Sentence examples for contemporary update of from inspiring English sources

"Abraham's Valley" (1993) is a contemporary update of "Madame Bovary".

A contemporary update of "The Old Man and the Sea" would have Santiago, the fisherman, channeling Rivera, not Joe DiMaggio.

The show's pi? de r?stance is a contemporary update of Hieronymus Bosch's painting "Ship of Fools".

"Parenthood," an unlikely contemporary update of the 1989 Steve Martin movie, was about the Bravermans, a big Berkeley family: two baby-boomer parents, their four grown kids, and their zillions of grandchildren — almost everybody vaguely liberal and artistic.

What, after all, is the homogenized pop ethos of Britney Spears, 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys other than a slicker, contemporary update of the surf-side bubble gum world of Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello and the forever-perky Gidget?

In its portrait of a group of 30-ish male friends who don't want to grow up, "The Last Kiss" sometimes suggests an affluent contemporary update of Federico Fellini's "I Vitelloni".

For what are Dave Lizewski and Scott Pilgrim but contemporary updates of the wild west gunslinger, heroes for our time?

Almond's contemporary updating of this classic myth follows a group of young teenage friends on the north-east coast who discover the power of art and love for themselves for the first time.

The Jazz Singer featured Thomas and Peggy Lee in a contemporary updating of the 1927 classic of the same name, and Trouble Along the Way starred John Wayne as a football coach who stretches the rules in an attempt to reverse the fortunes of a small college in financial straits.

And indeed, the play feels as though Mr. Mee, who frequently engages in free, contemporary updates of Greek classics, has this time taken the accepted if unwritten rise-and-fall-of-romance script as his ur-text and stenciled his own life imaginatively over it.

67) The Maids The Orange Is the New Black star Uzo Aduba and the brilliant Zawe Ashton are the murderous maids in Benedict Andrews and Andrew Upton's contemporary updating of Jean Genet's play – a glittering investigation into power relationships and identity, based on a real-life murder by the Papin sisters, which shocked France in the 1930s.