Sentences with phrase «serious actor in films»

While not entirely abandoning his comedy roots, in recent decades Bill Murray has carved himself a career as a serious actor in films such as Rushmore, the Royal Tenenbaums, and now St Vincent (written and directed by Theodore Melfi).

Not exact matches

After getting some blowback for criticizing a program that indirectly benefited her as Miranda Hobbes in the two Sex and the City movies (actors» salaries are not eligible for the subsidies, and the long - running TV show completed filming before the program was created), she made it clear she was serious about the issue, as the New York Post reported:

Brooke C. Aldrich, trustee at the charity Neotropical Primate Conservation, highlights serious concerns around the wider implications of using primate «actors» in films, including the trivialization of their conservation and welfare needs and representing them as suitable pets to viewers.

It's apparent to most viewers that the Richard Pryor appearing in this film is a far cry from the actor most have seen previously; this is the first film undertaken by Pryor following a very serious illness.

That movie nudged him toward being considered a Serious Actor, a designation he nurtured with roles in three films shown at major festivals: Lee Daniels» The Paperboy and Todd Nichols» Mud (both at Cannes this year) and the popular indie comedy Bernie (London Film Festival).

-- Outtakes (3:43 HD): For such a serious film, it's funny how the actors break out in laughter when they mess up a line or a set / prop malfunctions.

Mancini is described by actors as «serious» and «gentle» as a lead - in to a quick montage of violent kills from the earlier films.

His character, Lazarus, is a «very serious Oscar - winning actor» who is cast for a role originally written for a black man in the most expensive Vietnam war epic ever filmed.

A wonderful actor, we loved him in films like «Hugo «and «A Serious Man `.

It is playing type for the British actor, who played many historical and serious roles in films such as Lawrence Of Arabia (1962) and The Wrong Man (1956).

Nielsen worked for over 60 years in TV and movies, first gaining attention as a serious actor in such films as Forbidden Planet and The Poseidon Adventure, before eventually becoming best known as the muse of David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams, creators of the cult classic Police Squad!

As for Eckhart, while no stranger to genre films (The Core, Battle Los Angeles) he's also an actor with serious mainstream credits and may be the most unusual casting for the monster since Robert DeNiro in Kenneth Branagh's Frankenstein made twenty years ago.

The key to appreciating any Wes Anderson film (memorable efforts as «Rushmore,» «The Royal Tenenbaums»), is to have the ability to either pick up on his clipped and funny dialogue (usually voiced by actors in a totally serious deadpan monotone), or somehow connect with his goofy situations and quirky characters that slip between incredibly believable and ridiculously surreal.

Not even when he earned his spurs as a serious film actor in last year's Detroit, a shocking exposé of racism in the US police.

In the much buzzed - about film «Top Five,» opening in South Florida theaters this weekend, director and star Chris Rock plays a comedian who wants to become a serious actor and change public perception about his one career - defining rolIn the much buzzed - about film «Top Five,» opening in South Florida theaters this weekend, director and star Chris Rock plays a comedian who wants to become a serious actor and change public perception about his one career - defining rolin South Florida theaters this weekend, director and star Chris Rock plays a comedian who wants to become a serious actor and change public perception about his one career - defining role.

Trank's overly serious and controlled direction of his actors further deadens any energy in this film.

And you can feel the serious actor in this celebrated comic tearing into the film's eleventh - hour broadside against organised religion in a face - off in Philomena's onetime convent that finds the magnificent Barbara Jefford in memorably implacable form.

Jonah Hill started his film career in comedies such as SUPERBAD and FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL, but his roots are in writing, and his goal is to be a serious actor.

She is aided by Clarke, an actor at home in a genre film such as this or in serious dramas.

West is a talented actor in his own right, primarily known for his work on both The Affair and The Wire, and he should be able to bring the right kind of weight to a role that seems like it'll hold some serious gravitas over Lara and the other characters in the film.

Getting serious buzz as its heads into its Telluride Film Festival debut in just a few days, Ralph Fiennes» second film as both director and actor takes on Charles Dickens (Fiennes) and the fact he had a mistress named Nelly Ternan (Jones) for 13 years right up until his death (Dickens was forty - five and had been married some twenty years when they met while Ternan was seventeen).

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.

The actor got serious about looking like an emaciated prisoner - of - war in the upcoming Louis Zamperini biopic and even Jolie was impressed with how far her went to achieve the perfect look for the film.

Three years after the film exploded on contact, Chicago movie critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert used it on their popular TV show as Exhibit A for a serious discussion about why movies starring Black actors were mostly failing to find favour in white America.

After appearing in a more serious dramatic role in Wes Anderson's «Rushmore,» Bill has been experiencing a film renaissance, with tons of critical praise for his work in films like «The Royal Tenenbaums» and «Lost in Translation,» which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor.

This serious - minded ensemble film portrays the wide psychic fallout of corporate downsizing with actors of considerable stature in small, pointed roles.

The most impressive actor in the film is Freddie Highmore, who plays the serious Peter.

Even in the age of the director as superstar, books on film performers continue to proliferate, and yet the great upsurge of serious film scholarship has mostly bypassed the art of the movie actor.

Viggo is a serious actor, and the things he does here are subtle; I wonder how many people notice how his accent shifts in the second half of the film.

Having made his mark as a serious actor to be on the look out for, his film credits of note include playing the gay socialite Paul in the sex and drugs filled dark comedy The Rules of Attraction with James Van Der Beek, Life as a House with Kevin Kline, and Hayden Christensen, Changing Hearts with Faye Dunaway and Lauren Holly, and stars opposite Kristen Bell (TV's Veronica Mars) in the Weinstein Company's horror / thriller Pulse.