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This dark, introspective drama hinges on one of Robin Williams» final film performances before his...

This dark, introspective drama hinges on one of Robin Williams» final film performances before his death in 2014.

Not to mention the fact that the film reunited Anderson with his There Will Be Blood star Daniel Day - Lewis, the actor's final feature film performance before his highly publicized retirement.

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But bad timing or not, we're forced to include his stiff and often cartoonish performance, wondering all the while how much better the film could've been if Matt Damon has accepted the part when he was offered it before Affleck.

The Miracle Worker ran for over 700 stage performances before it was adapted as a film, earning both Bancroft and Duke Oscars for reprising their stage roles.

It is believed that the video was filmed not long before the Reds would go on to beat Newcastle 2 - 0 at Anfield, largely thanks to the performance of the 20 - year - old.

The strange thing for me about recent insipid performances and disastrous results is that I am calm before the Spurs game.This does not mean in the slightest that I am confident but it has now reached the point where it can't get much worse.If we were still in with a realistic chance of winning the league -LCB- not un-reasonable expectations of wins against Blackburn, Sunderland, West Brom and Liverpool would have had us ahead of Man Utd -RCB- I would have at best been hiding behind the settee or at worse avoiding the game totally and watching a crap film until 10 0 / clock.

Often used for children's enjoyment and artistic performances, soap bubbles are delicate, light - reflecting films that typically last just a few seconds before bursting.

Mike White, who scripted biting, edgy satire of this sort («The Good Girl,»» Chuck and Buck») before making his fortune with «School of Rock,» serves up an unsettling and generally deft comedy of manners with this clash, a film that greatly benefits from subtle, stinging performances by Salma Hayek and as her opposite number, John Lithgow.

Despite winning critical acclaim for her performance, it would be four years, save for a cameo in the Coens» Raising Arizona (1987) and various small roles, before she would be featured in another major film production.

Brad Pitt's portrayal of a bitter individual often lacks the necessary edge, especially in the first half of the film; eventually, after some floundering around, he finds a performance, but it doesn't really come together until just before the very end of the film.

Much like last year and the year before, this year's Movie Studio Report Card evaluates both the box office performance and overall film quality of the six major studios (and many indie distributors) in an attempt to determine the best and worst studios of 2011.

The film represented Arthur Kennedy's return before the cameras after ten years» retirement; after one additional performance in the independently produced Grandpa, Kennedy died in 1990 at the age of 76.

Evenly matched with the vocal performances of several actors, they are stunning, and profoundly different from anything you've heard in a Disney film before.

Her performance in this film is a collection of reactions, vocal whoops, and pouncings that we have seen often before in lesser actors.

With Oscar buzz surrounding Dench's performance, The Weinstein Company will now bring Philomena to a few theaters in Los Angeles and New York on November 22nd before expanding the film nationwide on the 27th.

Although the film failed to achieve the same amount of praise as Mann's work before it, Will Smith delivered an career - changing performance in the title role and was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar.

I've written before that I think he's a hugely talented guy, and this performance is certainly a stretch compared to his usual film work, but the movie's entire conception is surprisingly thin.

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.

Donald Sutherland as Mr. Bennet delivers a fine performance, and is given the film's best line and most poignant moment seconds before the credits roll.

But his performance, like the film itself, is nothing you haven't seen before.

As for the performances, Sorvino is terrific in what was pretty much her last mainstream role before Harvey Weinstein derailed her career (looking back, the Sorvino vs. Giant Cockroach metaphor feels rather prescient), and she's ably supported by Northam, Dutton and Giannini, even if the film never quite figures out what to do with Goodwin's Chuy.

The Japanese film industry has been a robust and prolific one since before World War II, and its five major studios (six until 1960) operated very much along the lines of the classical Hollywood studio model, elevating filmmakers based on their prior box office performance and critical regard, and assigning top projects to them accordingly.

Before seeing the film, I honestly wasn't sure if Vaughn could pull off a performance like this and actually be believable.

As before, the film is anchored by a startlingly realistic motion - capture performance from Andy Serkis that fills the screen with complex emotions.

The cast easily could carry an Oscar - bait film, at least before Pacino decided to accept every awful movie that came his way, and the performances are uniformly affecting.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonough, director & writer) This film has gotten a lot of attention, mainly due to the performance of Frances McDormand as a mother who puts up billboards demanding that the police do more to solve the rape and murder of her daughter months before.

