Sentences with phrase «as gigolo»

But if that's the message here, then Killer misses the mark, as the gigolo mode, story missions, and everything else are so loosely linked.

Excited by their prospects, they even come up with stage names: pimp Murray calls himself Dan Bongo and Fioravante picks Virgil Howard as his gigolo moniker.

For John Turturro, who has a distinctive face, to star as a gigolo for wealthy women, might seem like a stretch — a vanity project, if you will.

Later, during a party populated with well - turned out lesbians, Tom reveals that he moonlights as a gigolo and suggests that Pierre might try the same.

Not exact matches

Perhaps this blasé disappointment in «The Canyons» is typical of Schrader, as seen in his earlier movies with George C. Scott «Hard Core,» let alone Richard Gere's «American Gigolo.»

Fading Gigolo is a John Turturro - directed film that stars Woody Allen as an accidental pimp.

«Fading Gigolo» actually functions as something of a statement on Allen's persona - onscreen and off - as it has been understood in the public eye.

She began appearing in films in 1968, hitting her stride with such movies as Gator (1976), American Gigolo (1978), and Zorro, the Gay Blade (1981).

After appearing in The Waterboy (1998) and Big Daddy (1999), two wildly successful comedies starring fellow - SNL alum Adam Sandler, Schneider starred as the titular hero of Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, a fish tank cleaner who assumes the identity of a high - living gGigolo, a fish tank cleaner who assumes the identity of a high - living gigologigolo.

Another Saturday Night Live alumnus to make a bid for big screen stardom, Rob Schneider got his first chance to carry a film with Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (2000), a mistaken identity comedy that was as commercially popular as it was critically eviscerated.

As Schrader's hero takes a bleaker look at life, and considers committing an extreme act as a desperate attempt to find resonance and morality in the world, he stands alongside the protagonists of such Schrader - written films as «Taxi Driver,» «American Gigolo» and «Light Sleeper,» three works the filmmaker has connected as his «night trilogy.&raquAs Schrader's hero takes a bleaker look at life, and considers committing an extreme act as a desperate attempt to find resonance and morality in the world, he stands alongside the protagonists of such Schrader - written films as «Taxi Driver,» «American Gigolo» and «Light Sleeper,» three works the filmmaker has connected as his «night trilogy.&raquas a desperate attempt to find resonance and morality in the world, he stands alongside the protagonists of such Schrader - written films as «Taxi Driver,» «American Gigolo» and «Light Sleeper,» three works the filmmaker has connected as his «night trilogy.&raquas «Taxi Driver,» «American Gigolo» and «Light Sleeper,» three works the filmmaker has connected as his «night trilogy.&raquas his «night trilogy.»

Law garnered both a Golden Globe and Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance, further cementing his reputation as one of the more promising up - and - coming actors on either side of the ocean.After a turn as a Russian marksman facing off against a Nazi sniper in Enemy at the Gates (2001), Law returned to sci - fi with his role as love machine Gigolo Joe in Steven Spielberg's eagerly anticipated A.I.In addition to his acting commitments, Law kept busy with Natural Nylon, the production company he founded with Sadie Frost, Sean Pertwee, Ewan McGregor, and Jonny Lee Miller.

Gigolos, Season 6, Episode 4: Ash services a client by taking sexy photos dressed as a construction worker.

As the cast discovers that there's a new gigolo in town, Nick gets hired by a teacher for a romantic evening.

Paul Schrader is an American filmmaker whose work as a screenwriter and director hold a significant place in the history of American cinema, including Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, American Gigolo, Mishima: A Life in Four...

«Fading Gigolo «has been described by Turturro as a tender, sweet comedy about an aging gigilo (Turturro) and his -LSB-...]

Fading Gigolo (Grade: B --RRB- garnered advance word not only for the rare feat of getting Woody Allen to act in a film he didn't direct, but for casting him as a pimp.

