Sentences with phrase «director of the films act»

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American actor Jim Caviezel has revealed a conversation he had with film director Mel Gibson, in which he was told he may never act again if he played the role of Jesus in The Passion of the Christ.

Recent and upcoming releases include the romance - horror hybrid Spring; the hotly - anticipated The Look Of Silence, Oppenheimer's companion piece to The Act Of Killing; The Connection, a 70's - set true crime epic and European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection starring Oscar ® winning Best Actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist); The Keeping Room, from director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), based on Julia Hart's acclaimed Black List screenplay, starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Sam Worthington; the multiple Cannes award winning The Tribe, filmed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with a cast of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animalOf Silence, Oppenheimer's companion piece to The Act Of Killing; The Connection, a 70's - set true crime epic and European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection starring Oscar ® winning Best Actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist); The Keeping Room, from director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), based on Julia Hart's acclaimed Black List screenplay, starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Sam Worthington; the multiple Cannes award winning The Tribe, filmed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with a cast of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animalOf Killing; The Connection, a 70's - set true crime epic and European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection starring Oscar ® winning Best Actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist); The Keeping Room, from director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), based on Julia Hart's acclaimed Black List screenplay, starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Sam Worthington; the multiple Cannes award winning The Tribe, filmed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with a cast of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animalof deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animalof the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animalof 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animals.

She acted with the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Charles Playhouse in Boston, and, with such future film luminaries as Al Pacino she appeared in several off - Broadway productions A tentative stab at film acting in The Wedding Party, filmed at Sarah Lawrence in 1963 but released in 1969, might have been forgotten save for its roster of celebrities - to - be: Jill Clayburgh, Robert DeNiro and director Brian De Palma.

The inclusion of an absurd yet thoroughly captivating celebrity cameo, which essentially stands as a high point within the entire series, perpetuates Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb's better - than - expected third - act atmosphere, although, unfortunately, director Shawn Levy ensures that the film concludes with a whimper by offering up an excessively sappy final stretch that just goes on and on - with this underwhelming climax confirming the movie's place as an almost passable concluding entry in a seriously forgettable trilogy.

Despite the unpromising pulp origins of the film's hero and the acting resume of its lead actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, director John Milius grounded his pre-Sumerian fantasy in a level of reality sorely lacking in most other fantasy films (even Barbarian's inauspicious sequel Conan the Destroyer).

From Czarist Russia's Moscow Art Theatre to Hollywood's biggest film, narrator Gregory Peck joins an A-list of Hollywood stars to take us through the odyssey of two Russian born Hollywood legends: The great acting teacher Michael Chekhov and the amazing director George Shdanoff.

Director Stanley Kubrick, working from a script cowritten with Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson, kicks Paths of Glory off with an admittedly less - than - engrossing stretch, as the movie boasts (or suffers from) a somewhat talky first act that doesn't contain much in the way of compelling elements - although, by that same token, it's clear that the film benefits substantially from Kubrick's stellar directorial choices and a host of above - average performances.

It's certainly unique to hear Angelina Jolie sharing a scene with Seth Rogen, or Jackie Chan acting opposite David Cross, and it would be easy for the film to coast on its marquee names, but first - time director Jennifer Yuh effortlessly pulls off a tricky ensemble juggling act that gives everyone a slice of the spotlight.

Likewise, this director's decision to act as a bridge between these prodigious talents and the film industry can not be undervalued, and this film will definitely resonate well with fans of Livingston's 1990 classic.

Unlike the vast majority of his contemporaries, however, he could truly act as well as make music, delivering superb, natural performances in films for directors like Martin Scorsese, Sam Peckinpah, and John Sayles.

He begins by exploring the director's early life and career in his native Hungary, revealing how Curtiz shaped the earliest days of silent cinema in Europe as he acted in, produced, and directed scores of films before immigrating to the United States in 1926.

DICK DINMAN SALUTES GARY COOPER»S BLU «THE HANGING TREE»: Producer / host Dick Dinman and Warner Home Video's Senior Vice President of Classic and Theatrical Marketing George Feltenstein celebrate the Warner Archive's lustrously restored Blu - ray release of THE HANGING TREE one of legendary superstar Gary Cooper's most unjustly forgotten masterworks and actress Joan Leslie (who at the tender age of 16 costarred with Cooper in SERGEANT YORK) and acclaimed director Michael Anderson (who directed Cooper's final two films) regale Dick with their praise of Cooper's uniquely invisible acting technique.

