Sentences with phrase «american film acting»

Bogart would die less than a year after the film's premiere, and his understated portrayal of a reluctant hustler makes for a rich contrast with Steiger's Method - informed bluster, marking a shift in the tides of American film acting.

Not exact matches

It is well acted and filmed, and it is important for Americans to learn of the Cristero War.

American actor Jim Caviezel has revealed a conversation he had with film director Mel Gibson, in which he was told he may never act again if he played the role of Jesus in The Passion of the Christ.

Years later, with dreams of starring in films, he attempted to pitch an act to Hollywood executives, but he was rejected on the spot because they felt the act itself was far too ridiculous to sell to the American public.

And although Hurwitz and Schlossberg have admittedly peppered the proceedings with a handful of hilarious gags (eg Stifler finally gets his revenge on Finch for sleeping with his mother), American Reunion, saddled with a hopelessly sentimental third act, ultimately establishes itself as an overlong and underdeveloped sequel that could only be loved by hardcore fans of the original film.

The specific ending of the film, which wisely avoids the worst mistakes of the book and at least cuts things mercifully short after a series of catastrophes, is not successful or convincing; in fact, it's rather clichéd and banal, but the intuition that violent, terrible acts flow inexorably in part from Americans» unawareness and incomprehension of the simplest facts of their own lives is undeniably true.

She occasionally continued to act in American and internationally produced films and television projects that include George Hickenlooper's Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade (1993), Stephen King's The Stand (1994), and Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999).

The film's first act embarrassingly reduces the book's study of class, race, masculinity, and American gun worship down to a series of sketches in which bad actors and misplaced celebrities utter amateurishly presentational dialogue.

The following year, Garofalo appeared in no less than five films, with a supporting part in the ensemble piece 200 Cigarettes, a starring role as an unconventional action heroine called the Bowler in Mystery Men (which also featured Stiller), and prominent turns in Kevin Smith's eagerly awaited Dogma, Hampton Fancher's psychological thriller The Minus Man, and the satirical comedy Can't Stop Dancing, in which she acted alongside fellow comedienne Margaret Cho.In 2001, Garofolo took on the role of Catherine Connolly in The Laramie Project, HBO's docudrama chronicling the aftermath of the death of Matthew Shepard, and filmmaker David Wain's comedy Wet Hot American Summer.

As Schrader's hero takes a bleaker look at life, and considers committing an extreme act as a desperate attempt to find resonance and morality in the world, he stands alongside the protagonists of such Schrader - written films as «Taxi Driver,» «American Gigolo» and «Light Sleeper,» three works the filmmaker has connected as his «night trilogy.»

This is an enjoyable, violent, well acted film that is a classic of American cinema.

Well - intentioned, competently shot and put together, solidly acted, especially by tomorrow's superstar Jacob Lofland (who we'd call a revelation if he hadn't already impressed us so much as Neckbone in Jeff Nichols» «Mud»), and unafraid to swim in the traditionally shark - infested thematic waters of the American class system, the film nonetheless can't quite slip the «seen it before» noose.

Though she would first gain notice as the dutiful daughter of an Asian - American family attempting to bridge the gap between the past and the present in The Joy Luck Club, Tom had already been acting in film and television for over a decade — her career gradually gaining momentum thanks to bit parts in such films as Wall Street, Blue Steel, and Cadillac Man.

American character actor Crane Whitley made his first film appearance in 1938, acting under his given name of Clem Wilenchik.

The kind of film that gives GLBT cinema a bad name, 200 American is an amateurish, dreadfully scripted and laughably acted «comedy - drama» that is neither intentionally funny nor dramatically impacting.

Though well acted and beautifully crafted, «Devil in a Blue Dress» falls short of being something special because, although the concept of an African American film noir is commendably original and the background climate - of racial prejudice and the post-WWII hangover in L.A. - is fascinating, the actual mystery is pretty run - of - the - mill.

Beginning, intriguingly, in 1949 with a young Castro (Victor Huggo Martin) as a clean - shaven lawyer incensed by certain acts of vandalism perpetrated by the American Navy in Havana, the film promises to draw an interesting connection to Gandhi's legal background and, most fascinatingly, the starkly different ways these two revolutionary leaders conduct their rebellions (and to what eventual purposes).

