Sentences with phrase «british film acting»

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It is a full - employment act for the British film industry.

An actor in British theater while still a teenager, Scottish - born Frank Lloyd came to the U.S. in 1913, and after acting in films he turned to writing and directing.

In this charming film, British actress Claire Bloom takes an insightful look at the art of Shakespearean acting with rich portrayals of many of Shakespeare's most memorable women including Portia, Rosalind, Imogen and Juliet.

What You Need To Know: Jason Statham fans are spoilt for choice in 2013; the bald British bruiser has three films, starting off with Taylor Hackford «s «Parker» in the near future, with «Hummingbird,» the intriguing directorial debut from «Eastern Promises» writer Steven Knight following on later in the year (we've heard some good buzz, and it apparently stretches The Stath's acting muscles more than most).

Skilfully written, directed and acted, this offbeat British period film tells a story that catches...

Fans of well - acted period dramas and good gothic mysteries should consider tuning in but the film will be of particular interest to anyone curious about the origins of modern British horror cinema.

Entirely absent from the first half of the film, the British actress turns up as Young Joe (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) stumbles across the farm on which the film's last act is almost entirely set.

There's a long line of familiar British faces among the cast, most notably Noel Coward in his last film acting role as the prison inmate lording it over fellow prisoners and staff alike.

Rowling's Harry Potter novels were adapted into blockbuster Hollywood films which launched the careers of Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson as well as attracting the cream of British acting talent.

British actor James McAvoy also called out Hollywood's obsession with British trained acting students and how expensive it is to make it in the film industry.

Onboard Film Weekly's second Cannes film festival special are the cream of British acting talent from Mike Leigh's Another Year; Tournà © e's Mathieu Amalric and Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai.

Michelin - starred British chef Marcus Wareing acted as a consultant on the film and Cooper said the main thing he picked up from him was the importance of spoons.

Like the recent St Trinian's films, it has the peculiarly British, sub-panto amateurishness of a project that's hoping to get away with its nonsensical script, shoddy effects and clunky acting, purely because it's loud and zany and it's got a cameo from a member of Girls Aloud.

Sarah Snook is Marian Marriott, Sarah's perhaps obsessively loyal niece and secretary, whose son Henry (Finn Scicluna - O'Prey) acts as the spooky, singing British tyke we can expect in any period horror film these days.

The predictable critical acclaim it generated does not translate to a major awards season presence, but the film did get recognized with a BAFTA nomination for Outstanding British Film of the Year (ironic, given the setting and cast) and six nominations at the Independent Spirit Awards including Best Feature, Best Director, and acting nods for Lane, Keough, and LaBeouf.

Felicity Jones has been one of the most successful British actors to break Hollywood in the past five years, with films such as CEMETARY JUNCTION, LIKE CRAZY and THE INVISIBLE WOMAN all displaying the gorgeous star's incredible acting abilities.

The British actress had spent most of her young acting life in smaller roles, from films like «Wrath of the Titans» and the TV shows «Secret Diary of a Call Girl» and «Just William.»

Twenty - five years old, British, a stage actor by training — oh, and a total newcomer to the world of film acting.

So much of Morvern Callar rests on the sublime performance by British actor Samantha Morton8 whose portrayal of this complex and unknowable character is a masterclass in film acting.

This medieval mish - mosh attempts to incorporate Ritchie's wearing - thin shtick of quick - edits, jagged cuts and seizure - inducing visuals with the legend of the Round Table, complete with massive battle elephants (think «300,» but on boatloads of HGH), African warriors (who no doubt dotted the ancient British landscape), Asian kung - fu masters (the film even uses the term, «kung - fu,» believe it or not), exploding arrows and, of course, the famed sword Excalibur which, after being removed from its stone prison, begins to take on a life its own (certainly much more than those acting in this film).

It's unfortunate, then, that some distracting casting mars the film's otherwise excellent final act, with several faces familiar to British audiences popping up in unsuitable and unconvincing roles.

It's a testament to the quality of the acting (not to say Harry Potter 1 had bad actors, but all the venerable British badasses were in support roles, and the kids really didn't know how to act yet), cinematography, special effects and general world building that a film with a (somewhat) structurally flawed script can captivate me to such a level that I spend my hard early free time and money on it on three separate occasions.

Kensington Palace plays host to an influx of acting greats for the BAFTA Nespresso nominees party, which celebrates the best in British and international film.

Bringing together a murderer's row of British acting veterans and some of director Edgar Wright's most frequent comic collaborators, it's little surprise that «Hot Fuzz,» the second film in Wright's thematically connected «Three Flavours Cornetto» trilogy, is perhaps the most outrageously funny of all three of them.

The film also acted as a springboard for its two stars, Robert Carlyle and Mark Addy, and paved the way for the cinematic British Invasion of the late «90s that is still thriving today.

[32] The monument was a setting in Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) and the first act of War for the Planet of the Apes (2017), though all three films were in fact filmed in British Columbia.

The British artist Tacita Dean directed this film on painter and Black Mountain College student Cy Twombly and titled it with the latter's given name, an act that «implies intimacy, an encounter with the man behind the myth» (Guardian).

In 2007, film critic Jonathan Romney described Starr's new silent film Theda: «In a 40 - minute black - and - white film Theda British artist Georgina Starr, best known for her series of works inspired by the 1965 thriller Bunny Lake is Missing, pays tribute to this stormiest of divas and undertakes an archeology of gestural art of the silent - era actress (Theda Bara), drawing on the styles of several other now forgotten grande - dames, such as Barbara La Marr and Maud Allan... the film is divided into three parts «prelude», «act» and «epilogue»... but «prelude» is the real coup: in a long single take, Starr runs through the codified expressive repertoire of the Theda - era performer with such precision that any ironic distance evaporate.

The programme filmed entirely in Margate explores the themes of love in the modern day and each episode is led by one of the following famous British acting talent: David Tennant, Billie Piper, Jane Horrocks, Ashley Walters and David Morrissey.