Fernandez felt grateful for the opportunity, but reportedly hated the job itself so much that he hearkened off for the greener pastures of acting.Fernandez landed his first formal acting assignments as a guest star on episodes of the network series Cold Case and Jericho in 2006 and 2007, but truly came into his own as a star of low - medium budgeted independent films such as director Marc - Andre Samson's taut thriller Interstate (2006)(as a young man trying desperately to reach his girlfriend in Los Angeles, but waylaid by drugs and the trappings of an odd motel), and directors Lucky McKee and Trygve Diesen's violent psychological thriller Red (as a disturbed young man who plays the role of accomplice in killing a senior citizen's dog).

Suicide Squad director David Ayer is refuting rumors of Jared Leto's bizarre method acting behavior during the film's production.

Directors put comedic spins on heist films and called them capers, allowing us to laugh at the absurdity of a group of fairly inept individuals attempting to pull off such a massive robbery, and some flicks even started leaving out certain acts to allow us to fill in the blanks and create a more compelling, unique story.

Maddin «invited the sad spirits of lost films to possess his assembled actors and compel them to act out the old stories, while the spirit - photographer / director captured the precious narratives with his camera.»

He gets to act really crazy, and burn up the screen with monologues about the majesty his his mighty cock, even thought writer director Richard Shepard's film is more of an amuse - bouche than anything else however.

Q: Because you've done a lot of acting in the past, when directing the performances in the film did you apply what you'd learnt or valued from directors on other projects?

Director Judd Apatow is no stylist, and the film suffers a bit from a general visual drabness and a limping pace that keep some of the jokes from hitting as squarely as they should and drains some of the third - act momentum.

Offered a job as assistant director by Marco Modugno after appearing as an extra in Modugno's Bambule (1979), Soavi continued to act in such films as Alien 2 and City of the Living Dead (1980) while serving in multiple capacities including assistant director to filmmaker Aristide Massaccesi in the early»80s.

The director just about pulls off this delicate balancing act, although he occasionally risks having a bit too much comic fun with the foibles of the film industry.

Director Scott Waugh «s biggest error is to give the film the same overly dramatic, utterly heroic tone he brought to Act of Valor.

We'll be as clear as we can while hinting around at a few things regarding director Lenny Abrahamson's splendidly acted, if ever - so - slightly dodgy, film version of the 2010 Emma Donoghue novel.

But writer - director - star Alice Lowe, who previously co-wrote and acted in Ben Wheatley's 2012 film Sightseers, takes prenatal terror in a new direction with Prevenge, in which an unborn child bids its expectant mother to commit a string of murders.

The first act is admittedly a bit messy as director Colin Trevorrow gets all of his pieces on the board, but the story really picks up once the Indominus Rex breaks free from confinement, turning into a full - fledged adventure film with no shortage of dinosaur - caused destruction.

After winning three Academy Awards and establishing himself as one of the world's greatest living actors, Daniel Day - Lewis issued a statement last week announcing that he was retiring from acting, and that the film he recently completed, director Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread, would be his last film performance.

The special effects are nifty enough (demons hanging from the ceiling, fingers being chopped off) and you can tell the directors are well - steeped in the subterranean worlds of The Exorcist and Blue Velvet but even as an act of homage, the film falls flat.

Something to note; of Daniel Day - Lewis's five Oscar nominations (and three wins) all have come from top 5 films with Best Picture, Director and Screenplay nominations and three with a supporting acting nomination as well.

Guest director Joshua Oppenheimer, whose wrenching «The Act of Killing» debuted at TFF in 2012, has put together an eclectic program that includes Werner Herzog's 1970 «Even Dwarfs Started Small» (with Herzog in attendance), Jon Bang Carlsen's intriguing and obscure «Hotel of the Stars» (1981), an hour - long Danish documentary about extras who live in a shabby apartment hotel in Hollywood; the only movie directed by Charles Laughton, 1955's exquisitely - shot «The Night of the Hunter,» starring a brilliant, terrifying Robert Mitchum, and fortuitously playing in his centenary year; «Salam Cinema,» Mohsen Makmalbaf's 1995 record of auditions by aspiring actors; a new print of Frederick Wiseman's long - banned, corrosive «Titicut Follies» (1967), filmed in a notorious Massachusetts hospital for the criminally insane; and Jacques Demy's glorious, gorgeous musical, «The Umbrellas of Cherbourg» (1967), starring the glorious, gorgeous Catherine Deneuve.

Shane Black (Iron Man 3) was one of the producers and has assigned Scott Waugh, in just his second film after Act of Valor, as the director.

After being featured in two films, Lynskey, with the help from her friend and director Gaylene Preston, changed her approach to acting and was advised to become a stronger person to handle the rejection of Hollywood.

The violence of the acts carried out against Mildred's daughter is reflected in the colour of the boards, but the words themselves wouldn't have the same effect if they were written in Futura or Comic Sans.Typography is a vital component of writer / director Martin McDonagh's film, and there's only one font that is bold and in - your - face enough for Mildred's cause.

