Sentences with phrase «central performances in film»

A perfect black comedy with one of the most underappreciated central performances in film history, by Dennis Price (and a handful of genius ones by Alec Guinness).

The buzz around the central performances in the film are deserved: Fiennes has discovered a late - career touch for comedy and it's a memorable performance.

Boxing comes secondary here but Johnny Harris comes second to no - one with a towering central performance in a film that plays out like a pugilist Ken Loach drama.

Not exact matches

The film is anchored by two excellent central performances; normally known for stand - up comedy, Dave Johns as the titular character delivers solid work in his film debut but it's Hayley Squires as the single mother of two who finds herself in some devastating circumstances that truly captures your heart.

There's little doubt that the effortlessly engaging central performances play a substantial role in the film's success, with D'Agosto and Olsen's charismatic work ensuring that their respective characters never come off as the sleazeballs one might've anticipated (ie Shawn and Nick's relentless scheming is almost Ferris Buelleresque in its good - naturedness).

But it is a powerful film, one of the nine shortlisted for the foreign - language Oscar, and it is elevated, as it would need to be, by Diane Kruger's superb performance in the central role.

Timothee Chamalet and Armie Hammer are superb in the central roles, and despite an unignorable bathetic turn in the supporting performances, this is an important film.

It is, in the end, not difficult to see why V.I. Warshawsky was unable to kickstart a series of movies involving the central character, with the film's profound failure due almost equally to Turner's nails - on - a-chalkboard performance and the narrative's paint - by - numbers execution.

All of which is reflected in Nicholson's phenomenal central performance, for Bobby is himself a kind of actor, playing at being ugly, mean and self - sufficient in a doomed effort to disguise his absolute emotional emptiness, feeling himself exposed layer by layer as the film approaches its devastating climax.

On the plus side, the film is gifted with a smart and appealing central performance from David Tennant, who trades in a very nice line of ticks, stammers and hesitations as he intones Laing's crackpot theories.

This wordless beginning, told in beautifully composed shots, sets the mood for a small, quiet, polished film that unfolds slowly but with remarkable assurance and features a striking central performance from Agata Trzebuchowska.

Oli caught it first at the London Film Festival, calling it «absolutely stunning, one of the year's best films,» and Jess reviewed it in full in Marrakech, agreeing that it's a «small, quiet, polished film that unfolds slowly but with remarkable assurance,» with some «truly remarkable cinematography,» and a «striking central performance» from young Polish actress Agata Trzebuchowska.

Of course, the film wouldn't be successful in its singular triumphs were it not for the superlative central performances from Huller and Simionschek.

The central performance by Bishil is extraordinary and the film wouldn't have worked without her absolute perfection in showing an impressionable and innocent girl coming into her own.

Despite many excellent things in the film, particularly the central performance of the inscrutable, enigmatic Andreotti I found this disappointing.

There was one a film trilogy, featuring outstanding special effects and a central performance from Andy Serkis, that failed twice in an Oscar category before finally taking home the prize on the third try.

Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer are superb in the central roles, and despite an unignorable bathetic turn in the supporting performances, this is an important film.

Cooper has the ability to find good lead actors to keep his films afloat (Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart, Christian Bale in Out of the Furnace, Depp and Edgerton here), but that seems to be all that concerns him, leaving little left over to sustain anything beyond the force of its central performance.

Despite a fine central performance from Idris Elba, that film tried to cover way too much ground with the result that it came across as a series of snapshots, fine enough in themselves but not enough to give us a true sense of the man which, say, concentrating on a specific time in his life may well have done.

Uncle Buck's central appeal is the performance by John Candy, and many who think of the late comedic actor nowadays probably remember much of his onscreen personality as that which he portrays in this film — occasionally overbearing, but with a heart of gold.

The Central Texas - shot «Joe» was also recognized with a special award for the late Gary Poulter, for his outstanding performance in the film.

But while there are some genuine insights and well - pitched performances (Eric Stoltz and Annabella Sciorra are appealing as the central pair, but Carlos Jacott and Chris Eigeman steal the film in supporting roles), the prickly dialogue that marked out «Kicking and Screaming» only spikes intermittently, and so the film overall goes down just a little too easily, a little too unremarkably.

Cregger's bland yet personable turn as the central character is certainly in sharp contrast to Moore's aggressively zany performance, with the actor's incessantly over-the-top work hitting the viewer like nails on a chalkboard and ensuring that the film becomes more and more of a chore to sit through as it progresses.

As a result, the film has an improvisational, spontaneous feel - greatly assisted by some fantastic performances - but Rafelson takes things too far towards the end, eventually abandoning the more effective elements in his script (ie the three central characters).

