Sentences with phrase «gigolo on»

After that Mackenzie moved to Los Angeles briefly and made the Balzacian moral tale Spread (2009), with Ashton Kutcher brilliantly cast as a shallow Beverly Hills gigolo on his way down the social ladder.

I once accused the young convert poet Robert Lowell of espousing Catholicism with all the marital fidelity of a gigolo on the make.

Not exact matches

Users on gold digger dating sites, are all the material girls who only want money and always use the body for exchanging, and there are also escorts, call - girls, gigolo or toyboys who service wealthy people no matter male or female, homosexual or heterosexual people.

«Fading Gigolo» actually functions as something of a statement on Allen's persona - onscreen and off - as it has been understood in the public eye.

During this period, she often put her country - girl characterization on the back burner to portray elegant society dowagers, alternately browbeating their wealthy husbands or enjoying the high - priced attentions of oily gigolos.

Schreiber's many feature credits include Lee Daniels» THE BUTLER; Larry David's CLEAR HISTORY; FADING GIGOLO; THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST; SALT with Angelina Jolie; X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE; DEFIANCE with Daniel Craig; REPO MEN; THE PAINTED VEIL; THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, opposite Meryl Streep and Denzel Washington; THE SUM OF ALL FEARS; Ang Lee's TAKING WOODSTOCK; KATE & LEOPOLD; GOON; EVERY DAY; Michael Almereyda's HAMLET; SPRING FORWARD; THE HURRICANE; A WALK ON THE MOON with Diane Lane; THE DAYTRIPPERS; Nora Ephron's MIXED NUTS; and Wes Craven's SCREAM trilogy.

Co-starring Survivor contestant turned thespian Colleen Haskell, Schneider's tale of a car accident victim imbued with superhuman powers after being pieced back together with animal organs kept the low - brow rolling while marking his territory among the ranks of the more successful transitions from SNL player to big screen star.Later, in the 2000s, Schneider frequently alternated between starring in his own films (The Hot Chick, Duece Bigalow: European Gigolo), and supporting his old pal Sandler (The Longest Yard, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry), with few on either side truly managing to ignite the box office or his career momentum.

Gigolos, Season 1: Brace discusses people's reaction to his career, his first crush and his take on love.

Law garnered both a Golden Globe and Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance, further cementing his reputation as one of the more promising up - and - coming actors on either side of the ocean.After a turn as a Russian marksman facing off against a Nazi sniper in Enemy at the Gates (2001), Law returned to sci - fi with his role as love machine Gigolo Joe in Steven Spielberg's eagerly anticipated A.I.In addition to his acting commitments, Law kept busy with Natural Nylon, the production company he founded with Sadie Frost, Sean Pertwee, Ewan McGregor, and Jonny Lee Miller.

Gigolos, Season 3, Episode 7: Darkness descends on Vegas when a client refuses to hire Vin because he is not «black enough.»

Gigolos, Season 2: Finally a man who shows up on time, returns your calls, and is just that into you.

Gigolos, Season 1: Nick talks about what music gets him going, his first crush and how long he intends on staying in the business.

Fading Gigolo, the new film written and directed John Turturro and starring Woody Allen, is now out on DVD in the US.

John Turturro is hot on the publicity trail for his latest film Fading Gigolo.

This week saw production begin on «Fading Gigolo `, a film written, directed and starring John Turturro.

Production continues on John Turturro «s Fading Gigolo in New York.

Fading Gigolo is out in the US on 18th April 2104, and we are starting to see publicity for the film ramp up.

That alone tells you that the studio knows that they're sitting on a turkey (case in point: our last Thursday screening was «Aeon Flux»; so was «Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo»), since they timed the screening just late enough to prevent print outlets from telling the world how much their movie sucked ass.

So he sat down with his buddies and wrote a sequel to «Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo,» his last hit, based on the ludicrous notion that there are lonely women out there desperate enough to pay to have sex with him.

Disability is rarely, if ever, proudly on display in American cinema — funny to find it in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo.

Frustrated factory boss Joel (Jason Bateman) fancies a bit on the side, so he hires a gigolo to seduce his wife Suzie (Kristen Wiig).

«Fading Gigolo «will be released in the US on 18th April 2014 and Australia on 1st May 2014.

We already reported on the great weekend «Fading Gigolo «had in the US.

The only way he can make it is to become a gigolo himself, taking on an unusual mix of female clients.

«Fading Gigolo» Synopsis: An aging New York bookseller recommends a down - on - his - luck friend for a «menage» and soon find himself acting as a pimp to the middle - aged neophyte hustler.

