Sentences with phrase «early film performances»

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Filming for the music video, which also features her daughter Blue Ivy, sparked early speculation that a new song was coming, according to Spin, which reports the song will make its live performance debut during the Super Bowl.

And just as Patagonia's films have relied on extensive footage of Ewing and Navarro kicking ass at their various outdoor sports, Lee has wisely stocked «Journey» with plenty of performance footage, showing Jackson at his artistic peak, «from the early days of the Jackson 5 to the Jacksons» 1981 «Triumph» tour, according to the New York Times.

In an earlier blog post about Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster movie, Interstellar, I lauded the film for its ambition, its visuals and the strong performances of its cast.

The film has already screened elsewhere in the world, and early reviews have been positive, especially for Wasikowska's performance.

A great deal of the impact in The Piano Teacher comes from Isabelle Huppert's performance, which comes as her finest career moment, as well as one of the year's early choices for 2002's Best Actress (personal list, of course: I highly doubt that the conservative Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be able to make it through the film).

There's a hint of camp pleasure to be gained from the film's early soft - focus domestic scenes and late hysterics, but «Elfie Hopkins» is sunk by a lame script and mannered performances.

From his early life to his journeys from New York, Cuba, and Paris, Crane's story and that of the loves that defined him is told with imaginative empathy, and with a no holds barred performance - in a film as introspective, rebellious, heartbreaking, and honest as Crane himself.

The film skews young, to be sure, and it isn't as memorable as the new Disney classics of the early 1990s, but there's still plenty here to hold the interest of viewers of all ages: delightful performances (particularly by Dench, plowing Angela Lansbury terrain), zinging comic dialogue and a soundtrack that's a wealth of sonorous riches.

Moss» striking performance led many viewers to question where she had been all these years; like many other fledgling Hollywood actresses, she had done time as a model and an actress in second - rate films while waiting for her big break.Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, on August 21, 1967, Moss decided that she wanted to be an actress at an early age.

As Lelio's earlier films demonstrated, the director's style is restrained but potent, which helps the impact of the actors» performances as well as the picture's fairly graphic love scene.

Miss Sadie Thompson isn't a bad film by any means, it has some great performances and even a early small part for one Charles Bronson.

Just as Bill Murray did with his early work in such films as Meatballs, the roguish Rockwell effortlessly works well as a role model for a young troupe of misfit kids, and his warm and affecting performance ranks as one of his most appealing character portrayals to date.

This film, and his performance, have regained much of the momentum they lost early in Oscar season and now seem like strong threats all around.

The film, set during Churchill's first term as Prime Minister in the critical early days of WWII, is carried by an unrecognizable Oldman's assured, multilayered performance.

Like that earlier film — a thunderous historical epic about the American West and greed that deepens and darkens considerably with Day - Lewis's performance as Daniel Plainview, an oil - prospecting Mephistopheles — Phantom Thread continually torques its own British midcentury grandeur.

Looking back at earlier films like City by the Sea or Stone, it's invigorating to see the effect a decent script and a strong performance to play against (from Frances McDormand and Edward Norton respectively) have on upping his game.

But this film, despite the excellent lead performance of Michael Fassbender (with a decent American accent — I'm American), moves too slickly between the technical, and often incomprehensible, history of Apple early computing and Jobs» seemingly autistic behaviour in terms of his personal relationships.

He has the formidable task of matching Richard Attenborough's legendary performance in the earlier film, though it's exciting casting.

Atypical for a horror film, there's not a single wrong - note performance to be found, though unsurprisingly the performers who exit the screen early impress the least.

But his career definitely got tripped up by his directorial debut «London Boulevard,» a film in the would - be mold of the classic British gangster films from the «60s and early «70s like «Get Carter,» Nicolas Roeg's «Performance,» and even Antonioni's «Blow Up.»

Early word has been strong for his performance but the film is said to be a «non-awards player» but we here remain hopeful of the film's quality.

For a film about early onset Alzheimer's, this is a remarkably wry, honest and even hopeful drama, anchored by another staggeringly sensitive performance by Julianne Moore.

It's entirely possible to want to question or discount the early moments of A Quiet Passion as being just the sort of film that it looks like it should be, but the script and an excellent performance from Catherine Bailey makes it clear Davies is doing something a hell of a lot more interesting than expectations.

Though he used to be somewhat of a punch line, known more for his shirtless roles in flaky rom - coms than his promising earlier work, recently McConaughey has been repairing his reputation with a string of outstanding performances in films like «Killer Joe,» «Magic Mike» and «Mud.»

You also fully believe the BFG's friendship with the little girl, Sophie, played by Ruby Barnhill, who early in the film threatens to be annoyingly bossy and stampy, but whose performance gives way to something more sweet and vulnerable — steering well clear of cute.

This was a great scene and, like the stuff with Sully early on, would have gone a long way toward a performance argument for the film amid all of the motion - capture debate last year.

