Sentences with phrase «version of a film adaptation»

The exhibition also features an example of Ligon's work in video: an abstracted version of a film adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin, directed by Thomas Edison in 1903.

Not exact matches

The tale of the Trojan War has captivated generations of audiences while evolving from its origins as an oral epic to written versions and, finally, to several film adaptations.

The third of nine adaptations of the film to date, the 1933 Little Women is nonetheless one of the better versions of the book, and it can be forgiven a lot due to its age and era.

Like most Wilde plays, it has been made into film and for television numerous times, although this version isn't a strict adaptation, causing the name to be changed, rightfully, to use a part of the play's secondary title, «A Play About a Good Woman».

Barry Petersen previously shot Zoolander and the film version of Starsky and Hutch, along with the recent adaptations of 21 Jump Street.

Few famous novels have been filmed as often as Alexandre Dumas» The Count of Monte Cristo — and few versions are as enjoyable as this 1934 adaptation starring Robert Donat.

Prior to that, he produced and starred in Phil Morrison's black comedy ALL IS BRIGHT alongside Paul Rudd and lent his vocal talents to the English - language version of the Oscar - nominated French animated feature, ERNEST & CELESTINE, and the highly anticipated feature - film adaptation of THE LITTLE PRINCE, directed by Mark Osborne.

It is hard sometimes to shake the feeling that this live - action Disney adaptation is relying too much on the 1991 animation, to the point that it almost feels like an extended version of that film; but even so, it offers a fresh and modern look at the classic story that makes it worth it.

I also had the misfortune of experiencing the new film version of «Les Misérables», which fails to hide the weaker aspects of the source material and, with the exception of a single sequence, never brings any imagination to the screen adaptation.

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After a number of films, TV series and stage adaptations, Arthur Ransome's beloved 1930 novel gets an all - new movie version.

But it's unfair to judge on a book on its cover (or title) and after seeing Matthew Vaughn's film adaptation which releases this weekend, I can honestly say that Kick - Ass is much better than I first expected and Vaughn's big - screen version of the graphic novel features sharp writing, brilliant performances, and of course, indulgent action sequences and story - telling.

Spielberg is reportedly directing a film version of Roald Dahl's children's book «The BFG» as well as a movie adaptation of Ernest Cline's science fiction book «Ready Player One.»

The film often riffs on George Bernard Shaw's «Pygmalion,» the musical adaptation, «My Fair Lady,» and most of all the 1938 movie version, which featured a sly romantic ending and, of course, Leslie Howard, another Brit heartthrob who could act.

Indeed, the director had set his sights on remaking Murnau's shuddery unauthorized Dracula adaptation, shooting both German and English language versions and applying his own unique cinematic aesthetic to the oft filmed tale of the bloodsucking undead.

Also new on DVD: M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender (Paramount), an adaptation of the animated TV series and one of the most critically reviled films of the year, the feature film version of Beverly Cleary's Ramona And Beezus (Fox), Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (Warner), Marina de Van's Don't Look Back (IFC) with Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci, The Lightkeepers (Image) with Richard Dreyfuss and Blythe Danner, Lau Kar - Leung's classic martial arts movie Shaolin Mantis (Vivendi) and the newly remastered The Endless Summer: Director's Special Edition (Monterey).

While the book became a bestseller and a counterculture classic of the time, Douglas produced a Broadway adaptation with himself in the lead role of Randle P. McMurphy and spent years trying to get a film version off the ground.

After teasing a number of different ambitious projects in 2017 — including an adaptation of Fernando Morais» nonfiction book The Last Soldiers Of The Cold War: The Story Of the Cuban Five and a slightly re-cast version of Idol's Eye, his perpetually stalled Chicago mob thriller — Assayas ultimately went with a previously unannounced project about the French publishing industry as his next filof different ambitious projects in 2017 — including an adaptation of Fernando Morais» nonfiction book The Last Soldiers Of The Cold War: The Story Of the Cuban Five and a slightly re-cast version of Idol's Eye, his perpetually stalled Chicago mob thriller — Assayas ultimately went with a previously unannounced project about the French publishing industry as his next filof Fernando Morais» nonfiction book The Last Soldiers Of The Cold War: The Story Of the Cuban Five and a slightly re-cast version of Idol's Eye, his perpetually stalled Chicago mob thriller — Assayas ultimately went with a previously unannounced project about the French publishing industry as his next filOf The Cold War: The Story Of the Cuban Five and a slightly re-cast version of Idol's Eye, his perpetually stalled Chicago mob thriller — Assayas ultimately went with a previously unannounced project about the French publishing industry as his next filOf the Cuban Five and a slightly re-cast version of Idol's Eye, his perpetually stalled Chicago mob thriller — Assayas ultimately went with a previously unannounced project about the French publishing industry as his next filof Idol's Eye, his perpetually stalled Chicago mob thriller — Assayas ultimately went with a previously unannounced project about the French publishing industry as his next film.

