Sentences with phrase «era film actor»

The Artist, which is set in the 1920s and tells the story of a silent era film actor, was actually mostly silent itself and employed subtitles — a fact that made the movie quite unique for its era, but may have also hurt ticket sales.

Not exact matches

* But thankfully Evans does a fantastic job as the Captain and all the other actors do great jobs too and don't make any of the characters too stupid or cheesy unlike how other 40s era films made in the 90s, 2000s and on have been (Red Tails anyone?)

«Daniel Day - Lewis would have always been counted as one of the greatest of actors, were he from the silent era, the golden age of film or even some time in cinema's distant future.

Fairbanks, in the silent era, was succeeded by the dashing Australian actor Errol Flynn - the major swashbuckling male star of the 30s and early 40s adventure films in the sound era.

The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), It Happened One Night is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the early sound era, packed with clever situations and gags that have entered the Hollywood comedy pantheon and featuring two actors at the top of their game, sparking with a chemistry that has never been bettered.

Westrate's delivery does not sound like a forced impression of the way actors talked in those films, but instead comes across rather naturally, while capturing all the elements which made the speed and style of speaking unique during the screwball comedy era.

Maybe not — but just as May remains one of the enduring writer / director / actors of her era, so too has Greta Gerwig — in films like Mistress America and Frances Ha, both of which she starred in and co-wrote — become one of ours.

Because if the director's previous film, The Master, charted the quest for meaning in affluent Eisenhower - era America, then this one shows where the search fetched up, in the fracturing counter-culture of southern California, where LAPD cops moonlight as B - movie actors and the Nation of Islam makes common cause with the Aryan Brotherhood.

Today the film is dated though not so much by the fashion worn by its actors, but by the pre-CGI era special effects that, let's be honest, looked a tad ridiculous even at the film's original release.

In an interview with RogerEbert.com, Selznick talked about his last film adaptation, «Hugo,» directed by Martin Scorsese, and «Wonderstruck's» use of deaf actors to play hearing characters in the silent - era scenes.

Actor and director George Clooney tried his hand at Krasinski's charisma with «Leatherheads,» another distinctly old - fashioned comedy, this one set in the 1920s and meant to evoke the films of that era.

Even more effectively than in Frankenstein, Whale adapts the shadowy darkness of the silent German Expressionist classics to the early sound era, a time when most Hollywood directors had seemingly forgotten everything that had been learned about the creation of mood, atmosphere and meaning through image over the prior 20 years in the struggle to capture the novelty of actors actually talking (By 1932, this phase of film was thankfully on it's way out, thanks to Whale, Howard Hawks (Scarface) and Busby Berkeley).

On second thought, the single best film from the Bromance Era, for both dick jokes and genuine pathos, is 2007's Superbad, which brings us back to Seth Rogen, as actor, coscreenwriter (alongside Evan Goldberg), and thus coarchitect of the «Jonah Hill can't stop drawing dicks» scene, which nowadays has a whole lot to answer for.

Using high - quality film stills and boxed sections focusing on major themes and personalities, Lace takes the reader through the early blackface actors, the servant roles so prevalent in Depression - era cinema, the broadened awareness of African Americans following WWII, the blaxploitation films of the 1960s, and the impact of Spike Lee's 1989 film, Do the Right Thing.