Sentences with phrase «dern worked»

Laura Dern worked hard on choreography for her fight scene with Cheryl Hines in Wilson because she knows how terrible it feels to accidentally sock a co-star.

Dern worked with Roger Corman and Elia Kazan, a set ofaccomplishments that help describe the breadth of his career.

We'll let you know when we hear more about Tarantino's next film but, for now, what do you think about Waltz and Dern working with the director?

Not exact matches

When he evicts Dennis Nash (Golden Globe nominee Andrew Garfield), a single father trying to care for his mother (Academy Award nominee Laura Dern) and young son (newcomer Noah Lomax), Nash becomes so desperate to provide for his family that he goes to work for Carver — the very man who evicted him in the first place.

The man who presents the case against him and receives that pep talk is Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield), a working - class single father who, with his son (Noah Lomax) and mother (Laura Dern), is evicted from his home.

Laura Dern: All of Dern's pre-release buzz died when her name failed to show up anywhere in the precursors, but the Hollywood scion is beloved within the community — lest we forget, she was all over the circuit stumping for her pops Bruce Dern last year — and managed to snag the final Best Supporting Actress spot for her lovely, if brief, work in Wild.

While pithy, the term isn't quite right: In the 45 years since her first uncredited on - screen appearance, at age 6 in her mother's film White Lightning, Dern has amassed one of the most consistently interesting bodies of work in Hollywood.

When unemployed tradesman Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield) is evicted along with his mother (Laura Dern) and his young son, he is a desperate man who would do anything for work.

There's an interesting casting dynamic within the film — with the two sons (you and Bob Odenkirk) primarily known for comedic work and the two parents (June Squibb and Bruce Dern) primarily known for their dramatic turns.

Its stars did not go home empty - handed, either: Elisabeth Moss won best actress for Handmaid's Tale, while Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern, and Alexander Skarsgard were all honored in their respective categories for their work on the HBO adaptation of Liane Moriarty's best - selling novel.

It's a low - key relationship dramedy / road movie starring the ripe - for - a-late-career-renaissance Bruce Dern (who'd be the most obvious likely beneficiary from the film's award season release date), and «SNL «alum Will Forte, that promises at least a modicum of the kind of off - kilter wry observations about masculinity and aging that have marked out Payne's best previous work.

The trailer for the John Curran - directed film stars Jason Clarke as Kennedy and Kate Mara as Kopechne as well as a roster of actors portraying all the WASPy figures involved in the event including Bruce Dern as the senator's domineering father Joseph Kennedy, Ed Helms as Joe Gargan, Jim Gaffigan as DA Paul Markham, and Olivia Thirlby as one of the «boiler room girls,» a group of single women who worked Bobby Kennedy's 1968 Presidential campaign, which ended with his assassination.

Some individual moments in the episodic story — which mostly concerns itself with Wilson connecting with his ex-wife (Laura Dern) and the now - teenage daughter he never knew about — work, but there's little accumulation into anything with much impact.

It's a testament to these actors — Bob Odenkirk, Will Forte, Bruce Dern and June Squibb — that not only does the film work but that the family itself feels real and lived in.

Beating out Bruce Dern («Nebraska»), Christian Bale («American Hustle»), Leonardo DiCaprio («The Wolf of Wall Street») and Tom Hanks («Captain Phillips») for best actor, Chiwetel Ejiofor, the lead in «12 Years a Slave,» thanked McQueen for «your work, artistry and passion in this project.»

There is a telling scene in which Bobbi Jene — the dancer subject of this doc — has a sit down discussion with the actress Laura Dern and explains that she defeated her eating disorder by throwing so much energy into her work that indulging afterwards was necessary for balance.

Dern knew just what to do with the part once he went to work with Payne, who he'd known casually since the director cast Dern's daughter Laura in his first movie, 1996's «Citizen Ruth.»

Garfield and Shannon do exemplary work, joined by such experienced colleagues as Laura Dern and Tim Guinee.

Sam Rockwell, watching the awards show on a monitor as the engravers worked, cheered at Laura Dern's win for Big Little Lies.

Considering her work on great TV like Enlightened and Big Little Lies, and classic films like Jurassic Park and Blue Velvet, Laura Dern is something of a favorite around here.

Most of the women winners — most prominently among them Nicole Kidman and Laura Dern for their performances in Big Little Lies, and Reese Witherspoon for her producing — spoke about the issues at hand when up on stage, many of them having brought women's rights advocates who work outside of the film industry with them to the show, as a sign of solidarity and support.

Like most of the director's work, it's a road movie: Fooled by one of those «you may have already won» mail scams, elderly drunk Woody (Dern) badgers his youngest son, David (Forte), into driving him from Billings, Montana to Lincoln, Nebraska, to collect the million dollars he's been promised.

The park's back open with Jurassic World, but all that pretender did was make us wish we were watching Steven Spielberg's original, a terrifying balance of digital effects, animatronic puppet work and a brainy cast (Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum) that discussed genetic ethics without boring the crowd.

