Sentences with phrase «irrepressible performances»

William McGann's I Like Your Nerve (1931) may run a short 62 minutes, but it is full of energy, humor, wit and a young Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in rare form giving one of his most irrepressible performances as a playboy who knows no bounds or borders (he keeps tormenting border guards with his fancy car) when he and a beautiful, looking real good Loretta Young shows up.

Timson's irrepressible performance of this rollicking romp through 1830s England in Dickens's first novel invites listeners along as Pickwick and his crew ramble through the countryside.

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But underneath all that, it's the film's irrepressible sweetness that makes it sing: Cameron Diaz and Ben Stiller give career - making performances, their affair is tentative and totally convincing — and Jonathan Richman's musical cameos tie it all together.

Seberg flatly drones her narration but her impish, often petulant performance is perfect for the spoiled teenager and Kerr's middle - aged working woman seems puritanical compared to the irrepressible jet setters but is never less than honest, true and forthright.

That these lighter textures of mischief and spiritiness can be found in a story that ultimately sees most of these young women bartered off into marriage like chattel or worse, is a testament to Erguven's sensitivity and intelligence behind the camera, and to the uniformly winning performances she elicits from her largely non-professional cast, especially Günes Sensoy as the youngest and most irrepressible of the sisters.

In Jean Renoir's satire of the bourgeoisie, Michel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and is rescued by a well - to - do bookseller, whose family decides to take in the irrepressible bum.

Despite a game performance from Fanning, Mary Shelley reportedly falls back upon shopworn biopic conventions, transforming a passionate recounting of lively extremes and bold behavior into a mild - mannered narrative, afraid to get daring — ironic when the film's title character is such an irrepressible rule - breaker.

-- «Amadeus» (1984): This was not a Mozart biography but a meditation and speculation on the randomness and cruelty of genius, featuring irrepressible, over-the-top performances by Tom Hulce as Mozart and F. Murray Abraham as Salieri, his rival.

Little is known about Lady Bird, but Gerwig has gathered three of the finest actors of a rising generation: Manchester by the Sea's Lucas Hedges, Miss Stevens's Timothée Chalamet and the irrepressible Saoirse Ronan, whose performance in Brooklyn will one day be remembered as the mightiest turn of the decade.

The show creates a remarkably full picture of an irrepressible and unfailingly D.I.Y. maverick who is revered as one of the prime movers in the juggernaut of Conceptual, Process and Performance art that emerged in the late 1960s and»70s.