Sentences with phrase «same actors in his films»

Paul Thomas Anderson typically uses two or more of the same actors in his films, however, There Will Be Blood is his first film that doesn't include a member of the cast from a previous film.

Not exact matches

Though the Best Actor category is often brutally crowded, Spall is likely one of the year's first legitimate Oscar contenders - and, the actor admitted at the same lunch, he's also a candidate for an unlikelier honor if the film catches on after Sony Pictures Classics releases it in DeceActor category is often brutally crowded, Spall is likely one of the year's first legitimate Oscar contenders - and, the actor admitted at the same lunch, he's also a candidate for an unlikelier honor if the film catches on after Sony Pictures Classics releases it in Deceactor admitted at the same lunch, he's also a candidate for an unlikelier honor if the film catches on after Sony Pictures Classics releases it in December.

For those old enough to remember Errol Flynn, he was an film star who could not play football and a pretty poor actor, much in the same mould as his «lookalike «Giroud.

While the Man in the Mask (Damian Maffei, «Closed for the Season»), Pin - up Girl (Lea Enslin) and Dollface (Emma Bellomy) characters have returned, they're not even played by the same actors from the original film.

Sure, they may have popped up in the odd film to give a solid dramatic performance, or cameo in a comedy, but the real magic from seeing these actors on - screen just is not the same anymore.

Although the film failed to achieve the same amount of praise as Mann's work before it, Will Smith delivered an career - changing performance in the title role and was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar.

And actor Adam Sandler finally gives in to the inevitable, taking on a Klump - ian role in which he plays sister and brother in the same film.

i only wish those thousands went to work on movies of more substance than fighting robots... and you don't have to apologize to me, i can in fact compare «Real Steel» to «The Fast and the Frivolous» films because in essence they are one - in - the - same, simply just the flavor of the week kind of flicks that have no real pull behind them other than big name actors, CGI and a promise of action.

Last year, the actor played supporting Vampire hunter Henry Sturges in the genre - bending novel adaptation Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - one of the bright spots in a film that fell short of finding the same success as its source material.

They don't even really make a big deal out of gayness in this version, which is odd, but this is a dumbed down and less interesting version of the same story, which would be fine if it took advantage of having actors who don't even have to act if they can dance in a film like this.

At the same time, most of the actors in the film are comedic actors, except for Dane [DeHaan] who is a generally dramatic actor.

The youth and comparative inexperience of the «Social Network» ensemble would make it an atypical winner in the category — but at the same time, counting out Jesse Eisenberg's long - shot Best Actor bid, this is the only place where voters can acknowledge the most acclaimed and awarded film in the race.

I'm sure there are plenty of others that I have missed, but it made for some fun jokes between the festival - goers to repeatedly see the same actors pop up in various films.

In St. Vincent, he showcases why we know him as a great comedic actor but at the same time reminds us why he is worthy of some award recognition especially in the film's 3rd acIn St. Vincent, he showcases why we know him as a great comedic actor but at the same time reminds us why he is worthy of some award recognition especially in the film's 3rd acin the film's 3rd act.

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.

Many festival - goers were surprised to see many of the same actors in various films as they days wore on.

Book Club isn't just a romantic comedy but a film that manages to team up four of the greatest female actors of their time in the same movie.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Most significantly, in Boyhood (2014), Linklater filmed the same actors over 12 years to tell the story of a boy as he grows from age 7 to 19.

So many actors seem to be the same in every film.

A throwback to the star - driven cinema of the Fifties and a reflection of our own fanatical interest in cults of personality, the film features transparent performances (with the exception of Don Cheadle, each performer in Ocean's Eleven is playing his - or herself), and the same kind of sadistic voyeurism that impels us to simultaneously deify and find fault with our favourite actors keeps our peepers glued to the screen as George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Elliot Gould, and Carl Reiner revolve around one another in a loose heist intrigue intended to relieve Andy Garcia of both his millions and his girlfriend.

The same went for the actors who appear in both films.

He was nearly 20 years younger than his leading lady, and the same age then as Michael Cera is today, but in a film where few of the actors were playing their actual age, he was clearly the man for the role.

Coming along at the same time as the rumor that Sandler could end up being in the next film by Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie, it seems like the actor is continuing to look to expand his range.

Like other Billy Wilder films, «The Seven Year Itch» works best when it's just showcasing its actors, often in the same set for long stretches of time.

Not really as distinctive as the last film to push the same envelope, Pleasantville, Chocolat still is perfect in its cast of actors and in the use of lush cinematography and music, so much so that it still makes this oft told tale enjoyable.

Unlike other animated films that record voice artists separately, Surf's Up had its actors in the same room for each scene.

Not since «The Electric Horseman» in 1979 have we had the distinct pleasure of seeing two outstanding actors, Robert Redford («All Is Lost»), now 81, and Jane Fonda («Youth»), now 79, working together in the same film.

The same could be said for Asa Butterfield who started as a kid actor in films like The Space Between Us and Hugo.

His skills with getting children to appear natural is charmingly in evidence in Beyond The Clouds: the only parts of the film which feel fresh have these child actors flitting about; the rest is dispiritingly same - old.

