Sentences with phrase «natural performances in films»

Unlike the vast majority of his contemporaries, however, he could truly act as well as make music, delivering superb, natural performances in films for directors like Martin Scorsese, Sam Peckinpah, and John Sayles.

Not exact matches

The film's opening narration introduces us to Harold Crick, played by Will Ferrell in an economic performance where we can feel Ferrell's natural zaniness coursing underneath Crick's bland exterior, just begging to be let out.

After getting overshadowed by Forest Whitaker in «The Last King of Scotland,» James McAvoy takes center stage here with a nimble, natural performance that beautifully navigates both the humor and sincerity of the film.

A dauntingly versatile character actress by the 1980s, Lu racked up several impressive film and TV credits, including her chilling portrayal of the Dowager Empress in The Last Emperor (1987) and her moving performance as natural - born «survivor» An Mei in The Joy Luck Club (1993).

Carano's screen presence evokes nothing less than»70s Pam Grier — where the effect is not that of an actor giving a natural and charismatic performance in a film, but, rather, a natural and charismatic person acting in a film.

Most will already know of Downey Jr's appearance in this film, and this performance has finally brought me around to liking him, all those years after despising Wayne Gale in Natural Born Killers.

Cera delivers the one natural - seeming performance in the picture, the one that conveys legitimate exasperation for mothers who call him «puppy» and girlfriends who talk on hamburger phones and put abandoned living - room sets on his lawn as some sort of shrine (like the film itself) to fashionable quirk.

It is a very human film in so many ways, marked by a lead performance from Vega that is moving and completely natural.

The charm of the film lies for the most part in its simple, straightforward story and the utterly natural and sincere performances of Sylvia Sidney (who has never looked better) and George Raft in the leading roles.

HOW HOLLYWOOD DEFINES WOMANLY: It's only natural that director Mike Leigh, nominated for this year's Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Happy - Go - Lucky is a bit biased (and forgivably so) when it comes to Sally Hawkins» performance in his film.

In many of her performances, films, and sculptural installations, Vicuña utilizes natural and traditional materials to symbolize political and social struggles in her home country and beyond: her «Precarios» are an ongoing series of small installations begun in 1966, composed of feathers, stones, sticks, and other found materials; and her «Quipus», using un-spun wool, are contemporary interpretations of the ancient quipus, or knotted cords used by the Incas for communication and to record their historIn many of her performances, films, and sculptural installations, Vicuña utilizes natural and traditional materials to symbolize political and social struggles in her home country and beyond: her «Precarios» are an ongoing series of small installations begun in 1966, composed of feathers, stones, sticks, and other found materials; and her «Quipus», using un-spun wool, are contemporary interpretations of the ancient quipus, or knotted cords used by the Incas for communication and to record their historin her home country and beyond: her «Precarios» are an ongoing series of small installations begun in 1966, composed of feathers, stones, sticks, and other found materials; and her «Quipus», using un-spun wool, are contemporary interpretations of the ancient quipus, or knotted cords used by the Incas for communication and to record their historin 1966, composed of feathers, stones, sticks, and other found materials; and her «Quipus», using un-spun wool, are contemporary interpretations of the ancient quipus, or knotted cords used by the Incas for communication and to record their history.

In some instances conceivedas authentic performances, Jennifer West's work on the film often calls for the inclusion of other persons, as well as daily use materials (food, lipstick, motorcycle tires...), or exposure to natural elements in places of special impacIn some instances conceivedas authentic performances, Jennifer West's work on the film often calls for the inclusion of other persons, as well as daily use materials (food, lipstick, motorcycle tires...), or exposure to natural elements in places of special impacin places of special impact.

The sculptor Joan Jonas (b. 1936) was an early exponent of video and performance art, who began filming in natural and industrial environments and progressed to groundbreaking Performperformance art, who began filming in natural and industrial environments and progressed to groundbreaking PerformancePerformance video.