Sentences with phrase «film the artist plays»

Not exact matches

While Waits remains somewhat of an anomaly in the music industry — he also acts, scores films and plays and was a regular guest on Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour show — he serves as an example of a truly multimedia artist, able to promote his work in one medium through the use of others.

Recording artist Jaymes Bullet's music has played a compelling part in both TV and feature film.

But all Royal Dick sucking aside, Summerhall is a terrifically cool space, with a fascinating community of international artists lounging in the courtyard, trolling the hallways, wandering in and out of its nearly 500 rooms (some filled with art, some abandoned, some undecided), playing music, watching films, hanging from the ceiling fans, getting naked, and making art in all mediums.

In the middle of the film, Keith (John Legend) explains to Seb, who is a ~ serious musician ~ grudgingly playing for»80s cover bands to make a buck, why being obsessed with classic, 20th - century jazz is holding him back as an artist.

The Artist plays around with the distinction between silent and sound cinema, resulting in the superficial entertainment value of a high concept film school joke.

Dave Franco plays Greg Sestero, the wide - eyed, unemployed actor Tommy persuades to come to LA with him and be in the film; The Disaster Artist is adapted from Sestero's 2013 memoir of acting in his anti-masterpiece.

The film is a deep character study of Riggan Thomson played by a moving and stellar Michael Keaton a once - time big movie star struggling to regain importance in his contemporary setting while trying to establish himself as an artist worthy of praise and to get rid of his «Birdman» image.

In 1987, he landed plum roles in two films that capitalized on the Brat Pack phenomenon, James Toback's The Pick - Up Artist, (opposite Molly Ringwald), and Less Than Zero, for which he won acclaim playing cocaine addict Julian Wells.Through it all, Downey cultivated an enviable instinct for role (and script) selection.

One would think that James F. as Tommy Wiseau is The Disaster Artist's titled protagonist, but the story is actually told through the eyes of Greg «Babyface» Sestero, played by James» brother, Dave F. Fans will know Greg as The Room's, Mark («Oh, hi Mark»), and it's his book that acts as the film's real source material.

As «The Disaster Artist» progresses, you notice the separation in his performance: Franco allows himself to play into the jokes when Tommy is off - camera, and he rejects all of his comedic instincts when filming scenes from «The Room.»

Already respected as one of the best actresses in film, Blanchett raises the bar even higher by playing 13 different roles in Manifesto, embodying some of the most influential and emotional artist manifestos in history.

Paul Schrader's «First Reformed,» in which Ethan Hawke brilliantly plays an alcoholic Protestant minister undergoing a profound spiritual and psychological crisis, is a stunning, enrapturing film, a crowning work by one of the American cinema's most essential artists.

It is hilarious and heartbreaking all at once, especially when factoring in Dave Franco's performance, a beautiful game of shadows in which he's forced to play the more respected artist against his older, more famous brother (who, just to kick things up a notch, method - directed the film as Wiseau).

In film, she played Epiphany Proudfoot in ANGEL HEART, opposite Mickey Rourke which earned her a Young Artist Award.

They include an alternate opening of Carol doing an voice exercise with an annoyingly - voiced woman interviewing her in a bookstore, more of and on Dani and Moe's rocky marriage, a scene featuring an accomplished female voiceover artist (played by Melissa Disney), and a number of additional clips from the convincing fake reality dating TV show woven throughout the film,

Theo Taplitz, in a remarkably mature, nuanced feature film debut, plays Jake, an introverted thirteen - year - old with dreams of being an artist who moves with this family from Manhattan to Brooklyn when his father inherits an apartment and a storefront there.

It's based on a play by Johan Heldenbergh who stars in the film as Didier, a gentle but irreligious bluegrass musician whose wild wife Elise (Veerle Baetens) is a tattoo artist and singer.

Metallica is set to play a pleasantly unexpected role in the festival as his year's artist in residence, with each of the four members of the band presenting a film.

But that can't be said about his breakout film, in which he plays a gay con artist lying and grifting his way into the lives of Donald Sutherland and Stockard Channing's upper - crust New Yorkers.

Tim Burton's Big Eyes only just released a trailer for its December release, but already it's created a resurgence of interest in Margaret Keane, the»60s and»70s artist played by Amy Adams in the film.

Redford says the NEA «played a fundamental role in helping me create Sundance Institute» and its «belief in my project was vital to launching programs that now support tens of thousands of American artists working in film and theater and new media.»

The filmmakers have assembled a stellar cast, including Felicity Jones, nominated for an Academy Award for her leading role in The Theory of Everything; Diego Luna, who was featured in 2008's Oscar - winning Milk and 2013's Elysium; Ben Mendelsohn, recently nominated for an Emmy for his leading role in Bloodline and co-starring in the upcoming Mississippi Grind; Donnie Yen, Hong Kong action star and martial artist who starred in Ip Man and Blade II; Jiang Wen, who co-wrote, produced, directed and starred in the award - winning Let the Bullets Fly and Devils on the Doorstep; Forest Whitaker, recently featured in the critically - acclaimed Lee Daniels» The Butler and winner of an Academy Award for his leading role in 2006's The Last King of Scotland; Mads Mikkelsen, who starred in The Hunt and was the memorable villain from 2006's Casino Royale; Alan Tudyk, who plays a performance - capture character in Rogue One, stars in the soon - to - be-released Con Man series and Trumbo, which releases this November; and Riz Ahmed, who was recently featured in Nightcrawler and starred in the BAFTA - winning film Four Lions.

