Sentences with phrase «film actors such»

A new effort seems to fall somewhere between these genres, with well - known Western film actors such as Kiefer Sutherland, Tom Selleck, James Caan, Danny Glover and Ed Harris teaching history lessons.

(I know I am not perfect — I have a «real» nose, not one like a film actor such as Petr Fedorov... I think it best to let a woman know that they will be corresponding with Tom Hanks, not Brad Pitt....

Not exact matches

Hoffman had a long and critically acclaimed career as an actor, appearing in films such as «Boogie Nights» (1997), «The Talented Mr. Ripley» (1999), and «The Master» (2012).

The film boasts a shockingly good ensemble that allows typically dramatic actors like Chiwetel Ejiofor a chance to be funny and comedians such as Kristen Wiig and Donald Glover a chance to do their thing.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

Actor John Travolta — best known as starring in films such as Pulp Fiction and Grease — will be among the numerous celebrity attendees, serving as a special guest speaker.

Set mostly in the fictional African nation of Wakanda, the film boasts a director and primary star who are both African - American men (director Ryan Coogler and actor Chadwick Boseman), while the cast also features numerous other notable black stars, such as Oscar winners Lupita Nyong» o and Forest Whitaker as well as Angela Bassett and Michael B. Jordan.

While best known for appearing in such horror films as The Pit and the Pendulum and The Last Man on Earth, the late actor Vincent Price was also a world - class gourmet.

Primate «actors» have been featured in major Hollywood films such as The Hangover Part II, The Wolf of Wall Street and Babe: Pig in the City.

Hans Walter Conrad Veidt was a German actor best remembered for his roles in films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Man Who Laughs, and, after being forced to migrate to Britain by the rise of Nazism in Germany, his English - speaking roles in The Thief of Bagdad, and, in Hollywood, Casablanca, in which he appeared as Major Strasser.

2018-04-08 18:44 Ryan Gosling is a Canadian actor known for his film roles in hits such as The Notebook, Crazy, Stupid, Love and La La Land.

Ryan Gosling is a Canadian actor known for his film roles in hits such as The Notebook, Crazy, Stupid, Love and La La Land.

Taking on minor film roles beginning with 1979's Hairspray, the burgeoning young actor would subsequently appear in such films as Milos Foreman's Ragtime (1981) and Woody Allen's Zelig (1983), though early struggles with alcohol and substance abuse threatened to sideline his screen career in the mid -»80s.

The film's 1080p transfer is stunning, with the actors» skin tones, tanned or not, rendered accurately, and the bright colors of the Spanish - set scenes countering the dark grading of the England sequences with exceptional clarity, though the level of grain is sometimes excessive, and as such distracting.

Hopper's choice to have the actors singing during filming, rather than lip - synching to a pre-recorded soundtrack, gives such impact to the performances — even with his overuse of certain other filming choices — creates such a complete world that even with its flaws, Les Miz had me in the palm of its metaphoric hand throughout.

Blake started his own film career as an actor in 1943; he played bits in A-movies and leads in B - movies, paying his dues in such trivialities as Gangs of the Waterfront and Strangler of the Swamp (both 1945).

The filmmakers went into this project insisting that all the actors do their own singing, and while «crooners» like Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth (let alone Stellan Skarsgård, who is very, very brave to have done his own singing) are not going to go down in history as much more than barely competent, star Meryl Streep, who has already proven her musical chops theatrically and previously in such films as Postcards from the Edge, is marvelous, if a bit too country - yodelish for this patently pop score.

Like the directors that so clearly inspired Affleck (William Friedkin, Sidney Lumet, among others) so often did with true stories turned into captivating entertainment, the actor / director has made such a fine - tuned, well - oiled machine of a film.

Already a familiar face in world cinema thanks to fine performances in such films as Open Your Eyes and Talk to Her, Spanish actor Fele Martínez teetered on the brink of international success in the wake of work for such internationally recognized directors as Alejandro Amenábar and Pedro Almodóvar.

This misstep didn't seem to hurt the actor, whose name was already attached to a number of high - profile projects that would no doubt further increase his star wattage.Two such projects were the edgy indie films American Psycho and Requiem for a Dream, both released in 2000.

One year later, Apfel appeared again as an actor known for playing distinguished characters in films such as Romance of the Underworld (1928), and the 1931 version of The Maltese Falcon.

Drawing inspiration from such pivotal usage of practical effects in films like E.T., The Empire Strikes Back, and The Thing, the team intends on building a practical robot puppet for the young actor playing Wei to interact with and get better performances from.

American director Alan Rudolph was the son of Oscar Rudolph, a one - time actor who later directed such low budget films as Twist Around the Clock and such economical TV fare as «The Lone Ranger.»

Billed as Duke York Jr. when he entered films in 1933, this muscular actor essayed such action - oriented roles as King Kala in Flash Gordon (1936).

This is studio filmmaking 101 and needs to be abolished from todays films, there is no need for such a boring film to exist and it wastes the talents of each actor.

After taking some time off from directing and scriptwriting to appear in such films as Out of Sight (1998), Brooks resumed his director - screenwriter - actor hyphenate with The Muse (1999), starring opposite Andie MacDowell and Sharon Stone as a struggling Hollywood scriptwriter in search of divine inspiration; Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World followed in 2005.

With a solid voice cast that emphasizes their vocal work over their star power (there are recognizable actors in a few roles such as Bratt and Bernal (Blindness), but none that cast in order to sell the film commercially), a vibrant color scheme, outstanding visuals, terrific toe - tapping tunes, and an imaginative concept, this will likely go down as a favorite Pixar film for many who follow the animation company's output religiously.

