Soft - spoken but intense, Taylor had obviously pondered the deeper significance of the film, but he also had some interesting things to
say about film acting in general and about his other film, the sequel to LAURA CROFT.
Not exact matches
By the end of Joshua Oppenheimer's disturbing documentary The
Act Of Killing, it was tough to
say if the
film's subjects — Indonesian gangsters reenacting their genocidal crimes — felt any remorse
about the murders they committed in 1965.
Variety «s Scott Foundas enjoyed the
film saying «Jon Stewart's «Daily Show» hiatus yields a solid, powerfully
acted political drama
about human endurance in the face of ideological oppression.»
«By
acting as a conduit between filmmaker and distributor, we are presenting an alternative to traditional distribution while building knowledge
about online distribution strategies that will benefit the broader field of independent
film,»
said Putnam.
The same could be
said for this
film, nothing
about its filmmaking, theme, or
acting is unique.
In our conversation he talks
about why he likes working on stage and screen projects with the
film's writer - director Martin McDonagh as well as several other top - flight helmers he has
acted for in the past including George Clooney — with whom he
says he grew close to over the course of two years he spent with him on Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind in which Rockwell played Chuck Barris, the game show host who claimed he was a CIA agent.
The
film rates this high for me not just because of its technical skill (the ensemble
acting is terrific, with Kelly Macdonald in particular doing great work in just a few scenes, and Roger Deakins's cinematography is as good as anything he's done with the Coens, and that's
saying a lot) but because of its ambiguity: because the questions it raises
about narrative and
about society are as interesting as those raised by any other
film (but one) of 2007.
A
film that
says more
about the chasm between men and women (or Alex Garland and women) than human and A.I. Though wonderfully
acted and elegantly executed, this just adds to the pile of SF cliches by posers who only pretend to understand A.I. and neuroscience.
They discuss how the
film quickly took shape, shooting in Greece, having veteran cinematographer Walter Lassally make his
acting debut, the
film's big fight, what the movie
says about romance, and what it's like to reprise these characters that people have such strong feelings for.
«The
acting is so bad in the
film,» he
says, then concedes, «You could
say the same thing
about Troll 2.»
John Carroll Lynch's Lucky is an impeccably
acted yet sentimental
film that's bashful
about said sentimentality.
With spotty
acting, superficial developments, and rules that seem to be made up as the
film moves along, Dead Silence is strictly only of interest to audiences who are all
about scary images set to ominous music, caring far less
about a good storyline to follow or characters who do or
say things that might be plausible to anyone who experiences them in real life.
The
film,
about a farmer and his daughter who live on a secluded island, divided critics, but Dano
said it reignited his love for
acting.
It's not an overtly political
film, but it is political because it's
about someone who
says «No» and in today's society,
saying «No» is a political
act.»
Someone asked him
about his method of
film acting and he
said, «Which way do I turn my suit?»
Actor Robert Pattinson now
says the story he told on Jimmy Kimmel Live —
about being urged by a
film crew to perform a sex
act on a dog — didn't actually happen.