Sentences with phrase «actor in films such»

In Hollywood he remains an obscure supporting actor in films such as The Bank Job and A Perfect Murder.

While not entirely abandoning his comedy roots, in recent decades Bill Murray has carved himself a career as a serious actor in films such as Rushmore, the Royal Tenenbaums, and now St Vincent (written and directed by Theodore Melfi).

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Hoffman had a long and critically acclaimed career as an actor, appearing in films such as «Boogie Nights» (1997), «The Talented Mr. Ripley» (1999), and «The Master» (2012).

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

Actor John Travolta — best known as starring in films such as Pulp Fiction and Grease — will be among the numerous celebrity attendees, serving as a special guest speaker.

Set mostly in the fictional African nation of Wakanda, the film boasts a director and primary star who are both African - American men (director Ryan Coogler and actor Chadwick Boseman), while the cast also features numerous other notable black stars, such as Oscar winners Lupita Nyong» o and Forest Whitaker as well as Angela Bassett and Michael B. Jordan.

While best known for appearing in such horror films as The Pit and the Pendulum and The Last Man on Earth, the late actor Vincent Price was also a world - class gourmet.

Primate «actors» have been featured in major Hollywood films such as The Hangover Part II, The Wolf of Wall Street and Babe: Pig in the City.

Hans Walter Conrad Veidt was a German actor best remembered for his roles in films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Man Who Laughs, and, after being forced to migrate to Britain by the rise of Nazism in Germany, his English - speaking roles in The Thief of Bagdad, and, in Hollywood, Casablanca, in which he appeared as Major Strasser.

2018-04-08 18:44 Ryan Gosling is a Canadian actor known for his film roles in hits such as The Notebook, Crazy, Stupid, Love and La La Land.

Ryan Gosling is a Canadian actor known for his film roles in hits such as The Notebook, Crazy, Stupid, Love and La La Land.

Taking on minor film roles beginning with 1979's Hairspray, the burgeoning young actor would subsequently appear in such films as Milos Foreman's Ragtime (1981) and Woody Allen's Zelig (1983), though early struggles with alcohol and substance abuse threatened to sideline his screen career in the mid -»80s.

Hopper's choice to have the actors singing during filming, rather than lip - synching to a pre-recorded soundtrack, gives such impact to the performances — even with his overuse of certain other filming choices — creates such a complete world that even with its flaws, Les Miz had me in the palm of its metaphoric hand throughout.

Blake started his own film career as an actor in 1943; he played bits in A-movies and leads in B - movies, paying his dues in such trivialities as Gangs of the Waterfront and Strangler of the Swamp (both 1945).

The filmmakers went into this project insisting that all the actors do their own singing, and while «crooners» like Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth (let alone Stellan Skarsgård, who is very, very brave to have done his own singing) are not going to go down in history as much more than barely competent, star Meryl Streep, who has already proven her musical chops theatrically and previously in such films as Postcards from the Edge, is marvelous, if a bit too country - yodelish for this patently pop score.

Already a familiar face in world cinema thanks to fine performances in such films as Open Your Eyes and Talk to Her, Spanish actor Fele Martínez teetered on the brink of international success in the wake of work for such internationally recognized directors as Alejandro Amenábar and Pedro Almodóvar.

This misstep didn't seem to hurt the actor, whose name was already attached to a number of high - profile projects that would no doubt further increase his star wattage.Two such projects were the edgy indie films American Psycho and Requiem for a Dream, both released in 2000.

One year later, Apfel appeared again as an actor known for playing distinguished characters in films such as Romance of the Underworld (1928), and the 1931 version of The Maltese Falcon.

Drawing inspiration from such pivotal usage of practical effects in films like E.T., The Empire Strikes Back, and The Thing, the team intends on building a practical robot puppet for the young actor playing Wei to interact with and get better performances from.

Billed as Duke York Jr. when he entered films in 1933, this muscular actor essayed such action - oriented roles as King Kala in Flash Gordon (1936).

After taking some time off from directing and scriptwriting to appear in such films as Out of Sight (1998), Brooks resumed his director - screenwriter - actor hyphenate with The Muse (1999), starring opposite Andie MacDowell and Sharon Stone as a struggling Hollywood scriptwriter in search of divine inspiration; Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World followed in 2005.

With a solid voice cast that emphasizes their vocal work over their star power (there are recognizable actors in a few roles such as Bratt and Bernal (Blindness), but none that cast in order to sell the film commercially), a vibrant color scheme, outstanding visuals, terrific toe - tapping tunes, and an imaginative concept, this will likely go down as a favorite Pixar film for many who follow the animation company's output religiously.

Whether filming in HD or with a hidden camcorder, actor and animal - rights activist Hannes Jaenicke aims to reveal the global chain that leads to the extinction of the most amazing animals, such as polar bears and sharks.

But this movie also like Ghiblis other movies get moderately big actors or much older actors, such as in this film they got Carol Burnett, and Amy Poelher and Will Arnett.

The film Creation, which some people take to refer to both the creation of the Origins book and the creation / evolution controversy, stars Paul Bettany, who is best known for his roles in popular movies such as «The Da Vinci Code,» «Master and Commander,» and «A Beautiful Mind» (in which he won the London Film Critics» Award for Best British Actor).

For the most part, however, the actor's last two decades as a performer were distinguished by a steady stream of cheap, threadbare horror films, reaching a nadir with such fare as Hillbillies in a Haunted House (1967).

