Sentences with phrase «arts film actor»

Tony Jaa is a bona fide movie star who is the best martial arts film actor on the planet, and his follow - up to «Ong - Bak: The Thai Warrior» has one amazing action set piece after another.

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7) Celebrity is now the main species of modern fame, although perhaps, one can pursue it with a pre-modern devotion to honorable greatness: the one who we sometimes call a «righteous» rock - star or film actor accepts a certain inevitable celebrity - huckstering and the un-earned honors that accompany it, but never compromises the key principles of their art.

In film or on stage, in reflecting life through art, an actor has a second take or another day with his or her performance if something goes wrong.

To film - makers the virtual actor will open up new possibilities for delivering their art.

The owner of Better Bodz gym appears in the new The Undisputed 4 film alongside English martial arts actor, Scott Adkins.

Mr Kam says that he hopes one day to be a martial arts actor in the cinema, comparing himself to Jean - Claude Van Damme (who appeared in his first film when he was 19).

The great actor plays 13 roles in Manifesto, an experimental film consisting entirely of monologues on art and philosophy.

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).

Recently, she hosted the third season of «Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner» for the Si TV Network.New York Newsday raved over her performance in the indie hit «Woman Thou Art Loosed» calling her portrayal of an ex-con recovering addict «Haunting «Six Page Pictorial in the new Las Vegas National Magazine «Player» released Jan 2006Studied Shakespeare at «The Actors Circle Theatre» in Los Angeles and received a standing ovation for her portrayal of «Miss Alma» in Tennesee William's «Summer and Smoke «Running Scared, the film she had a supporting lead in with Paul Walker, is the Top Ten DVD Rental of the month.

Appearently, along with the assassination of Francos character, this is all just and correct, since now its not even about not seperating the art from the artist, cryptic tweets from washed up b - actors saying nothing and the allegations stalkers a former co-founder of your relevant, celebrated film makes you a abusive predator or guilty by random association.

Director, Producer, and Actor Kasi Lemmons had the film world buzzing in 1997 when her feature - length debut «Eve's Bayou» hit art - house screens and racked up film festival awards along the way.

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The State of Play and Nowhere Boy actor tells Jason Solomons what made him set his offbeat romance in his changing home town Liverpool and how the city's arts scene played a role in the film

But Assayas also refers specifically to Hilma af Klint (1862 - 1944), a recently rediscovered Swedish pioneer of abstract art who claimed that her paintings were directly dictated by spirit forces, and to 19th - century French literary titan Victor Hugo, who practiced «table turning» sessions to contact the dead (Assayas fabricates an «extract» from an apocryphal French TV film of the 1960s, featuring actor - singer Benjamin Biolay as a solemn Hugo).

Gregory Peck's Best Actor win was inevitable, and the film also picked up Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Art Direction.

Language: English Genre: Biography / Drama MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Nora Ephron Actors: Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci Plot: The film follows Powell, a government employee who decides to cook her way through legendary cook Julia Child's classic cookbook, «Mastering the Art of French Cooking» in one year's time out of her small Queens kitchen.

Suddenly it makes more sense to campaign to Academy niches — women, old people, populists, Europeans, directors, actors, art - film lovers, traditionalists, whatever — instead of just selling the idea that your movie is «an Academy movie,» whatever that means.

Across these, we hear from Branagh, producers Kevin Feige and Craig Kyle, production designer Bo Welch, costume designer Alexandra Byrne, film character designer Ryan Meinerding, Thor / Loki character designer Charlie Wen, co-producer Victoria Alonso, art director Kasra Farahani, screenwriter Don Payne, property master Russell Bobbitt, comic co-creator Stan Lee, suit construction supervisor Shane P. Mahan, composer Patrick Doyle, comic book writer J. Michael Straczynski, and actors Anthony Hopkins, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Jaimie Alexander, Ray Stevenson, Natalie Portman, Kat Dennings, Stellan Skarsgård, and Colm Feore.

It garnered seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Walter Huston, recreating his earlier stage role, who should have won the Oscar with his sensitive portrayal against winner Paul Muni for The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)-RRB-, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress (Maria Ouspenskaya, reprising her role from the earlier stage production, and in her film debut), and Best Sound Recording, and won only one Oscar for Best Art Direction - Interior Decoration.

A versatile performer whose patrician features and keen intelligence have distinguished him in both leading and supporting roles, Colm Feore spent 13 seasons as a classical actor at the Stratford Festival before embarking on a successful screen career that has encompassed both art films and more populist fare.

It's the latest directorial offering by maverick's maverick, Leos Carax, whose previous film Holy Motors saw the actor Denis Lavant eating flowers, doing motion - capture martial arts, being serenaded by Kylie Minogue and marrying an orangutan.

Ronan, a young actor with that fierce intensity, is a work of art in the film, a girl who knows both her strengths and her limitations.

Yen was the martial arts choreographer for 2000's «Highlander: Endgame» and 2002's «Blade II,» appearing in both of those films as an actor, as well.

The sales art out of AFM positions the film, tonally, in Ocean's Eleven territory, while the synopsis clarifies a few roles for some of the actors.

Actor - turned - writer Sheridan crafted a modern western that is both an entertaining genre piece and a thoughtful art film that became the highest - grossing independent film of the year ($ 27 million).

Nyong» o (who made her feature film debut with this movie, never mind being a first - time nominee) snagged the Screen Actors Guild prize, but Lawrence did win the Golden Globe and British Academy of Film and Television Arts prize.

