Sentences with phrase «legendary stage actor»

Based on Philip Roth's novel, The Humbling tells the story of a legendary stage actor who has an affair with a lesbian woman half his age at a secluded country house in Connecticut.

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Hossein labored away as actor / director with the legendary Theatre Grand Guignol in Montmartre, then spent several years on the «legitimate» stage.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

The legendary stage and screen actor will feature as the voice of the demon in the production, which will arrive at the Phoenix Theatre in London from October 20th.

Legendary stand - up comedian, actor and rapper Katt Williams has enjoyed an impressive career seeded with thousands of stage shows in sold - out arenas, a laundry list of starring roles on the small screen and memorable performances in major box office hits.

Also their table guests were the Chicago - born actress Virginia Madsen, a 2004 Oscar nominee for «Sideways,» and her mother Elaine, a former Chicago film critic, and two directors from Chicago: Andrew Davis, whose father Nate was a legendary actor on Chicago stages, who won the DGA award in 1994 for «The Fugitive,» and director Harold Ramis, a Second City veteran, whose «Groundhog Day» (1993) is in Ebert's series of «Great Movies» reviews.

As you might expect the Joker takes the stage as the main villain in the game, and he's expertly voiced by the legendary actor from Batman: The Animated Series, Mark Hamill.