Sentences with phrase «silent film actor»

His well - known «Kuleshov Effect» seemed to prove the point: in the experiment, Kuleshov cut between the expressionless shot of a famous Russian silent film actor (Ivan Mozzhukhin) and a variety of other shots: a young woman reposed on a chaise, a child in a coffin, a bowl of soup.

He was credited as Harrison J. Ford, to avoid confusion with the silent film actor Harrison Ford.

He was born into the business, in a sense — his father a photographer and sometime cinematographer, his mother a silent film actor.

The film tells the story of George Valentin (Jean Dujardin), a silent film actor megastar who withers away into obscurity when the introduction of «talkies» meets monumental popularity.

Language: English Genre: Musical / Comedy MPAA rating: PG Director: Stanley Donen Actors: Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor Plot: Silent film actors and «singers» are trying to make the transition to «talkies» when one of them can't sing well, but no one seems to tell her.

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The Artist, which is set in the 1920s and tells the story of a silent era film actor, was actually mostly silent itself and employed subtitles — a fact that made the movie quite unique for its era, but may have also hurt ticket sales.

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World — published in 1932, just after the transition from silent film to «talkies» — depicts futuristic cinema experiences called «feelies,» in which metal knobs on moviegoers» armrests transmit realistic sensations of whatever the on - screen actors are feeling.

A tall, dark - haired, often elegant silent screen actor, Larry Steers had appeared with the famous Bush Temple Stock Company and opposite matinee idol Robert Edeson prior to making his film debut with Paramount in 1917.

The distinction between actors and special effects shrinks ever further in the video game - turned - horror film «Silent Hill: Revelation 3D,» which reduces its human players to plastic action figures in tired genre settings.

He also hired an actor to play Francis in staged scenes filmed in the style of a black - and - white silent movie from the 1920s.

Also impressive is director Wenders» use of his and Lisa Rinzler's shoots in Assisi, black - and - white, deliberately faded and silent film, showing an actor playing St. Francis who at the key point in his life heard God tell him to restore a dilapidated church — which I believe he did thinking that God's will is more important than his father's rage at the saint's alleged throwing away his money.

«Daniel Day - Lewis would have always been counted as one of the greatest of actors, were he from the silent era, the golden age of film or even some time in cinema's distant future.

Unfortunately this is nothing new, especially when we look back at the last time a silent film won the best picture award and a best actor was denied the award he had rightfully won.

Fairbanks, in the silent era, was succeeded by the dashing Australian actor Errol Flynn - the major swashbuckling male star of the 30s and early 40s adventure films in the sound era.

The actors engage in the exaggerated performance style of silent movie melodramas and comedies and Maddin digitally «ages» his films with scuffs and scratches and cracks and even distorted frames as if they were from decaying nitrate prints from the 1920s.

Other revivals, all newly restored, include Marcel Pagnol's «The Baker's Wife» (1938), starring the protean French actor Raimu, introduced by Pagnol's grandson Nicolas Pagnol and Chez Panisse's Alice Waters; the 1924 French silent «Kean, or Disorder and Genius,» starring Ivan Mosjoukine and accompanied by Colorado's own Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra; and «Such is Life,» a Czech silent film from 1929.

The shooting style is opposite, compared to the recently predominant tracking shot filming the back of the head of silent actors in order to reveal the space ahead.

Summary Capsule: Life rather unpleasantly imitates art when the silent film Nosferatu acquires an «eccentric» new method actor.

A long, silent shot on Neeson's face at the end of the film, where the actor looks like he's about to crumble as his lower lip quivers ever - so - slightly, is marvelous, and a reminder that Neeson still has some great performances left in him.

He's a figure of great notoriety, and has been represented in film several times previous to the Richardson version, including the 1906 silent film The Story of the Kelly Gang and a 1960 Australian television version starring Ken Goodlet as Kelly, who makes an appearance as a supporting character here (amidst a healthy mix of other Australian character actors, including Bill Hunter and Frank Thring).

A huge supporting cast of actors portray Chaplin's various collaborators and friends, including Kevin Kline as fellow silent - film icon Douglas Fairbanks, Dan Aykroyd as movie producer Mack Sennett, Marisa Tomei as actress Mabel Normand, and David Duchovny as Chaplin's regular cameraman Roland Totheroh.

