Sentences with phrase «film icon in»

Near the end of the series run, however, he transitioned from TV actor to international film icon in Sergio Leone's 1964 classic Western A Fistful of Dollars, launching a long collaboration with the director that included For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.

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The distributor of Woody Allen's film Midnight in Paris could get dinged by the literary icon known as Pappy.

SALON Icon has had a celebrity client visiting every week.Salon owner Lisa Mulder has the hairdressing contract for Lachy Hume the lead male in the Let's Get Skase feature film currently being filmed in Perth.

If you're not familiar with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this is the 15th of 23 planned films (so far), which started in 2008 when Robert Downey Jr. experienced a career resurgence out of nowhere and made Iron Man an American icon.

The film would be based on the biography Steve McQueen: The Life And Legend Of A Hollywood Icon, in which author Marshall Terrill spent a decade researching McQueen's life, career and death.

Gibson is set to produce the film through his Icon Productions company, and will decide on whether to direct or act in the feature after the script is completed.

If there was ever any doubt as to Ice - T's stance on food, the hip - hop icon cleared it up in the Body Count video «Institutionalized»: While taking a lunch break, he's accosted by a film crew member wearing a «Meat Is Murder» T - shirt.

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She was a stylish icon who starred in such time - honored films as Breakfast at Tiffany's and Roman Holiday.

Screen icon Meryl Streep, who like countless performers has appeared in films produced or distributed by The Weinstein Company, called revelations that studio co-founder Harvey Weinstein had sexually harassed women for decade «disgraceful.»

This modern female icon is an exceptional combination of beauty and brains who became one of the most envied women on the planet when she married film star George Clooney in 2014 — but frankly, we think HE is the lucky one!

Sacramento, CA About Blog Louise Brooks Society - all about the silent film & Jazz Age icon who played Lulu in Pandora's Box.

Sacramento, CA About Blog Louise Brooks Society - all about the silent film & Jazz Age icon who played Lulu in Pandora's Box.

Small - offers attractive pictograms for web design and Modern gay icons in entertainment include both film stars and musicians, most of whom have strong, distinctive personalities, and many of whom died young

And while a close look at Wiseau's film would make Franco's tribute more meaningful, «The Disaster Artist» largely works because it brings us closer to Tommy while reveling in the same ingredients that have turned him into an icon.

She has a very satisfying arc over the course of the film, with numerous scenes displaying why Streep is an icon in her profession.

James Dean starred in only three motion pictures before he died in an auto accident at the age of 24, but he created such an indelible image in those films that he's still considered one of the great Hollywood icons of the»50s and remains a role model to rebellious youth to this day.

The film boasts performances by Brea Grant (Rob Zombie's Halloween and H2, «Dexter,» «Heroes») and 80's horror icon Barbara Crampton, who starred in From Beyond and Re-Animator before popping back up in modern horror films such as Adam Wingard's You're Next and We Are Still Here.

«Facing Windows» stars the late Massimo Girotti, an icon of the Italian cinema who starred in films by Visconti, Rossellini, De Sica and Bertolucci, as the old man whose presence compels characters — played by luminous Giovanna Mezzogiorno («The Last Kiss») and Raoul Bova («Under the Tuscan Sun»)-- into peering into the facing windows that symbolize unfulfilled longing.

In the wake of the deaths of David Bowie and Alan Rickman, they then examine how we mourn beloved film icons, and how their legacies interact with their defining performances.

If youth is the surreptitious victor of Assayas's film, it's a bolshier threat to its elders in Noah Baumbach's While We're Young (Icon, 15), in which bohemian millennials and domestication - resistant Generation X-ers forge a connection gradually severed by both generation's vanities.

That is when the aggressively charming Walt Disney (Tom Hanks, conveying both the Hollywood icon's boyish sense of wonder and iron - fisted resolve) entered the final stages of a 20 - year pursuit of P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson, perfectly cast in every way down to her tightly wound perm), the Australian - born British female author behind the flying nanny, to secure the film rights to her book.

After an introduction by Meryl Streep that was heartrending in itself (she'll be nominated for it next year), the montage neglected to include Joan Rivers, who, while not a robust film presence, certainly became a red - carpet icon.

Robert Downey, Jr. is developing a film based on a project late movie icon Steve Mcqueen wrote in the 1960s.

Bertrand Bonello, a characteristically unorthodox, visually gifted filmmaker, pays tribute to the life of Yves Saint Laurent in the most nebulous way with Saint Laurent, a stupefying art film starring Gaspard Ulliel as the chain - smoking fashion icon.

A protégé of Dario Argento who matured to develop a unique style of his own while at once carrying the tradition of such Italian horror icons as Mario Bava and Riccardo Freda, Michele Soavi almost single - handedly kept the slumping Italian horror / fantasy tradition afloat in the 1990s with his strikingly original philosophical zombie film Dellamorte, Dellamore (1994).

Kilmer played other American icons in his next two films - gunslinger Doc Holliday in Tombstone and the spirit of Elvis in True Romance; both did remarkable business at the box office.

