Sentences with phrase «only living actor»
But the casual perfection with which Tom Hanks plays everyman lawyer James Donovan — shivering his way to a rare warmth (his sustained cold is itself one of the year's most remarkable performances) and steering that movie through the moral muck of the Cold War — has been all but ignored precisely because Hanks is the only living actor who could have played him.
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The act not only emerged from the life - story and intention of the actor, but presupposed an invisible web of human relationships in which Alwyn was embedded.
The only people who want that are what I would call irrational actors, especially religious fanatics, and that includes extremist groups that live right here in this country.
If Hollywood is truly committed to changing its behavior and reversing the power dynamic that has persisted for too long, it would look not only at actor and creators» professional actions, but their interactions in their personal lives as well — and not just at the current moment of #MeToo and Time's Up.
Down to earth gay man I am out to family and friends Spiritual easy going open mind My sexuality is only a very small part of my personality Very creative and artsy I create stained glass for a living as my aspiring actor goals tanked A fan of 420 occasionally use hallucinogens to stir my...
An ordinary guy escapes his turbulent home life when he is invited to an exclusive Hollywood party by his movie star friend, only to discover that there's Famous Supernatural guest stars include a future Star Wars actor, Buffy the Vampire Slayer actors and classic horror stars.
In fact, critics deemed Downey's portrayal as one of the only worthwhile elements in the Chaplin biopic, and it earned the thesp a Best Actor Oscar nomination, as well as Golden Globe and British Academy Award noms.Around this time, Downey's personal life took a turn for the worse.
Sigh... the only saving grace in this show is the lead actor, and even he tends to let overacting do the work for him... This show is about real life events, yet I can't help but get the feeling that I really couldn't give a crap about the fact that this stuff happened.
Young actor Gonzalez voices 12 - year - old Miguel Rivera, whose only wish in life is to play the guitar like his idol, the late, legendary Ernesto de la Cruz (Bratt).
LaPaglia is such a fine actor and every nuance of his bottled up Jim comes through, as he struggles to not only be a good father, but to find a direction in his own life.
a completely over rated actor that was funny in one thing only: Some skits on Saturday Night Live.
While Conlin's first screen role after graduation was grounded firmly in reality (she was chosen to appear in a documentary film detailing the lives of young actors in New York City), it was only after moving to Los Angeles that her career truly began to catch on.
This proves well - nigh impossible; Abe, the self - described «king of the Hollywood extras,» is not only a play - actor in Tinseltown but in life itself, refusing to take on any real responsibilities, least of all the responsibility of parenthood.
Bradley Cooper supplies only his voice to «Guardians of the Galaxy,» but the actor will visit «Jimmy Kimmel Live» to help promote the new superhero movie.
The only thing in it that is actually «live» is the boy Mowgli, played by preteen actor Neel Sethi.
Morgan Freeman's mollycoddled and on meds, suffering the indignity of being infantlised by an idiot son, Kevin Kline's got a great wife but a boring life and is subsequently sexually dysfunctional and depressed, Robert De Niro's a widower whose only human contact is a soup making neighbour, while Michael Douglas, in a set up that must have presented the actor with the greatest challenge of his career, plays a rich old pervert who's eschewed commitment most of his adult life but is now about to settle for a woman less than half his age.
«An actor's only job is to enter the lives of people who are different from us and let you feel what that feels like.
Maybe everyting would have been less jarring had Kobiela and Welchman painted the film from scratch, but the decision to shoot it first with live actors and then rotoscope them later only makes it more difficult to float between the frames.
After all of the noble talk on the red carpet, the audience heard only the occasional mention from men of the «strong, intelligent and righteous women» in their lives (as noted by Best Supporting Actor winner Sam Rockwell).
Guest director Joshua Oppenheimer, whose wrenching «The Act of Killing» debuted at TFF in 2012, has put together an eclectic program that includes Werner Herzog's 1970 «Even Dwarfs Started Small» (with Herzog in attendance), Jon Bang Carlsen's intriguing and obscure «Hotel of the Stars» (1981), an hour - long Danish documentary about extras who live in a shabby apartment hotel in Hollywood; the only movie directed by Charles Laughton, 1955's exquisitely - shot «The Night of the Hunter,» starring a brilliant, terrifying Robert Mitchum, and fortuitously playing in his centenary year; «Salam Cinema,» Mohsen Makmalbaf's 1995 record of auditions by aspiring actors; a new print of Frederick Wiseman's long - banned, corrosive «Titicut Follies» (1967), filmed in a notorious Massachusetts hospital for the criminally insane; and Jacques Demy's glorious, gorgeous musical, «The Umbrellas of Cherbourg» (1967), starring the glorious, gorgeous Catherine Deneuve.