He was Saoirse Ronan's love interest Eddie in How I Live Now, the 2013 film version of Meg Rosoff's novel, and played the lead role in Sadie Jones» television adaptation of her own novel The Outcast.

Terence Davies» adaptation of the 1952 Terence Rattigan play is the second filmed version of The Deep Blue Sea.

Features commentary by film scholar Dana Polan, a new interview with Gloria Grahame biographer Vincent Curcio, a 20 - minute piece with filmmaker Curtis Hanson produced for the 2002 DVD release, a condensed version of the 1975 documentary I'm a Stranger Here Myself (this runs about 40 minutes), and the radio adaptation of the original novel produced for «Suspense» in 1948, plus a fold - out booklet with an essay by Imogen Sara Smith.

The film is the second French - language adaptation of the classic fable following Jean Cocteau's 1946 version.

Mamoulian's version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is widely regarded as the pre-eminent film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, first published in 1886.

The film features younger versions of the Robert De Niro and Samuel L. Jackson characters from another Leonard adaptation, Jackie...

This newly pieced together version of Clive Barker's own adaptation of his book Cabal, created from footage found on a VHS work print, the «Cabal Cut» of Nightbreed is not quite a «lost masterpiece» but it's interesting to see the painstaking work gone into restoring the film to what more closely resembles Barker's vision.

Charlie Kaufman has written some of the most original movies of the last decade, but «Adaptation» is probably his best thanks to an incredible (and surprisingly reserved) performance from Nicolas Cage, who plays a fictionalized version of the screenwriter as he struggles to finish the script for the very film that the audience is watching.

Writer Jason Fuchs and director Joe Wright (Atonement, Hanna) have created a Peter Pan «origin» story that lacks any touch of whimsy or enchantment from the original books or the numerous film adaptations: the 1953 Disney animated classic, the 1991 Steven Spielberg / Robin Williams / Dustin Hoffman vehicle, the underrated 2003 live action version from director P.J. Hogan, or even last year's Live TV broadcast featuring Allison Williams as Peter.

Rob Marshall, who's known for directing the 2002 Oscar - winning film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical, «Chicago,» also helmed the movie version of «Into the Woods.»

Though the late - 19th century setting of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days is an important character (and perhaps the most important one), the book has a kind of timeless, universal appeal that made a film version in the»50s relevant and entertaining and could make a new adaptation feel the same.

As I mentioned in my review here, this film adaptation is probably the best version of the book that we could have hoped for, warts and all.

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The film is introduced with the atypical title «William Friedkin's Film Of Tracy Letts» «Killer Joe,» «suggesting that it'll be a no - frills adaptation of the play, but that's not quite true; it's plenty faithful to the stage version, but Friedkin and Letts (the latter of whom adapted the screenplay himself) do a pretty good job in making the play cinematic, certainly more so than either «Carnage» or «A Dangerous Method,» adding some striking locations (including an abandoned rollercoaster) and even a chase scenOf Tracy Letts» «Killer Joe,» «suggesting that it'll be a no - frills adaptation of the play, but that's not quite true; it's plenty faithful to the stage version, but Friedkin and Letts (the latter of whom adapted the screenplay himself) do a pretty good job in making the play cinematic, certainly more so than either «Carnage» or «A Dangerous Method,» adding some striking locations (including an abandoned rollercoaster) and even a chase scenof the play, but that's not quite true; it's plenty faithful to the stage version, but Friedkin and Letts (the latter of whom adapted the screenplay himself) do a pretty good job in making the play cinematic, certainly more so than either «Carnage» or «A Dangerous Method,» adding some striking locations (including an abandoned rollercoaster) and even a chase scenof whom adapted the screenplay himself) do a pretty good job in making the play cinematic, certainly more so than either «Carnage» or «A Dangerous Method,» adding some striking locations (including an abandoned rollercoaster) and even a chase scene.

In fact, the new Producers derives from Brooks» 2000 Tony - winning, Broadway stage musical adaptation of his earlier film (and Brooks, enjoying his septugenarian impresario rebirth, has written ten songs for an upcoming stage musical version of Young Frankenstein).

May 10, 2018 • A stellar cast, a faithful adaptation, and a director with a rhythmic sense of pacing ensure that this film version of Anton Chekhov's play takes flight.