Female Icon of the Year (tie)(a woman whose work in film and / or in life made a difference) Ava DuVernay and Laura Poitras

It's not much of an achievement that co-directors Anthony and Joe Russo (held over from Captain America the Winter Soldier) make a better film than Zack Snyder... but it's worth noting that Marvel (corporation as auteur) have nurtured their characters (even in weaker films like Iron Man 2) to the point when they carry more screen weight than lasting icons Batman and Superman.

«The Revenge of Jennifer Hills: Remaking a Cult Icon» (16:22) gathers comments from cast and crew regarding the original film and what their involvement in this remake meant to them.

Many of those few films are held in high regard, but they never enjoy the multi-generational cultural icon status

With the news of Charlie Murphy's passing still fresh in the minds of many, there is perhaps a signal that the comedy world will continue to be brightened by his family and their impeccable comedic chops after word emerged today that Paramount is in the in process of creating a sequel to Coming to America — a film that cemented Eddie Murphy's status as a comedy icon.

Pixel's gaming icons are gorgeous, all wondrous stacks of flowing, glowing voxels... but they were just as gorgeous in the short film the movie's loosely based on.

All of which means that underneath the plainness of True Grit are currents of satire and the wryest sense of extratextual irony — its major departures from the source material (speaking of the novel, not of the novel John Wayne film) are almost exclusively in the reductions of its male icons in favour of the plucky little girl.

Waters» film aptly mocks the gallows frenzy of the murderer - celebrity, reveling in the grotesque pleasure derived from these monsters we hail as pop culture icons.

by Walter Chaw Emboldened, perhaps, by the surprisingly good The Other Guys and the surprisingly great Get Him to the Greek, I went into Steve Pink's Hot Tub Time Machine with the belief that its high - concept idea — not the time travel, but the casting of»80s icon John Cusack in a film that would return him to his decade of greatest power and influence — would be at least enough for it to function as a fairly smart nostalgia piece.

Monroe's part in the film is relatively small for such a starring icon, but she does some things a little bit outside of the perfect beauty.

Official Premise: Legendary filmmaking icon, Roger Corman, is back with his most outrageous film yet in this sensational, action - packed and darkly humorous reboot of the original Death Race 2000!

, he also preceded Ready Player One in dreaming up the idea of people interacting with beloved pop culture icons (to a level of studio cooperation few believed would ever happen again... before Spielberg signed on for this film).

Alien is revered as one of the greatest horror films of all time, as well as one of the greatest films set in space, so what happens when the director of the film that originated the franchise returns to it to provide us back - story about one of the biggest monster movie icons more than three decades after the fact?

Another interesting fact, Friday the 13th icon Ari Lehan, who played the very first Jason Voorhees in the 1980 slasher film, has been made a partner on the project.

Hong Kong Superstar Andy Lau plays a charismatic thief pursued by French icon Jean Reno as a tenacious detective in this globetrotting caper film.

Indiepix Festival Favorites, Volume 2 Value - priced, three film set of music documentaries: «Icons Among Us: Jazz In the Present Tense,» about the modern jazz scene, with Terence Blanchard, Ravi Coltrane, Robert Glasper, Nicholas Payton, Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Donald Harrison Jr., Anat Cohen and Esperanza Spalding; «Echotone,» a lyrical documentary providing a telescopic view into the lives of Austin's vibrant young musicians as they grapple with questions of artistic integrity, commercialism, experimentation, and the future of their beloved city; and «Roaring Abyss,» a stunning audiovisual poem, the product of filmmaker Quino Piñero's two years of field recording traditional and modern music from around every corner of Ethiopia, a country of eighty different nationalities and cultures spread amongst mountains, deserts and forests.

Legendary filmmaking icon, Roger Corman, is back with his most outrageous film yet in this sensational, action - packed and darkly humorous reboot of the original Death Race 2000!

There's true wisdom in the available option to watch the film with not only an intermittent little - red - pill icon that branches the viewer to different portions of a 30 - minute interview with Murch (wherein he discusses the specific tricks and techniques), but also his genius work (along with Lalo Schifrin's score) isolated from the dialogue track — in 5.1, to boot.

The Face / Off icon teams with retro - obsessed director Panos Cosmatos (Beyond the Black Rainbow) for this fantasy revenge film set in an alternative 1983 informed by clam - shelled VHS sci - fi flicks.

Danny Trejo is a genre icon who has been in hundreds of films in his career, having faced Michael Myers

Shooting the film in California also gives it a distinctly US visual sensibility, while Marandi is more than a little reminiscent of that all - American icon, James Dean.

It's a noble goal, given that it's so easy to see Deep Throat's star in binary: either a porn icon (as she was after the film's wildly successful 1972 release) or an antiporn crusader (which she became with the publication of her 1980 autobiography Ordeal).

(November 13, 2017)-- Hong Kong Superstar Andy Lau (House of Flying Daggers, Internal Affairs) as a charismatic thief is pursued by French icon Jean Reno (Leon: The Professional, The Da Vinci Code, Mission Impossible) as a tenacious detective in the globetrotting caper film THE ADVENTURERS, stealing onto on digital December 5 and on Blu - ray ™ Combo Pack January 2 from Well Go USA Entertainment.