Sentences with phrase «served as a film»

In 1948's Babe Ruth Story, Flaherty not only essayed the role of Bill Corrigan, but also served as the film's technical advisor.

Perlman's husband, Danny DeVito, served as the film's producer.

There's a scene in Bryan Bertino's film «The Strangers» that handily encapsulates the film's nervy brand of terror, one so good and simple that it served as the film's poster image when the 2008 feature first hit theaters: it's Liv Tyler, standing alone in her kitchen, looking out into what seems to be — what should be — an empty house.

A delicious plot twist is ginned up to serve as the film's clever climax, but I was more interested in the relationship drama.

He has since gone on to enjoy a prolific freelance writing career with regular bylines in publications including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Esquire, Smithsonian, and Playboy magazine (where he served as film critic for six years).

Keep The Lights On feels episodic in nature as it leaps forward every 2 - 3 years, with Thure Lindhardt's performance serving as the film's anchor.

Danny Morgan, who also serves as the films screenwriter, is brilliant as the down on his luck Jim, who just can't seem to catch a break.

Cumberbatch serves as the film's breath of fresh air, at least, in spirit.

Poor housemaid Anna (Naomi Ackie) finds herself in the middle of hostilities and intrigues and serves as the film's only moral compass.

Instead, these are small - market, semi-pro mascots for community colleges or minor league teams, whose dreams of glory are all tied to the World Mascot Association's Gold Fluffy Awards, the presentation of which serves as the film's centerpiece.

He later appeared in 2012's The Avengers, were he served as the film's main villain.

Despite serving as the film's helmsman, Donner tends to be shunted to the side in favor of Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, and Shane Black whenever the subject of Lethal Weapon is broached among movie geeks.

The protagonist of Be My Cat: A Film for Anne is played by his namesake Adrian Țofei — and if Țofei serves as this film's director, writer, producer, DoP, editor, sound designer and production designer / manager, his character Adrian is also a first - time polyhyphenate filmmaker pitching his own movie called Be My Cat, and himself trying to get into character to play that film's creepy romantic lead.

Woody's younger son David (Will Forte, in an understated performance that serves as the film's sympathetic core) arrives at his parents» house to hear from his mother Kate (June Squibb, stealing scenes left and right with her brash commentary) how miserable it is to live with Woody, who maybe has a year or two tops, she suspects, before he succumbs to some form of dementia.

He also served as the film's line producer despite having no experience in the position and even, as he admits, «no idea what a line producer was.»

Writer / director Terence Davies (adapting the 1952 play by Terence Rattigan) takes the scenario for what it is and plays it — along with the Samuel Barber violin concerto that serves as the film's score — at the appropriate, amplified level.

as Alex's co-worker and best friend, while Cardellini serves as the film's smoking hot eye candy - and looking a far too much like Christine Taylor in the process.

Bill lightly grabbing Scarlett Johansson's foot and this subtly serving as the film's «kiss».

Leonardo DiCaprio serves as the film's narrator and central figure as he explores the ravages of global warming on the planet, and the apocalyptic state we will be living in if action isn't taken immediately.

This material and archival footage is augmented by testimonials from Francis Ford Coppola, Mel Brooks, Danny DeVito (who also served as the film's executive producer), and a new generation of art directors and production designers who were inspired by Harold and Lillian.

During the bizarre (and embarrassing) courtroom melodrama that serves as the film's framing story, her hockey star attorney Bill (Woody Harrelson) will object to an exhumation of her sexual history — but by the time people have finished standing up in the gallery in a show of Dead Poets Society moral support, it's evident that for director Niki Caro and screenwriter Michael Seitzman, that Josie's sexual history be clean as the driven snow means absolutely everything.

Kate serves as the film's conscience, although even she goes along to get along, learning that there are some lines of personal ethics that she is willing to cross.

Writer / director Rick Famuyiwa («Our Family Wedding») collaborated with the powerhouse production team of Pharrell Williams, Sean Combs and Forest Whitaker (who also serves as the film's narrator) for this hip - hop influenced coming - of - age tale.

He moved back to So Cal after earning his M.A. and currently works as a writer and editor, as well as serving as a film critic for The Sci - Fi Movie Page He lives in the suburbs with his very patient wife, along with a colorful menagerie of endearing / exasperating pets.

