Sentences with phrase «only film appearance»

A point of interest for Chandler fans, Double Indemnity contains his one and only film appearance, an uncredited cameo — sitting outside Keyes» office.

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Narrated by Paul McCartney, and with appearances from Paul, Mary and Stella McCartney, Woody Harrelson and Emma Stone, the film describes how the beauty of the planet only exists through a delicate balance of climatic conditions — a balance we are dangerously disrupting through our insatiable desire for animal products.

George Marks only played twice for Arsenal, thanks in part to the Second World War, but his second appearance against Brentford proved to a memorable one as the game was recorded and used the film The Arsenal Stadium Mystery, a murder whodunnit from 1939 involving a fictitious amateur side called The Trojans who draw Arsenal in the FA Cup.

Many film fans assume that Mitchell won his 1939 Best Supporting Oscar for his portrayal of Gerald O'Hara in the blockbuster Gone With the Wind; in fact, he won the prize for his performance as the drunken doctor in Stagecoach — one of five Thomas Mitchell movie appearances in 1939 (his other films that year, classics all, were Only Angels Have Wings, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame).

Following her divorce from Jolson, she retired from films and made only a few appearances until her comeback in No, No, Nanette on Broadway in 1970.

There was no need for any of the other superheroes to drop in, and the only Marvel cameo you'll find in the actual film is the usual Stan Lee appearance.

The acting has taken a strong decline in quality, with Sean Bean being the only saving grace of the film and he's mostly just a cameo appearance that drives the story, but doesn't actually help it.

Though a child of the colonial civil servant caste, Denis is by sentiment and inclination one of the last viable working - class filmmakers in the white - collar west, and so it is only appropriate that her film should be capped off with an appearance by Depardieu, the hulking star of Maurice Pialat's Loulou (1980), that bruising film of interclass love.

He also made an uncredited appearance in Besson's Leon (1994) but could be seen only in the longer version of the film that was released in France in 1996.

Williams really only had two brief appearances in the film, but that fact wasn't enough to keep people from paying their money and selling out the opening weekend performances.

Despite its obvious comparisons to The Hangover, Last Vegas possesses none of that film's distinctive aesthetic or scattered moments of subversion, and the appearance of Jerry Ferrara as the senior wolfpack's hapless fixer only cements the realization that what it resembles more than anything else is late - period Entourage.

I've mentioned that R2D2 does make an appearance; he does connect with Luke and shows him the Princess Leia hologram from the 1977 film that blew everyone away in which she states, «Help me, Obi - Wan Kenobi: you're my only hope.»

Sigourney Weaver as his LAPD attorney, Steve Buscemi as the mayor, Ice Cube as an internal affairs investigator, and Moverman's «The Messenger» co-star Ben Foster as a homeless drunk, all shine in their brief appearances, and their presence only helps to embolden the film's narrative texture.

An Apatow alum whose only appearance in recent years was a self - parodying cameo in «Knocked Up,» Franco owns the role — from the long, unkempt hair to the multi-colored pajama pants — and in doing so, will likely go down as one of the more memorable stoners in film.

Then you have Bale, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Cillian Murphy in a tiny appearance resurrecting the first film's Scarecrow... and yet the picture, for all its craft, is only a masterpiece based on its mad adherence to this idea that hope is a luxury in the face of atrocity.

Popular titles like Fahrenheit 9/11 and Citizenfour from Johnson's frequent collaborator Laura Poitras, the latter of which makes a wonderfully obscure and unexplained appearance yet which only proves how impressively that doc was filmed.

For example, Doc's nemesis, LAPD Detective Lieutenant Christian «Bigfoot» Bjornsen (Josh Brolin), is first seen in a television ad costumed in «hippie» gear promoting the «Channel View Estates» housing development; Coy Harlington (Owen Wilson), a musician and former dope addict, now supposedly an undercover government agent, is first glimpsed in a family photo taken by his ex-junkie wife Hope (Jena Malone); Mickey Wolfmann stares out at us from a newspaper photograph before he makes his one and only appearance in corporeal form late in the film; hit man Adrian Prussia (Peter McRobbie) first appears to us in FBI photo files.

Robert Redford's appearance as S.H.I.E.L.D director Alexander Pierce not only brings a boost of legendary star power to Captain America: The Winter Soldier, but also provides a direct link to thrillers of old that the film recalls.

Only Dance's brief appearance, in its slithery menace, registers with a knowing hamminess that perhaps the rest of the film could use more of.Hide

The film is reasonably good at giving everyone something to do, although I couldn't shake the feeling that some cast members, such as John Cho (Sulu) or Anton Yelchin (Chekov), only spent a couple of weeks on set, so fleeting are their appearances.

I think I only disliked one film I saw — the Woody Allen picture, though Allen made a rare appearance and introduced the film!

She's talked film on the popular / Filmcast, the ScreenCrush Long Takes podcast, on US radio, and now — in what we can only assume is her most exciting media appearance to date — on Hell Is For Hyphenates!

Leaving it in London with its terraced rows of houses streaking past the train windows would have made it grittier and more thrilling; moving it to the glorious upstate New York setting ironically only added to the low budget appearance of a film that could have been one of a dozen others that look the same.

Meatballs Part II is only notable for early film appearances from future stars Paul Reubens (Pee - Wee's Big Adventure, Cheech & Chong's Next Movie) and John Larroquette (Richie Rich, «Night Court»), and look quick for comedienne Elayne Boosler playing mother to a young Nancy Glass («Inside Edition», «American Journal») in one scene.

For those new to STAR TREK, the original Klingons had a much more human-esque appearance (with standard sinister goatees), and their pasty - shaped heads only become a mainstay following the first STAR TREK film in 1979.