Half of the film is presented dialogue - free like a silent movie with a lovely score by Carter Burwell, including most of the story set in 1927 which follows a girl named Rose who is played by an actual deaf actor named Millicent Simmonds.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Sam Rockwell, «Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri» BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING: «Darkest Hour» (Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski, Lucy Sibbick) BEST COSTUME DESIGN: «Phantom Thread» (Mark Bridges) BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: «Icarus» (Bryan Fogel, Dan Cogan) BEST SOUND EDITING: «Dunkirk» (Richard King, Alex Gibson) BEST SOUND MIXING: «Dunkirk» (Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo and Mark Weingarten) BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: «The Shape of Water» (Paul D. Austerberry, Jeffrey A. Melvin, Shane Vieau) BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: «A Fantastic Woman» from Chile BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Allison Janney, «I, Tonya» BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM: «Dear Basketball» (Kobe Bryant, Glen Keane) BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM: «Coco» (Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson) BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: «Blade Runner 2049» (John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover) BEST FILM EDITING: «Dunkirk» (Lee Smith) BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT: «Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405» (Frank Stiefel) BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT: «The Silent Child» (Chris Overton, Rachel Shenton) BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: «Call Me by Your Name» (James Ivory) BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: «Get Out» (Jordan Peele) BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: «Blade Runner 2049» (Roger Deakins) BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: «The Shape of Water» (Alexandre Desplat) BEST ORIGINAL SONG: «Remember Me» from «Coco» BEST DIRECTING: Guillermo del Toro, «The Shape of Water» BEST ACTOR: Gary Oldman, «Darkest Hour» BEST ACTRESS: Frances McDormand, «Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri» BEST PICTURE: «The Shape of Water» (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

, a small silent black - and - white French film that no one seemed to have heard of, but had been generally well - received at the festival, with its lead actor Jean Dujardin winning the Best Actor Aactor Jean Dujardin winning the Best Actor AActor Award.

Special Features New 4K digital restoration of Charlie Chaplin's 1972 rerelease version of the film, featuring an original score by Chaplin, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New audio commentary featuring Chaplin historian Charles Maland Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star, a new video essay by Chaplin historian Lisa Haven A Study in Undercranking, a new program featuring silent - film specialist Ben Model Interviews with Coogan and actor Lita Grey Chaplin Excerpted audio interviews with cinematographer Rollie Totheroh and film distributor Mo Rothman Deleted scenes and titles from the original 1921 version of The Kid «Charlie» on the Ocean, a 1921 newsreel documenting Chaplin's first return trip to Europe Footage of Chaplin conducting his score for «The Kid» Nice and Friendly, a 1922 silent short featuring Chaplin and Coogan, presented with a new score by composer Timothy Brock Trailers Plus: An essay by film scholar Tom Gunning

Characters from all four of these films appear in Jay and Silent Bob, and to confuse things further, Smith enjoys using the same actors for different films, so some actors will appear as different people in this movie.

This film is silent and was nominated for the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival, where Dujardin was named Best Actor.

In an interview with RogerEbert.com, Selznick talked about his last film adaptation, «Hugo,» directed by Martin Scorsese, and «Wonderstruck's» use of deaf actors to play hearing characters in the silent - era scenes.

Jason Edward Mewes (born June 12, 1974) is an American television and film actor best known for playing Jay, the vocal half of the duo Jay and Silent Bob, in longtime friend Kevin Smith's films.

One of the many actors to come out of 2011 with a lot of buzz is Frenchman Jean Dujardin, who starred in Michel Hazanavicius» B&W silent film The Artist as George Valentin.

They don't pretend it's a silent film, mind you, but rather build a series of visual gags on a basic premise — Peter Sellers as an accident - prone East Indian actor accidentally invited to dinner party by an A-list Hollywood producer — and then let the comedy bits sequences evolve, build on one another, and guide the story, like a feature version of a Chaplin short.

Even more effectively than in Frankenstein, Whale adapts the shadowy darkness of the silent German Expressionist classics to the early sound era, a time when most Hollywood directors had seemingly forgotten everything that had been learned about the creation of mood, atmosphere and meaning through image over the prior 20 years in the struggle to capture the novelty of actors actually talking (By 1932, this phase of film was thankfully on it's way out, thanks to Whale, Howard Hawks (Scarface) and Busby Berkeley).

Despite early rumors of potential candidates, including actor Kyle Chandler (Bloodline) being supposedly up for the role, casting news fell silent after the film changed directors.

World ecology certainly pops up in the feature length commentary by director Richard Fleischer and actress Leigh Taylor - Young — the actress later becoming a bit of an activist herself — and amid several silent pauses, the best material in the track concerns memories of working with actor Edward G. Robinson, who died soon after filming was completed.

It has large paragraphs of text about the transition from silent films and then a paragraph to summarize each year from 1930 to 1958 by mentioning major award - winning pictures and actors, major hits, hot newcomers, and deaths.

This volume on black actors in American cinema begins with the «Toms» found in early silent films and goes all the way up to recent Oscar winners Jamie Foxx and Morgan Freeman.

So it was the case with Death Stranding, born from the ashes of Kojima's departure from Konami and the shelving of a new Silent Hill game, which would have involved legendary film director Guillermo Del Toro and the actor Norman Reedus.

Zaatari's two - part contribution to dOCUMENTA (13) similarly challenges the expectations audiences may bring by casting his latest works on archives not in the context of politics, history and memory but rather as a love story for two men played by three actors, in the black and white, 16 mm silent film The End of Time (2012), and as a mentor — apprentice drama in Time Capsule (2012), an extended performance for which the artist buried a concrete - encased collection of small monochromatic paintings — a tribute to an unnamed photographer said to be losing his sight — in a hole in the ground that was dug next to the Fulda River in the Karlsaue Park, with four spokes of rebar marking the spot.