Billy Wilder, the ten - cents - a-dance Austrian gigolo, the roommate of Peter Lorre who learned English by listening to Dodgers games on the radio, the admirer of Ernst Lubistch.

At the end, some vastly overreaching tripe posing as a moral backbone is unleashed, making an already excruciating film downright intolerable, It does answer the question on many people's minds about whether Schneider (Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, 50 First Dates) or Spade could actually make worse films than they already have.

After an evocative opening credit sequence featuring warm, grainy 8 mm footage of old buildings in New York City that harkens back to the»70s «director's era», Fading Gigolo locks its gaze on

Writing and also starring in the pic, the story centers on Turturro's character who, strapped for cash, teams up with his best friend (Allen) to go into the gigolo business.

Principal photography begins in New York in April with a plot that centers on a down - on - his luck old pimp who persuades Turturro's character to become a gigolo.

A perfume - and opium - scented reverie of dapper gigolos, neon signs, and brocaded screens, with lighting so diffuse that it looks like it would leave a powdery, luminescent residue on your fingers, the movie is barely involving as narrative and intoxicating as everything else.

A new spin on American Gigolo?

Julie Delpy plays Irving's sometime mistress Nina Van Pallandt, who would (in a neat bit of Buddhist karma) later go on to appear opposite the young Richard Gere in American Gigolo.

The Honeymoon Killers (Criterion, Blu - ray, DVD), Leonard Kastle's alienating B&W story of a dim Latin gigolo (Tony Lo Bianco) and a frumpy, unfulfilled overweight ex-nurse (Shirley Stoler) who team - up to romance and murder a series of lonely women is based on a true story, but his jarring docu - style, with its mix of black humor and blood chilling horror, is anything but a realistic portrait.

In Fading Gigolo, women come in one of two regressive types: sex - crazed fiends, from Dr. Parker (Sharon Stone) to her friend Selima (Sofía Vergara), or meek, mousy widows like Avigal (Vanessa Paradis), who cries upon feeling a man's hands on her bare back because she hasn't been touched like that since her husband died.

Circumstances send David on a dangerous journey to discover his maker, a nightmarish trek (with many allusions to that other lost boy, Pinocchio) that includes a sinister mechanical gigolo (Law), a tech - phobic Flesh Fair, a visit to a half - submerged Manhattan and a controversial, highly emotional climax that lingers in the heart and the mind.

To address the elephant in the room, all you'll find on the docket today is a look at «Fading Gigolo,» an amusing indie film that includes some of Allen's finest work as an actor in years.

Written and directed not by Allen but John Turturro, «Fading Gigolo» is something of a tart meditation on romance and morality through the prism of the oldest profession.

Reitman uses a montage to show Marlo's zombified state before Tully arrives — the feedings, the changings, the stained clothes, the lying on the couch eating microwave nachos and watching «Gigolos» — and generally maintains a light directorial touch.

He provided generous answers to our questions about the movie, and below we've excerpted the highlights of our conversation which touched upon on the making of «Fading Gigolo,» working with Woody Allen, the upcoming «Big Lebowski» spinoff and more.

Fading Gigolo, the latest film written, directed and starring John Turturro, his US cinemas on limited release tomorrow.

Interestingly, «Fading Gigolo «will also be screening at the Traverse City Film Festival on 31st July 2014.

Coppola picked up the stylized color palettes for The Godfather movies, where the sepia became an idealized past contrasted with the chilly present of Michael's corruption, and brought Storaro over to shoot Apocalypse Now, while Paul Schrader reached out to production designer Ferdinando Scarfiotti to be his «visual consultant» on American Gigolo and Cat People, films with defining, carefully painted color palettes.

We'd also wager that Woody Allen would have a good shot for his rare acting appearance in John Turturro «s «Fading Gigolo «-- whatever his recent controversies, the Academy have no compunction about showing him some love (he was nominated for writing «Blue Jasmine» last year), and he steals scenes a plenty in the movie, which again was a bit of a spring surprise hit on the arthouse scene.

On Blu - ray, Fading Gigolo is equipped with an audio commentary by John Turturro and his assistant Cameron Bossert.

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Fading Gigolo also strikes out on that front.

For a movie that's purportedly about a male gigolo the second half really shifts to focus on Vanessa's character.

The Truth About Youth briefly flickers to life when Loy comes on slinky nightclub singer «The Firefly,» seducing Young's betrothed, and she steals the show in The Naughty Flirt (1931), another tale of high - society bad behavior, this one starring Alice White as a brazen socialite who sets her sights on a young lawyer's in papa's firm and Loy as a party girl working with a gigolo to grab her fortune.

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