«Die Mommie Die» (Sundance Films) This campy homage to»60s Ross Hunter flicks features the writer - actor Charles Busch («Irma Vep») as Angela, a pop diva mixed up in a murder - whodunit with a tennis pro, a gigolo, the maid, an actor and a couple of screwed - up kids.

That would define Schrader's «American Gigolo» (1980), with Richard Gere in training for his profession as a professional lover of women.

A great place to launch a film to the wider film industry, it seems to have worked as «Fading Gigolo «now has a distributor.

Fading Gigolo (R for profanity, sexuality and brief nudity) John Turturro wrote, directed and stars in the romantic comedy as a dashing Don Juan who woos wealthy widows in order to help out a cash - strapped pal (Woody Allen).

Look at the way, for example, Richard Gere's high - end sex worker, Julian Kaye, in American Gigolo organizes his California apartment as if it were a sun - dappled monk's cell, with Armani suits as his chaplain's wardrobe and a luxury - linened bed as his altar.

Fading Gigolo Murray (Woody Allen) frets as his business options dry up, but his dermatologist (Sharon Stone) dangles an idea: She and a friend (Sofia Vergara) yearn for a menage a trois; does he know anyone?

by Walter Chaw Oftentimes, as if in a freaky mescaline dream, I find myself defending in polite company Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, this story of an astonishingly ugly, balding little troll enlisted into the man - whore trade by myopic pimp T.J. (Eddie Griffin).

We missed this one — but Fading Gigolo has quietly snuck into Australia and premiers this weekend, as well as being announced for the Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival.

Actor - filmmaker John Turturro made some canny choices in casting for his new comedy Fading Gigolo, in which he plays a hapless New Yorker whose friend suggests that he might have a new career as a...

Yet to argue the emptiness of the film and its bland protagonist as subtext is to miss the big picture: American Gigolo is not even about its protagonist; it is about what he wears.

Designer eyewear really hit its stride in the eighties, with movies such as American Gigolo and Tom Cruise's breakthrough Risky Business (1985) selling the attitude that built the decade: conspicuous consumption was nothing to be ashamed of.

«Fading Gigolo» Synopsis: An aging New York bookseller recommends a down - on - his - luck friend for a «menage» and soon find himself acting as a pimp to the middle - aged neophyte hustler.

As photographed by John Bailey — at the time, the go - to cinematographer for Paul Schrader (American Gigolo, Cat People, Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters, Light Of Day)-- the city's streets, restaurants, back rooms, and lofts are as much a character as Charlie and Paulie, a dreamer and a schemer trying to get ahead in a world where the chips are stacked against theAs photographed by John Bailey — at the time, the go - to cinematographer for Paul Schrader (American Gigolo, Cat People, Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters, Light Of Day)-- the city's streets, restaurants, back rooms, and lofts are as much a character as Charlie and Paulie, a dreamer and a schemer trying to get ahead in a world where the chips are stacked against theas much a character as Charlie and Paulie, a dreamer and a schemer trying to get ahead in a world where the chips are stacked against theas Charlie and Paulie, a dreamer and a schemer trying to get ahead in a world where the chips are stacked against them.

Australian director Warwick Thornton makes an appearance with period western Sweet Country, starring Sam Neill, as does American Gigolo and Light Sleeper director Paul Schrader, with paranoid thriller First Reformed, which features Ethan Hawke and Amanda Seyfried.

Turturro stars in his latest feature, Fading Gigolo, as Fioravante, an introverted, solitary New Yorker who works a series of odd jobs until his buddy Murray (Woody Allen) suggests an odder job: Playing male escort to an attractive but insecure bisexual dermatologist (Sharon Stone) who's hunting for a man to round out a ménage à trois with her lover (Sofía Vergara).

At the end, some vastly overreaching tripe posing as a moral backbone is unleashed, making an already excruciating film downright intolerable, It does answer the question on many people's minds about whether Schneider (Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, 50 First Dates) or Spade could actually make worse films than they already have.

