Sentences with phrase «actors in films where»

Wisely, Allen doesn't cast himself in the lead role of the neurotic playwright, and he doesn't ask Cusack to mimic his mannerisms to the point where he's doing an all - out Allen imitation, as he has other lead actors in films where he doesn't star.

Of course its not that hard to be the best actor in a film where Duncan basically spills out one - liners and Shau is your nearest competition to a reputable actor.

Not exact matches

She was memorable in early roles on Funny People and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, two films stuffed with memorable actors, but Parks and Rec — no slouch in the memorable cast department itself — is where she made a name for herself as an unparalleled master of deadpan delivery.

In March 2009, while Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Miliband attended the UK premiere of climate change film The Age of Stupid, where he was ambushed by actor Pete Postlethwaite, who threatened to return his OBE and vote for any party other than Labour if the Kingsnorth coal - fired power station were to be given the go - ahead by the government.

The plot is rather simplistic, in where the actors appearing in a film about ancient Rome are summoned by Hollywood «fixer» Eddie Mannix to go out and find recently kidnapped main star, Baird Whitlock.

Django Unchained is an epic film with a simple and straightforward story that is as entertaining as they come; for all the hyper - explosive and bloody bullet hits, the film shines in its more quieter moments, where an actor like Christoph Waltz can excel in his charm or Samuel L. Jackson can ooze with ill - intent.

There are moments in Real Steel where I forgot I'd already seen enough movies about fighting robots, forgot I was too old to be the target audience, forgot that I think Hugh Jackman is turning smarmier with every passing film, forgot that overly expressive child actors set my teeth on edge, forgot to think about all the other underdog / boxing / father - son movies this one is ripping off.

The actor originally hailed from Jonesboro, AR, where he was tormented by school bullies for being a «pretty boy,» and he came to film via New York's Juilliard School, where he acted in a number of productions.

But where Asquith (who only had the best players in his films) took this approach out of respect, Crabtree deferred to his actors principally because his main concern were the visuals.

Cutting his losses at home (where ethnic actors like Al Pacino and, interestingly enough, Robert DeNiro were getting the plum roles), Dullea returned to Canada for a number of interesting but distinctly B - grade films (Welcome to Blood City with a pre-comeback Jack Palance) and the continent for guest starring roles in poorly - received art house productions (Pope Joan with Liv Ullmann) and the occasional thriller (as Mia Farrow's disbelieving stuffed shirt of a husband in The Haunting of Julia).

Some of the banter between Ruth and the jaded cop named Det. William Bendix (Gary Anthony Williams, TMNT: Out of the Shadows — yes, William Bendix, like the classic film actor) on the case offer some insights on where the film could have found its comedic spark, but even those scenes lose flavor when we see that cop break down in anguish because of his own personal relationship issues bubbling up to the surface.

Although Nixon's starring role on the hugely popular series may have brought her to the attention of a new audience, observers of the New York theater had been watching the actor on and off Broadway since 1980, where she had performed in productions that included David Rabe's Hurlyburly, Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, Angels in America, and Indiscretions, for which she earned a Tony nomination.Born in New York City on April 9, 1966, Nixon made her film debut in the 1980 movie Little Darlings.

There's some very candid, fascinating footage here capturing the process of making the film (in, for a surprise revelation, not a real Parisian flat but a studio - built apartment replica surrounded by green screens, not at all dissimilar to David Cronenberg's use of similar magic for A Dangerous Method, not that you can tell in either film in its finished form, where the technology is seamless and unobtrusive), with Haneke working with the actors in a rigorous, nitty - gritty way that lets us see what infinitesimal precision he's looking for in performance, in movement, in blocking, and in composition.

Actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Toby Jones, who portray Charles» supporters in this film, also star together in another period piece, Amazing Grace, where they find themselves on opposite sides of the debate over England's involvement in the slave trade.

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.

Lee Pace is in a fantastic film called «The Fall» where he plays an actor with a broken leg and a drug habit.

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.

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.»

