Sentences with phrase «big ensemble pieces»

Not exact matches

But still, The Big Bird Cage is essentially an ensemble piece.

But in the scheme of things he's just another player in a big, messy, tangled ensemble piece with a weird and wonderful cast in a free - for - all chase for the letter, the film's Maguffin in every sense of the term.

Robert Duvall, eminent character actor of the Hackman - Caan generation of difficult big - screen guys, returns to the director's chair with Wild Horses, a dawdling and sometimes damn near unintelligible ensemble piece set in a Texas border town.

The bigger issue with the ensemble piece is that, it could be argued that, while everyone gets a character arc, no one gets enough time to do it justice.

Despite Inherent Vice «s deep roster of big name stars, it's not a sprawling ensemble piece like Boogie Nights although Martin Short and Benicio Del Toro a couple of scenes in which they get to briefly steal the show.

A well produced 16 - minute making - of featurette includes interviews with Kelly and almost all of the cast, as well as The Big Chill co-writer Barbara Benedek; it opens with Kelly playing the assembled crew a special shout - out from Los Angeles deejay Richard Blade, and features a lot of talk about both the specific players and general nature of ensemble pieces.

It's a multi-narrative ensemble piece featuring a slew of Big Names, including Diane Keaton, John Goodman, Olivia Wilde, Ed Helms, Amanda Seyfried, Alan Arkin, Anthony Mackie, and Marisa Tomei.

The third season of her brilliant sketch show on Comedy Central served as a stupendously enticing prelude for her first starring role on the big screen in «Trainwreck,» the latest improv - based ensemble piece from director Judd Apatow.

Charisma - challenged Patrick O'Neal is the ostensible leading man here, playing a career Navy officer coerced into joining a covert private team and go behind the Iron Curtain to retrieve a diplomatically dangerous letter, but in the scheme of things he's just another player in a big, messy, tangled ensemble piece.

«Louder Than Bombs,» Trier's first English language project and inaugural collaboration with name actors, technically marks his biggest project to date — but this ruminative ensemble piece about a New York family haunted by the legacy of its departed matriarch fits right in with Trier's other films, yielding an alternately wise, melancholic and good - humored look at people surrounded by support but nonetheless alienated by their incapacity to confront their problems.

It's got about eight or ten big roles, it's a real ensemble piece.