Sentences with phrase «films and television play»

It is clear, however, that films and television play a role not only in reflecting but also in contributing to a violent and mean world.

The exhibition also demonstrates that Land Art was concerned not just with sculptural works but also media practices: Language, photography, film and television played a central role in the creation and development of Land Art.

Not exact matches

But Tahir built up his chops by acting in plays while waiting for film and television roles to trickle in, and turning down parts when they felt too much like typecasting.

The collapse of central planning in the East had its own internal dynamics, but the long reach of advertised and advertising Western music, film, television, fashion - the sacraments of consumerism — played an acknowledged role in making centrally planned economies appear unbearably shoddy and barren.

These fundamentalists detect an anti-Christian value system in the media, and counsel a return to religious fundamentals, which often include proscriptions against dancing, movies, plays and rock concerts, attempts at censorship of media — especially films, television and books — and encouraging participation in church social events as a substitute for secular culture offerings.

She is too occupied with her announcing duties for HBO, coaching Navratilova and Mayotte, speaking engagements, a fancy to get into television and film production, a new chain of play schools called the Discovery Zone that promote and study exercise for children under 12, and her longest - standing project, Team Tennis, which represents her most fervid interest: to take the sport out of elite clubs and bring it to the masses.

But when a Second Lifer who calls himself Nimrod Yaffle tried to log in to the community earlier his year, he discovered his avatar had been sequestered in a surreal, isolated landscape: infinite rows of corn, spread out under a dark sky, with nothing else in sight except a small red tractor and a black - and - white television set playing the 1940 film Boy in Court.

After playing minor roles in the television series Doc and the film Big Fish in her childhood, she became a teen idol starring as the character Miley Stewart in the Disney Channel television series Hannah Montana in 2006.

Like most Wilde plays, it has been made into film and for television numerous times, although this version isn't a strict adaptation, causing the name to be changed, rightfully, to use a part of the play's secondary title, «A Play About a Good Woman&raqplay's secondary title, «A Play About a Good Woman&raqPlay About a Good Woman».

Her film work includes THE GREEN MILE, A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, and TOMBSTONE, to name a few, but she is perhaps best known for playing Trixie in the critically acclaimed television drama DEADWOOD, and was nominated for a SAG Award ® for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2007.

Following the series» demise in 1991, Helgenberger returned to television guest - star status on ER, where she had a four - episode - long recurring role, and in the miniseries The Tommyknockers.A presence on the big screen since 1989, when she made her feature - film debut in Steven Spielberg's romantic fantasy Always, Helgenberger has played a wide variety of roles in films ranging from Species (1995) to the moody The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997) to Steven Soderbergh's widely acclaimed Erin Brockovich (2000).

In addition to a continued but sporadic film career that included the 1997 Canadian release Wounded, in which he played a recently rehabilitated alcoholic detective who helps solve the murder of a slain forest ranger, Greene appeared on - stage — most frequently in Toronto — and did television work that included hosting documentaries.

Later alternating between television and film with features such as Trapped and roles on such high - profile series as Spin City and Malcolm in the Middle, her part opposite Brittany Murphy in the 2003 comedy Uptown Girls found the precocious youngster playing well off of her older co-star.

His other television appearances include the role of Kenneth Duberstein in the Showtime film STRANGE JUSTICE, playing Quasimodo opposite Richard Harris in the TNT film presentation of THE HUNCHBACK, a film version of Arthur Miller's BROKEN GLASS for BBC / WGBH - Boston, and episodes of THREE RIVERS, THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW (1996 Emmy nomination), LAW & ORDER, BOSTON PUBLIC, TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL, and THE SIMPSONS.

A film adaptation of Morgan's own stage play that was itself very much about the powers of television, the relationship between text, medium and audience has shifted in ways I'm not sure the film's makers have fully accounted for.

Judi Dench stars as the Queen while Ali Fazal, an Indian - English actor who appeared in the American television miniseries Bollywood Hero, plays Abdul, and this first look trailer suggests the film will be full of wit, warmth, and wisdom.

This young century alone has seen Finding Neverland dramatizing the play's creation, no fewer than nine stage adaptations, NBC's live television special, Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson's Starcatchers series of bestselling prequel novels, the major 2003 filming, and the Syfy miniseries Neverland.

