Sentences with phrase «great dramatic acting»
If you love great dramatic acting and over the top horror satire, then this is the perfect film.
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And according to Paul, even the greatest, most dramatic acts of charity will leave me feeling empty if I do them out of self - interest (easing my conscience) rather than out of love (easing other people's burdens).
It very well might have been the case that Vickers» instrument would have cracked by the third act, but that was Wagner's point, a point that Vickers certainly understood (while many musicians do not)» and one he would have managed with great dramatic skill.
Heath Ledger plays the least likely priest since Sean Penn donned a collar in We're No Angels, though his acting is worse (Penn, albeit a great dramatic actor, hit an all - time low with that film).
Lister - Jones is also generous enough an auteur to allow for memorable moments from others, whether it's hilarious bits from the likes of Retta (as Anna and Ben's unlucky marriage counselor), Brooklyn Decker, and Jamie Chung; the escalating weirdness of Armisen (who was, of course, a seasoned indie - band drummer before he turned to acting and comedy); or a knockout dramatic scene between Pally and the great comedian Susie Essman as Ben's mother, who provides some invaluable advice.
An dramatic and comedic ensemble piece, the one - act traces several years in the lives of a group of characters working in an auto parts warehouse during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
We tend to want to remember our greatest actors for their «big» moments — ones ripened with dramatic stakes and acted out with a heightened, sometimes histrionic, intensity.
Their performances wind up becoming the saving grace of the film since their wide range and great chemistry together sells the more sincere and dramatic moments in the final act.
Not only does it begin with an account of how bits of movie dialogue (from «Rio Bravo,» «His Girl Friday») have entered her life, and the lives of her friends and colleagues, but it then segues into a great quotation from Steve Roman on SCTV (playing Juan Cortez, the first Puerto Rican Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court in the dramatic television series, «There's Justice for Everybody»): «It's got good actors, and that spells good acting.»
The best comedic actors are often relegated to a very particular box, one that pushes us to act totally dumbfounded when they happen to deliver a great dramatic performance.
Still the greatest movie of all time, it's also a virtual lexicon of film - noir visual and dramatic style, as seminal in its way as «The Maltese Falcon» or «M.» Scripted by Welles and one - time Hearst crony Herman Mankiewicz, photographed by Gregg Toland, with music by Bernard Herrmann and ensemble acting by the Mercury Players: Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, George Coulouris, Ruth Warrick, Paul Stewart, et al..
The acting is also great and the young children prove that chess can be watchable and dramatic.
Still the greatest movie of all time, it's also a virtual lexicon of film - noir visual and dramatic style, as seminal in its way as «The Maltese Falcon» or «M.» Scripted by Welles and one - time Hearst crony Herman Mankiewicz, photographed by Gregg Toland, with music by Bernard Herrmann and ensemble acting by the Mercury Players: Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, George Coulouris, Ruth Warrick, Paul Stewart, et al. («Rosebud?
All three are at their most movie star charismatic here, with their formidable dramatic chops lending real gravitas and palpable emotional stakes as they continue their struggles and conflicts with each other and within in order to act for the greater benefit of their kind.
Steve Carell adds himself to the long list of distinguished comedic actors who have made the crossover to dramatic acting with terrific results, Alan Arkin yet again shines as one of the all time great character actors and Toni Collette excels as the emotional core of the film.
Gertrud renounces external eventfulness in order to cultivate internal or imaginative eventfulness» — and using the (constant - and - never - moving as a way to allow viewers to focus on acting and the body rather than on technical formalist tricks, in fact, the shots are the longest technically allowable before the invention of digital shooting) camera merely as a functional recording - device rather than as an originator of instant meaning and knowledge as in Hollywood, this film remains the best summation of the truism that a longwinded presentation of several actors merely speaking for ten - minutes - a-scene while the camera does not move and no artificial and manipulative «cinematic language» is involved, in other words, the dreaded «merely filmed non-cinematic literature and theatre,» not only has a much greater capacity to teach than any Hollywood mode of filmmaking but is more dramatic than any car chase.
It is the worst kind imaginable and the movie plays it for all its great dramatic worth in its final act.
Less than we were expecting, but the sensation of speed from behind a tiny fly - screen is likely to be dramatic enough, and as we're aware from the standard car, higher speeds only invite an extra battle with your neck muscles and a greater challenge for the brakes acting on the skinny front tyres.
Investment in mitigation measures acts as insurance protection against the great uncertainties and the possibility of dramatic surprises.»