Sentences with phrase «notable takes on the film»

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He also took on occasional roles in more notable films, including Waiting for Guffman (1996), Clockwatchers (1997), Happy, Texas (1999), and Runaway Bride (also 1999), which served to remind movie buffs just how funny the talented comic actor could be when given the opportunity.

Orser is the sort of actor who has operated on the fringes of pop culture for twenty years, with notable bit roles in films like Seven and Saving Private Ryan and the Taken films, as well as quite a bit of television work, but Faults is a rare case of a director putting him in the driver's seat, and he proves himself equal to the task.

Swanberg's inclusion is a notable one, as the film has been referred to as helping to establish a new (and somewhat on the nose) subgenre that mixes the low budget and improvisational style of mumblecore with the horror setting («mumblegore» if you will), and the conversations here take on a casual, loosely scripted feel that would not seem out of place in a film like Computer Chess or The Puffy Chair.

The effect one white American Olympic participant had on another may not be as substantial a story to take up the 24 - hour news cycle as the issue of systemic racism highlighted by the Rodney King beating and the O.J. Simpson trial, which happened before and after the main events of this film, but it works to sell one of the film's notable points.

But, perhaps the most notable thing about the film is that it is a great work of art that is a political work of art, and achieves this greatness solely on the basis of its art: How it tells its tale, not the stances it takes on the issues.

★ Christine Meisner: «Disquieting Nature» (through May 24) For this multimedia project on the roots of blues music, this Berlin artist took a six - week trip through the Mississippi Delta region, filming places both associated with notable musicians and with anti-black violence.