Mena Suvari plays a virgin who agrees to allow herself to be deflowered on pay - per - view television in this nasty and comic film that's an indictment of our prurient and hedonistic popular culture.

At various points in his fantastically varied and storied career he wrote position papers on the need of support for a moribund Australian film industry, wrote and directed numerous episodes of such seminal TV shows as Homicide and Division 4 for Crawford Productions, was central in establishing film courses and departments in places such as Canberra and Brisbane (Griffith University), wrote plays and performed poems at Melbourne University and La Mama in the 1960s, directed feature films in the early 1980s (most memorably Ginger Meggs in 1982), made documentaries for the ABC and SBS (The Myth Makers, Images of Australia, The Legend of Fred Paterson, and numerous others), wrote and edited such books as Screenwriting: A Manual and Queensland Images in Film and Television, helmed commercials for a vast array of companies and government bodies, contributed film reviews to ABC radio (and more occasionally TV) across various states (for almost 40 years), wrote for numerous publications including Overland, The Canberra Times, Metro, The Concise Encyclopedia of Documentary Film, The Hobart Mercury, and so much more.

Reality Television is perhaps the strongest chapter, with The Prisoner bearing the burden of having to establish both the tone of the overall film and set - up all the twists that will play out for the rest of the film.

Encouraged by the critical success of the award - winning Thirty - Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993), in which he played the title role, Feore left the Stratford Festival after the 1994 season to concentrate on his film and television career.

Those film historians who've summed up Kemp's post-Z Cars TV appearances as «sporadic» evidently haven't seen his small - screen work in such miniseries as Winds of War and its sequel War and Remembrance (he played German general Armin Von Roon in both); he also played Cornwall in Sir Laurence Olivier's 1983 television adaptation of King Lear, and was featured in the internationally produced historical multiparters George Washington (1985) and Peter the Great (1986).

Actress Danielle Harris spent much of her childhood playing small supporting roles on television and in feature films.

It's loaded top to bottom with with aural and visual references to video games, movies, film, comic books, television, toys, and role playing games, mostly from but not exclusively limited to the 1980s.

Following a nine - month run playing Glinda in Wicked, Chenoweth has ventured beyond Broadway for various film, television, and voiceover roles.

On the 2012 release of Zack Snyder's vision of Superman — so far titled «Superman: Man of Steel» — there will have been five actors that have played Clark Kent / Superman on film and four on television, including Tom Welling and Dean Cain, for a total of nine Supermen.

It's loaded top to bottom with aural and visual references to video games, movies, film, comic books, television, toys, and role - playing games, mostly from but not exclusively...

He was Saoirse Ronan's love interest Eddie in How I Live Now, the 2013 film version of Meg Rosoff's novel, and played the lead role in Sadie Jones» television adaptation of her own novel The Outcast.

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We went in order of the films (actually, I guess that's controversial in itself), starting with Anakin Skywalker, Obi - Wan Kenobi and Ahsoka Tano in «Twilight of the Republic», a Play Set that takes place not only across Star Wars» first three films, but the Clone Wars television series as well.

The Beverly Hills Hotel played host to the International Press Academy's 16th annual Satellite Awards on Sunday night, a lively evening which saw prizes handed out recognizing the year's best entertainment in film and television.

Doug Jones (born May 24, 1960) is an American film and television actor best known to science fiction, fantasy, and horror fans for his various roles playing non-human characters, often in heavy makeup, in films and television series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.

As I did last year and the year before, I'm making a Best of the Year list following the conventional system for what counts as a 2016 film, mainly the nonsensical and ahistorical system that decrees that critics may only consider movies to have existed once they have played for a week in a commercial venue in New York City, or, in a new twist this year, on a television or streaming service in New York.

So far, I have only played transgender roles in television and film.

Aaron Sorkin has been writing plays since 1984, films since 1992 and television since 1998 — but despite his success with the films «A Few Good Men,» «The American President,» «The Social Network» and «Steve Jobs» and the TV series «Sports Night,» «The West Wing» and «The Newsroom,» he had never directed a film until this year's «Molly's Game.»

Entourage may play like television, but it looks like film and not just any film, but a new film from a major studio which is treated to the highest quality picture on Blu - ray.

