Sentences with phrase «swinton play»

Brief as it is, the role of this old lady is vastly enlivened by having a magnificently crusty and bizarre - looking Tilda Swinton play it.

«Only Lovers Left Alive» drips with style, wisdom and ironic humor as Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton play hip, immortal layabouts.

Add in a string of one - scene cameos (everyone from Jonah Hill to Christopher Lambert), wacky gags (like having Tilda Swinton play rival gossip columnists), and an extended scene in which Mannix holds a meeting with religious leaders to consult on Hail, Caesar!

Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton play the romantic interests in Benjamin's meandering life.

If the fact that Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton play vampires who have been in love for centuries isn't enough to get you to see Only Lovers Left Alive, you clearly need to seek medical attention.

I loved his 2009 film I Am Love, in which Tilda Swinton played a woman who rebels against the stifling materialism of a Milanese textile dynasty, and Call Me By Your Name is of a similarly high standard.

«Kevin,» a psychological drama in which Tilda Swinton played the mother of a young killer, came nine years after «Callar,» in which Samantha Morton played a woman who leaves the body of her boyfriend, after his suicide, at home while she goes out to party.

Tilda Swinton plays a mother struggling to love her son Kevin (Ezra Miller) who comes into the world seething with anger.

In «A Bigger Splash», Swinton plays a Bowie - like rock star, Marianne Lane.

Guadagnino, who also directed I Am Love, starring Tilda Swinton as a rich Milanese wife who has a life - changing affair with a chef, as well as A Bigger Splash, in which Swinton plays a sort of Bowie-esque rock star whose bohemian idyll on a Mediterranean island is interrupted by the arrival of her producer (and former lover) and his daughter, was very involved in the casting for Call Me by Your Name.

Tilda Swinton plays Marianne, a rock singer rendered temporarily mute.

Tilda Swinton plays the evil CEO, while an ensemble cast of strong talent provides support.

In A Bigger Splash, Swinton plays a singer unable to speak after an operation on her vocal cords, and said that the idea was one she had after long deliberation with Guadagnino, with whom she has collaborated a number of times before, most notably the 2009 feature I Am Love.

Carrying difficult material on sturdy shoulders, the great Tilda Swinton plays the guilt - ridden mother of a high - school psychopath (Ezra Miller) who destroys a community's future.

Tilda Swinton plays the artistic director, and Lutz Ebersdorf the grieving psychotherapist in this gonzo nightmare.

Suitably for a film in which Tilda Swinton plays a chameleonic rocker, * A Bigger Splash * isn't so much a remake as a glammed - up, gaudy cover version...

Tilda Swinton plays a Russian who has married the oldest son, learns her husband and their son will take over the family textile business, then suddenly finds herself in the middle of an unexpected affair.

The Oscar awarded Tilda Swinton plays the main part in a Mercedes TV commercial.

In this science fiction drama Tilda Swinton plays fours parts, including Rosetta Stone, a bio-geneticist who downloads her own DNA and combines it with a computer software to produce three Self Replicating Automatons (SRAs) who rely on sperm to survive.

Following by only five years on the heels of the story of Ada Lovelace — and Ada's belief in the power of numbers to manipulate machines so they can, for example, create repeatable patterns and make music — the film Teknolust (2002) provides a visual glut of the ravishing Swinton playing cyborg triplets — Ruby, Marine, and Olive — as well as playing the role of the computer scientist Rosetta Stone who invents them.

Not exact matches

This movie came out of the gate with controversy for whitewashing the role of the «Ancient One» — a character who had been Tibetan in the comics, played in the movie by Tilda Swinton.

Bob Valentine combined a career keeping goal for Manchester United with playing Rugby League for Swinton.

The flick stars Josh Brolin (that movie where he's all purple and wants to destroy all the superheroes with a glove), George Clooney (Nippily Batman), Channing Tatum (that movie that all women went to go see), Scarlett Johansson (that movie where Jason Bourne buys a zoo), Jonah Hill (Oscar nominated actor), Ralph Fiennes (He - Who - Shall - Not - Be-Named), Frances McDormand (that movie I mentioned where she played a pregnant cop), Alden Ehrenreich (who played a character named Flamingo once) and Tilda Swinton (Conan O» Brien's female twin).

The playing of the cast is superb, especially Fiennes and Swinton.

No word yet on Swinton's role or who will play the young adults.

Swinton was totally convincing and Fiennes was amazing — he seemed drugged out of his mind through most of the film, but I doubt if you can play someone like that unless you are stone cold sober.

True, I am a fan of Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes, but I was skeptical that Swinton could pull off playing a rock star convincingly and that Fiennes could be frenetic — and dance.

Swinton is chillier even than her White Witch of Narnia; Jenkins is painfully vulnerable as the lovelorn gym manager; and Malkovich, playing alcoholic has - been (or never - was) CIA analyst Osbourne Cox, is the obscene, furious engine driving the whole train.

The film appears to be following Stephen Strange's comic book origin: a brilliant neurosurgeon gets injured in a car accident, and travels to Tibet to heal, where he'll encounter the Ancient One, played by Tilda Swinton.

Tilda Swinton stars as a rock star who is recuperating on an island after throat surgery, Far From The Maddening Crowd's Matthias Schoenaerts plays her younger boyfriend, Raph Fiennes plays one of Swinton's exes, and Dakota Johnson plays Fiennes» daughter.