Story is told through the eyes of the bystander who filmed the act, an African - American police officer and a high - school baseball phenom inspired to take a stand.

was surprised just how good this film is.The humour and pathos of this film is quite moving.There is no - one remotely attractive in the cast, it is full of strange looking redneck Americans living in semi wilderness.Everyone is poverty stricken.The sadness of old age is there, as is the regrets of past memories, and the desperation of the son to heal the wounds of his father's past life.The acting is brilliant even with the bit part actors with the sunburnt aged faces.The fathers grumpy reticence is counters by his truculent wife, who never has a good word for anybody with her vicious put downs, which is at times laugh out loud funny.A funny sad and moving film about the sheer desperate meanderings of life and old age.

But unlike too many American independent films, this one isn't essentially a PDF of the script acted out for a cinematographer who knows how to light faces.

Despite not portraying the American hardcore scene in the most authentic light, Ten Thousand Saints is a well - acted, technically sound film with a wonderful ensemble cast and an adequate amount of charm.

The film is a tribute to heroes of American safety, those who acted bravely during 9/11, but it trivialises the fears that Americans still have by turning towards improbable action clichés and cartoon violence.

In chronicling the journey of Anwar Congo and his cohorts to re-construct mass killings in the style of their favorite films, The Act of Killing acts as both a scathing indictment of American popular movies and a celebration of the power of the camera to move and enlighten.

Animated feature «The Croods» «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Frozen» «Monsters University» «The Wind Rises» Action movie «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Iron Man 3» WINNER: «Lone Survivor» «Rush» «Star Trek Into Darkness» Actor in an action movie Henry Cavill — «Man of Steel» Robert Downey Jr. — «Iron Man 3» Brad Pitt — «World War Z» WINNER: Mark Wahlberg — «Lone Survivor» Actress in an action movie WINNER: Sandra Bullock — «Gravity» Jennifer Lawrence — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» Evangeline Lilly — «The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug» Gwyneth Paltrow — «Iron Man 3» Comedy WINNER: «American Hustle» «Enough Said» «The Heat» «This Is the End» «The Way Way Back» «The World's End» Actor in a comedy Christian Bale — «American Hustle» WINNER: Leonardo DiCaprio — «The Wolf of Wall Street» James Gandolfini — «Enough Said» Simon Pegg — «The World's End» Sam Rockwell — «The Way Way Back» Actress in a comedy WINNER: Amy Adams — «American Hustle» Sandra Bullock — «The Heat» Greta Gerwig — «Frances Ha» Julia Louis - Dreyfus — «Enough Said» Melissa McCarthy — «The Heat» Sci - fi / horror movie «The Conjuring» WINNER: «Gravity» «Star Trek Into Darkness» «World War Z» Foreign language film WINNER: «Blue Is the Warmest Color» «The Great Beauty» «The Hunt» «The Past» «Wadjda» Documentary feature «The Act of Killing» «Blackfish» «Stories We Tell» «Tim's Vermeer» WINNER: «20 Feet from Stardom» Song «Atlas» — Coldplay — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Happy» — Pharrell Williams — «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Let It Go» — Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson - Lopez — «Frozen» «Ordinary Love» — U2 — «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom» «Please Mr. Kennedy» — Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver — «Inside Llewyn Davis» «Young and Beautiful» — Lana Del Rey — «The Great Gatsby» Score WINNER: Steven Price — «Gravity» Arcade Fire — «Her» Thomas Newman — «Saving Mr. Banks» Hans Zimmer — «12 Years a Slave»

The film starts off with some awkward, painfully lame flashback scenes of Kyle's childhood and transitions into an opening act that is loaded with full - on patriotism that sees him go to war to get back at the people who brought suffering to our doorstep in the events of 9/11 (he was already enlisted, but if we believe the film that decision was also motivated by seeing news footage of American lives being taken), but one of the most interesting surprises is how balanced it eventually becomes and how we see the way that Kyle's actions negatively impact others and how even he begins to question his commitment to the cause, despite the fact that he would never vocalize it.

In his Paris years Gitai became friendly with Fuller, who was also living there at the time, and the American filmmaker acted in several of Gitai's Golem films and theater pieces.

Final Portrait is both written and directed by American actor - director Stanley Tucci, who has previously directed the films Big Night, The Impostors, Joe Gould's Secret, and Blind Date (along with an incredible acting career).

