Sentences with phrase «fearless performance as»

James Mason gives a fearless performance as Humbert Humbert and Shelley Winters is suitably monstrous as Lolita's mother, while the improvisational skills of Peter Sellers in the role of Clare Quilty were allowed full rein.

Winning The Best Actress Award at Cannes, Kruger renders a gut - wrenching, fearless performance as a woman forced to choose between fading away and continuing the fight for justice.

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As a side note, the word «intrepid» (adjective: resolutely fearless; dauntless) in the context of fertilizer is strangely reminiscent of the late - 1960's «Go - Go» market, when dull little companies gave themselves exciting names to divert investors attention from the fact that they were, in fact, dull little companies - as when Minnie Pearl's Fried Chicken renamed itself «Performance Systems.&raquAs a side note, the word «intrepid» (adjective: resolutely fearless; dauntless) in the context of fertilizer is strangely reminiscent of the late - 1960's «Go - Go» market, when dull little companies gave themselves exciting names to divert investors attention from the fact that they were, in fact, dull little companies - as when Minnie Pearl's Fried Chicken renamed itself «Performance Systems.&raquas when Minnie Pearl's Fried Chicken renamed itself «Performance Systems.»

In the title role, Margot Robbie brings a ferocity to the part, as unapologetic and fearless in her performance as the figure skater was in her life.

The entire cast gives fearless, go - for - broke performances, especially Robert Sampson as Dean Halsey and the late David Gale as West's nemesis, Dr. Hill.

The movie surely owes something to Polanski, Cronenberg, et al., in its use of an apparently placid, upper - middle - class setting as the background for perverse horrors, but De Van's fearless, high - wire performance is uniquely its own.

[Garance] Marillier gives a fearless performance, seeming to age at least 10 years as the movie goes on, and the tense relationship with her wilder older sister feels authentic.

Actor Ezra Miller has rightfully earned a reputation for his willingness and ability to give fearless performances, including the one he gave as Patrick in The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

Jennifer is committed in her performance as Dominika and continues her streak of fearless performances.

Chief among the film's distinctions are the beautiful gloom of Conrad Hall's monochromatic cinematography... There are the fearless, wonderfully contrasting performances by Robert Blake and Scott Wilson as the sociopathic killers.

As Enid, Birch gives a performance of fearless, peerless candour; despite her unflagging bitterness towards anything phoney (which makes Enid, like Holden Caulfield before her, a bit of a phoney herself), Birch shows the character compassion, charging every angry barb with human frailty.

Up to and including the film's legendary final line, spoken by the great Joe E. Brown as Jerry's chief suitor, Wilder's sex comedy confuses sexual definitions on a regular basis and even obliterates them at times, most noticeably in the case of Lemmon's fearless comic performance.

The bet is between beloved veteran Michael Keaton for his fearless performance in Birdman against talented semi-newcomer Eddie Redmayne with his turn as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.

Performance of the year was Isabelle Huppert in Elle: fearless and funny and as complicated and contradictory and human as you'll ever see.

The film had already been rejected by several directors — some unhappy with the subject matter, others unwilling to make a film that hinged around the performance of a young girl as the possession victim — but Friedkin has always been fearless.

Anchored by Charlize Theron's emotionally raw performance as the fearless Imperator Furiosa, the movie flips the grim «one sad bro - dude wanders the scorched landscape» script of most apocalyptic narratives, instead presenting a vision of a fallen world where equality is still achievable through collaboration, trust, and heaps of scrap metal.

Whereas the book, intended as satire, is sickeningly misogynist, the movie mocks male machismo, plays like a violent comedy and showcases a fearless performance by Christian Bale (brilliant as a murderous fool with a great physique).

Robert Duvall received a Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his turn as the fearless surfing enthusiast Lt. Colonel Bill Kilgore, but his is one of many tremendous and indelible performances.

Paquin as the film's firebrand centre demonstrates once again what a fearless, direct and unselfconscious actress she is, and there are sensitive performances from the supporting cast.

And none of it would have worked nearly as well without Sturgess» fearless performance.

Ledger is fearless in the role, and his performance guarantees The Joker will be remembered as one of the all - time truly evil screen characters while hinting at the great loss the cinema world has suffered.

With fearless performances in Greg Araki's poetically disturbing MYSTERIOUS SKIN, in Rian Johnson's piquantly original BRICK and now in writer / director Scott Frank's THE LOOKOUT, Joseph Gordon - Levitt has established himself as one of the finest actors of his generation.

Me and Orson Welles Where: Embarcadero Center Cinema, 1 Embarcadero Ctr., 415-352-0835 When: All Week Why: Christian McKay, who previously starred in a one - man stage show as the Citizen Kane director both in his prime and his declining years, is a revelation in Richard Linklater's new comedy, with a performance both fearless and mesmerizing.