If all this weren't enough, Mannix also has to contend with twin gossip columnists (played by Tilda Swinton) who are circling the studio in search of scandal; a near - fatal accident involving a film editor (Frances McDormand); an accountant (Jonah Hill) enlisted to see whether the pregnant ingénue can legally adopt her own child; and a song - and - dance star (Channing Tatum) harboring more than one Big Secret.

The sword - and - sandals, «Jesus Picture» star, Baird Whitlock (George Clooney, sillier than ever — an injoke reminiscent of Steve Buscemi's ever decreasing mortal remains in the Coenography) is missing, and the gossip columnists (both played by Tilda Swinton, both underused), the sailor tap - dancing musical has an alarming case of closeted gayness (and a wonderful cameo from the Highlander frenchman, Christopher Lambert), the Busby Berkeley mermaid picture has a star (Scarlett Johannson, in a glorious Noo Yawk accent) and whose fish tail is getting more ill - fitting by the hour due to a pregnancy scandal about to break, and a Euro - flavoured drawing - room melodrama has been saddled with an aw - shucks singing cowboy leading man (Alden Ehrenreich in a breakout performance) who is far, far out of his depth.

Manifesto In a performance that vindicates anyone who's ever confused her with Tilda Swinton, Cate Blanchett plays 13 unconnected characters in wildly disparate situations who shout, whisper, and otherwise recite both famous and not - so - famous artistic and political manifestos.

We get a glimpse at a day in the life of Mannix, as he sorts out a pregnancy scandal with a single actress (Scarlett Johansson), manages a cowboy star's (Alden Ehrenreich) miscasting in an art film, and searches for a missing debauched Hollywood favorite (George Clooney); all while keeping twin journalists (both played by Tilda Swinton) off his back.

Jared Harris plays Captain Mike who hires Benjamin to work aboard his ship leading him to a romance with Elizabeth Abbott (Tilda Swinton) whose pathway crosses with Benjamin's in a remote Russian hotel.

There's both a Father Christmas and a White Witch, the latter played by Tilda Swinton.

Rachel is confirmed to play the female lead opposite Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Mads Mikkelsen is reportedly being eyed for the villain role.

Lusciously shot in a hostile Sicilian landscape, this is darkly comic with a cast of infuriatingly selfish and amoral characters.With a counter-intuitive score, tantalizing close - ups and an immaculately clad Tilda Swinton at centre stage, the tangled relationships play out like a voyeuristic travelogue.At times overblown but never boring, there is enough exploration of flawed human behaviour to linger over and discuss long after the credits roll.

He doesn't so much have supporting players in the film as he does an extended family of cherished guests who he invites to stay for a while, relax and soak up the ambience: French it girl Léa Seydoux has a part as a maid which may as well be non-speaking; Owen Wilson plays one of M Gustave's concierge brethren and gets a line (if not a laugh); even Tilda Swinton makes a flying visit to Wesworld, caked in gristly prosthetics as an ageing dowager who drops dead after her first and only scene, her passing acting as deus ex machina for an elaborate art heist involving the whereabouts of the apocryphal, priceless chef d'oeuvre, «Boy With Apple».

During their time in the big city, perhaps they'll run into some of the characters played by Jake Gyllenhaal, Tilda Swinton, Steven Yeun, Paul Dano, Giancarlo Esposito, Shirley Henderson, and more.

Several months ago, rumors about a suprising piece of gender and ethnicity blind casting began swirling when it was reported that Tilda Swinton was in talks to play the Ancient One in Marvel's Doctor Strange.

One of these matrons, Madame D., is played by Tilda Swinton, sporting impeccable old - age make - up to bring her up to an octogenarian state, who promptly kicks the bucket and leaves a large fortune and an even larger number of heirs (and estate staff) looking for what is theirs.

Director: Tony Gilroy Cast: George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack Certificate: 15 Watch Michael Clayton online in the UK: iTunes / Amazon Instant Video / TalkTalk TV Store / Google Play

Johnson will play opposite Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes and Matthias Schoenaerts.

Swinton will play The Ancient One: the healer in the Himalayas (in the comics) who teaches the down - on - his - luck Strange to tap into his psychic and magical powers.

Dakota Johnson plays the role of the ballerina, while the supporting cast includes Chloë Grace Moretz, Mia Goth, and, of course, Tilda Swinton.

Her terrific performance in Amy Schumer's «Trainwreck» certainly convinced us that Swinton could play broad comedy and still remain sharp as a tack.

Take note, when you want to adopt a product with problematic race issues, maybe involve people from that race / ethnicity to help handle it instead of making a million and one excuses as to why we should be happy that Tilda Swinton is playing a character who is Tibetan.

He places the audience, for the most part, in the thick of it with Gustave and Zero as they try not only to solve the murder of Madame D. (one of Gustave's elderly blonde lovers - played by Tilda Swinton in glorious prosthetics, as pictured above right), but as they break out of prison, steal some art and as they go on a perilous adventure.

The next Marvel movie stars Benedict Cumberbatch a comic book superhero, Stephen Strange that gains his special powers after meeting the Ancient One, played by Tilda Swinton.