They are
delivered by actor, writer and group facilitator Jonathan Brown who was nominated Best Male Performer at Brighton Fringe 2007 and who has experience as a trainer / facilitator in various formats: Open Space, Forum Theatre, Community Building, Open Discussion Group, Question and Answer, drama teaching.
This year, the keynote address will be
delivered by actor and civil rights activist Danny Glover.
I suppose the only real surprises to be found come from the fact that there are some poignant dramatic scenes,
delivered by actors that aren't exactly known for doing them.
On one hand, the speech tests the audience's patience for legalese; on the other, it is a tour - de-force, a brilliant meditation on the fundamental tension between moral right and democratic law,
delivered by an actor so thoroughly in command of the character that it feels almost effortlessly tossed off — one can only imagine that Lincoln, the lawyer and the president, spent many sleepless nights playing this debate out in his mind.
To mark the occasion, and to acknowledge that more than half of 2013 is behind us, I've compiled a list of the finest film performances
delivered by actors this year, at least until this point.
Stanley Kubrick's little - seen first feature opens with a terse establishing monologue,
delivered by actor David Allen, setting up its story of four soldiers of «no other country by the mind ``...
But in 1942, the longest speech was
delivered by actor Greer Garson.
A reassuring speech
delivered by the actor on Donald Trump's win is boosting hopes for the 2020 election
It's a testament to the performances
delivered by the actors in the film's bigger roles that the remaining two hours aren't spent wishing for more Fantine.
The filmmaker's characters were once loquacious and given to summarizing themes aloud, but now they speak in coiled rhetoric that compresses years of longing and bitterness into a few poetic syllables, which are
delivered by actors in a fashion that emphasizes the alien inadequacy of words.
Furthermore, the voice acting is professional,
delivered by actors who do well with capturing the essence of each iconic superhuman.
Not exact matches
Filmed last year on location in Eastern Europe, the show is purportedly «a gritty, sexy, communist buddy cop show» popular in Romania in the 1980s — a conceit the producers maintain
by dubbing English dialogue over lines
delivered by Romanian
actors.
The CT Team is heading back to Albany today from Tampa and the RNC where Mitt Romney
delivered a shorter than expected speech after he was somewhat upstaged
by Actor Clint Eastwood.
(Encore Airing) The Power of Words — On this program, WAMC's Alan Chartock and Historian Harold Holzer discuss President Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural -
delivered by Academy Award Winning
Actor F. Murray Abraham.
His career consistently overshadowed
by that of his Brat Packer older brother,
actor Chad Lowe has nevertheless endured to
deliver numerous compelling performances in both television and film.
He's surrounded
by stereotypical, yet colorful characters played
by recognizable character
actors like Paul Rodriguez, Louis Anderson, Jamie Gertz, and pre-Matrix Laurence Fishburne as Voodoo, a messenger who doesn't care about what he
delivers, even if it is for the local drug runner, known as The Gypsy.
With Argo, writer Chris Terrio may have failed on the page — however,
actor / director Ben Affleck succeeds
by delivering a highly cinematic, suspenseful tale.
All the
actors were great, blood and splatter was
delivered by the bucket, directing was excellente (especially in the final two episodes), a lot of humor and funny moments, great hard rock music and Ashy Slashy at his best.
A.A. Dowd of the A.V. Club finds the movie «aggressively maudlin,» but admits that if there's «any power to this manipulative movie, it lies in quiet dignity of its lead performance,
delivered by a nonprofessional
actor from an actual leper colony.»
For imaginative and otherworldly material of this type, it requires a commitment from those onscreen and all the principal leads
deliver; Shannon is always an
actor that can express so much
by doing so little and it's easy to see why Nichols stands
by him but it was the emotive (if underwritten) Dunst and, particularly, the charismatic Edgerton that really stood out for me.
, as Kubrick, working from his own screenplay,
delivers a meandering midsection that's riddled with padded - out and pointedly needless sequences - with the decidedly (and continuously) far - from - engrossing atmosphere exacerbated
by O'Neal's often stunningly weak performance (ie the
actor delivers a bland and thoroughly forgettable turn entirely devoid of charisma or presence).
An overlong mess of narrative threads and a weak script which can not be saved
by the quality of
actors delivering it.
Award - winning writers like Lynn Nottage and Jack Thorne turned their stories into powerful performance pieces
delivered by that impressive roster of
actors and directed
by Danny Boyle.
Whitehouse and Freeman may have cut their teeth and first come to prominence as comic
actors, but both possess impressive dramatic chops, the colder elements of their characters
delivering jolts when prefaced
by the lightest sprinklings of humour.
However, Anaya
delivers a scarred, twisted, and evil mass murderer whose backstory is never revealed but superbly implied
by the
actor's performance.
That was just turned in
by Harry Potter screenwriter Steve Kloves, and has reportedly been
delivered to a handful of
actors, with a few in mind as possible choices for the two lead roles of Kaneda and Tetsuo.
On the set, she was surrounded
by heavy hitters in cinema including lead
actor, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt, Alfre Woodard and director, Steve McQueen, but
delivered an Oscar - worthy performance of her own in her very first movie role.