Allen is notorious for offering his actors little to no direction, which often produces films where every one in the cast seems to be acting in a different movie, but it could be liberating for an actor as organic and instinctual as Phoenix.

These comments perhaps serve as a testament to just how far digital performance capture has come in recent years, to the point where some actors actually prefer the process to - or at least would put it alongside - traditionally filmed roles.

But this is a year where Kristin Scott Thomas, Daniel Kaluuya, Josh O'Connor and Florence Pugh are nominated, where Simon Farnaby and Paul King's remarkable Paddington 2 screenplay is honoured (the film deserved a Best Film / Best British Film nod too), where Saoirse Ronan is celebrated, where Jamie Bell is justly remembered for Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, and where Hugh Grant is nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a family film about a CGI bear.

Carano's screen presence evokes nothing less than»70s Pam Grier — where the effect is not that of an actor giving a natural and charismatic performance in a film, but, rather, a natural and charismatic person acting in a film.

The youth and comparative inexperience of the «Social Network» ensemble would make it an atypical winner in the category — but at the same time, counting out Jesse Eisenberg's long - shot Best Actor bid, this is the only place where voters can acknowledge the most acclaimed and awarded film in the race.

ET caught up with the 28 - year - old actor at the «Black Panther» premiere on Monday night, where he opened up about his Oscar nomination and starring in the new Marvel film, which hits theaters on Feb. 16.

The film remains fascinating for a good portion of its running time, most acutely in scenes where it isn't entirely clear who's running the show: the director or the actors.

The drama about the last chapter of a long marriage, which stars two veteran French actors (Jean - Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva) and premiered at May's Cannes Film Festival (where it won the Palme d'Or), was claimed by Austria because the Academy's rules dictate that a film's nationality is dependent not on the language that is primarily spoken in the film or the origins of the stars, but rather on the origins of the majority of the film's principal behind - the - scenes talent — the writer, director, and producer.

Audiences loved the chemistry between McConaughey and Kate Hudson so much in How to Loose a Guy in 10 Days (where both are trying to get rid of each other in a bet), the actors reteamed for Fool's Gold, an adventurous treasure hunt film.

Malick's two years in post-production, (the actors said they spent more time doing voice recordings than in front of the camera) are where he creates a film (if you can call it that) out of the footage.

Granted, anything with Ashton Kutcher is doomed to miserable failure, but in a film where you have proven comedic actors... who is the weak link?

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

The film explores a world where John Cusack discovers a portal in an office building that puts you in the head of the actor John Malkovich for 15 minutes.

Deadline reports that actor Dan Fogler has been cast in the upcoming «Harry Potter» spinoff film «Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,» based on the book by J.K. Rowling, who also penned the script.

Among reasons cited for the underrepresentation of blacks and other minorities in starring film and TV roles is a perceived resistance to nonwhite actors in foreign markets, where distribution accounts for a growing share of revenues.

In the film, which is already generating Oscar buzz, the 31 - year - old actor portrays Oliver, a graduate student who sparks a romantic relationship with Eli, a 17 - year - old boy who lives at the cliff - side mansion on the Italian Riviera where Oliver is staying.

Other ties include 1931 - 32 where Frederic March and Wallace Beery shared best actor; in 1949 when two films tied for best documentary short; and in 1986 when there was a tie for best documentary.

To channel Elio, Chalamet arrived six weeks before filming began in Northern Italy, where the actor, who is fluent in French, spent balmy afternoons learning Italian, taking guitar and piano lessons, and bicycling around.

He was nearly 20 years younger than his leading lady, and the same age then as Michael Cera is today, but in a film where few of the actors were playing their actual age, he was clearly the man for the role.

Get a glimpse behind the heavily embroidered curtain in this brief behind - the - scenes featurette about Guillermo del Toro's upcoming film Crimson Peak; del Toro and actor Tom Hiddleston wax poetic about the design of the gothic corridor, which is where the film's scariest spooks will go down.

