Sentences with phrase «acting part in the film»

In directing «The Space Between Us,» Peter Chelsom, who takes an acting part in the film as the voice of a robot, is on a similar wavelength by dealing with the space between one young man from Mars and one young woman from Earth.

Not exact matches

But Tahir built up his chops by acting in plays while waiting for film and television roles to trickle in, and turning down parts when they felt too much like typecasting.

Part of musical performance involves narcissism, just as some part of writing or acting or painting or sculpting or making film is deeply self - absorbed, but we don't condemn musicians or artists for daring to put their creations out in public for people to Part of musical performance involves narcissism, just as some part of writing or acting or painting or sculpting or making film is deeply self - absorbed, but we don't condemn musicians or artists for daring to put their creations out in public for people to part of writing or acting or painting or sculpting or making film is deeply self - absorbed, but we don't condemn musicians or artists for daring to put their creations out in public for people to see.

After five years of Jeannie, Hagman took a few film and TV - movie parts, co-starred with Donna Mills on the 1971 sitcom The Good Life, co-starred with Lauren Bacall in the TV rendition of the Broadway musical Applesauce, acted and directed in the low - grade horror spoof Beware!

Downey Jr. has a distinctive acting style that is often the saving grace of many otherwise forgettable films and his work in both the Iron Man films plays a huge part in what makes them so enjoyable.

I say dark, yes there are parts in this film that are hard hitting, poinient moments that really make you think and get you inside the characters being played, again i think this is down to the great acting.

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.

The visuals in Annihilation are for the most part as understated as the acting, which may be as much a comment on the film's non-blockbuster budget as on Garland's desire to preserve the headspace created by VanderMeer.

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.

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.

During this time, she also acted in a number of forgettable television shows, and it wasn't until her part as a sorority girl in 1997's Scream 2 that she started to find film work.

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.

At times the film does feel a little drawn out, too slow and soothing in parts, but your patience is rewarded with a satisfying final act.

What a cool added bonus for the film to have launched a major acting career for Peter Dinklage, who the very same year appeared briefly in one of the many hilarious parts of Elf, playing... a jaded children's book author (not what you would have guessed, huh?).

Hiddleston shows off some fantastic impressions of Owen Wilson and Christopher Walken before acting out both Al Pacino and Robert De Niro's parts in the famous coffee shop scene in Michael Mann's Heat, winning over De Niro's heart with his admiration for the film.

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».

While Bana is good in his role, it doesn't really require much of an acting stretch on his part, so I suspect he did the film just for a bit of fun to get away from the darker films he had been doing.

I like to think of this film as part of the Tilda Trifecta of 2014 after she gave disappearing acts in Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel and Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive.

The real problem for me is that a Woody Allen film without Woody Allen in the central acting role is really a poor copy of his earlier films.Blanchet plays the crazed anxious neurotic, which is the part the Allen always played.No - body can do, the highly strung, manic neurotic part as well as him, and Blanchet whilst decent can not match him.A decent enough film, but perhaps a bit dry in it's delivery

Throughout the film's run, there are expected ups and downs, driven in equal parts by Royal's desire to feel and act like - and be - a parent to his children and his children's desires to mend the messes in their lives.

Ronan, who is no stranger to the awards circuit after starring in films like 2015's Brooklyn and 2007's Atonement, is earning praise for her latest role in Lady Bird, while Chalamet, who acts alongside Ronan in the Greta Gerwig - directed film, has been the subject of awards buzz for his part in Call Me by Your Name.

(That part is played, unexpectedly if passably, by the singer Josh Groban in his film acting debut.)

Director / Screenwriter (and part - time comic book writer) Joss Whedon's love for comics is apparent right from the start with an opening act that would be the climax in many action films and carries through to one of the more spectacular final battle scenes you're likely to see for years to come.

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...

Part of the reason for this is that so many of the roles played are extended cameos or otherwise short of the screentime or impact required for a nomination, another is the fact that no Anderson film has received a nomination in the acting categories.

Continuing to act in off - Broadway plays in Ann Arbor and Denver in 1951, Kelly received a call from Hollywood producer Stanley Kramer to play the part of a young Quaker wife in the Western film High Noon.

In the second part of a three - chapter conversation conducted over months via a large Google Doc, Manuela Lazic and Adam Nayman discuss acting and how film critics interpret performances.

«So in the film it is more than hinted at that they're a couple, but there is a scene directly after Killmonger takes the throne where you hear both characters articulate their point of view as to why they should or shouldn't follow this man and it's one of the most well - acted scenes I've ever been a part of.

At a recent roundtable interview, Revolori talked about the atmosphere on set, working opposite Fiennes, his kissing scene with Saoirse Ronan, adapting to act in the Wes Anderson universe and the research he did beforehand, the physicality and pacing required on set, having fun being a part of the film's exciting adventure set pieces, being slapped repeatedly by Harvey Keitel in sub-zero weather, bowling with F. Murray Abrahams, his chocolate allergy, and his upcoming Bollywood film, «Umrika» which he just finished shooting in India with Suraj Sharma from «Life of Pi.»

