Sentences with phrase «of dern»

«I just believed him,» Payne said of Dern.

For another, giving her the award would also mean the Globes could serve as the cherry on top of Dern's huge 2017, a year in which she pulled stellar turns in Twin Peaks and Star Wars: The Last Jedi as well as HBO's blockbuster not - so - limited series.

Paring Maile Meloy's 11 - story collection Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It down to a trilogy, Certain Women tells the sequential tales of Dern's Laura, a small - town lawyer called in to help defuse a hostage situation involving one of her clients (Harris); Michelle Williams's Gina, who's building a house with husband Ryan (James Le Gros); and Lily Gladstone's Jamie, a young rancher in unrequited love with night - school teacher Beth (Kristen Stewart).

Look for campaigns in Best Picture, Best Director (for Tarantino), Best Actor (for either Jackson or Russell), Best Supporting Actor (for some combination of Dern, Jackson, and / or Russell), Best Supporting Actress (for Leigh), Best Original Screenplay (for Tarantino), Best Production Design, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Hairstyling & Makeup, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Original Score.

Previously released but even more essential are Corman's notorious biker classic The Wild Angels (1966) and the quintessential 1960s head film The Trip (1967), written by Jack Nicholson and starring Fonda as a burned - out TV director who drops acid under the protective watch of Dern and Dennis Hopper.

Laura Dern: All of Dern's pre-release buzz died when her name failed to show up anywhere in the precursors, but the Hollywood scion is beloved within the community — lest we forget, she was all over the circuit stumping for her pops Bruce Dern last year — and managed to snag the final Best Supporting Actress spot for her lovely, if brief, work in Wild.

Not exact matches

A prolific film and TV actress, Dern has been nominated for dozens of awards — including winning a Emmy in 2017 for «best supporting actress» for her role in Big Little Lies.

I suspect roughly 80 percent of people who know who Dern is don't know who Davis is, and vice versa.

I was a «good little NCB» who endured 30 hours of labor, 4-1/2 hours of pushing, severe tearing (had to go in to get stitched up), a broken tailbone, AND an injured baby and still sung the praises of my midwife... I should have gotten the gold star sticker, dern it all!

Posting irrelevant ads «is a theft of other people's resources because they have to pay to read messages», says Daniel Dern, author of The Internet Guide for New Users.

I know that chocolate and peanut butter is like the ultimate BFF combo, but the mix of chocolate and tahini is pretty dern good too.

We're currently printing out this picture of Laura Dern's voluminous layers to bring to our next haircut appointment.

An unemployed construction worker willing to do anything to get his preteen son Connor (Noah Lomax) and weathered, resilient mom Lynn (Laura Dern, currently the go - to actress for weathered, resilient moms) out of a rough downtown motel heavily populated with other foreclosed families, Nash reluctantly accepts Carver's offer of piecemeal employment, cleaning and repairing houses recently seized by his unlikely new benefactor.

She demonstrates obvious kinship with the characters played by Molly Shannon in «Year of the Dog» (which Mr. White wrote and directed) and Laura Dern in the HBO series «Enlightened» (which he created).

As the multiple narrative strands move from character to character — a sympathetic insurance assessor (John Ortiz), a curmudgeonly pack rat (Bruce Dern), a widow (Burstyn) picking through the remnants after a house fire — the would - be medley quickly devolves into a series of actorly monologues on a thesis.

Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart and Laura Dern star as three women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide - open plains of the American Northwest.

held together by the remarkably vivid and varied performances of Ruffalo, Dern, Watts and Krause, each of whom gets his or her share of juicy moments and sharp dialogue.

Disregard the incoherent ending, which violates the source material (Joyce Carol Oates story): in her debut, Chopra has made a disturbing tale of sexual awakening set against the 1980s new context of shopping malls; Laura Dern is extraordinary as the lead

This would be her passel of mostly anonymous children and a coterie of other contesters, the Affadaisies, organized by Dortha (Laura Dern) and including an always beaming lady in an iron lung painted happy - yellow (such irony, while perverse, gives the movie an occasional welcome edge).

Laura Dern plays a teenager anxious to experience the pleasures of sexual contact.

As Dennis pack up with his son Connor (Noah Lomax) and his mom, Lynn (Laura Dern), the Nashes find themselves stranded at a motel, a pseudo-refugee camp for the homeless as dozens of people like them have nowhere else to go.

Dern has moments of sly wit as a cantankerous hoarder, and Burstyn is absolutely mesmerizing in her moments onscreen.

Playing father and son is the unlikely pair of Bruce Dern and Will Forte (MacGruber!).

His first visit is to an aged widower (Bruce Dern) living in a quiet old house filled so filled with cameras, radios, an out of date word processor, and books — some read, some he still expects to get around to reading.

There are appearances by the likes of Amber Tamblyn, Patton Oswalt, Bruce Dern, and Nick Offerman, but their time is fleeting.

Despite the efforts of a strong ensemble cast — featuring Bruce Dern, John Ortiz, Ellen Burstyn, Nick Offerman, Jon Hamm, Catherine Keener and Patton Oswalt — the film fails to drive home its point, about the power of the stuff we leave behind when we die, with the same emotional punch that the people on - screen seem to be telegraphing: grief, longing, regret, resentment and sundry other flavors of moroseness.