Ethan Hawke has given many brilliant performances in his 33 - year film career, including standouts like «Gattaca», «Before the Devil Knows You're Dead», «Boyhood», and the «Before Sunrise»...... Read more «New Review from Jeff York of Creative Screenwriting Magazine: Paul Schrader and Ethan Hawke stun with «First Reformed» ``

One almost wishes the film had been released three months before, because this is definitely an effort worthy of Oscar consideration, and not just for the star and director, but also Albert Finney (Looker, Big Fish) in the best performance he's given in almost two decades.

Sullen, but thankfully not maudlin, House of Sand and Fog, is still worthwhile for the performances and resonant themes, but could have been better if the creators would have been content with trying to craft a good film, before having the pretense to think this could be a great one.

At its core, it is a derivative film, not only because it is a remake, but it is also very similar to other films to come out in the years before it, including Alien and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but it still manages to hold its own through the fantastic action, Ennio Morricone's (The Untouchables) sparse and haunting score, and the lively acting by all of the performers, with especially memorable performances by Kurt Russell (Stargate, Tombstone) and Keith David (They Live, Final Analysis).

Writer / director Jonathan Jakubowicz hopes to remedy that with his new film, «Hands of Stone,» but while it boasts a pair of solid performances from stars Edgar Ramirez and Robert De Niro, the true - life drama doesn't offer anything different from the dozens of other boxing movies that came before it.

Day - Lewis, who attended the event with director Paul Thomas Anderson and co-star Vicky Krieps - said: «I don't think so,» before adding: «There have been performances certainly when I was starting out and discovering films, performances that filled me to the point of bursting with the desire to try to do something, but that's always an element of believing it's impossible that person can do that.

Dropped into the middle of the action, there's very little information given as to what's come before and I liked this... too many films waste precious moments spoon - feeding audiences everything they think we need to know when actually, if the script and performances are strong enough, we can usually figure out enough to get by.

Robert Forster's gently wise performance alone elevates the film above its competition, and that's before you even get to Robert DeNiro and Bridget Fonda, or to the force of nature that is Pam Grier.

Following graduation, Rodriguez booked her first lead role in the feature film «Tiny Dancer,» before breaking out with her performance as the title character in «Filly Brown.»

«What I used to say, and what my experience was, is that a lot of actors I worked with who hadn't done a lot of voice work before, I found [they] tended to give — especially if they were film actors — understated performances.»

Her performance is all the more impressive considering she is on crutches, a genuine injury that she sustained before the production and was thus worked into the film.

A hit at the London Film Festival, the film encouraged an assessment of the director's fiction and film work, and gave notice of a cinema with time for naturalistic performance and authentic space years before the indie directors» apparent invention of «quirky» American representations.

Even with their individual impressive resumes before their first collaboration, «Clouds of Sils Maria,» it became one of Assayas» most acclaimed films to date and Stewart's performance received raves around the world, earning her the honor of being the first American actress to win the Cesar, France's equivalent of the Oscar.

Besedka Johnson's performance is a revelation — she had never acted before, and passed away shortly after the film was released.

James Ponsoldt's film and these fine performances give us an everlasting snippet of the time right before David and David would forever be changed by their successes.

There was one a film trilogy, featuring outstanding special effects and a central performance from Andy Serkis, that failed twice in an Oscar category before finally taking home the prize on the third try.

Well before biopics became a yearly staple at the Oscars, Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb gave astonishing performances as British punk rocker Sid Vicious and his American girlfriend Nancy Spungen in this film by Alex Cox.

However, the project was shelved before it could advance because of the poor performance of Aeon Flux, the 2005 sci - fi spy film starring Charlize Theron, which failed to recoup its $ 65 million budget.

For that matter, if academy voters took international cinema seriously, they might have spared a thought for Beya, a Congolese woman who had never acted on - screen before giving her mesmerizing performance in «Félicité» (shortlisted as Senegal's entry for the foreign - language film Oscar).

In a move which would seem to add insult to injury in Spacey's demise, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association chose to bestow a Golden Globe nomination upon Christopher Plummer for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as J. Paul Getty, news which dropped several weeks before the film's theatrical release.

Timothy, who was named best actor at the Cannes Film Festival for his performance as the artist, spent two years learning to paint before filming started.

The film also featured Meryl Streep, in only her second big - screen role, and Streep's then - fiancé, John Cazale, in his final screen performance before his death from lung cancer in 1978.

Woody's younger son David (Will Forte, in an understated performance that serves as the film's sympathetic core) arrives at his parents» house to hear from his mother Kate (June Squibb, stealing scenes left and right with her brash commentary) how miserable it is to live with Woody, who maybe has a year or two tops, she suspects, before he succumbs to some form of dementia.