Spielberg lets the camera sit still and he lets Daniel Day - Lewis do what he does, which is something that
no other living actor can seem to do: that indescribable transformation.
Not exact matches
Who,
other than financial executives, media moguls, some
actors and politicians, and defense contractors
lives or has assets that will deliver a cash flow like that?
There were plenty of historians around the time the supposed Jesus
lived, but no one saw fit to write anything about him despite writing about all the
other actors of the day, large and small.
Among those trying to
live more deliberately is a young man who leaves a lucrative position at Microsoft in order to do what he has always wanted — be an
actor and help
others by volunteering, especially as a Big Brother.
Rational
Actor - rational action is the primary distinguishing factor between Man and all
other forms of
life on Earth.
As the authors of that paper put it: «Clumsy solutions are creative, flexible mixes of four ways of organizing, perceiving and justifying that satisfy the adherents to some ways of
life more than
other courses of actions, while leaving no
actor worse off.
Not being able to count on the FARC's protection anymore, their
lives are at risk as they are exposed to violence committed by
other armed
actors.
The place is buzzing with
actors immaculately dressed in postwar military uniforms, who often bring the experience to
life by barking orders at you or arguing with each
other.
It has had a particularly strong
life on the Internet, including the heavily trafficked Huffington Post, and in pop culture, where it is supported by
actors including Charlie Sheen and Jim Carrey, former Playboy playmate Jenny McCarthy, and numerous
others.
A few years ago he discovered that the average Academy Award winner
lives four years longer than
other actors and that patients admitted to a hospital over the weekend are 28 percent more likely to die than those admitted on weekdays.
He says that he has been a
life - long fan of Deadpool, so it was unthinkable for him to allow any
other actor to play him.
«
Actors kind of
live different
lives compared to the rest of the population,» Duncan explained of Love Arts» demographic compared to that of
other sites The Dating Lab powers.
For the rest of his
life, Spencer Susser can brag to the
other ditch diggers that he persuaded two of the best young
actors in Hollywood to star in one of the worst movies ever made.
We have some actual people from Andrea Dunbar's
life and
actors lip synching words from
others.
I really really dislike the main character like he's actually in real
life gonna get the girl of his dream, are you serious??? He has a crooked smile, wears pajamas all day outside of his house and talk's like a gay poet, I just think he sucks as an
actor, uggh I don't know why I dislike him so much after this movie.On the
other hand Rachel Bilson is very cute and not as bad of an
actor This movie solely focuses on telling the story and making us like the characters for themselves.
Now that we had the Oscars last night, it is time to gather a list of games that enhanced their storytelling by featuring real -
life actors, actresses and
other celebrities — not just as voice
actors, but sometimes even as the main characters.
All of these comedy duos and trios built characters around their real
life personas, so it's sort of strange seeing
other actors step into these roles.
A number of
other lead
actor contenders this year have portrayed real -
life characters as well, and there's quite a wide range.
Is it right to have
actors step into the shoes of
other people when there is absolutely no way they can offer even anything even close to a valuable recreation of someone else's
life and experiences?
Every single
actor appears to be having the time of his or her
life; to single out Foxx, Waltz, Di Caprio, or Jackson for being so damn energized would be to overlook Don Johnson, Kerry Washington, Walton Goggins, James Remar, David Steen, and a dozen
others.
It gives the film a level of realism that you simply couldn't achieve with regular
actors, and although that means making certain sacrifices in
other areas (let's be honest, these guys weren't cast because they're good
actors, but because they actually do this stuff for a
living), it's an experiment that works pretty well.
Veteran French
actor André Wilms, whose association with the filmmaker dates back to 1992's «The Bohemian
Life» (for which he won a European Film Award) takes the lead here, while
other Kaurismäki alumni in the cast include New Wave icon Jean - Pierre Léaud and, of course, the director's favorite actress Kati Outinen.
The same would hold true of a Lead
Actor bid for Boseman — though James Brown is an enormously compelling real -
life figure whose
life is replete with the material that wins
actors awards, the Best
Actor race more than any
other acting category is closely tied to the Best Picture race, and Boseman will likely struggle against competitors in stronger films overall.
Also, they put the
actors playing the escaped hostages in a house for five days to
live together, so we all got to know each
other really well.