It's a testament to these actors — Bob Odenkirk, Will Forte, Bruce Dern and June Squibb — that not only does the film work but that the family itself feels real and lived in.
However, when the 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards are simulcast live on TNT and TBS on January 21, the presentation, hosted by Kristen Bell, will feature only women presenters in 13 of the categories.
It makes sense that Baker assembled an ensemble of predominantly unknown actors (Caleb Landry Jones is the only other recognizable face of substance); it adds to the authenticity of such a marginalized and forgotten slice of life that no one's really recognizable.
Michael Gross is the only actor to have appeared in all five movies and star in the short - lived TV series.
Hayley Atwell isn't the only MCU actor to reprise their live - action role through animation.
The only people actually acting in the film are Jacki Weaver and Zac Efron, who play jobbing actors tasked with bringing two of the more memorable subplots in Wiseau's script to life; they're both wonderful.
In the history of the Academy Awards, only two actors have won an award for playing an LGBT character who lives to see the end of the movie: Penelope Cruz joined the grand tradition of Woody Allen ingenues by winning Best Supporting Actress in 2009 for Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
9:26: (Chris): Hate to say it, but is the reason the good - not - great «The Phone Call» won live action short is that it's the only one with recognizable actors in it?
Not only does it begin with an account of how bits of movie dialogue (from «Rio Bravo,» «His Girl Friday») have entered her life, and the lives of her friends and colleagues, but it then segues into a great quotation from Steve Roman on SCTV (playing Juan Cortez, the first Puerto Rican Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court in the dramatic television series, «There's Justice for Everybody»): «It's got good actors, and that spells good acting.»
«I only wish to live up to my father's example...» An official US trailer has debuted for an indie coming - of - age comedy titled The Tiger Hunter, starring young actor Danny Pudi best known from «Community».
It's true that English language productions have a substantial global advantage, that only three current Spanish actors rival Watts and McGregor in international fame (Antonio Banderas and real - life couple Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem), and that film is as much of a business as it is an art.
With only two previous movies to his credit (The Tree of Life and Mud), Sheridan has proved himself one of the most remarkable young actors working today.
With something like Churchill, you're not only playing arguably the greatest Briton that ever lived, to some, and this icon, but you are walking in the shoes of all the other great actors who have played him, and quite recently too.
Day - Lewis seems to be the only possible choice to bring Reynolds Woodcock to the screen, an exacting actor to live in such an exacting character.
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Franco approached Wiseau for his life story rights and was surprised to discover that the only actor the great auteur wanted to portray him — beside Johnny Depp, that is — was Franco, probably because he'd played Wiseau's idol Dean.
There's a transparency to the performances that transcends naturalism: you sense that the actors are not only playing themselves (more so than usual), but also that they're playing themselves as allegorical figures in a metaphor for their lives.
Still, the actor decided he had gotten his fill over the course of five films and relinquished the role after 1967's You Only Live Twice.
Given the difficulty of not only breaking out but also making a living as an actor, such detours to franchises may be explained as a way for performers to simply put food on the table, after years of struggle.
I do know that they were popular, not only because of the game play, but because they have a cinematic feel to them, with unfolding storylines and, in later editions, well - produced live - action cut - scene sequences featuring well - known actors like Mark Hamill, Malcolm McDowell, John Rhys - Davies, and even former porn queen Ginger Lynn Allen.
«I Am Mowgli» (8:18) looks at how Neel Sethi landed the film's only live - action role and his experience as a first - time actor without traditional co-stars.
Director Derek Cianfrance took twelve years to stew on what he wanted to say about love and marriage in his film Blue Valentine, the principle actors, Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling, had over half a decade to think about how they would bring Cindy and Dean to life — this rare gift to the creative process paid off astoundingly as the final product is second only to Ingmar Bergmans» Scenes from a Marriage in its capacity to lay bare the wounds of love after the veil of the honeymoon phase has been lifted.
With only the idea that comic book heroes have home lives and feelings of inadequacy like everyone else, this one note movie beats that them like a drum with such a lack of wit that it's astonishing that these credible actors would find the rather talky (for a comic book) story worthy of their efforts.
The live actors in all honesty are pretty generic, but they are only on screen for a brief period of time.
True, fans have gotten various photos from Brolin, like one in make - up department getting a life cast done to another that shows the actor working out (as well as a training video); but as far as casting, the only news from the project since then is that Leslie Uggams is returning as Blind Al..
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Assange's real - life disapproval of the film and its lead actor accepting the role only makes Cumberbatch's portrayal that much more fascinating — a portrayal that's three parts comdemnation, one part admiration.
The only way to keep them straight was to imagine what actors would play them in a movie made from my life: Paul Skyhorse Johnson: Will Sampson, the American Indian «Chief» from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
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