Those who flout the established taboos often face such harsh consequences as losing their jobs, their homes or custody of their children, so the Hasidic actors who appeared in the film courted peril and banishment simply by taking part.

Everyone must watch this film its my humble request... I liked it so much that i watched it more than 100 times.The song the cameras all are well set... Both actors looks charming and they have really given their maximum effort in making such a marvelous film... Come up with new films like this in future..

It was while she was working as an extra in various film productions that she answered Kusama's ad for actors; after being cast as Girlfight's protagonist, she trained intensively to condition her body like that of a boxer to such a degree that, at one point, she was even asked to go pro.

The common problem of Solondz's characters is an inability to see the world in shades of grey, which is fitting in a film where color - garish, boring or just plain ugly - is so important, and the actors are working off palettes of such extreme emotions.

With looks that allow him to either play soft - skinned pretty boys or greasy - haired white trash refuse, Sarsgaard has used his malleable features and brooding charisma to great effect in such films as Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry.A graduate of St. Louis» Washington University, where he was a co-founder of the improvisational group Mama's Pot Roast, Sarsgaard studied at the Actors» Studio in New York.

In addition, one of the organization's core values is identifying new talent and nurturing young filmmakers by awarding promising talent with «Directorial Debut» and «Breakthrough Actor» awards as well as grants to rising film students and by facilitating community outreach through the support of organizations such as The Ghetto Film School, Reel Works Teen Filmmaking, and Educational Video Center.

Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady Bird,» which won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for women in film both as actors and also writers and directors and producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them in their homes, I think all of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop of filmmakers who want to tell stories about women.»

Donald Sutherland is one of the most respected, prolific and versatile of motion picture actors, with an astonishing resume of well over one hundred and fifty films, including such classics as Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen; Robert Altman's M * A * S * H; John Schlesinger's The Day of the Locust; Robert Redford's Ordinary People; Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900; Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers; Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now with Julie Christie; Alan Pakula's Klute with Jane Fonda; Federico Fellini's Fellini's Casanova and in Brian Hutton» sKelly's Heroes with Clint Eastwood, who later directed him in Space Cowboys.

With so much non-fiction footage available, culled from such a long time span, the last thing the case would seem to cry out for is a conventional dramatization, the kind in which glamorous actors put on just enough makeup to look 10 percent like the people they play, without any hope of imbuing the roles with the intensity already captured on film.

While Hancock's films tend to be a tad rote and unremarkable, the prospect of seeing Keaton in such a meaty role is hard to resist, and indeed the actor looks to be knocking this one out of the park.

Beginning his career on stage, the English actor made his film debut in 1992's «Alien 3» before landing roles in such films as «Moulin Rouge,» «Doom,» «Pirate of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides» and «Dredd.»

The actor was last seen in Get Out and has films such as Megan Leavey and The Last Full Measure on the way.

More recently, Downey has appeared as an actor in key supporting roles in such films as Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights (1997) and Magnolia (1999), and Brett Ratner's Tower Heist (2011), which he describes as just doing a favour for some friends: «I do it and I'm gone.»

-- Outtakes (3:43 HD): For such a serious film, it's funny how the actors break out in laughter when they mess up a line or a set / prop malfunctions.

This heist film with a sensational cast, such as Edward Norton, Seth Green (who, ironically, was Vince and E's nemesis in Entourage) and rapper turned actor Mos Def was both a box office and critical success, doing even better than its theater run with DVD sales.

Indeed, he's matured into such a terrible actor that it's actually disturbing to watch him in scenes with Firth (solid here), as though he's some theatre geek who's cut himself into the film with iMovie.

The directorial debut of Macon Blair, «I don't feel at home...» announces a bold new writing - directing talent best known as an actor in such films -LSB-...]

The directorial debut of Macon Blair, «I don't feel at home...» announces a bold new writing - directing talent best known as an actor in such films as «Blue Ruin» and «Green Room.»

In this series of interviews, the actors - alongside director Rian Johnson - open up about their roles in this fantastic franchise, the extraordinary sets and scenaries they were placed in during filming, and just what it's like to be part of such a well - loved worlIn this series of interviews, the actors - alongside director Rian Johnson - open up about their roles in this fantastic franchise, the extraordinary sets and scenaries they were placed in during filming, and just what it's like to be part of such a well - loved worlin this fantastic franchise, the extraordinary sets and scenaries they were placed in during filming, and just what it's like to be part of such a well - loved worlin during filming, and just what it's like to be part of such a well - loved world.

But by bringing in a host of cameo performances, all with silly foreign accents (Ashley Judd as a photographer sporting a Russian accent as if she's from Kentucky and the Australian actor Geoffrey Rush as Trotsky, who is never able to overcome sounding more Australian than Russian), it took away from the film's energy and left it stuck in the usual banality reserved for such Hollywood biopics.

A working actor for four decades, Campbell is probably best known for his role of Ash in the «Evil Dead» films and TV series, but has also turned in fine performances in such films as «Bubba Ho - Tep,» Congo» and the television series «Burn Notice.»

The success of any such inspirational film as this is very much dependent on how convincing the actors are, or in this case how much conviction they demonstrate.

With such a farfetched plot already in place, this is the sort of film that could have easily degenerated into a muddled farce with a one - note stand - up comic as the lead, but with a good comedic and dramatic actor like Kline at the forefront, he is able to keep the tone of the comedy and drama appropriate to each scene.

I liked Adams in the film, as she showed why such good actors in independent films should be forced to do awful stuff like this when trying for Hollywood mainstream (can we say Sophie Marceau?).