From Danish director Thomas Vinterberg, who gave us the 1998 Dogme film The Celebration and the 2012 Best Foreign Language nominee The Hunt, Far from the Madding Crowd — the fourth cinematic adaptation of Hardy's novel (the most famous of which is the 1967 John Schlesinger version)-- is a gorgeously photographed period piece, and one of the fastest - paced films about the 19th century that I have ever seen.

Jane Eyre has been adapted so many times (19 if my maths is correct, plus upwards of ten made for television) that it's hard not to consider a new version as much a remake of the previous films as it is an adaptation of the book

Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre has been adapted so many times (19 if my maths is correct, plus upwards of ten made for television) that it's hard not to consider a new version as much a remake of the previous films as it is an adaptation of the book, but the trailer does a splendid job of significantly standing out from the others.

With a new rumor suggesting the Warner Bros. adaptation could spring back to life (again), this time with Justin Lin at the helm, concept art has resurfaced from an earlier version of the film, remind us that Joseph Gordon - Levitt and Chis Evans were once envisioned as its stars.

I have not read A.E.W. Mason's novel The Four Feathers, but director Shekhar Kapur's film adaptation (the sixth filmed version of this material, I learn — none of which I have seen either) makes me want to.

It might have been intimidating for British actress Hayley Atwell to sign on for the lead in Starz's adaptation of E.M. Forster's literary classic «Howards End,» given the long shadow cast by Emma Thompson, who won a Best Actress Oscar for the 1992 Merchant - Ivory film version.

The list of icons making appearances was truly unprecedented: Superman soars twice — once in the «return» and the other as Ben Affleck; Crockett and Tubbs exude cool; Ethan Hunt falls short; Captain Jack Sparrow sets the stage for the finale; Jack Black sometimes wears stretchy pants; Huey Long is resurrected and somehow over-played by Sean Penn; the mass appeal of the DaVinci Code novel fizzled onscreen; Robert Altman's amazing career ended with an excellent adaptation of a radio series starring Garrison Keillor's made for radio face; Johnny Depp tried to untrack his career with The Libertine; Nicolas Cage was front and center in the disastrous remake of The Wicker Man, but if the preview is any indication, his sleep - walk was merely a tune - up for this year's Ghost Rider; Woody Allen (with Scarlett Johansson as his muse) re-emerged with his best comedy since Crimes and Misdemeanors; amazingly, Jen and Vince's real life break - up was more entertaining than the film version; and while on - set hook - ups seem to the norm, how could the dreadful You, Me and Dupree have been an aphrodisiac for Kate and Owen?

James Whale's 1931 film classic went wildly off - book to define cinema's long relationship with the text, and the past few years alone have seen adaptations both faithful (Danny Boyle's stage version, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternating roles) and freestyle (I, Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful's heady stew, Paul McGuigan's Victor Frankenstein); even Ex Machina could be seen as an AI - themed retelling of the Frankenstein story.

Wolverine 3 is still quite the perplexing project as we had originally expected to be some sort of an adaptation of Old Man Logan, the more we're learning about the third film the less it's looking like a straight - up version of that comic.

Seven outlaws come together to save a helpless town from a greedy tyrant in Antoine Fuqua's new version of The Magnificent Seven, a remake of the original 1960 film (directed by John Sturges) which in itself was an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai.

The filmmaker turned a coming - of - age action film («Hanna») into a fairy tale allegory complete with a wicked witch, and his version of «Anna Karenina» was an audaciously bold and visually striking adaptation of a classical piece of Russian literature.

Atwell, meanwhile, will also soon appear as Cinderella's mother in a new version of the classic fairytale directed by Kenneth Branagh, and is currently filming Testament of Youth, a BBC Films adaptation of Vera Brittain's devastating first world war memoir which also stars Alicia Vikander, Dominic West and Emily Watson.

Fresh from Melissa introducing the film at the Pickford Film Center in Bellingham, we talk about three versions of True Grit: the 1968 novel by Charles Portis, the 1969 film version directed by Henry Hathaway and starring John Wayne, Kim Darby and Glen Campbell, and the 2010 adaptation by the Coen Brothers, with Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld and Matt Damon.

It's a respectable effort — there have been six previous film adaptations of Dickens's masterpiece — but why bother when David Lean's 1946 version is unbeatable?

New fans will easily be able to hop into the film version of The Dark Tower without any previous knowledge, because it's both a loose adaptation of the original book and a continuation of the series at large.

This movie camera shaped reading response project will provide you with all of the teaching resources that you need for your students to write about adaptations that they have to make to their books in order to make a film version of the novel.