The Gothams are always an early - season highlight, refreshing in terms of their championing of films and performances selected by various juries of film writers.

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.

A suitably tense and unrelenting chase movie, the film is memorable for an early pre-Terminator turn from Linda Hamilton as well as some genuinely unnerving child performances.

Yet it's in style and tone that the film comes alive, its prowling, dreamlike atmosphere, down - to - earth performances and unerring visual confidence echoing early Terrence Malick or the best of Harmony Korine.

As it is, the film has its qualities, most memorably an early, intense performance from Drew Barrymore as a young girl with psycho - kinetic abilities, and a terrific score from Tangerine Dream.

It's very early on and there are a number of other extraordinary performances and films that we haven't seen yet and that are being talked about.

Certainly, his latest film exhibits many of his most characteristic features: an early static shot of a concert audience once again emphasises spectatorship as a primary concern; we meet, as so often, a bourgeois family about to experience severe suffering; Emmanuelle Riva follows Isabelle Huppert, Juliette Binoche and Naomi Watts in giving an extraordinary performance in response to psychological terror; and violence, with its attendant guilt, comes as a shocking intrusion into this world.

I have a fun, brand new rule to try out and I can't wait to see your teams (remember to pay attention to the films used in this finale — you might have been banking on performances in the movies below for an early boost!).

And about good performances in bad films the first name that came to my mind was Ashley Judd and her fascinating performances in Eye of the beholder, Bug and Come early morning; and Jessica Biel is also pretty good in that awful mess named Home of the brave.

Fessenden, in one of his earliest performance, brings energy to the film.

Davis, of course, has been a familiar on - screen face since her small but memorable early roles in eventual classics like «Tootsie» and «Fletch,» continuing through star turns in enduring iconic films including «Beetlejuice,» «The Fly,» «A League of Their Own,» «The Long Kiss Goodnight,» «Stuart Little» and career high points like her Oscar - nominated turn in «Thelma & Louise» and her Oscar - winning performance in «The Accidental Tourist.»

A 2003 version (Ned Kelly) starring Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom and Naomi Watts holds the most prominent spot in modern cinematic consciousness, while those recalling Jagger's early film career tend to reference his notable role in Nicole Roeg and Donald Cammell's Performance, premiering only months before Ned Kelly (which Jagger has publicly professed as never having seen).

Early fan reactions from the film have been immensely supportive of Ehrenreich's performance, praising the actor's ability to honor Ford's performance while making the role of Han Solo entirely his own.

While I didn't find enough here to satisfy me (in fact, I grew bored with it fairly early), the performances and the look of the film were enough to keep my interest modestly throughout.

BOOM FOR REAL The Late Teenage Years of Jean - Michel Basquiat Description: Sara Driver's documentary is both a celebration of and elegy for the downtown New York art / music / film / performance world of the late 1970s and early»80s, through which Jean - Michel Basquiat shot like a rocket.

If you read the review earlier this week, Robin Wright delivers the performance of her career in The Congress, an animation and live - action hybrid that is fully realized and completely spellbinding as one of the year's best films.

As with the film's earlier segments, these scenes are ably staged and benefit from Gerwig's smart, appealing performance, but they add nothing either to the story or the character.

A few obvious makeup changes make her resemble the woman we saw so often on TV (curly hair, darker skin, the swelling belly), but Jolie's performance depends above all on inner conviction; she reminds us, as we saw in some of her earlier films like «Girl, Interrupted» (1999), that she is a skilled actress and not merely (however entertainingly) a Tomb Raider.

Stage Beauty (2004) 3/5 I had expected a great deal from Richard Eyre which stars two great actors (Claire Daines and Billy Crudup) early in their careers and thought the film is entertaining enough and the performances, particularly from the leads, are excellent, the film as a whole is rather underwhelming.

Continuing the year of the vet, earlier we saw strong performances that could attract voters» attention from a past winner, 70 - year - old Helen Mirren, in Woman In Gold (a film The Weinstein Company has already started campaigning for its star); and 72 - year - old Blythe Danner getting a full - bodied leading role in the hit adult indie I'll See You In My Dreams which has grossed over $ 7 million so far for new distributor Bleecker Street, which will probably be encouraged to launch an Oscar campaign on her behalf.

In his early work Wyler already showed a tendency to hop from genre to genre, presiding over John Barrymore's most controlled film performance, in the taut legal drama Counsellor at Law (1933), and an early comedy script from Preston Sturges, The Good Fairy (1935).

Earlier this year his film, Birth of a Nation, made impact at Sundance Film Festival 2016, sending shockwaves throughout the world with his riveting performance leading to many accolades at the film festival.

Gandolfini made a name for himself early in his career as a character actor, whose performances were almost unrecognizable from one film to the next.

While I'm a fan of director Paul Thomas Anderson's earlier work (Boogie Nights and Magnolia), the big draw for this film is the perhaps last cinematic performance we may see from Daniel Day - Lewis, who last collaborated with Anderson in the 2007 film There Will Be Blood.