Sentences with phrase «played by the musicians»

It does feature a fascinating dynamic between the prisoner and the camp commander, nicknamed The Bird and played by musician Takamasa Ishihara.

One of them, played by musician Taylor Swift and Twilight heartthrob Taylor Lautner (who keeps his shirt on in this film despite his girlfriend's pleas), displays all the exuberant affection of teen love.

Not exact matches

If you can play Mozart conciertos by the age of 3, then hopefully your parents push you to be a world class musician without pushing you into madness.

18) The fact that there is a later punk - driven attempt to democratize rock fame (and not in the fatuous way that Andy Warhol's «15 - minutes of fame» comment suggested) or that pop / disco artists like Michael Jackson and Madonna will pick up on Bowie's fame - playing and image - emphatic example, in Madonna's case overtly subordinating the music to the prerogatives of notoriety, do not alter what ALMOST FAMOUS is showing us, that rock can be thought of as a social phenomenon / scene that one might belong to («you're too sweet for rock and roll» is said not by a musician to a musician, but by a groupie to a rock writer), that is as fame - focused as it is music - focused.

The music really stood out in moments I didn't think about before, and I was amazed by the musicians who played for almost three hours straight!

An appearance by holographic Prince would be an ode to the musician's legacy, as well as a tip of the hat to Minneapolis, where the game is being played.

We'd buy pastries and cappuccinos at Cafe Selmarie, sit by the fountain to listen to musicians and watch the kids run around and play.

Surrounded by the thousands of musicians who play on our stages, climb our steps, jam in our lobbies, we come from something larger - a rich history, an evolving tradition, a living culture of folks from around Chicago and the world coming together to create music.

Not exactly his daddy, and it sure ain't his boy Hank III (whom you got ta go see if you haven't — imagine country music played by terrific musicians with a fiendish punk - rock intensity), but Bocephus can sleep well, knowing he has done his political convictions proud.

Rosenberg, whose county contracts were largely to secure musicians to play free concerts at county parks, was also paid $ 20,000 by Mangano's 2013 re-election campaign for consulting and marketing.

As he features in a stage play dubbed «the ladder», organized by the National Theater and the Nyansapo Productions, as part of celebrations to climax the National Theater Festival, at the National Theatre auditorium in Accra, comedian and actor, who also doubles as a musician and a dancer, Bismark Nii Odoi, once again caught the eyes of his fans, with his amazing natural prowess in comedy, making it uncomfortable without bursting into laughter, seeing him display in every second in every scene.

Each neuron maintains the tempo set by the oscillation but, like the individual musicians in an orchestra, plays a melody that is different for each smell.

Most hit songs have two or more co-writers, and the demos are played by extraordinarily fine musicians.

The brains of longtime musicians are transformed by years of practice, much as playing basketball or juggling can rewire the brain.

To compare hearing ability in former musicians to people who never played an instrument, researchers measured the electrical brain activity produced by a type of auditory processing called «neural timing,» which enables people to respond to split - second changes in sound such as the transition from a consonant to a vowel.

Its musicians played flutes made of condor and pelican bones in an amphitheater lighted by sacred fires.

Musical styles and strengths vary dramatically: Some musicians are better at sight reading music, while others are better at playing by ear.

Aiba began learning to play the piano when she was five years old, and quickly realized that musicians might be roughly divided into two groups: sight readers and those who play by ear.

Austin is such an artsy city, and South by Southwest brings in even more artists and musicians, giving you the perfect excuse to play dress up!

I am a musician and deejay, given the name of fingersfelix by a band I used to play keyboards for.

You would think that a movie where a jazz musician (Mickey Rourke) gets in trouble with a mobster (played by Bill Murray!)

Despite the title, the lead character is, in fact, Miguel (terrifically voiced by young Anthony Gonzalez), a 12 - year - old resident of the town of Santa Cecilia who dreams of becoming a famous musician just like his idol, the late, great Ernesto de la Cruz (played with pitch - perfect grandiosity by Benjamin Bratt).

Though the film is called Coco, the main character is actually Miguel (Gonzalez, The Bridge), a twelve - year - old Mexican boy who has big dreams of one day becoming a famous musician, much like the romantic legendary guitar playing movie star, Ernesto de la Cruz (voiced by Bratt, Doctor Strange).

A free - agent star by the end of the 1950s, he began one of his two most auspicious creative collaborations when writer / director Billy Wilder tapped him to play one of the cross-dressing musicians in the gender - tweaking comic classic Some Like It Hot (1959).

Virtual musicians can live out their rock and roll fantasies by playing either a single instrument, or any combination of instruments, in addition to the full band experience.

A kind of blues song in its own right, Sidemen: Long Road to Glory is an affectionate attempt to showcase three major figures in the development of Chicago blues, musicians who spent their entire lives eclipsed by the oversized stars they played with.