The greatness of the central performance and the film lies in making the most tangled situation appear simple and soluble.

The films he made between these animated efforts — Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)-- were among his better works, as the former evinced a real sense of poignant feeling that sometimes gets lost in his penchant for irony and pastiche, while the latter was a marvelous screwball farce with a fantastic central performance by Ralph Fiennes.

Filmed entirely in South Africa, with a cast made up of the country's citizens, this powerful, sometimes shocking account of the life of the apartheid martyr, Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu, frequently benefits from a strong central performance by Thabo Rametsi that helps to hold the story together.

Making one compromise after enough in an effort to scrounge cigarettes or food, the corrupting force of the predators around him in an alien environment is eye - openingly gruelling, thanks to the film's compelling central performance.

But the introspection offered by this many - layered approach would fall flat without the strength of its central performances, and while a number of Anderson's staple actors make appearances — Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, Adrien Brody, among others — Ralph Fiennes steals the film as M. Gustave H. Achieving the subtle distinction between delivering a huge performance without being over-the-top, Fiennes balances his theatrical gravitas with his rarely - executed gift for comedy, making it impossible to imagine anyone else in the role.

That anxious, inexhaustible quality is nicely captured by Dan Stevens» central performance in this amiable, bluff, broadly drawn film.

Keira Knightley's brave performance came in for criticism in some quarters for being «mannered» but I think she's the heart of the film; I can't imagine a better physical embodiment of Cronenberg's central idea of sexuality as a disruptive force.

Her performance as Tonya's chain smoking, negligent mother — who is utterly devoid of warmth even in a film where the ice is a central character — might be cartoonish, but it's compelling in its unpleasantness.

The action film, directed by Jeremy Rush, will star Frank Grillo, who has long been in the waiting wings for a lead role on the big screen after his strong central turn in MMA drama Kingdom (exclusively on - demand through Virgin in the UK) and scene - stealing performances in the Captain America franchise.

The life of Sidonie - Gabrielle Colette makes for fascinating drama in a nuanced and inspiring film with a luminous central performance

Writing in The Independent, Geoffrey Macnab praised Spall's «magnificent central performance» and the film's «occasional flights of visual splendour».

Eisenberg is the film's binding agent, his admirably Spartan central performance is as militantly unruffled as Delon in Le Cercle Rouge.

Dickson Leach's film debut is a solid one — a simple story which relies on its two central performances from Kendrick and Troughton, both of who deliver in spades (excuse the terrible pun).

Oli caught it first at the London Film Festival, calling it «absolutely stunning, one of the year's best films,» and Jess reviewed it in full in Marrakech, agreeing that it's a «small, quiet, polished film that unfolds slowly but with remarkable assurance,» with some «truly remarkable cinematography,» and a «striking central performance» from young Polish actress Agata Trzebuchowska (a non-professional actress who Pawlikowski found waitressing in his local cafe).

Partly funded by Kickstarter, and filmed in a 19th century house with its own alleged history of haunting, The House on Pine Street is competently directed, and is lifted considerably by Goss's convincing central performance.

There's persuasive evidence to support this sharp reputational shift: this was the moment when post-industrial architecture led to new forms of loft living; it was the era in which performance, film and installation became central features of contemporary art; and it's where more fluid notions of gender and sexuality were evolving in pulsing clubs and decaying factories.

Central to the exhibition will be fragments of the artist's writings and footages and videos as well as short films from the oeuvre of French director Jean Michel Bruyère in which Samb plays the role of an actor at the service of Bruyère's durational performance - installations.

Founded in 1945, the MCA Chicago «documents contemporary visual culture through painting, sculpture, photography, video and film, and performance,» at its central Chicago Loop location.

The violence of imperialism and the intimate spaces of resistance within globalization form central pivots in her work which take the form of multi-channel video installations, expanded cinema performances, essay films, photographs, discursive events, pedagogical platforms, and writing.

The central work in the installation, Incense, Sweaters, and Ice (2017), is a non-linear narrative film that explores the contemporary performance and surveillance of blackness.

One of the main features of the interior of the Pavilion was the central performance space in a 90 ft diameter 120 degree spherical mirror made of aluminized reflective PET film, which produced real images of the visitors hanging upside down in space.

While the focus on performance has become a central one in 2012, we found a group of four artists across different mediums — from sculpture, painting, film and living installation — each dynamic in their own right.

Some featured artists in the upcoming project include the performance artist David Levine, who will stage reenactments of famous film scenes set in Central Park.