In fact, all of the women in this film, including Kyra Sedgwick who is in this movie for no reason at all, are replaceable parts and could have been played by anyone walking on the street looking for an acting joIn fact, all of the women in this film, including Kyra Sedgwick who is in this movie for no reason at all, are replaceable parts and could have been played by anyone walking on the street looking for an acting join this film, including Kyra Sedgwick who is in this movie for no reason at all, are replaceable parts and could have been played by anyone walking on the street looking for an acting join this movie for no reason at all, are replaceable parts and could have been played by anyone walking on the street looking for an acting job.

Part of Lumet's appeal, in this and other films, is that he recognizes the emotional and social circumstances that contribute to criminal behavior without obviating individual responsibility for criminal acts.

By far, the movie's biggest misfire comes in its final act, where it takes what is frequently the weakest part of comedy films (the big spectacle climax) and draws it out to over twenty minutes, or about 15 minutes too long.

It's a film about grief, and in part about acting, a shifting meta game that never, ever lets you feel comfortable or settled in what you're watching, or knowing what to expect in the next scene.

This rousing in parts, but overall average b / w western, was the last film Errol Flynn and Raoul Walsh («Gentleman Jim» / «They Died With Their Boots On» / «Uncertain Glory») made together (they made seven in total, but Walsh had enough of Flynn's drinking on the set and not being able to act in the afternoons because he was so drunk).

However, Deathly Hallows — Part 1 is such a delicate balancing act that every wobble is a bit more pronounced than it would be in an earlier film that had a tighter structure and a faster pace.

It is essentially a three part film, and all three parts are comfortable in the skin (or not - skin) of their roles, giving Ex Machina an irresistible momentum into its third act.

Former MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE star FRANKIE MUNIZ has ended his acting hiatus by landing a part in star - studded GARRY MARSHALL film NEW YEAR»S DAY.The.IN THE MIDDLE star FRANKIE MUNIZ has ended his acting hiatus by landing a part in star - studded GARRY MARSHALL film NEW YEAR»S DAY.The.in star - studded GARRY MARSHALL film NEW YEAR»S DAY.The...

She started acting nearly ten years ago, with her first part on the Disney Channel's The Suite Life on Deck, but more recent roles have included the love interest and only female in the main cast of Richard Linklater's Eighties frat - house film Everybody Wants Some!!

The Northwest premiere of Matt Ross's Captain Fantastic, filmed in Washington, will screen as part of a tribute presentation to Viggo Mortensen on Saturday, June 11, where the acclaimed actor will be presented with the Festival's Outstanding Achievement in Acting Award and interviewed on stage at the flagship SIFF Cinema Egyptian.

The film does occasionally show flashes of inspiration, particularly during its emotionally effective first act, and the animation is undeniably lovely in parts.

Identity School of Acting is the UK's leading and double - award - winning part - time drama school that boasts an alumnus that also includes Roots» Malachi Kirby Snowfall's Damson Idris, and was born in London 15 years ago to proud father Femi Oguns MBE, a film producer.

Nat Faxon and Jim Rash have been acting since the 1990s, each working their way up from bit parts to more prominent presences in TV and film.

To say any of the Aliens films had a great and deep narrative would be like saying the acting in Star Wars is the best part of the movie.

He is famous for acting the part of Shuya Nanahara in Kinji Fukasaku's controversial 2000 film Battle Royale.

By 1949, he was part of the Parisian art and literary world and acted in Jean Cocteau's film, Orphée (1950), which starred the dashing heartthrob, Jean Marais.

To coincide with the show, Channel 4 has launched a series of six short films that provide a glimpse in to the LGBTQ lives of six individuals as part of their «random acts» season.

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 evaporatIn 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 evaporatIn 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 evaporatin a long single take, Starr runs through the codified expressive repertoire of the Theda - era performer with such precision that any ironic distance evaporate.

If Dr Schmidt had actually seen the film (which I doubt) he would realize that this is part of a short bridging sequence which acts as a «trailer» of material which will be treated more fully later in the film (the immediately following sequence explains the «indirect aerosol effect», in fact).

In part because, it offers the quickest, most cost - effective way to reduce emissions today rather than tomorrow, but also because it gives people in developing countries an opportunity to develop sustainable lievlihoods by acting as guardians of the ecosystem, as this 26 - minute film from documentary filmmaker Jeffrey Barbee makes cleaIn part because, it offers the quickest, most cost - effective way to reduce emissions today rather than tomorrow, but also because it gives people in developing countries an opportunity to develop sustainable lievlihoods by acting as guardians of the ecosystem, as this 26 - minute film from documentary filmmaker Jeffrey Barbee makes cleain developing countries an opportunity to develop sustainable lievlihoods by acting as guardians of the ecosystem, as this 26 - minute film from documentary filmmaker Jeffrey Barbee makes clear.

Seen over at Inhabitat and The Gothamist, the Boggsville Boatel is commissioned as part of art collective Flux Factory's Sea Worthy exhibition, and acts as a «boat - in theater» for film events shown on the water.