I sat down with the real -
life heroes, now
actors, to discuss the fascinating concept of them playing themselves, what they learned about themselves and each
other after doing so, and what the film says about bringing a community together to conquer despair.
Shelley Winters plays the concierge, a woman with little time for the
others occupants; veteran Hollywood
actor Melyyn Douglas is Monsieur Zy, the recalcitrant owner of the building who demands that his tenants
live as quietly as possible;
other tenants include the shrewish M. Dioz (Jo Van Fleet (East of Eden, The King and Four Queens) who wages spiteful wars on those with whom she has fallen into disagreement, and the meek mother (Lila Kedrova — The Kremlin Letter) and her disabled daughter who become the focus of Dioz's vitriol.
The
actor has been connected to a few co-workers from Doctor Who and
other projects but as of present, he remains unmarried and has openly admitted in being shy about discussing his private
life, especially his romantic history.
Out - of - work
actor Mitch (Ryan Reynolds) and driven lawyer Dave (Jason Bateman) find themselves
living each
other's
lives when they aren't careful what they wish for.
Features both the American and British versions of the film, commentary track by creator /
actor Richard O'Brien and co-star Patricia Quinn, an audience participation picture - in - picture track with a
live version of the show and a «callback» subtitle track that cues viewers to classic audience responses, featurettes, two deleted musical scenes, outtakes, alternate opening and ending, and
other celebrations of the culture of «Rocky Horror.»
Individually, the men recall Fox passing on Williamson's outline for episodes one through six, the audition period (almost 500
actors tried out for Dawson), Joey's real -
life counterpart «Fanny,»
other elements of the show autobiographical to Williamson, and the hype leading up to the series» launch; as you may surmise, this is a breathless and edifying eight minutes.
At least Disney's
other princess
live -
actor updates expanded or changed the focus from the originals.
As expected, the HBO series marks the arrival of a larger - than -
life sci - fi epic jam packed with memorable characters, excellent turns from
actors Ed Harris and Evan Rachel Wood (among
others), and enrapturing action sequences that have emotional payoff to match.
The
other actors to join the film are JD McCrary (Vital Signs), playing Simba as a young cub, and Shahadi Wright Joseph (Hairspray
Live) as Young Nala.
Other revivals, all newly restored, include Marcel Pagnol's «The Baker's Wife» (1938), starring the protean French
actor Raimu, introduced by Pagnol's grandson Nicolas Pagnol and Chez Panisse's Alice Waters; the 1924 French silent «Kean, or Disorder and Genius,» starring Ivan Mosjoukine and accompanied by Colorado's own Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra; and «Such is
Life,» a Czech silent film from 1929.
His success with «Alias» ultimately launched his career, and now, ten years later, here he is approaching A-list status, starring in a fine - looking action film, sharing the screen with none
other than, in the words of Ricky Gervais, «the greatest screen -
actor to have ever
lived» — Robert De Niro.
But there the quartet is, Boyle and the men who respectively played Renton, Sickboy and Spud (Robert Carlyle, the
actor who gave
life to the psychotic Begbie, is still back in the U.K. working), joking with each
other as if the last 20 - plus years had never happened.
Consummate supporting
actor Hawkes, whose recent filmography has plenty of titles that sound nearly interchangeable with this one (
Life Of Crime, The Driftless Area, Low Down) leads an appropriately character -
actor - heavy ensemble that includes Octavia Spencer, Robert Forster, Clifton Collins Jr., and Daniel Sunjata, among
others.
James Franco's Golden Globes win for The Disaster Artist was short
lived after Ally Sheedy and
others took to Twitter to accuse the
actor of inappropriate behavior and alleged hypocrisy at him wearing a «Time's Up» pin during the ceremony.
But these
actors bring the story to
life and it's fun to watch a cast of solid
actors play against each
other.
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.
Filmmaker Daniel Clarkson Fisher intersperses clips from They
Live with contemporary news footage, talk - show segments, and interviews with Carpenter,
actor Keith David, and
others.
Whole new mutants Cable and Domino will be added newly to
live - action movie universe of the DeadPool, with
actors like Josh Brolin and famous Zazie Beetz, respectfully,
other actors as well.