Just when things are most gloomy, however, Gilbert's wife, Lucy — or Kitty, as she's nicknamed (Lesley Manville)-- persuades her husband to accompany her to the Japanese Exhibition, which is the talk of London, and he becomes fascinated
by the tea ceremony and the extreme stylization of the kabuki theater, in which the
actors deliver their lines somewhere between speech and song.
Payne's film, written
by fellow Nebraskan Bob Nelson, also offers a biography of its central character
delivered by unusual means, in this case a mosaic compiled one piece at a time from former friends, enemies, and lovers of Woody (Best
Actor winner Bruce Dern), on the road from Billings, Montana to Lincoln, Nebraska with his son David (SNL alum Will Forte).
From a filmmaker of such pedigree and competence, and led
by one of the greatest
actors of today, Viggo Mortensen, we could say we expected nothing short of what was ultimately
delivered.
The cosmic absurdity of Camus's vision is
delivered with a gut - punch
by Visconti and Mastroianni in a stunning final scene that stands as one of the
actor's greatest moments.
The film — written
by Kurt Sutter and originally intended as a vehicle for rapper Eminem — finds Gyllenhall
delivering probably his most physically demanding performance yet as Hope, with the
actor bursting with muscle gain.
Pitt didn't ask for much for his services but he did request a cup of coffee personally
delivered by Reynolds himself - something that the Canadian
actor was willing to do.
The script (written
by Guest and
actor Jim Piddock, who also has a role as a retired mascot) fails to
deliver the comedic commentary on the art of mascotry that this ridiculous activity provides.
But in this series, he is voiced
by David Wald who is a well - known voice
actor for Funimation Entertainment and ADV Films but doesn't
deliver like DiMaggio.
Yeah Alex, this film looks like one of those pandering for an Oscar pieces that basically just begs for a golden statue
by delivering an original story filled amazing performances
by unheard of
actors.
Last fall, the
actor caught our attention
by calling the shoot «great» and «absolute fucking chaos,» and he's now offered up a few more tantalizing observations about the production on what kind of movie PTA may be
delivering.
and constant assassinations whirl, the hilarious barbs keep coming in dizzying succession, each
delivered with bullseye precision
by lead
actors and walk - ons alike.
Stoller was then joined
by voice
actors Andy Samberg and Katie Crown, plus co-director Doug Sweetland, to introduce a look at «Storks,» in which storks have given up
delivering babies in favor of working for an Amazon - like online retailer.
I Am Number Four is a tease, promising muscular genre goods it never
delivers, led
by a painfully robotic performance from English
actor Pettyfer, who spends the entirety of his screen time fussing with his unconvincing American accent.
One of the best performances I've seen this year is
delivered by Cristela Alonzo in «The
Actor,» a brilliantly acted installment of Sigal Avin's essential short film series, #ThatsHarrassment.
While» 75's cast included the likes of Erik Estrada, Sid Caesar and Jerry Stiller, this one had extended contributions
by such movie legends as James Stewart, Joseph Cotten, Olivia De Havilland and the great Jack Lemmon who passionately
delivers the typical «Airport» lines without sounding foolish (the ultimate compliment for any
actor).
Sean Astin and Wil Wheaton graced screens with classics that delight audiences still, Astin in THE GOONIES and Wil Wheaton in STAND
BY ME, there is expectations for these
actors deliver.
What Lies Beneath, scripted
by actor Clark Gregg (who most recently
delivered an Independent Spirit Award - nominated turn in the underseen indie The Adventures of Sebastian Cole) from a story
by Sarah Kernochan (All I Wan na Do!)
Golden Exits, the new film
by Alex Ross Perry, a favorite of this festival for years, is an explosion of the director's aesthetic, a symphony of
actors delivering alternately astonishing and overwrought dialogue and often framed in epic close - ups
by cinematographer Sean Price Williams that appear to glance fleetingly into the chasms of the characters» souls.
Another
actor to win Oscar in his one and only try, Charlton Heston
delivered a performance for the ages in William Wyler's classic historical epic as the titular Judah Ben - Hur, a former prince exiled to slavery
by a former childhood friend (Stephen Boyd) turned Roman tribune.
Led
by Blunt, who unflinchingly exposes Rachel's basest impulses and wears them on her bedraggled face, the
actors in «The Girl on the Train» collaborated closely with Taylor to
deliver performances as thought - provoking as they are nail - bitingly tense — and did so during rehearsals full of improvisation.
Though there were gems spread throughout the 90 - minute program, the ratio of snappy retorts to less - than - inspired exchanges, often
delivered by minor
actors in oft - forgotten vehicles, wasn't favorable.
Damon is joined in the supporting -
actor category
by Woody Harrelson as a military man
delivering bad news to next of kin in «The Messenger,» Christopher Plummer as aging author Tolstoy in «The Last Station,» Stanley Tucci as a serial killer in «The Lovely Bones» and Christoph Waltz as a gleefully savage Nazi in «Inglourious Basterds.»
An adaptation of a memoir, the»80s - set film largely looks to be a chance for Annette Bening to
deliver an awards - bait turn as real - life aging film star Gloria Grahame, who falls in love with a decades - younger
actor (Jamie Bell), providing a much - needed gender swap on the usual May - December romances offered up
by Hollywood.