An extensive selection of work from across the world is presented including the World Premieres of William English's HEATED GLOVES and THE HOST, in which director Miranda Pennell delves deeper into her past and her late parents» involvement with the Anglo Iranian Oil Company (BP); Ben Rivers» THE SKY TREMBLES AND THE EARTH IS AFRAID AND THE TWO EYES ARE NOT BROTHERS, the feature element of Ben's current Artangel installation at BBC White City; EVENT FOR A STAGE by Tacita Dean, a filmed presentation of her live theatrical happening in collaboration with actor Stephen Dillane at the 2014 Sydney Biennial; the European Premiere of Omer Fast's REMAINDER, a London - set thriller adapted from Tom McCarthy's acclaimed novel of the same name; the European Premiere of INVENTION which highlights the possibilities of camera movement and the development of artistic apparatus and Kevin Jerome Everson's PARK LANES, set in an American bowling alley over the course of a day.

Oscar trivia hounds probably know that Peter O'Toole is one of only four actors to receive Best Actor nods for playing the same character in two different films (we'll leave it to you and the...

Adi watches Oppenheimer's footage of the murderers describing his brother's death in that animated, kids - playing way familiar from The Act of Killing, though these are not the same two «actors» who appeared in that film, underscoring that a desensitization to the atrocities committed has happened on a national, not individual, scale.

In the event, Hanks wasn't cited for either film and nor was his Captain Phillips director, Paul Greengrass, whose slot went to Alexander Payne (Nebraska) in much the same way that Hanks and Redford saw their Best Actor toehold toppled by onetime long - shots Christian Bale (American Hustle) and Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall StreetIn the event, Hanks wasn't cited for either film and nor was his Captain Phillips director, Paul Greengrass, whose slot went to Alexander Payne (Nebraska) in much the same way that Hanks and Redford saw their Best Actor toehold toppled by onetime long - shots Christian Bale (American Hustle) and Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Streetin much the same way that Hanks and Redford saw their Best Actor toehold toppled by onetime long - shots Christian Bale (American Hustle) and Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street).

«Benjamin Button» snubs are because they probably didn't see the film... same thing that happened last year when «There Will Be Blood» only appeared in one category, NOT even Best Actor.

That same year, Parker starred in the Tuskegee Airmen biopic «Red Tails,» the Spike Lee film «Red Hook Summer,» and the crime thriller «Arbitrage,» the last of which won him a supporting actor award at the African - American Film Critics Association.

I also could not stand how every freaking actor in this film looked exactly the same and walked like they had 50 pound weights strapped to either sides of their hips.

Not that a more lively performance could have saved this film, but it's interesting to see that actors can be just as bored making the same old films again and again as we are in watching them.

The two actors have had pretty much the same kind of film career, and while I know that I still believe that Johnson actually has a career in front of him I think it's a nice little joke that's worth laughing at.

While none of Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray, Saoirse Ronan, F. Murray Abraham, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum or any of the other names in the film has the drawing power that Roberts did in 2000, the fact that so many recognizable actors were assembled for the same film made them a type of collective draw — a fact which the film's marketers seized upon with highly colorful promotional posters highlighting the above names and many more.

The character of Andy is voiced by John Morris, the same actor who voiced Andy in the original films.»

Now we have The Disaster Artist, a film by director / actor James Franco that is based on the book of the same name, co-written by Greg Sestero, who acted in The Room.

Boyle and Simon Beaufoy's script does provide many flashbacks and fantasy sequences, so the film isn't confined in the same way as Buried, but all the same this must be the kind of challenge that actors relish.

Anderson wants to explore some of the same themes of the film LOST IN TRANSLATION, with Bill Murray in Tokyo as an actor doing advertising worIN TRANSLATION, with Bill Murray in Tokyo as an actor doing advertising worin Tokyo as an actor doing advertising work.

Phantom Thread probably won't attract the same audiences as previous Daniel Day - Lewis films due to the subject matter and methodical pace of the story, but the film is visually stunning, masterfully acted and allegedly the last chance to see a legendary actor in action.

Once in a while, the Academy Awards nominate the same actor, in two separate films, in two separate categories.

As for Tony Leung again losing in the Best Actor category, Wong Kar - wai said that without the two Grandmasters Leung and Chang Chen, the film's brilliance would not have been the same.

I loved that James was an actor and that he was in the film and directing at the same time.

A Fantastic Woman won the best foreign film Oscar: the first ever winner with a trans actor in the lead role — and that same actor, Daniela Vega, became the first trans presenter with an introduction to best song nominee Mystery of Love from Call Me By Your Name.

Although the three lead actors are all working under serious impediments — Travolta has been equipped with a singularly ridiculous soul patch and a Boston accent that runs the gamut from non-existent to «SNL» sketch broadness, oftentimes in the same scene, Plummer has a role that all but insists on being played in the hammiest manner imaginable and Sheridan (whose previous films have included such better projects as «The Tree of Life,» «Mud» and «Joe») is playing a contrivance instead of a character — they are not without a certain innate charm, and indeed, the best scenes here are the ones in which they are simply allowed to interact and bounce off of each other in a relaxed manner before having to return to the mechanics of the increasingly forced plot.