Sentences with phrase «extraordinary performance act»

Not exact matches

Though this execution could verge toward the excessively operatic, as in the heavy - handed De Mayerling à Sarajevo (1940), these managerial efforts largely paid off, with a variety of fine performances across the generic and national spectrum: a spirited Lien Deyers in the tongue - in - cheek The Company's in Love; Magda Schneider, who also starred in Ophuls» Love Story (Une histoire d'amour, 1933), as the tragically morose Christine in Liebelei, her final despair registered in an extraordinary extended close - up; and acting luminaries James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Robert Ryan, searing in Caught's three - way confrontations.

Emily Blunt delivers an extraordinary performance in the lead role (rather than simply acting drunk, she plays Rachel as an alcoholic desperately trying to look sober), but it feels like she's in a different film — one that isn't marred by soapy plot turns and Taylor's messy direction.

It's a stunning moment, watching him actually walk and then be subsequently reminded that Redmayne is indeed acting, which speaks volumes to his extraordinary performance.

Lavant has an extraordinary presence, as anyone who has seen the man's performances can attest, and catching glimpses in this video of his way with movement / motion of the body and the art of physical acting is mesmerizing.

After The Home Secretary's extraordinary performance on Andrew Marr this morning where she set out her cunning plan to bring out guidelines for the judges in relation to the interpretation of Article 8 of The European Convention — enshrined in our law by The Human Rights Act — the sardonic side of my temperament would like to substitute the word «government» in the quote above for «freedom».