Sentences with phrase «luminous performance in»

That would be a sight to behold — but, for all the justified excitement surrounding his luminous performance in Call Me by Your Name, it would also be a surprise.

Most importantly, he would like to extend his deep appreciation to the Academy for acknowledging Saoirse Ronan's luminous performance in Brooklyn.

After her refreshingly luminous performance in Begin Again and unexpectedly loose work in Laggies, Imitation Game sees Knightley returning to the period settings that she's often known for and yet as always she manages to create something decidedly different from what we've seen from her before.

Juliette Binoche delivers a luminous performance in the deliciously witty, sensuously romantic new film from acclaimed director Claire Denis (White Material).

Mahershala Ali is probably the frontrunner for his excellent and almost luminous performance in Moonlight, and Lucas Hedges is outstanding as the troubled teen in Manchester By the Sea.

Synopsis: Juliette Binoche delivers a luminous performance in the deliciously witty, sensuously romantic new film from acclaimed director Claire Denis (White Material).

Not exact matches

Catherine Keener and Brian Dierker as hippie wanderers, Hal Holbrook (in a luminous performance) as an old man cocooned in his loneliness — these are quietly distressed hangers - on of the sort you rarely see in movies.

Steinfeld, giving her most fully realized performance since her Oscar - nominated work in the Coen brothers» «True Grit» (2010), manages the tricky feat of seeming both caustic and luminous, often in the same scene.

Manohla Dargis in the New York Times called it a «prime object lesson in the degradation that can face Hollywood actresses, especially those over 40,» contrasting Stone's performance here with her turn as Laura in last year's Broken Flowers, where she was «luminous and touching... partly because the role called for her to act her age, and she happily complied.»

For 20th Century Women, Mills is inspired by his mother and, even though there's a whiff of Dorothea being a less eccentric version, it provides Annette Bening with one of her best roles in years and the result is a luminous performance.

The life of Sidonie - Gabrielle Colette makes for fascinating drama in a nuanced and inspiring film with a luminous central performance

And each day he fights to connect with the woman he loves (Han Hyo - joo, in a luminous, standout performance).

We get a boilerplate psychoanalysis of the toll his reticence takes on his life through a parade of treacherous father figures (a gay, Red teacher (Michael Gambon), an FBI man (Alec Baldwin), a military muckety - muck (De Niro)-RRB-, women wronged (Jolie, a luminous Tammy Blanchard, Martina Gedeck), and finally a boy of his own (Eddie Redmayne in the film's best performance), whose pillow talk might undermine daddy's most important mission.

She played Marjorie in both the Los Angeles and off - Broadway versions of the play, and here brings her deep knowledge of the role to luminous, assured life with a note - perfect performance.

The most effective storylines are buoyed by terrific performances and / or chemistry: the appealing Anderson and Stewart work surprisingly well together in the Meredith / Trent strand, and the luminous Jolie compensates for Phillippe's adequate but fairly colorless work in the Joan / Keenan story.

The eleven artists juxtapose divergent approaches in conversation with each other, reflecting on primal questions consuming artists over the millennia: Elliot Arkin's conceptual use of web - based commerce spins an absurdist view on the commodification of artists; Babette Bloch's stainless steel reassessments of nature and artistic precedent limn positives and negatives through light; Christopher Carroll Calkins's street photography captures moments of under - the - radar narratives; Valentina DuBasky's acrylic and marble dust works on paper and plaster are a contemporary comment on the prehistory of art; Gabriel Ferrer's performance - like in - the - moment sumi - ink drawings on handmade paper reflect on memory and personal narrative; Christopher Gallego's realist, pure light - filled oil painting elevates the ordinariness of an artist's space to visual poetry; Ana Golici, in pergamano and collage, takes inspiration from 17th Century female naturalist, entomologist and botanical illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian to explore questions of science, nature and objective truth; Emilie Lemakis's monumental amplification of an ancient Greek krater employs scale to upend perceptions for the viewer's reconsideration; Mark Mellon's bronzes address the oppositions of movement and stillness; the alchemy of Michael Townsend's uncontrolled poured acrylic paintings equate the properties of materials with the turbulence of the universe; Jessica Daryl Winer's engagement with luminous color and choreographic line reflects in visual resonance the sonic history of a musical instrument.

These projections, which Brown would later describe as a «luminous continuum,» are featured along with documentary footage from the dance's performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2009.