Coming, as James Naremore wrote in 1973, «between the repressive manners of the classic Hollywood studio movie and the «liberated» ethos of the R - rated contemporary film,» Psycho did previously unthinkable, willfully perverse things — killing off its heroine and thereby taking its star actor offscreen at the end of act 1; leaving us only a homicidal maniac to identify with for the rest of the film; intimating necrophilia and incest within an American family.

American History films tend to sit well with Academy voters (Lincoln, 12 Years A Slavery), so don't act too surprised if The Keeping Room ends up being an early Oscar candidate.

Just for a moment, let's not consider the plot, acting or execution of the film by Nigerian - American helmer, Julius Onah.

For some reason, Hollywood — American cinema in general — finds it necessary to follow the three - act form, and if you don't do that it means something's wrong with your film.

Scholars in Europe began to embrace the term in 1955, when Raymond Borde and Étienne Chaumeton, in their book Panorama du film noir américain, used it more broadly to describe the wave of American crime films after World War II that, among many other attributes, featured insulted, beaten heroes driven by desperation to acts of violence.

As was recently reported by the hive of Oscarologists over at Gold Derby, American Hustle has history on its side when it comes to the acting races, as only two of the 14 films to see their stars nominated in all four categories have walked away without a single acting Oscar (those two, for the record, were 1936's My Man Godfrey and 1950's Sunset Boulevard).

In the hands of director Raymond De Felitta, whose «City Island» is a delightfully funny tale of a dad whose poker nights are really spent going to an acting class, the tale reaches proportions that can be compared to the classic film «Bonnie and Clyde» with some aspects that could remind some of «American Hustle.»

With this exuberant film, writer - director John Hughes established himself as the bard of American youth, vividly and empathetically capturing how teenagers hang out, act up, and goof off.

PICTURE Inside Llewyn Davis (runner up: American Hustle) DIRECTOR Joel and Ethan Coen Inside Llewyn Davis (runner up: Alfonso Cuaron) ACTRESS Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine (runner up: Adéle Exarchopoulus) ACTOR Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis (runner up: Chiwetel Ejiofor) SUPPORTING ACTRESS Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle (runner up: Lupita Nyong «o) SUPPORTING ACTOR James Franco, Spring Breakers (runner up: Jared Leto) FOREIGN FILM Blue is the Warmest Color (runner up: A Touch of Sin) NON-FICTION [tie] The Act of Killing & At Berkeley) EXPERIMENTAL FILM Leviathan

The opening of the film acts as a Russian postcard encouraging Americans to visit.

Here's the full list of 142 films that featured on our contributors» ballots: (Disclaimer: Luc Besson's Lucy didn't get a single vote - I just like this image of Scarlett sorting through stuff) 71 1001 Grams 12 Years a Slave 20,000 Days on Earth 22 Jump Street 52 Tuesdays A Girl at my Door A Most Violent Year A Most Wanted Man A Touch of Sin Aberdeen Alleluia American Sniper Birdman Black Coal, Thin Ice Blind Blue Ruin Boyhood Calvary Captain America: The Winter Soldier Casa Grande Chef Citizenfour Climbing to Spring Cold in July Danger 5 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Der Samurai Duke of Burgundy Edge of Tomorrow Electric Boogaloo Enemy Fandry Force Majeure Frank Free Fall From What is Before Giovanni's Island Gone Girl Goodbye to Language Guardians of the Galaxy Haemoo Han Gong - ju Hard to be a God Horse Money Housebound Ida Inherent Vice Interstellar It Follows Jauja Jigarthanda Jodorowsky's Dune John Wick Killers Lady Maiko Les Combattants Leviathan Li'l Quinquin Life Itself Like Father Like Son Locke Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Magical Girl Maidan Man From Reno Melbourne Memphis Mommy National Gallery New World Nightcrawler Norte, The End of History Nymphomaniac Of Good Report Only Lovers Left Alive Over Your Dead Body Pale Moon Peaky Blinders Pride R100 Red Army Seven Weeks Sils Maria Snowpiercer Song of the Sea Sorrow and Joy Spring Stand By Me Doraemon Starred Up Starry Eyes Stray Dogs Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Act of Killing The Babadook The Dam Keeper The Double The Editor The Grand Budapest Hotel The Great Beauty The Great Passage The Guest The Hobbit The Internet's Own Boy The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness The Lego Movie The Missing Picture The One I Love The Overnighters The Penguins of Madagascar The Raid 2 The Sacrament The Second Game The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Snow White Murder Case The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The Terror Live The Tribe The Wind Rises The Wolf of Wall Street The Wonders The World of Kanako These Final Hours They Came Together Tokyo Tribe Tusk Two Days, One Night Under the Skin Wadjda We Are The Best!