, Kurt Russell Drops Out of Django Unchained, Argo Trailer, Gangster Squad Trailer 49:25 —
Other Stuff We Watched: Saturday Night
Live, Kicking It, English Premiere League Soccer, Demons, Demons II, Haywire, Assault on a Queen, The Asphyx, Platform Moon, Face Off, The Silent Partner, Shark Night, Road to Perdition, Ed Wood, Veep, The Pitch, Celebrity Apprentice 1:40:00 — Junk Mail: Too Negative, Director's Voices + Beakman's World vs. Bill Nye the Science Guy, Tony Stark Meets the General, Cult / Character
Actors in Blockbusters, Darren Aronofsky's Noah, Being Approached by Film Junk Fans, Nothing But Trouble, Spielberg vs. Kubrick vs. Nolan vs. Tarantino 2:07:30 — This Week's DVD Releases 2:09:30 — Outro
Extras: Audio commentary with film producer and historian Bruce Block; new appreciation of the film and select scene commentary by film historian Philip Kemp; «The Flawed Couple,» a new video essay by filmmaker David Cairns on the collaborations between Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon; «Billy Wilder ABC,» an overview by David Cairns on the
life and career of the filmmaker, covering his films, collaborators and more; new interview with actress Hope Holiday; «Inside the Apartment,» a half - hour «making - of» featurette from 2007 including interviews with Shirley MacLaine, executive producer Walter Mirisch, and
others; «Magic Time: The Art of Jack Lemmon,» an archive profile of the
actor from 2007; original screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond (BD - ROM content); theatrical trailer; special collector's packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by Ignatius Fitzpatrick; collector's 150 - page hardcover book featuring new writing by Neil Sinyard, Kat Ellinger, Travis Crawford and Heather Hyche, generously illustrated with rare stills and behind - the - scenes imagery.
Extras: Two audio commentaries from 2003, one featuring director Ken Russell and the
other screenwriter and producer Larry Kramer; segments from a 2007 interview with Russell for the BAFTA Los Angeles Heritage Archive; «A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible,» Russell's 1989 biopic on his own
life and career; interview from 1976 with
actor Glenda Jackson; interviews with Kramer and
actors Alan Bates and Jennie Linden from the set; new interviews with director of photography Billy Williams and editor Michael Bradsell; «Second Best,» a 1972 short film based on a D. H. Lawrence story, produced by and starring Bates; trailer; an essay by scholar Linda Ruth Williams.
Other highlights in this section include: Pablo Larraín's THE CLUB, a mordant morality tale set in a sleepy Chilean coastal town, which won Berlin's Grand Jury Prize; CHRONIC, Michel Franco's uncompromising study of grief and isolation, featuring a revelatory performance by Tim Roth; brothers Tarzan and Arab Nasser's feature directorial debut, DÉGRADÉ, a smart drama that moves seamlessly between humour and despair, set in a women's hair salon in Gaza; the European Premiere of George Amponsah's intimate documentary THE HARD STOP, revealing the story of Mark Duggan's friends and family following his death after being shot in a «Hard Stop» police procedure in 2011; Jonas Carpignano's engrossing feature debut, THE MEASURE OF A MAN which won Vincent Lindon Best
Actor at Cannes Film Festival, MEDITERRANEA, an ultra-topical tale of two young African men from Burkina Faso who, in search of a better
life, make the difficult and dangerous trip across the Sahara desert and Mediterranean Sea to reach Italy; the drama MUCH LOVED, Nabil Ayouch's searing, no - holds - barred look at the world of prostitution in Morocco; David Evans» thought - provoking documentary MY NAZI LEGACY, which raises the harrowing question, «What if your father was a Nazi?»
The autobiographical portrait of a group of young Americans
living in Paris stars Chloë Sevigny, Adam Brody and Carrie MacLemore (both from Damsels in Distress), Dree Hemingway (Starlet), and Adriano Giannini (son of Italian
actor Giancarlo Giannini), «plus
other great performers to be discovered» per Stillman.
Baker
lives around the corner from Donut Time and, having made films about
other disenfranchised groups — Chinese immigrant food delivery men in «Take Out,» Manhattan street hustlers in «Prince of Broadway» and down - and - out porn
actors in «Starlet» — he was curious about his own neighborhood.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (PG - 13 for profanity, sexuality, smoking and brief war violence) Brad Pitt shares the title role with several
other actors in David Fincher's adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic tale about a man born old who gradually grows younger over the course of his
life.
The film maintains the original audio recordings with
actors playing Hull and various
other people in his
life, occasionally lip - synching to the pre-existing audio.