• NYT «The Shed,» a newperformance space in Manhattan is looking to mash art - forms up from film directors staging concerts to collaborations between actors, poets, and opera stars?

«Brendon Walsh Suffers for His Art» (1:31) preserves multiple takes of a bit part actor hitting his head into a parking meter for one of the film's first laughs.

One can only imagine how much better the film would be by plugging a better actor like Coburn in the lead role and giving someone with much more martial arts skills and screen presence like Bruce Lee in the other roles.

I'd recommend this film wholeheartedly to the art - house film crowd, fans of Anderson, and also fans of Adam Sandler who maintain that he could be a fine actor if he weren't pigeonholed into making dumb comedies.

The man who will preside over the fate of the Un Certain Regard Jury is not only a film lover but a brilliant actor, entirely devoted to his art.

Wanting to keep the studio workers in his employ from organizing, he came up with a canny solution: He founded a collective, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, that would, among other things, distribute prizes to Hollywood's creators — and that would help, Mayer hoped, to keep producers and actors and other laborers of the film industry in his thrall.

Consider the art house credentials behind this film: besides Vitti: director Joseph Losey, known for his collaborations with Harold Pinter («The Servant,» «Accident»); Terence Stamp, fresh off his disturbing turn in William Wyler's «The Collector,» which won him a best actor award at Cannes; and Dirk Bogarde, the onetime matinee idol who had grown into an adventurous, risk - taking actor.

All three dropped out, and the roles wound up going to less distractingly famous actors, allowing the film to seem less like a bloated Saturday Night Live sketch and more like a tribute to the nearly lost art of expertly timed slapstick.

Extras: Audio commentary with film producer and historian Bruce Block; new appreciation of the film and select scene commentary by film historian Philip Kemp; «The Flawed Couple,» a new video essay by filmmaker David Cairns on the collaborations between Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon; «Billy Wilder ABC,» an overview by David Cairns on the life and career of the filmmaker, covering his films, collaborators and more; new interview with actress Hope Holiday; «Inside the Apartment,» a half - hour «making - of» featurette from 2007 including interviews with Shirley MacLaine, executive producer Walter Mirisch, and others; «Magic Time: The Art of Jack Lemmon,» an archive profile of the actor from 2007; original screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond (BD - ROM content); theatrical trailer; special collector's packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by Ignatius Fitzpatrick; collector's 150 - page hardcover book featuring new writing by Neil Sinyard, Kat Ellinger, Travis Crawford and Heather Hyche, generously illustrated with rare stills and behind - the - scenes imagery.

The goal is not only to provide a setting to watch the first African - American superhero lead a film in the Marvel cinematic universe, but also empower children of color to partipate in the arts and help change the fact that of the the 100 highest - grossing films of 2016, roughly a quarter lacked any black characters (stemming from a lack of representation amongst directors, actors and screenwriters).

The characters in Hero are understood not simply in terms of the single film they're in, but in relation to the whole history of martial arts films (and perhaps just as significantly for that film, in relation to the careers of its lead actors, Jet Li, Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung).

Summary Capsule: Life rather unpleasantly imitates art when the silent film Nosferatu acquires an «eccentric» new method actor.

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The most honest moment, however, is saved for «The Anonymous Art of the Character Actor,» which focuses on McMillan, Young, and Page, who urges people not to go to the bathroom in the middle of the film lest they miss her.

They're taught to look for success in the performing arts outside of making it big by characters played by Kelsey Grammer, Megan Mullally (who has a really nice moment in which her character tells why she doesn't perform anymore), Bebe Neuwirth, Charles S. Dutton, and Debbie Allen, actors who aren't huge movie stars but are quite successful in their own rights on TV, film, and stage.

The film uses Meyers» words, but they're read by voice actor Yuri Lowenthal in an animated framing device that has a laid - back martial - arts expert indoctrinating a young know - nothing into the world of Hong Kong action cinema.

In the clip, fans got their first glimpse at concept art from the film, which imagines lead actor Benedict Cumberbatch in the role — cape and all.

It has since travelled to Italy, Canada and the UK as well as film festivals across Ireland and has picked up three more awards; Best Short Film Award at Fingal Film & Arts Festival 2017, Best Irish Film at Carlow International Film Festival and Best Actor (David Greene) at Disappear Here Film Festival.

It took all three of them to do that for «Going In Style,» the remake of the 1979 film that featured accomplished veteran actors George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg.

Texas Art & Film also focuses on theatrically release feature films, screen actors and professionals in the business of creating film.

It's true that English language productions have a substantial global advantage, that only three current Spanish actors rival Watts and McGregor in international fame (Antonio Banderas and real - life couple Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem), and that film is as much of a business as it is an art.

At the film's recent press day, del Toro and Gutierrez spoke about the genesis of the project, Gutierrez's unusual pitch that convinced del Toro to produce the movie, Gutierrez's vision using authentic folk art characters, the film's humanistic tone, casting a talented and eclectic international group of actors to voice the larger than life characters, choosing Reel FX to tackle the complicated animation design, gaining the support of Fox's Jim Gianopulos, how Zoe Saldana and Diego Luna learned to sing, the film's amazing music, and del Toro's upcoming projects including «Crimson Peak,» «The Strain,» «Pacific Rim 2,» the «Pan's Labyrinth» Musical, and the possibility of a «Hellboy 3.»

This film rests uneasily between art and thriller, putting a huge burden on the actors, especially Julianne Moore, to convey the larger meaning of the story.

Laughton's obsessive specificity supposedly made this great piece of art too much of a spiritual burden for the actor turned director, and he never made another film.