A mess of a film this one.Plot lines confused and blurred.It seems to have been made up as they filmed.All the American cliques are there.Ugly brutal men in a one horse town, yet the place is full of emotionally wounded gorgeous women.The men are macho and the women inconsequential.The acting is rather uneven, veering from impressive, going down to Benny Hill.This is Cages best role thus far, but his normal low standards means his acting is still below par.The plots descends into a quagmire of nuttiness and by the end is daft romantic nonsense.A tighter script was needed, the director needed to be replaced to stop the film's plot wandering off in all directions and finally someone with greater gravitas was needed to take on Nicholas Cage's part...

The 28 - year - old critics» darling and fan favorite opens up about overcoming «debilitating» childhood anxiety through acting, moving to Hollywood at 15 (and changing her name and dyeing her hair), finding magical chemistry with Ryan Gosling in three films and, under the oversight of Damien Chazelle, breathing new life into the American movie musical.

Latin American is producing films that combine good story telling and originality, such as Moisés Sepúlveda's Las analfabetas, which is an intimate story with a quasi-documentary observational style following the two leads, whose acting is as great as the one of 1930s and «40s heroines.

And on the television front, Bob Odenkirk won best actor in a dramatic series for Better Call Saul, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story won four times, including acting prizes for Sarah Paulson and Courtney B. Vance, and Atlanta «s Donald Glover, showing off the very authentic mustache he'll be wearing in the upcoming Han Solo film, won for best actor in a comedy series.

, features some fine acting performances from some of the best actors in American film today: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Catherine Keener, and Dianne Wiest.

But in reviewing the 945 top - grossing films since 1950, the researchers behind the report for the American Academy of Pediatrics did identify several PG - 13 titles that had a noticeably higher level of violent acts per hour than other similarly rated movies.

The centrepiece of the presentation is a collection of six short featurettes that cover some of the creator philosophies of the series and film (interviewed are director Shinichiro Watanabe, acting the fool in shades, character designer Toshihiro Kawamoto, who offers the best insights in general, and both sets of voice actors: American and Japanese).

Director Michael Showalter, best known for TV acting in the likes of «The Wet Hot American Summer,» has a remarkable sense of comic timing, and gets such outstanding work from his cast that one can see this film already being considered for year - end awards for Ensemble Performances.

Though Altman's films compare with Coppola's as chamber music does with grand opera, their work in the 1970s exemplifies what ultimately became the prevailing style of American film direction in that era: maverick resistance to studio - imposed time and budget constraints, insistence on directorial authorship, reliance on location shooting, use of improvisational acting, an emphasis on ensemble playing rather than star performances, Fordian gatherings — weddings, church services, parties, dinners — as exponents of group character (both Altman and Coppola had Catholic upbringings), and a revisionist approach to the mythic archetypes of the Hollywood genre film.

«American Hustle» becomes the 15th film in Oscar history to receive nominations in all four acting categories.

In every step of his quest to clean up the mess of sibling mad - and - bureaucratic scientists Claire (Malin Akerman, looking like True Lies «Tia Carrere's twin) and Brett Wyden (Jake Lacy, whose over-the-top doofus act is better in a Farrelly Brothers» film)-- the chemical agent that causes a crocodile, a wolf and Johnson's character's albino gorilla friend (Jason Liles) to upsize uncontrollably is a creation of theirs — Morgan's Russell behaves as if he's from a time where cheesy one - liners rule and to be American is to be Texan.

Somewhere in Boston, in about 1978, some IRA hoodlums (Cillian Murphy, Michael Smiley) meet an American crime boss (a hairy Armie Hammer) to buy a vanload of automatic rifles from an idiotic South African arms dealer (Sharlto Copley), with the only woman in the film, cool Justine (Brie Larson) acting as intermediary.