I think it's a shame that Brian DePalma wasted such a varied cast of talented actors and I think that if the film would have been directed by someone else, this film would have turned out quite differently.

Whether filming in HD or with a hidden camcorder, actor and animal - rights activist Hannes Jaenicke aims to reveal the global chain that leads to the extinction of the most amazing animals, such as polar bears and sharks.

But this movie also like Ghiblis other movies get moderately big actors or much older actors, such as in this film they got Carol Burnett, and Amy Poelher and Will Arnett.

A young voice actor with such heart to carry this film is rare, but Gonzalez does it flawlessly.

When we go into a film of this sort, we expect to see White People Behaving Badly, but to view an African - American who shows such antagonism toward his own people, it becomes a more startling sight — and it must be tougher for an actor to take on such a part.

The film Creation, which some people take to refer to both the creation of the Origins book and the creation / evolution controversy, stars Paul Bettany, who is best known for his roles in popular movies such as «The Da Vinci Code,» «Master and Commander,» and «A Beautiful Mind» (in which he won the London Film Critics» Award for Best British Actor).

For the most part, however, the actor's last two decades as a performer were distinguished by a steady stream of cheap, threadbare horror films, reaching a nadir with such fare as Hillbillies in a Haunted House (1967).

Those who flout the established taboos often face such harsh consequences as losing their jobs, their homes or custody of their children, so the Hasidic actors who appeared in the film courted peril and banishment simply by taking part.

Everyone must watch this film its my humble request... I liked it so much that i watched it more than 100 times.The song the cameras all are well set... Both actors looks charming and they have really given their maximum effort in making such a marvelous film... Come up with new films like this in future..

It was while she was working as an extra in various film productions that she answered Kusama's ad for actors; after being cast as Girlfight's protagonist, she trained intensively to condition her body like that of a boxer to such a degree that, at one point, she was even asked to go pro.

The common problem of Solondz's characters is an inability to see the world in shades of grey, which is fitting in a film where color - garish, boring or just plain ugly - is so important, and the actors are working off palettes of such extreme emotions.

With looks that allow him to either play soft - skinned pretty boys or greasy - haired white trash refuse, Sarsgaard has used his malleable features and brooding charisma to great effect in such films as Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry.A graduate of St. Louis» Washington University, where he was a co-founder of the improvisational group Mama's Pot Roast, Sarsgaard studied at the Actors» Studio in New York.

In addition, one of the organization's core values is identifying new talent and nurturing young filmmakers by awarding promising talent with «Directorial Debut» and «Breakthrough Actor» awards as well as grants to rising film students and by facilitating community outreach through the support of organizations such as The Ghetto Film School, Reel Works Teen Filmmaking, and Educational Video Center.

«Chadwick Boseman was only recently confirmed to be entering the Marvel universe as the emphatic superhero the Black Panther, and while such news left many a film fan scratching their heads as to who this young actor is, it should be a question that's easier to answer when James Brown biopic Get On Up has been released; such is the sheer brilliance of the electric performance by this talented star»... Read More»

Although it paid homage to the original cast and even brought along many great actors as cameos such as Charles Dance (Game Of Thrones) and Bill Murray (Garfield), there is no doubt that the final 25 minutes of the film was a visual masterpiece.

Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady Bird,» which won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for women in film both as actors and also writers and directors and producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them in their homes, I think all of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop of filmmakers who want to tell stories about women.»

Donald Sutherland is one of the most respected, prolific and versatile of motion picture actors, with an astonishing resume of well over one hundred and fifty films, including such classics as Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen; Robert Altman's M * A * S * H; John Schlesinger's The Day of the Locust; Robert Redford's Ordinary People; Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900; Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers; Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now with Julie Christie; Alan Pakula's Klute with Jane Fonda; Federico Fellini's Fellini's Casanova and in Brian Hutton» sKelly's Heroes with Clint Eastwood, who later directed him in Space Cowboys.

At the film's press day, actor Paul Giamatti, who's also an executive producer on the movie, talked about what drew him to John Dies at the End, his most memorable experience of the shoot, working with such new actors, how he sees the industry now, and that he doesn't think a film like Sideways would even get made today.

With so much non-fiction footage available, culled from such a long time span, the last thing the case would seem to cry out for is a conventional dramatization, the kind in which glamorous actors put on just enough makeup to look 10 percent like the people they play, without any hope of imbuing the roles with the intensity already captured on film.

While Hancock's films tend to be a tad rote and unremarkable, the prospect of seeing Keaton in such a meaty role is hard to resist, and indeed the actor looks to be knocking this one out of the park.

Aronofsky, however, has no such pre-approval for his latest flight of fancy; with only a trio of past performance bids to suggest the actors» branch is at least aware of his films, we still have no idea how the Academy really feels about him or his craft.

The cover story, «Grade B — But Choice,» is devoted to an obscure 1934 musical called «Young and Beautiful,» featuring «budding starlets, grade - A character actors, grade - B musical numbers, a pair of vaudevillians, a look behind the scenes of Hollywood, bogus appearances by Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton and a script by Dore Schary» [later famous as a producer of films such as «Crossfire,» «Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House,» «They Live By Night» and «The Red Badge of Courage»].

Beginning his career on stage, the English actor made his film debut in 1992's «Alien 3» before landing roles in such films as «Moulin Rouge,» «Doom,» «Pirate of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides» and «Dredd.»