Sentences with phrase «audition pieces»

But while Sean Penn, Philip Seymour Hoffman or Meryl Streep win prizes, and their acting may feel true or right, it is detrimental to the craft to hold up as ideal only those performances that work as audition pieces, or as 30 - second excerpts on Oscar night.

Blu - ray extras include a behind - the - scenes featurette; deleted scenes; a piece on the true - life story that inspired the film; and a look at the Carthage residents through interviews and audition pieces.

It was only after she had sent in the audition piece, filmed on a mobile, that she learned from her agent (who was by this stage incredulous at her breeziness) that Paul Thomas Anderson was the director and that, were she to be cast, Daniel Day - Lewis, record - breaking winner of three best actor Oscars, would be her other half.

There are just enough throwaway absurdities (references to Chili guesting on a chatshow with Ariel Sharon, Harvey Keitel's Nick attempting to rap, Dwayne Johnson's would - be actor using a two - girl dialogue from cheerleader comedy «Bring It On» as his prepared audition piece, etc.) to keep things entertaining, but this is hardly satire.

10 characters all with a story to tell, short monlogues to use as drama practise, character building or as an audition piece.

You don't launch into your audition piece every time you're introduced to a film executive.

You will create a profile for your book and then select a few paragraphs to put up as an audition piece for potential narrators to read.

Now that you've picked your music and audition piece, its time to give your resume a revamp.

As a dancer, you're probably spending most of your time working on your audition piece, but to start off on the right foot, you'll need an outstanding resume.

Not exact matches

To audition, two pieces of music are played for a judge and is given a score.

I have been auditioning granola bars for my son Archer, and I finally decided to make something in between the snack and the cereal: granola bark, a granola that forms a thin bar and then is easily broken into smaller pieces.

Nearly unwatchable and yet too compelling to turn away from, Audition is a remarkable piece of genre filmmaking.

The film operates chiefly as a character piece: on the one side is a group of left - wing radicals fronted by Brigitte Kuhlmann (Pike) and Wilfried Böse (Daniel Brühl); on the other sits Israel's top brass including Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (Lior Ashkenazi) and Defence Minister Shimon Peres (Eddie Marsan, late for his The Death of Stalin audition); and in the middle Nonso Anozie emphatically steals the show as Uganda's chuckly despot Idi Amin.

More insightful are the archival pieces, including original audition tapes (make sure to crank the volume here) showing Jesse Eisenberg running through various scenes with about the same nervous energy he brings to the final role, and a short behind - the - scenes documentary by Noah Baumbach's brother, Nico, that catches the kind of raw director - actor interactions that don't typically make their way into more polished featurettes.

The director then went on to recall her memorable audition for The Wolf of Wall Street, with Robbie winning the role thanks in part to a piece of «stunning improvisation» that occurred during the audition.

SC: Although I hadn't already guessed what the audition was for by the time I finished auditioning, I put the pieces together pretty quickly after thinking about concept art and the character sides... and spent the next few weeks dancing between thoughts of, «No way, there's just absolutely no way» and, «BUT IT WOULD MAKE SO MUCH SENSE AT THIS POINT».

Research and select pieces appropriate for type and age of actors in class for specific auditions