Sentences with phrase «pivotal role in the film»

The song is probably best known now for its pivotal role in the film Casablanca.

On one side, there was the trio of living legends Alan Arkin, Robert De Niro and Tommy Lee Jones all playing pivotal roles in films that won elsewhere in major categories.

Typically I tend to overlook the sound in films like these, but the sound design plays a pivotal role in the film.

(However, two of his oldest friends have pivotal roles in the film — Jack Fisk, who helped finance Eraserhead, is the production designer, and Fisk's wife, Sissy Spacek, plays Rose.)

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It is a film about the importance of family and having faith in each other, and how each can play a pivotal role in the journeys of the others, in both sickness and in health.

French mathematician Yves Meyer has won the 2017 Abel Prize for his «pivotal role» in establishing the theory of wavelets — data - analysis tools used in everything from pinpointing gravitational waves to compressing digital films.

(There's little doubt, too, that the stellar supporting cast, which includes Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, and Randy Quaid, plays a pivotal role in confirming the film's success.)

It was for his portrayal of an embittered DJ in another of Egoyan's films, Exotica (1994), that Koteas garnered his second Genie nomination; following this critical success, he began to appear in an increasing number of high profile productions.Koteas was subsequently featured to great effect as the creepy Vaughan in David Cronenberg's controversial Crash (1996), and he invested his brief but pivotal role as Holly Hunter's mystery man in the acclaimed Living out Loud (1998) with memorable charisma.

Starring Daniel Day - Lewis in the pivotal role of Abraham Lincoln, the film tells the story of the last months of Lincoln's presidency and his mission to abolish slavery during the time of the civil war.

Josh Gad is also good in a small but pivotal role as Aidan's nerdy genius brother, but it's Kate Hudson who is the film's most pleasant surprise, turning in her finest performance since «Almost Famous.»

Burton gets two of his trademark ethereal blondes in the film (Lohman and Lange) as well as Bonham - Carter occupying two pivotal roles.

Despite the accolades, the film was doomed by the fatal flaw of casting a Kids Week Jeopardy - winner in the pivotal role as the picture's narrator / protagonist.

Luis played a pivotal role in the original film's heist sequence, helping Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), the new Ant - Man, to infiltrate Pym Technologies to steal a deadly, experimental weapon.

At the beginning of the year, my two most anticipated films happened to feature Billy Crudup in pivotal roles.

Alongside Reynolds, the film also stars Morena Baccarin, T. J. Miller, Leslie Uggams Josh Brolin in pivotal roles.

As the witch's «familiar,» the role of Pyewacket is pivotal to the film and surely one of the most significant feline roles in Hollywood history.

At the film's recent press day, Costner talked about the appeal of playing Coach White, Niki Caro's directing style, the bond that developed between all the actors during filming, the pivotal role a coach can play in a young person's life, the Jim White - type coaches who influenced Costner's life in a positive way, what he learned about Latino culture growing up in Visalia, why he waits for projects to come along that he can really respond to irrespective of genre, the biggest cultural gap he experienced on this film, and how sports movies allow us to address other issues within the wider society.

So now Gleeson finds himself in the odd position of having a (presumably) pivotal role in a massively anticipated film and yet having to duck every single question about it.

Anachronistic music, glitter, over-the-top visual flair, and fantasia abound in the first batches of footage from the film, which will star Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, and Tobey Maguire in the pivotal roles.

We do meet a group of mutants in the film, but with the exception of the pivotal role of Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), the rest of the mutants (good and bad) are mostly just there to fill out the action scenes — or in the case of Emma Frost (January Jones), fill out some ridiculous outfits (which the film does manage to justify... sort of).

House of Fools: Another pretentious Russian import, House of Fools was the only film this year to feature Bryan Adams in a pivotal role.

While Depp was briefly seen in the first «Fantastic Beasts» film — for the majority of the feature, he was «disguised» as another wizard, played by Colin Farrell — he is expected to take a «much more pivotal role» in the next feature.

The film also stars Donald Glover and Emilia Clarke in pivotal roles.

She even had an actress in mind for the lead: Sheila Vand, who played a small but pivotal role in Argo and starred in several of Amirpour's film - school shorts.

Rooney Mara Mara was just another working actress doing guest spots on TV and the occasional role in mostly forgettable films until 2009 when she successfully auditioned for the small but pivotal role of Mark Zuckerberg's girlfriend in David Fincher's Oscar winner for Best Picture, The Social Network.

That's the question Bradley Cooper's Eddie Morra — reprising his role from the 2011 film from which the series is based — asks protagonist Brian Finch (Jake McDorman) during a pivotal moment in the Limitless pilot.

It certainly doesn't compete with today's movies in the sound department, but for a 69 - year - old film where music plays a pivotal role, it's incredible.

Depp's villainous wizard character Gellert Grindelwald was seen very briefly in 2016's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, but will take a much more pivotal role in the next film as its titular character.

Sunnyside is a refreshing look at a pivotal moment in our history, one that has shaped, in large part, our love of film, our role on the world's stage, and our enduring culture of celebrity.

ME's abstract paintings have played pivotal roles in designs for TV and film interiors, restaurants and offices.

How the Beatles Rocked The Kremlin Intriguing film about the Beatles» pivotal role in liberating Russians and bringing about the end of the Cold War.