Adapt or Fry: UT Climate Adaptation Symposium

Forum focuses on local solutions to climate change

"...antagonists. The organizers of next week's Climate Resilience and Adaptation Strategies Symposium at UT's LBJ School know that the..."

Sept. 27, 2013 News Feature by Brandon Watson

Adaptation.

"...Judy Greer, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ron Livingston and Jay Tavare. Adaptation. is a profound natural process by which living things..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Review: black girl love: an adaptation project

GenEnCo play emphasizes range of gender roles, relationships

"...as avoiding misrepresentation or stereotyping. black girl love: an adaptation project, a co-production of Generic Ensemble Company and the..."

June 18, 2019 Arts Post by Lilli Hime

COP25: Community-Based Climate Adaptation

VIDEO: What will it take to adapt to the new normal?

"...video, Jamie Williams of Islamic Relief Worldwide discusses climate adaptation with Patty Ferguson-Bohnee from the Pointe-an-Chien Indian Tribe on..."

Dec. 12, 2019 News Post

Not an Adaptation

"...Ms. Faires' article. This is in no sense an adaptation of The Mikado, as she writes. There's not a..."

Feb. 24, 2016 Postmarks

Environment: Adaptation and Mitigation

A few early bills promise environmental action – good and bad

"...would require several major Texas agencies to develop "climate adaptation" plans "based on current peer-reviewed climate science." His SB..."

Jan. 9, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

Austin Opera Takes Aim at the Election With Its Adaptation of The Manchurian Candidate

Composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell shoot to thrill in their opera based on Richard Condon's Cold War classic

Sept. 16, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Outlander Is the Rare Adaptation That Gets It Right

Cable show stays true to the beloved, genre-defying book series

Aug. 29, 2014 Screens Post by Virginia B. Wood

The Color Purple

Musical of Alice Walker's classic novel raised by stacked cast

"...a new life yet again. In director Blitz Bazawule’s adaptation, combining elements from Marsha Norman's musical and the Spielberg..."

Dec. 22, 2023 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

From the sets to the story to the whole tone of the film, this first Potter film is an almost literal adaptation of J.K. Rowling's beloved children's book.

"...tone of the film, this is an almost literal adaptation of the book, and if you're one of the..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story

Tristram Shandy’s inspired, breakneck madness provides a good forum for Michael Winterbottom’s chief talent: the illumination of human nature, with all its messes and occasional marvels.

"...you might think he was an elitist, with two adaptations of Thomas Hardy novels (Jude, The Claim) and frequent..."

March 24, 2006 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Crucible

"...problem that's not fully solved in this new screen adaptation of The Crucible, that oft-performed staple of the international..."

Dec. 20, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sense and Sensibility

The lively and funny screenplay adaptation of Jane Austen written by Emma Thompson, who also stars, was rewarded with an Oscar.

"...a banner year for Jane Austen? This new film adaptation of Austen's first novel, Sense and Sensibility, is the..."

Dec. 15, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Laal Singh Chaddha

Indian remake of Forrest Gump even more cloying than the original

"...is not helped by what is an incredibly lazy adaptation and direction from Kulkarni and Chandan. Much of the..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Hurtado

The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt's metaphorical novel gets an award-season adaptation

"...Film adaptations of novels can be quite complicated. Teasing out the..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Far From the Madding Crowd

This Thomas Hardy adaptation is a reflection of our times

"...pursued over the course of Thomas Vinterberg’s fashionable film adaptation by three very different admirers: the honorable and devoted..."

May 8, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

DVDanger: 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'

John Barrymore's lascivious trip into the heart of his own darkness

"...Mister Hyde, and the underlying lesson of its 1920 adaptation Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde...."

Feb. 8, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Oliver Twist

Some may doubt the need to once more bring Dickens’ tale to the screen, but Polanski’s deft adaptation proves that there’s still life in that well-worn story of a boy who beats the odds.

"...Edward Hardwicke and Mark Strong. This faithful and unsentimental adaptation of Charles Dickens’ beloved novel Oliver Twist may initially..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Importance of Being Earnest

For better or worse, Oliver Parker's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's comedy of mistaken identities liberates the play from its drawing-room trappings.

"...admittedly tough code. Still, for all the talent, Parker's adaptation is lacking. (He did a much better job translating..."

May 31, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Ethan Frome

"...version of Ethan Frome translates as a rather hollow adaptation of Edith Wharton's vivid 1911 masterpiece. The narrative begins..."

April 23, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Eileen

Adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh's thriller captures her mood, not her internality

"...Goebel and Moshfegh and directed by William Oldroyd, this adaptation transfers over Moshfegh’s bleak wit and ethos well enough...."

Dec. 1, 2023 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

Suitable Flesh

The horniest H.P. Lovecraft adaptation to ever sleaze up the screen

"...gore that oozed out of every frame of his adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's "Herbert West–Reanimator," there was an equal..."

Oct. 27, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Knock at the Cabin

M. Night Shayamalan takes on the end of the world

"...not his own. The last time he made an adaptation of an existing property – in 2010 with The..."

Feb. 10, 2023 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Firestarter

Annoying adaptation of Stephen King’s novel of pyrokinetic terror

"...Is Firestarter the worst Stephen King adaptation ever? No, for that will forever be The Langoliers...."

May 20, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Dear Evan Hansen

Broadway adaptation is really The Talented Mr. Ripley: The Musical

"...the remarkable wrongs perpetrated by its predecessor, this film adaptation somehow manages to make a bad narrative even worse..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The New Mutants

The last of the X-Men finally get to the screen

"...Mutants, the final entry in the Fox era of adaptations of Marvel's X-Men comics. There's that of the filmwatcher,..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Little Women

Relish the contemporary touches in this new version of Alcott’s classic

"...is in contrast to what is otherwise a lively adaptation. A modern one, too, especially in its physicality: Shoulder..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Alvin Schwartz's beloved nightmares come to the screen

"...been better served by an October release date, this adaptation of author Alvin Schwartz and artist Stephen Gammell’s creeptastic..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle

Latest update of Kipling's classic is caught in Disney's shadow

"...Rudyard Kipling, the British author, but just about every adaptation has followed the 1967 Disney version that throws aside..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Teen Titans Go! To the Movies

Forget that horrible live-action trailer – here's your real Teen Titans

"...to Teen Titans Go! To the Movies, the feature-length adaptation of Cartoon Network’s animated series based on the popular..."

July 27, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

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