Spike Jonze, Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Rooney Mara and Olivia Wilde discuss love in the technological age of «Her» J.C Chandor and Robert Redford talk «All Is Lost» Abdellatif Kechiche and Adèle Exarchopoulos discuss «Blue Is The Warmest Color» Claire Denis talks about her controversial, «Bastards» Joaquin Phoenix and Jame Gray talk «The Immigrant» Ben Stiller and Kristen Wiig discuss «The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty» Alexander Payne, Bruce Dern and Will Forte talk capturing the particular tone of «Nebraska» Steve McQueen talks the challenges of «12 Years A Slave» Cate Blanchett discusses her career and working with Terrence Malick & Woody Allen The Coen Brothers talk «Inside Llewyn Davis» Tom Hanks and Paul Greengrass discuss the harrowing ordeal of «Captain Phillips»

Sure, 1993 was a strong Dern year — with Jurassic Park and A Perfect World — and we could talk about her underrated work on Enlightened for hours, but 2017 truly was the Dernassaince.

The first two segments, starring Laura Dern and Michelle Williams, feature characteristically strong work from both performers, but it's the third, with Lily Gladstone as a lonely ranch hand mooning over law school teacher Kristen Stewart, that turns the movie into something special, and especially heartbreaking.

Considering Payne «s work, and the film's small roll - out, poor reviews won't sink this for die - hard fans of the director and general audiences will certainly come out if Dern garners any nominations.

Bruce Dern is a Navy admiral out to see the mission fail, but stop — the fact that shifty - eyed, soft - spoken Bruce Dern is playing a hard - nosed Admiral with an agenda should already tell you it won't work.

The combination of director Josh Boone, writers Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, as well as cast members like Laura Dern, Ansel Elgort, and of course Shailene Woodley worked together to bring both smiles and tears to scores of audience members.

In the last episode of Show Your Work, Lainey and Duana predicted Laura Dern's Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Limited Series or TV movie win precisely because of the year she had.

But maybe there is something here, beyond these one - sheets» high - contrast black - and - white, and beyond the shocks of hair that respectively define Jack Nance and Bruce Dern's characters, that link the filmmakers» works.

So, lets work on reflecting that in Hollywood, because unless man is triumphed by dinosaurs and «women inherit the Earth» like Laura Dern wits about in Jurassic Park, nothing will change.

Bruce Dern (Coming Home, The «burbs) gives us another memorable crackpot performance, except in this one, he is sympathetically portrayed, and even though he commits some acts that most people would constitute as despicable in theory, Dern imbues his character with enough vulnerability to make it work.

Berenice Bejo, of The Artist fame, nabbed the Best Actress award for her work in Asghar Farhadi's The Past, while Bruce Dern has the Best Actor prize to keep him company on the flight home for his work in Alexander Payne's Nebraska.

Sam Neill returns, along with a brief appearance by Laura Dern, but Spielberg gives up the directing throne to Joe Johnston («Honey, I Shrunk the Kids,» «The Rocketeer»), who doesn't have much of a script to work with (despite the project being penned in part by Alexander Payne).

One of American cinema's finest character actors, Dern, whose career took off in the Seventies, proved too eccentric, too unconventional to work as a mainstream leading man in commercial fare, but here he's wonderfully worthy of this auspicious lineage.

The woman is Laura Wells (Laura Dern), a lawyer in a small town practice, who turns up at work after her lunchtime assignation — flustered, jumper awkwardly tucked into her skirt — to find that she's still being sought by a persistent client, Fuller (Jared Harris).

Dern won that festival's best actor prize for his work as a man dealing with deteriorating health as he makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million dollar lottery prize.

Laura Dern, Michelle Williams and Kristen Stewart all feature as Reichardt's female trailblazers, forging their own paths through life against the daily struggles of work and family.

(or something to that effect) that could be a panel from the MAD MAGAZINE parody of Reichardt's work, and I nearly fled the theatre until Laura Dern's reaction to Harris's wailing produced some titters in the audience, alerting me to the possibility that I had missed something crucial by not watching Reichardt's movies in public.

«We walked, we shared the stories of our lives, and we put the film together for everyone who has ever felt lost in their life,» Reese Witherspoon said about working with «Wild» co-star Laura Dern

Shailene Woodley is outstanding, with Laura Dern and Ansel Elgort turning in top notch work as well.

Laura Dern and young Noah Lomax turn in fine supporting work and counteract Dennis's gradual moral bankruptcy well.

The eighth film Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino, and appropriately named, combines many elements of previous works, rich and poignant dialogue, favorite cast members such as Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Michael Madsen, James Parks, and Tim Roth, adding in a host of new faces to the Tarantino menagerie Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bruce Dern, and Channing Tatum.

The final story involving a female Native American rancher (Lily Gladstone, astounding) who falls in love with a young lawyer (Kristen Stewart) is the easily best of the three, but fine work from Jared Harris, Laura Dern, Michelle Williams and the always stalwart James LeGros make this far more than just a place - holding anthology film.

Director Alexander Payne and actor Will Forte discuss working with actor Bruce Dern, the star of «Nebraska.»

Dern is one of the few actors working today who can say things like «I began awhile ago with Mr. Kazan» and have it be taken totally seriously.

Given the less innately attention - getting role (a la Tom Cruise in «Rain Man»), Forte does similarly nuanced work, his scenes with Dern resonating with the major and minor grievances that lie unresolved between parents and children.

There was a lot of love in the room for first - timers, including Rachel Morrison — the first woman to be nominated in the cinematography category, for her work on «Mudbound» — and «Get Out» director Jordan Peele, who both received prolonged applause from the crowd when their names were announced by Dern.

Featuring a corporate exec named Amy Jellicoe (Laura Dern) who goes spectacularly nuts, does a New Age rehab but afterwards can only get work in data entry, «Enlightened» felt like yet another show trashing mentally ill people as weirdo freak - jobs.