of identity and love that plague the dark hours.
But its stranger - than - fiction premise only serves to heighten everything — the emotions, the absurdity, and the sympathy for its central robber played with a zany, unhinged verve by the scene - stealing Ethan Hawke.
Marc Forster's Stranger than Fiction even winks at the Adams connection with a sentient wristwatch and a moment where Crick's apartment gets demolished, Arthur Dent - like, by an uncommunicated work order.
And Author: The JT Leroy Story is stranger - than - fiction documentary from Jeff Feuerzeig, which follows the story behind literary persona JT LeRoy, a fictional writer created by American author Laura Albert, complete with a made - up back - story of prostitution, drugs and vagrancy.
This time Kosinski brings us another science fiction, epic, adventure headlined by none other than Hollywood powerhouse, Tom Cruise.
Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.
It's that slipperiness of creation and that psychosis that finds us repeating ourselves by repeating images of ourselves (Multiplicity is a trickier flick than given credit for) which informs a trio of new science - fiction films reaching North American movie screens simultaneously (though only one is American in origin)-- we are the world's new cultural / emotional wasteland and the films of our new millennium reflect that status.
Starring Brad Pitt and directed by Marc Forster (Finding Neverland, Stranger Than Fiction, Quantum of Solace), this World War Z movie follows U.N. special agent Gerry Lane as he travels a devastated world infected by «zombies.»
Other striking male performances were provided by: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Alec Baldwin and Anthony Anderson in The Departed; Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber and Toby Jones in The Painted Veil; Wim Willaert in When the Sea Rises; Leslie Phillips and Richard Griffiths in Venus; Clive Owen, Denzel Washington, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, and Chiwetel Ejiofor in Inside Man; Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase and Shido Nakamura in Letters from Iwo Jima; Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Alan Arkin and Paul Dano in Little Miss Sunshine; Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti and Rufus Sewell in The Illusionist; Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Noah Emmerich, Gregg Edelman and Ty Simpkins in Little Children; Keanu Reeves, Christopher Plummer and Dylan Walsh in The Lake House; Nicolas Cage, Michael Pena and Stephen Dorff in World Trade Center; Tim Blake Nelson, Pat Corley, Jeffrey Donovan, Stacy Keach and Scott Wilson in Come Early Morning; Ryan Gosling and Anthony Mackie in Half Nelson; Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn, and Danny Huston in Marie Antoinette; Matt Damon, Michael Gambon, Alec Baldwin, William Hurt, Billy Crudup, Robert De Niro, Keir Dullea, Timothy Hutton, Eddie Redmayne, Mark Ivanir and Joe Pesci in The Good Shepherd; Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Kelsey Grammer, James Marsden, Shawn Ashmore, Aaron Stanford, Vinnie Jones and Ben Foster in X-Men: The Last Stand; Mads Mikkelsen, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Giannini, Simon Abkarian, Sebastien Foucan, Jesper Christensen and Tobias Menzies in Casino Royale; Ebru Ceylan and Mehmet Eryilmaz in Climates; Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck and Bob Hoskins in Hollywoodland; Jamie Foxx, Danny Glover, Keith Robinson and Hinton Battle in Dreamgirls; Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jason Mewes, Trevor Fehrman, Kevin Smith and Jason Lee in Clerks II; Justin Kirk and Jamie Harrold in Flannel Pajamas; Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker and Adrian Grenier in The Devil Wears Prada; Will Ferrell, Dustin Hoffman and Tom Hulce in Stranger Than Fiction; Samuel L. Jackson, Curtis Jackson, Chad Michael Murray, Sam Jones III and Brian Presley in Home of the Brave; Harris Yulin, Ty Burrell and Boris McGiver in Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus; Max Minghella, John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent, Matt Keeslar, Ethan Suplee, Joel David Moore and Nick Swardson in Art School Confidential; Joseph Cross, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes and Alec Baldwin in Running with Scissors; Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, Ciarán Hinds, Justin Theroux, Barry Shabaka Henley, Luis Tosar and John Ortiz in Miami Vice; Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Alex Jennings, Roger Allam and Tim McMullan in The Queen; Samuel L. Jackson, Ron Eldard, William Forsythe, Anthony Mackie, Marlon Sherman and Clarke Peters in Freedomland; Vin Diesel, Peter Dinklage, Linus Roache, Alex Rocco, Ron Silver and Raul Esparza in Find Me Guilty; Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Stanley Tucci, Morgan Freeman and Ben Kingsley in Lucky Number Slevin; Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid, Chris Klein, Shohreh Aghdashloo, John Cho, Tony Yalda, Sam Golzari and Willem Dafoe in American Dreamz; Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson and Rory Cochrane in A Scanner Darkly; Adam Beach, Ryan A. Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, John Benjamin Hickey, Jon Slattery, Barry Pepper, Jamie Bell, Paul Walker and Robert Patrick in Flags of Our Fathers; Chow Yun - Fat in Curse of the Golden Flower; Sergi López, Doug Jones, Álex Angulo and Federico Luppi in Pan's Labyrinth; Bill Nighy in Notes on a Scandal.
The real Mannix was a «fixer» who made problems go away, though reports suggest his life and reputation were much darker than the fiction provided by the Coen Bros. here.
Now, from the total «WTF Files,» comes word, via Variety, that Marc Forster (Finding Neverland, Stranger Than Fiction) has signed on to direct the 22nd James Bond film, and will soon begin work with Paul Haggis on a draft of the original screenplay by Neil Purvis and Robert Wade, with shooting on the film to commence in December for a release from Sony early next November.
It merely entrenched the reputation of science fiction movies of being more visceral than cerebral - a reversal of trends that was started by Star Wars in 1977.
Christopher Robin is directed by German filmmaker Marc Forster, of the films Loungers, Everything Put Together, Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland, Stay, Stranger Than Fiction, The Kite Runner, Quantum of Solace, Machine Gun Preacher, World War Z, and All I See Is You previously.
Clear by now that the script by «Sergei Petrov» and «Rene Fontaine» is actually by Dylan and director Charles, the main defense of the film is that it reads a little like a Dylan song, forgetting that Dylan's songs are, for the most part, poetry of a time and a place rather than rhythmless fictions too in love with their own obscurity.
Chuck has questions about how Stephen always seems to be in the right place at the right time to capture his stranger - than - fiction scoops, but with everyone so enraptured by Stephen's work, Chuck looks like a jealous colleague rather than a journalist following his natural instincts.
There are few things more terrible than the death of a child, or more frequently exploited by fiction writers for the sake of a cheap cry.
In one stranger - than - fiction occurrence, Albert attends the premiere of the film «The Heart is Deceitful,» directed by and starring Asia Argento, based on her book, but is banished from the red carpet, while Savannah, as «JT,» basks in the limelight.