Sentences with phrase «genial actor»

Sitting with the creative team behind new indie «The One I Love,» genial actor - producer - writer - director - cool - guy Mark Duplass says of his breakthrough film, «My first movie [«The Puffy Chair»] was shot on VHS - C with a dead pixel in the middle of it, and it looked and sounded like shit, but it went to Sundance because of the spirit.

Not exact matches

These are actors after all, but they're genial performers, convincingly communicating a lifelong bond that permits such an accessible invasion of privacy, making the plot feel less like a crude sitcom and more like a bawdy home movie that's spun wildly out of control.

Speaking of «yak,» a feature - length commentary with director O'Neill and co - writer / star David Sherrill (actor Jeff Cesario is also present for the first fifteen minutes) is genial and tiresome in equal measure.

Of the many thrills that come from interviewing creative people — variously, unknown, ascendant and at the top of their game — there's also the under - discussed flipside: talking with, 1) vapid young «actors» (line - reciters is more like it) who have neither a sense of film history nor an appreciation for their occupational good fortune and, 2) perfectly genial writers and directors who are nonetheless so relentlessly on script — occasionally reciting entire career - checking passages verbatim from press notes no doubt spit - polished into significance by some friendly faction in the dark wings — that you realize they actually have less summary insight or thoughts about several months or years of their own work than you do after 90 to 120 minutes with it.

He's also supported by a top - notch cast of character actors to assist him, with an especially menacing role for Philip Seymour Hoffman, exuding an unlikely screen presence that counters his genial nature perfectly.

Adam Sandler, in one of those once - in - a-blue-moon reminders of what a terrific actor he can be, plays the genial elder son, Danny, who feels perpetually overshadowed by his younger half - brother, Matthew (Ben Stiller), a successful businessman who makes very rare visits from his home in Los Angeles.

It's as charming and genial as you're ever likely to find in a movie, with a smart premise, very good locale work, and an ensemble of talented comedic actors who are cast perfectly.

Narrated by Sam Elliot and starring an ensemble cast of some of the best character actors in the business, «The Big Lebowski» tells the story of two very different Jeffrey Lebowskis, one of whom is described as «the laziest in all of Los Angeles County» — a genial deadbeat who insists on being called The Dude (Jeff Bridges).

Claflin is an appealing leading man, and the rest of the cast is a Who's Who of Popular British Actors, including Brendon Coyle (Mr. Bates of Downton Abbey) as Lou's out - of - work but genial dad; Charles Dance (Game of Thrones) as Will's father, whose caddish instincts have been excised; and Matthew Lewis (Harry Potter's heroic Neville Longbottom) as Lou's boyfriend Patrick, who prefers prepping for a triathlon to date night.

The actor's genial recollections are intercut with interviews from Steiger and a still captivating Chaplin.