It's got a decent director on - board (I really liked Act of Valor), a great cast (including Michael Keaton who I didn't even know was in the film until I saw the TV spot during the Super Bowl) and, of course, killer stunts (which look phenomenal because they were largely shot for real).

Which is why even if the director's last films sometimes necessitate an act of masochism to watch, his continued circling of familiar tropes nonetheless keeps them interesting.

The film was also notable for the casting of various maverick directors in acting roles.

Not surprisingly, Haneke's Amour, a French / German / Austrian coproduction, made a clear sweep of the major awards; for best film, director, and acting awards for the two leads Jean - Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva.

In his eighth feature film, The Hateful Eight, director Quentin Tarantino once again invites a cast of familiar faces to act on screen.

And that gives you a shared history, language, a shorthand, so when you're writing for them, when you're acting, it makes all of those directors who work with the same people, makes their films so rich.

In the hands of director Raymond De Felitta, whose «City Island» is a delightfully funny tale of a dad whose poker nights are really spent going to an acting class, the tale reaches proportions that can be compared to the classic film «Bonnie and Clyde» with some aspects that could remind some of «American Hustle.»

With this exuberant film, writer - director John Hughes established himself as the bard of American youth, vividly and empathetically capturing how teenagers hang out, act up, and goof off.

Starring the bandleader Paul Whiteman, then widely celebrated as the King of Jazz, the film drew from Broadway variety shows of the time to present a spectacular array of sketches, performances by such acts as the Rhythm Boys (featuring a young Bing Crosby), and orchestral numbers overseen by Whiteman himself (including a larger - than - life rendition of George Gershwin's «Rhapsody in Blue»)-- all lavishly staged by veteran theater director John Murray Anderson and beautifully shot in early Technicolor.

The voice acting and visuals are spot - on, and director Carlos Saldanha and the screenwriters impart the brutality of bullfighting without becoming too intense for a PG - rated film.

Special Features: • Brand new 2K transfer from the original camera negative • High Definition Blu - ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations • Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing • Audio commentary with co-writer and producer Mardi Rustam, make - up artist Craig Reardon and stars Roberta Collins, William Finley and Kyle Richards • New introduction to the film by director Tobe Hooper • Brand new interview with Hooper • My Name is Buck: Star Robert Englund discusses his acting career • The Butcher of Elmendorf: The Legend of Joe Ball — The story of the South Texas bar owner on whom Eaten Alive is loosely based • 5ive Minutes with Marilyn Burns — The star of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre talks about working on Eaten Alive • The Gator Creator: archival interview with Hooper • Original theatrical trailers for the film under its various titles Eaten Alive, Death Trap, Starlight Slaughter and Horror Hotel • US TV and Radio Spots • Alternate credits sequence • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gary Pullin • Collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film, illustrated with original archive stills and posters

PICTURE Inside Llewyn Davis (runner up: American Hustle) DIRECTOR Joel and Ethan Coen Inside Llewyn Davis (runner up: Alfonso Cuaron) ACTRESS Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine (runner up: Adéle Exarchopoulus) ACTOR Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis (runner up: Chiwetel Ejiofor) SUPPORTING ACTRESS Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle (runner up: Lupita Nyong «o) SUPPORTING ACTOR James Franco, Spring Breakers (runner up: Jared Leto) FOREIGN FILM Blue is the Warmest Color (runner up: A Touch of Sin) NON-FICTION [tie] The Act of Killing & At Berkeley) EXPERIMENTAL FILM Leviathan

Onboard Film Weekly's second Cannes film festival special are the cream of British acting talent from Mike Leigh's Another Year; Tournà © e's Mathieu Amalric and Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai.

A film with a better script, better acting, better director, and far more realistic then Pirates could ever dream of being.

• François Truffaut's La Chambre verte — the blackest of Truffaut's films, but a very distinguished one, stunningly well acted by the director himself and by Nathalie Baye, moving into big roles after excellent supporting work in La Nuit américaineand L'Homme qui aimait les femmes.

Argo, Ben Affleck's third feature film, is looking more and more like a lock for the Best Picture prize at Sunday's Oscars, and even if the man himself didn't get a Best Director nomination, it's still a remarkable culmination of one of the most fascinating second acts in Hollywood.

Director / Screenwriter (and part - time comic book writer) Joss Whedon's love for comics is apparent right from the start with an opening act that would be the climax in many action films and carries through to one of the more spectacular final battle scenes you're likely to see for years to come.

I spoke with Bogdanovich in Beverly Hills as he prepared for the release of «She's Funny That Way,» an acting role in another director's film, and «Wait For Me,» a new directing project for producer Brett Ratner.