The play has seen several adaptations in the past including a Alf Sjöberg - helmed 1951 Swedish - language version, a 1987 television adaptation starring Janet McTeer and a 1999 film by Mike Figgis starring Saffron Burrows and Peter Mullan.

While — like (I guess) many Rohmer fans — I tend to find myself most at home in his beach houses and Parisian apartment blocks, I was drawn to this presentation of his lesser - known historical films for two reasons: one was the pure joy of being able to enjoy his greatest work, Perceval, on the big screen; the other was the opportunity to finally be introduced to his feature - length television play Catherine de Heilbronn, a production that, in its grey set design and even starker minimalism, in many ways felt like the former film's shadowy companion piece.

Out of the competition, the international highlights were El Clan (The Clan, Pablo Trapero), an effective if derivative Argentinian political drama / gangster film heavily influenced by Scorsese's Goodfellas; L'avenir (Things to Come, Mia Hansen - Løve), a fine if rather low - key drama helped enormously by Isabelle Huppert's lead performance; and, best of all, Robert Greene's Kate Plays Christine, a truly disturbing mixture of fiction and documentary concerning the attempt to make a movie about the tragic suicide of Florida journalist Christine Chubbuck, who shot herself on live television back in 1974.

The best part of Galaxy Quest, playing the guy playing the ethnic guy in a «Star Trek» - like cult television series, Shalhoub also stole the show as fast - talking lawyer Freddy Riedenschneider in his reunion with the Coen Brothers, The Man Who Wasn't There; demonstrated uncommon intelligence and sensitivity in the still - underseen Big Night; and made his feature - film debut behind the camera with wife Brooke Adams in the independent Made - Up, now trickling into video stores.

Playing Ip Man's wife in the film is Korean star Song Hye - Kyo who is currently working on a Korean television series in Korea and thus was absent.

According to Guiness World Records, Sherlock Holmes is the most portrayed fictional character, by more than 70 actors in over 200 films, plays and television shows.

Though Franco has over 100 film and television acting credits to his name, he has never before played two roles — identical twin brothers — in the same project.

After collecting trophies for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series and Best Television Series (both in the Musical or Comedy categories), the triple threat was met with questions from the press about his other major project — playing young Lando Calrissian in the upcoming Han Solo Star Wars anthology film.

Tony Todd has played numerous villains in genre films and television over the years including voicing Zoom in CW's The Flash, and he recently revealed that he almost voiced Doctor Strange's Dormammu.

While Cumberbatch and Freeman were both familiar faces on television and in film before the drama's 2010 premiere, their profiles have raised considerably in the past couple of years: Freeman stars in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy, while Cumberbatch recently finished production of J.J. Abrams» Star Trek Into Darkness (he also plays the Necromancer and Smaug in The Hobbit).

So, let a listing of some of the major characters suffice to bring an anticipatory smile to your face: Harry Shearer as Victor Allan Miller, best - known for playing a frankfurter in television commercials; Eugene Levy as Morley Orfkin, Miller's worthless agent; John Michael Higgins as Corey Taft, clueless publicist; Jennifer Coolidge as Whitney Taylor Brown, superfluous producer / financier; Ed Begley Jr. as Sandy Lane, stylist to the semi-stars; Parker Posey and Christopher Monyihan as romantically entangled co-stars; Bob Balaban and Michael McKean as the screenwriters; Jane Lynch and Fred Willard as hosts of an «Entertainment Tonight» - like TV show; Michael Hitchcock and Don Lake as TV film critics; Ricky Gervais and Guest himself as the director of «Home for Purim.»

Adapted by Peter Morgan from his award - winning play of the same name, the film tells the tale of the events leading up to (and including) the Frost / Nixon interviews that aired in 1977 and became the most - watched television news special in American history.

Just as Paramount / Skydance's sci - fi adventure Annihilation was heating up in its word of mouth before its February 23 release, two advocacy groups this week — MANAA (Media Action Network for Asian Americans) and American Indians in Film and Television — took aim at the film for whitewashing its two leading characters, played by Natalie Portman and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

Jason Edward Mewes (born June 12, 1974) is an American television and film actor best known for playing Jay, the vocal half of the duo Jay and Silent Bob, in longtime friend Kevin Smith's films.