In an appearance on Good Morning America, star Anthony Mackie revealed he only received a 25 - page script for the film.

While he's never been a truly commercial name, Day - Lewis has raised his stock by making appearances a rarity, with only three films this decade and five in the 1990s.

Although the remarkable number of recognizable faces to be found within the cast make it worth checking out (Sam Rockwell, Alyssa Milano, Matthew McConaughey, John Rhys - Davies, Kristin Bauer, French Stewart, Brendan Fraser, Leah Remini, Meredith Salinger, Mary Woronov, and Spaulding Gray all make appearances), the predominant reason we've included «Glory Daze» — which is, for the record, explores the hesitation all college graduates experience before entering the real world — is because no matter how many films he may eventually have to his credit, Matt Damon should never be allowed to escape the fact that, even though it was only for a few fleeting moments, he once played a character named Edward Pudwacker.

She is barely recognisable from her two most recent appearances I mentioned (and nothing like her bit part in Quantum of Solace) and I can only imagine that this must have been one of the most uncomfortable shoots in history, since she spends much of the film gagged and handcuffed to a bed, often naked.

As it is, screen legend Eva Marie Saint — one of Hitchcock's «icy» blonds — makes a stunning appearance near the film's end, only to be stranded in its dead, sappy finale and tundra of miscalculations; these include a math - challenged chronology which would make her character about 107 years old.

Stealing away from his work on the third film, director Paul Greengrass made a special trip to the Los Angeles Film Critics Association dinner this past January to accept Best Director honors for his work on United 93 (his only awards season appearance), and he appeared a bit haggard, to be honest.

The film's success not only reinvigorated interest in Valens» brief but notable musical legacy, it also brought the title tune back to the charts (in a cover version by Los Lobos) 28 years after its first appearance.

This has drawn some of Zucker's regulars to the project (Charlie Sheen and Leslie Nielsen) and also some biggish - name cameos (Pamela Anderson, Jenny McCarthy, Queen Latifah, Denise Richards, the Wu - tang clan, and a hilarious appearance by Simon Cowell)-- but it also ensures that the humour involving race relations, which was about the only thing in the previous films that qualified as cutting edge, now seems as uncomfortable as Jewish jokes being told by non-Jews.

Just start with the cast as, nostalgically, the film brings back not only the regulars but such favorite guest stars as Brendan Gleeson, Imelda Staunton, Helena Bonham Carter and Timothy Spall — then adds new appearances by Rhys Ifans, Bill Nighy and Peter Mullan.

The uniformly amateurish cast - Tobin's Bell's expectedly entertaining (yet strangely pointless) cameo appearance notwithstanding - only exacerbates the film's various problems, as even the most forgiving viewer will find it exceedingly difficult to actively root for any of these people (something that's true even of Sevier's character, given that he clearly died at the end of the original).

His only onscreen film appearance during this time was a small part as a British general in Quentin Tarantino's «Inglourious Basterds.»

Despite outward appearances, Fracture isn't quite the fast - paced legal thriller that one might have expected from the film's promotional materials (there is, in fact, only one courtroom sequence of any real significance); screenwriters Daniel Pyne and Glenn Gers have instead crafted a story that generally has the feel of a low - key drama - with Gosling's character ultimately forced to choose between his ambition and his morals.

It's only fitting that he'd open up to a documentarian, and thankfully he chose Wim Wenders, who films not a traditional bio doc but a travelogue, capturing the sumptuous halls of the Vatican and the unique scale of the pope's public appearances as he travels the world delivering his message.

Besides perennial fan favorites from film, television and comics, they always bring out big guns with guests not only making their Kansas City convention debut but, on occasion, their very first convention appearance ever.

She is simply too much of a cypher to really become involved in her journey toward something resembling emotional and psychological maturation (or, the film suggests, only the outward appearance thereof) on its own merits.

Summer Catch is the first feature film by Michael Tollin (Radio), whose only real previous work of note was a documentary about Hank Aaron, who coincidentally makes a cameo appearance in the movie.

In the cast, Cleese, Richardson, and Warner shine, and Craig Warnock deftly plays Kevin in (surprisingly) his only feature film appearance.

Of course, this also makes the film a bit dumbed down for juvenile consumption, but without the hipness and soundtrack that bolstered more popular efforts, Corey Haim's appearance in the film would probably be the only thing that might appeal to anyone interested in teen horror.

In the original script the only other X-Men to make an appearance was Colossus (Played in previous films by Daniel Cudmore) which isn't in the descriptions above.

Cable isn't the only X-Force member to make an appearance in this film.

Brendan Gleeson is an pleasant surprise in the Best Supporting Actor category, and while I anticipated Brad Pitt's appearance in that field for «Burn After Reading,» Tilda Swinton's Supporting Actress nod for the same film is the kind of out - of - nowhere hometown favoritism that only BAFTA can come up with.

In only her second screen appearance, Vega has earned widespread critical acclaim, making the film a must - see.

If you can get over appearances (and that's not too difficult), it's easy to recognize Dano's strong work, though it's not strong enough to call overlooked for receiving only one the film's dozens of award nominations.

In the far corner: Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Voight (Fonda's costar in «Coming Home»), Sacha Baron Cohen, and Oprah Winfrey — who was in town because she was executive producer for the film «Precious: Based on the Novel «Push» by Sapphire» and who created a commotion in the streets bested only by the occasional drive - by appearances of the Jonas Brothers.

And though this latest project might feel like a trifle (it's only 69 minutes long and was filmed at Cannes to take advantage of a press appearance Huppert was doing there), it's also a clear statement of artistic intent.