Sentences with phrase «silent film all acted»

Not exact matches

Compared to other silent films of the 1920s, with the undercranked action, overly emotive acting, fantastic plots and theatrical make - up and costumes, «Napoleon» is years ahead of its time.

The smooth jazz score which punctuates the film gives certain sections the feeling of a silent movie, while the long awkward silences in the second act are like a lighter, less absurdist variant on the work of Samuel Beckett or Harold Pinter.

He begins by exploring the director's early life and career in his native Hungary, revealing how Curtiz shaped the earliest days of silent cinema in Europe as he acted in, produced, and directed scores of films before immigrating to the United States in 1926.

Its comparatively simple first act remains a good example of how to apply the horror elements of the Silent Hill games to film with a degree of elegance and wit, and for a solid 35 minutes, it's an atmospheric film about a mother whose deeply maternal desire to help her daughter inadvertently places her in danger, and the need for Radha Mitchell's Rose to find her daughter when she goes missing provides a cogent and palatable, if somewhat slight, emotional basis from which the proceeding action can spring.

The opening act in Toronto feels like a standard indie comedy about (yet another) white male's arrested development, the piano - based score and aversion to dialogue feels indebted to silent films, and once the film transitions to the wilderness it goes into European arthouse territory (the title card doesn't appear until James ends up in BC, a choice that implies this is where the film really begins).

In a youth film culture that has embraced increasingly violent and sadistic horror films, especially those that linger on acts of inhuman brutality and excruciatingly endured mutilations (quite accurately dubbed «torture porn»), what's not to like about a film about a silent butcher who bludgeons the passengers of a late - night subway ride, preps the carcasses like slaughtered cattle and hangs them like sides of beef?

(Lest we forget, concern was raised before the film came out about whether the largely silent first act of WALL - E would be a problem for audiences.)

The film is at its best in the early going, during which the acting - technique - obsessed Arthur and Maurice attempt to con their way to free food; a wordless opening credits sequence harkens back to the best silent comedy, and one hilarious scene in a bakery is, as it turns out, the film's premature highlight.

While Ben Affleck (Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, Pearl Harbor) does an adequate job as the corruptible attorney, it's really Jackson (Formula 51, Unbreakable) and a very good supporting cast that gives the film a solid acting foundation to be almost believable, with especially good performances by Sydney Pollack (Random Hearts) as the experienced, seasoned partner in the firm and Kim Staunton (Holy Man) as Jackson's wife.

Hail Caesar: yes, that's the title of the latest collaboration between Joel and Ethan Coen and George Clooney, who plays a silent - film star acting in an epic set in ancient Rome.

Coen Brothers update: we reported that their new film Hail Cesar, would feature George Clooney as a silent film star acting in an epic set in ancient Rome.

A remake of Browning's unfortunately lost silent film London after Midnight, this version is rather incoherent, especially in the final act.

In the video below, Miriam Toews talks about her experiences growing up in a Mennonite community and how acting in Carlos Reygada's film Silent Light impacted her novel, Irma Voth.

Miriam Toews talks about her experiences growing up in a Mennonite community and how acting in Carlos Reygada's film Silent Light impacted her novel, Irma Voth.

Unlike Epic Mickey, the sequel will feature voice acting and Mickey will actually speak, departing from his silent film era.

A pioneer in writing, acting, and directing in the silent film era, Buster Keaton's short films are a major inspiration for Cvijanovic's paintings.

In 2007, film critic Jonathan Romney described Starr's new silent film Theda: «In a 40 - minute black - and - white film Theda British artist Georgina Starr, best known for her series of works inspired by the 1965 thriller Bunny Lake is Missing, pays tribute to this stormiest of divas and undertakes an archeology of gestural art of the silent - era actress (Theda Bara), drawing on the styles of several other now forgotten grande - dames, such as Barbara La Marr and Maud Allan... the film is divided into three parts «prelude», «act» and «epilogue»... but «prelude» is the real coup: in a long single take, Starr runs through the codified expressive repertoire of the Theda - era performer with such precision that any ironic distance evaporate.