We begin with Daniel (the incredibly underrated Ortiz), an insurance agent assessing the contents of the life of Ronnie (Dern), an old widower surrounded by an accumulation of books and ephemera, who, it is implied, is not long for this world.

It begins with an insurance agent (John Ortiz) visiting an elderly man (Bruce Dern) to appraise the value of some of his possessions.

Perry's script unfolds like a loosely connected mosaic of mournful individuals, starting with a somewhat tense interaction between a grumpy, retired widower (Bruce Dern) and an adjustor (John Ortiz) inspecting the man's pack - rat abode, attempting to assign price tags to objects whose value are essentially priceless to the grieving patriarch.

But «Nostalgia,» which begins with the visit of an insurance assessor (Ortiz) to the untidy home of a man on death's door (Dern) and ends with an accidental death, belabors this point, in a string of somber, pre-and post-mortem conversations over coffee, booze and the inevitable dumpster filled with the unwanted property of the recently deceased.

The first is Ronnie (Bruce Dern), a widower in his 80s who has collected shelves and piles of stuff over the course of his life.

A terrific performance by Laura Dern is the sole reason to see this pretentious slog through the miserable lives of unlikable people.

Written by Alex Ross Perry (who's maybe the last human being on Earth whose name you'd expect to see in the closing credits) and filled with all of the sincerity that he's left out of the savagely caustic screenplays he's written for himself, «Nostalgia» begins with an insurance agent named Daniel (John Ortiz) visiting Ronald, a curmudgeonly old hoarder played by Bruce Dern.

Here's an insurance agent (John Ortiz) who surveys the belongings of the aged with an eye toward material value: Might some priceless rarity lurk beneath the piles of paper in a the firetrap apartment of a widower (Bruce Dern)?

Of course none of the group can understand why Marrow would choose the distant and cavernous Hill House mansion to conduct a sleep disorder study, including the mansion's handyman (Bruce Dern) and housekeeper (Marian SeldesOf course none of the group can understand why Marrow would choose the distant and cavernous Hill House mansion to conduct a sleep disorder study, including the mansion's handyman (Bruce Dern) and housekeeper (Marian Seldesof the group can understand why Marrow would choose the distant and cavernous Hill House mansion to conduct a sleep disorder study, including the mansion's handyman (Bruce Dern) and housekeeper (Marian Seldes).

And in the «oh - by - the - way» category, Bruce Dern turns in two cameos as the caretaker at the beginning and end of the film.

In the first of our assessments of this year's runners and riders, Guy Lodge urges you to place your money wisely when it comes to choosing between Meryl Streep, Laura Dern, Keira Knightley, Emma Stone and Patricia Arquette

«Enlightened» will be remembered for several reasons — for Laura Dern's funny and brave portrayal of the spiritually searching Amy, for the fact that HBO canceled it after only two (very well - reviewed) seasons — but it was also a revelation in terms of showing what Wilson can do.

Set during the contested 2000 presidential election, this HBO film features Dern as the real - life former Florida Secretary of State.

«Along with her amazing cast of Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Lily Gladstone and Michelle Williams, Kelly has created another treasure that confirms her as one of our great American filmmakers.

Laura Dern's wild - haired Resistance Leader is another mysterious character in The Last Jedi, but that mystery might be because she's also connected to one of the longest - running rumors about the film.

Squibb is nominated for her role as Kate Grant, wife of Best Actor nominee Bruce Dern's character in Alexander Payne's Nebraska.

Though Stiller lacks Dern's dynamic range at conveying frustration and wonder in a single sentence, he's still a fine avatar for his creator, whose appearances here are amusingly limited to aspirational magazine photos of a film director who took off and became his best self as Brad went into neutral.

The father's emotional incapacity and stubborness coupled with his fragility is finely played by Bruce Dern and Will Forte as the long suffering son whose own humdrum life is of no interest to his self - absorbed dad is also a delight.

As she walks, she begins to sort out the various demons she has been wrestling with, including living with an abusive alcoholic father, losing her mother (Dern, When the Game Stands Tall) to a fatal illness, as well as the details of her own personal tailspin in her relationships.

Dern stars in a Golden Globe - winning role as a self - destructive corporate buyer with a new perspective about the merits of self - help and inner healing.

There's a wistful air of time passed and chances lost as Payne tells of a quiet but irascible elderly man, Woody (Bruce Dern), a retired mechanic, taken on an interstate trip to his small, fading Nebraskan hometown by his patient son, David (Will Forte), who sells stereos in the suburbs.

Set in the rural West, the film features an impressive cast that includes Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, and newcomer Lily Gladstone, all complex and resilient characters, yet individuals who resist any outward expression of their inner feelings.

Jennifer Fox (Laura Dern) faces a host of life - altering questions when a short story from her middle school days forces her to re-examine her first sexual relationship.

The rest of the supporting cast, Carrie Fisher, Bruce Dern, and Rick Ducommun are all hilarious in the film, perfectly rounding out the film and all giving great performances.