The landscape of «Nebraska» is populated with such well - known actors as Bruce Dern and Stacy Keach as well as retired farmers making their debuts who live in the town of Plainview, Neb., where most of the film was shot.

The play on actors and their screen personas brings to mind Marlon Brando in «The Freshman,» where without the winking regard for the actor's role in «The Godfather» the film would scarcely exist.

Except for a well - staged scene depicting the attack on the marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the best scenes in «Selma» are the small - scale ones: Oprah Winfrey (also one of the film's producers) as an bedraggled activist denied the opportunity to vote; a scene where King's wife, Coretta (Carmen Ejogo), confronts him about his philandering; a cameo involving the father (portrayed by that marvelous actor Henry G. Sanders) of a murdered man in Selma.

The film is good to excellent in every way except morally, and there it's questionable more often than it should be, not because it's an evil film, or because the filmmaker or actors are bad people, but because the interplay of means and ends has been under - thought or misjudged, to the point where the film becomes a catalog of obscenities: a horror thrill - ride drawn from life, a thing for viewers to test themselves against while feeling just awful about Agu and his country, whatever its name is.

While the practical locations (largely shot in the area of Jodhpur in Rajasthan) are stunning, and the use of extras over computer - generated enhancements welcomed, the film is slightly let down by scenes where its actors are imposed into old Movietone reels, which you can't help but feel were best left out altogether.

Extras: Audio commentary from writer - director John DeBello, writer / co-star Steve Peace and «creator» Costa Dillon; deleted scenes; six exclusive featurettes: «Legacy of a Legend,» a collection of interviews, including comments from John DeBello, Costa Dillon, film critic Kevin Thomas, fans Kevin Sharp and Bruce Vilanch, future «Tomatoes» mainstay John Astin and actors Steve Peace, Jack Riley, and D.J. Sullivan, «Crash and Burn,» a discussion about the famous helicopter crash that could have killed everyone because the pilot was late on his cue, «Famous Foul,» about the San Diego Chicken and his role in the climatic tomato stomping ending, «Killer Tomatomania,» a smattering of interviews with random people on the streets of Hollywood about the movie, «Where Are They Now?»

In one of the film's most bizarre twists, it begins in the contemporary world, where an actor introduces the theory that Shakespeare, who he states came from a poorly - educated family, is not a great writer at alIn one of the film's most bizarre twists, it begins in the contemporary world, where an actor introduces the theory that Shakespeare, who he states came from a poorly - educated family, is not a great writer at alin the contemporary world, where an actor introduces the theory that Shakespeare, who he states came from a poorly - educated family, is not a great writer at all.

Critically championed films Moonlight and Manchester by the Sea each scored big: Moonlight got six nominations in total, while Manchester got five, and both are nominated for Best Motion Picture: Drama, where they will likely duke it out for the win, alongside Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge, which got three nominations in total (Picture, Director for Gibson, and Actor for Andrew Garfield).

A long, silent shot on Neeson's face at the end of the film, where the actor looks like he's about to crumble as his lower lip quivers ever - so - slightly, is marvelous, and a reminder that Neeson still has some great performances left in him.

«It's a shocking waste because Jim Carrey's a good actor which he proved in that wonderful film I Love You Philip Morris where he played a gay con artist in love with Ewan McGregor.

Visit Carvahall and you'll find featurettes about the Inheritance Trilogy to which the novel Eragon belongs, The Storyteller's Scroll (focusing on turning the novel into a screenplay), Realizing Alagaësia (a look at storyboards, locations, scouting and character design), The Destined Roles (casting the actors), From Carvahall to Farthen Dur (behind - the - scenes footage during film production), Hatching The Dragon (the CGI process of creating the dragons), Just The Beginning (a peak at what's next in the series) and the Random House Digital Novel where you can enjoy the first two chapters of Eldest, the second novel from the Inheritance Trilogy by Christopher Paolini.

There have been a handful of actors who have successfully maneuvered through a film where they are the only one on screen, (Hanks in Cast Away, Bullock Gravity, etc).