The video also shows Franco speaking as Wiseau to the real Wiseau while filming the cameo which played over as The Disaster Artist's post-credits scene, earning Wiseau's praise for mastering the accent that the real Wiseau claims to have dropped.

The first of which is The Walk, a film directed by Robert Zemeckis, where the actor plays famous French high - wire artist Philippe Petit.

It allowed you to get a sense of Linklater's ideas as an artist through more laidback means, rather befitting of the nature of his films, as he goes about doing various activities with Benning, such as hiking or playing catch, offering anecdotes to the other artist, instead of delivering filmmaking mantras to camera in an interview set - up.

Italian artist Frammartino creates an offbeat cinematic experiment with this film, which surprises us by refusing to play by the rules as it explores the cycles of life in rural Calabria.

One especially unnerving scene places us at a swanky gala dinner that is interrupted by a performance artist — played, brilliantly, by the actor and stunt coordinator Terry Notary, whose motion - capture work in the recent «Planet of the Apes» films serves him ferociously well here.

The thrust of this film, though, is not the traditional circus circuit but rather the Oddities, characters on the outskirts who show their humanity: the Bearded Lady (Keala Settle) and Tom Thumb (Sam Humphrey) in addition to the likes of the Strong Man, Dog Boy and a glorious trapeze artist named Anne Wheeler (Zendaya), who is a love interest for Barnum's partner Phillip, played nicely by Zac Efron in his best screen outing in a long while.

Con artist films always work best, when they are short and sweet, played at a pace almost too quick for the audience to keep up with.

In the education of aspiring filmmakers, when every single bit of available information builds upon the artist's craft and know - how, vital role was played by countless prize film magazines.

Xiu Xiu: The Sent - Down Girl hasn't always received the same critical respect as the»90s other major films about the Cultural Revolution, in part because it was harmfully assumed that director Joan Chen — who was and still is best known to the Western world for her playing Josie Packard in Twin Peaks — was not a «serious» artist whose work deserved to be considered in the same breath as that of Tian Zhuangzhuang (The Blue Kite) or Zhang Yimou (To Live).

In the film Lily Collins plays Ellen, a promising young artist who has been in and out of treatment for her eating disorders.

East meets West, swords, samurai and giant robots, all playing into the clash between Batman and his Rogues gallery; «Batman: Made in Japan» featurette: To make a special film about Batman requires just the right artist to bring the mix of style and energy that is unmistakably anime.

Oscar Players... Maybe The Artist, directed by Michel Hazanavicius, an homage to Old Hollywood (France) Carnage, directed by Roman Polanski, an adaptation of the hit play (see previous posts)(France / Germany / Poland) The Descendants, directed by Alexander Payne, in which George Clooney has multiple crises (USA) My Week With Marilyn, directed by Simon Curtis, about a week in Marilyn's life during the filming of The Prince and the Showgirl (see previous posts)(UK)

In the film, she and Will Smith play con artists.

«It's a shocking waste because Jim Carrey's a good actor which he proved in that wonderful film I Love You Philip Morris where he played a gay con artist in love with Ewan McGregor.

Collette plays Annie, an artist who constructs uncannily realistic dioramas: miniature rooms that embody the film's theme of a larger, malevolent entity playing with human toys.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

Written by one - time screenwriter John Pinkney, producer Anthony Ginnane - who also gave us the Aussie supernatural thriller «Patrick» a year earlier - recruited members of Crawford Productions, a company that played a major role in bringing many celebrated Australian film artists to the international film scene during the Seventies.

May I suggest that, aside from its lovingly realized 1920's Broadway backdrop, there is something vaguely Italian about this film: something of Fellini in the way its true artist character (a gruff gangster played by Chazz Palminteri) is willing to die for his art, unlike the weak - willed playwright (John Cusack) who is taking credit for and uncertainly directing his overblown maiden script.

Based on The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by The Room star Greg Sestero (played by Franco's younger brother Dave in the film) and Tom Bissell, The Disaster Artist combines elements of Ed Wood, American Movie, and The Producers to tell the story of how Wiseau and Sestero became friends in San Francisco during the late»90s, moved to Los Angeles, and eventually teamed up to make The Room (which had a possible, unverified production budget of $ 6 million).

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Playing the film's production and release as an underdog story, The Disaster Artist, adapted from the book of same name by Wiseau friend and co-star Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell, is an enormously entertaining look at film making dreams and the legacy that comes with making a truly terrible one.

After the screening, Rogen — who produced The Disaster Artist and plays a script supervisor in the movie — expressed his admiration for Wiseau's film.

Atom Egoyan is a Canadian artist who began as part of the so - called Toronto New Wave of the eighties before reaching international prominence in the 90s, when his films Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter played in...

The Big Brawl was directed by Robert Clouse, who would earn his claim to fame directing the Bruce lee films Enter the Dragon and Game of Death, and give him credit in playing the film to Jackie's strengths as a defensive martial artist and his penchant for slapstick, rather than try to make another Bruce Lee - type vehicle.

The film reunites him with Winslet, who plays a landscape artist.

Final Portrait is a film directed by Stanley Tucci (of Blind Date, The Impostors, Big Night previously) starring actor Geoffrey Rush playing the famed Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti.

The blindingly real portrayal of the life of Gerda (played by Alicia Vikander), the wife of the artist who experiments with female identity and then decides to change gender, should have been the focus of the film, not the story of Lili / Elbe (Eddie Redmayne).

At the circus, he sees the trapeze artist, Anne Wheeler (Zendaya), perform her routine and immediately becomes enamored with her, supplying the film with its story of star - crossed lovers as obviously played upon in the couple's song, «Rewrite the Stars.»