WHIPLASH By Chris Norris Musician and teacher play with fire in Damien Chazelle's Music School Confidential

(Mostly black, exclusively male, and played by young top - tier musicians, the Studio Band brings a spit - valve - clearing, floor - tom - tuning authenticity that grounds the film in jazz's social and physical reality.)

Most notably, a scene where she watches her absentee musician father play in the local pub is a moving scene of a young woman looking towards her future by reconciling with her past — a triumphant display despite not a single word being spoken.

It's based on a play by Johan Heldenbergh who stars in the film as Didier, a gentle but irreligious bluegrass musician whose wild wife Elise (Veerle Baetens) is a tattoo artist and singer.

TCM Select Pick of the Week: Some Like it Hot (1959), Billy Wilder's best loved film and the AFI's number one pick for best American comedy of all time, plays the St. Valentine's Day Massacre for farce when the two musicians (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) who witness the brutal gangland slaying elude mobsters by hiding out in an all - girl band.

WHAT: After getting dumped by his longtime girlfriend, aspiring musician Joe (Ryan Kwanten) is persuaded by his two best friends (Steve Zahn and Peter Dinklage) to join them at their weekend live - action role - playing event.

Timothee Chalamet, hot off his star - making turn in Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name, gets to play an obnoxious pre-hipster as a sulking musician who plays the usual manipulative cards to get what he wants from his female peers and Tracy Letts provides warm support as a tender, job-less father.

Mia (Emma Stone), an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian (Ryan Gosling), a jazz musician, scraps by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to frail the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

An appealing cast of aspiring young musicians ostensibly play themselves in this naive, shapeless, but often fascinating 2009 drama by Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi (Turtles...

The trouble apparently stems from the film's depiction of a First Nations crime boss, played by First Nations actor and musician Tom Jackson.

Directed by Ron Howard, who stepped in after the original directors, Chris Miller and Phil Lord, were fired midway through production, the film is a cross between a heist movie and a space western, chronicling Solo's first encounters with his Wookiee sidekick, Chewbacca, the Millennium Falcon and his stalwart frenemy, the smooth - talking gambler Lando Calrissian, who was introduced in 1980's «The Empire Strikes Back» by Billy Dee Williams and who is played in «Solo» by actor - writer - musician Donald Glover.

The film is about a blind musician, played by Natalie Dormer, who hears a murder committed in the apartment upstairs from hers that sends her down a dark path into London's gritty criminal underworld.

His father Captain Teague (played by the iconic musician Keith Richards) makes another brief appearance to offer some sage advice to his son.

Abel Ferrara's (Bad Lieutenant, King Of New York) 1981 revenge thriller classic Ms. 45 follows a mute garment - district seamstress — played by the late model / actress / musician / screenwriter Zoë Lund — who after falling victim to multiple unspeakable assaults, ignites her one - woman homicidal rampage against New York City's entire male population.

It tells the story of an aspiring actress, played by Emma Stone, and a jazz musician, played by Ryan Gosling, who sing and dance their way around Los Angeles.

Its main character (memorably played by Ben Stiller) is a failed rock musician who's been getting nowhere for too long and moves to L.A. in search of a new beginning.

The latest in the Guardian's watch on demand films is a brilliantly observed story about a musician — played by Paul Dano — who tries to connect with his small daughter during a custody battle

Once you get past the fact that it isn't a biopic about its writer Jon Ronson's time playing keyboards for the late musician and comedian Frank Sidebottom (an easy mistake to make, given Gleeson's character is called Jon and plays keyboards in a band fronted by a man called Frank, played by Michael Fassbender from beneath a papier - mache head almost identical to that sported by Sidebottom), Frank turns out to be a funny and moving meditation on mental illness and the corrupting power of fame, even of the minor variety.

Music plays a big role throughout, as each section features an original score composed by a different Canadian musician.

Acclaimed Irish director Lenny Abrahamson follows up his award - winning films Adam & Paul, Garage and What Richard Did with an offbeat comedy about a young wannabe musician, Jon, played by Gleeson, who finds himself out of his depth when he joins an avant - garde pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank, (Michael Fassbender) a musical genius who hides himself inside a large fake head, and his terrifying bandmate Clara, played by Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Licht continued to develop as a musician by playing around the world.

These are the words that haunt the entire film, in which an ageing musician, Anne, has a series of catastrophic strokes which render her incapable of playing the piano, and is swiftly followed by the onset of dementia.

She marries a penniless musician, played by Basil Rathbone, and is disowned by her family.

An unapologetically absurd thriller, Grand Piano follows Elijah Wood's Tom Selznick, a musician returning to the stage after a lengthy absence, as he's forced to play a difficult concerto by a madman with a sniper rifle.