We figured that with the director busy with a rare acting gig in John Turturro «s «Fading Gigolo» and preparing «Bullets Over Broadway» for Broadway in 2013, he wouldn't have time to get behind the camera as he does each summer.

As the film's anti-hero, Ryan Gosling channels the ambiguous, amoral pretty - boy blankness of Ryan O'Neal in The Driver and Richard Gere in American Gigolo — in many ways, Gosling's character is himself a gigolo, but one who seduces cars rather than Gigolo — in many ways, Gosling's character is himself a gigolo, but one who seduces cars rather than gigolo, but one who seduces cars rather than women.

Dwayne Johnson and Mark Wahlberg are set to star and Turturro joining the cast seems like a reasonable enough posit as long as it doesn't interfere with «Fading Gigolo.»

A perfume - and opium - scented reverie of dapper gigolos, neon signs, and brocaded screens, with lighting so diffuse that it looks like it would leave a powdery, luminescent residue on your fingers, the movie is barely involving as narrative and intoxicating as everything else.

Schrader — who is best known for his screenplays for Martin Scorsese, but has also written and directed movies like American Gigolo, Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters, and Affliction — has never made anything as minimalist and contemplative as First Reformed, a film of empty spaces framed in boxy Academy ratio.

After that Mackenzie moved to Los Angeles briefly and made the Balzacian moral tale Spread (2009), with Ashton Kutcher brilliantly cast as a shallow Beverly Hills gigolo on his way down the social ladder.

The contrast between the 8 mm home - movie footage that opens the film and the subsequent scene showing Murray's bookstore in its final throes sets the thematic stage: Fading Gigolo is intended to be as much about aging as it is about love and sex.

That's right, as much as we love Woody Allen, and as effortless as he is here, the comedic elements of «Gigolo» are actually the least effective.

Of course, Schrader has had a storied career as a director, too — his most remembered work is probably American Gigolo, but he's produced many challenging dramas that follow people at the intersection of some powerful, individual crisis.

It continues the director's career - long grappling with his Calvinist beliefs, even as it becomes the latest iteration of a story he has told before, in movies like «American Gigolo» and «Hardcore» and his screenplay for «Taxi Driver.»

Like the screenplays he wrote for Martin Scorsese (notably Taxi Driver) and the tormented works he's made about the wages of sin (Hardcore, American Gigolo, The Comfort of Strangers, Auto Focus), Schrader — raised as a strict Calvinist — has never lost his obsession with the war between flesh and spirit.

Fiennes stars as M. Gustave, concierge at the Grand Budapest Hotel and ostensible gigolo.

To address the elephant in the room, all you'll find on the docket today is a look at «Fading Gigolo,» an amusing indie film that includes some of Allen's finest work as an actor in years.

Fading Gigolo provides plenty of laughs, and though it's crude and misogynist to a degree, the chemistry between the stars is too impressive to ignore, as they keep your attention throughout.

The Truth About Youth briefly flickers to life when Loy comes on slinky nightclub singer «The Firefly,» seducing Young's betrothed, and she steals the show in The Naughty Flirt (1931), another tale of high - society bad behavior, this one starring Alice White as a brazen socialite who sets her sights on a young lawyer's in papa's firm and Loy as a party girl working with a gigolo to grab her fortune.

In Fading Gigolo, Turturro stars as Fioravante, best friend and former employee to Allen's Murray, who convinces him to become a gigolo after his dermatologist (Sharon Stone) mentions that she would love to pursue a threesome with the righGigolo, Turturro stars as Fioravante, best friend and former employee to Allen's Murray, who convinces him to become a gigolo after his dermatologist (Sharon Stone) mentions that she would love to pursue a threesome with the righgigolo after his dermatologist (Sharon Stone) mentions that she would love to pursue a threesome with the right man.

And for the remaining two slots, one should probably look to two of the surprise indie hits of the year so far: Jon Favreau «s «Chef» (which has made nearly $ 20 million to date), and John Turturro «s «Fading Gigolo «-- not quite as big, but still remarkably popular with older crowds.