His more recent films include «Dr. Dolittle 2,» «Daddy Day Care,» «The Haunted Mansion» and the romantic comedy «Norbit,» in which he played three characters as well as serving as the film's producer and screenwriter.

Despite the serious issue that serves as the film's connective tissue, Beautiful People is not overwhelmingly grim.

It's an informative track, with Ferrarone providing insight into the individuals and actual events that served as the film's inspiration.

On Twitter, Nintendo revealed that the two companies would be partners in the endeavor, with Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto and Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri serving as the film's producers.

Since 2000 she has served as the film curator at FIAF / The French Institute Alliance Francaise in New York City, where she presents a weekly film series.

More unusual, however, is film and textile, which is the intersection Greg Climer is investigating with his literally huge undertaking «Knitted Film,» for which he plans to have every frame of a film knitted into an impossibly long scarf, which will then serve as the film reel for a video.

Not exact matches

While Meghan was on a break from filming, The Sun reported that she had «virtually moved in» with Harry to his place in a small apartment on the grounds of Kensington Palace, which serves as Will and Kate's home.

Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

The show aired in 2002 and 2003 and served as a sort of «school» for Boivin, who used it to learn the ropes of film making.

The two films serve as direct inspiration for the next film in the franchise, «Terminator Genisys,» which is expected to kick off a new trilogy.

First opened by the Zelepos family on Main Street in Mystic, Conn., this seaside establishment serves as the backdrop to the 1988 film of the same name, starring Julia Roberts.

Most importantly, it serves as a potent reminder of black people's great resource, our Vibranium — black film, black music, black art — black culture.

Cohen, who has served as Trump's lawyer for more than a decade, is under federal investigation related to a 2016 payment he made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, among other matters.

While Waits remains somewhat of an anomaly in the music industry — he also acts, scores films and plays and was a regular guest on Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour show — he serves as an example of a truly multimedia artist, able to promote his work in one medium through the use of others.

The series was produced by Jeff Skoll (of eBay fame) and his activist company Participant Media, And it serves to underscore once again the «you - are - there» power of VR — as opposed to the two - dimensional flat - screen experience of a film like An Inconvenient Truth — when it comes to getting out the message of urgency about climate change.

WASHINGTON — Fervently proclaiming that he was actually the one responsible for the scandal involving the adult film actress, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue reportedly stated Thursday, in a desperate attempt to serve as President Trump's fall guy, that he was the one who slept with Stormy Daniels.

Actor John Travolta — best known as starring in films such as Pulp Fiction and Grease — will be among the numerous celebrity attendees, serving as a special guest speaker.

She has served as executive producer of four documentary films, including Kicking It, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival; A Powerful Noise, which premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival; She Is the Matador; and The Other City, a critically acclaimed portrayal of the HIV / AIDS crisis in Washington, DC, which premiered at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.

In a poignant moment in the film, Liddell tells his sister that he has decided to return to China to serve as a missionary.

Martin Scorese's film adaptation of the acclaimed book tells the story of persecution, martyrdom and faith involving two Jesuit priests who serve as missionaries to Japan in the 1600s.

It is brave to stand up in front of hundreds of people, while being filmed by the BBC and live streamed around the world, and state your belief in the exclusivity of Christ - especially while serving as a democratically elected representative in Parliament.

What he believes God told him next would alter the course of Pearson's entire life and serves as the basis of a controversial new film on Netflix called Come Sunday.

Mary — hauntingly played by Romanian actress Maia Morgenstern, whose performance carries the film — serves as the viewers» guide to the stations.

True, Frank Wolf did not spring from the intellectual and political aristocracy of the American Founding; nor did he serve as ambassador, senator, secretary of state, and president; nor is he a crusty curmudgeon like the Adams portrayed brilliantly by Anthony Hopkins in the film Amistad.

In fact, the film entirely misses the comical quality of Samwise Gamgee, the deferential and half - literate peasant who serves as Frodo's bumbling sidekick.

Still, your dip will brown eventually if you serve all at once, so serve in small batches, with the rest stored in the fridge like so: Rub a little olive oil onto a sheet of plastic wrap, then press the wrap, oil side down, onto the surface of the dip — the thin film of oil creates an impermeable barrier, with plastic as a reliable backup.