Sentences with phrase «again as a character actor»

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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.

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.

He gives one of his best performances here, once again shattering the perception we've developed about him as an actor and the type of character he plays.

Gordon - Levitt also shines as Blake, once again proving to be one of the best young actors working today; his character also comes to play a big part in the story.

Steve Carell adds himself to the long list of distinguished comedic actors who have made the crossover to dramatic acting with terrific results, Alan Arkin yet again shines as one of the all time great character actors and Toni Collette excels as the emotional core of the film.

While Affleck - the - director has likely bypassed Affleck - the - actor in terms of skill, he astutely plays the lead character as the antithesis of the suave, charismatic, swashbuckling CIA agent that we've seen again and again.

Of course the highlight of the game are actors who once again lend their voices to these very memorable characters but as with the backgrounds, the one - liners and banter does become a tad too repetitive, especially if you play this title continuously.