Sentences with phrase «silent film character»

And we love you as well, even though you're only a silent film character to us (muuuuch prettier than Mary Pickford and Lillian Gish combined).

Not exact matches

When the main characters of a Kevin Smith (aka Silent Bob) horror - comedy film are yogis.

Play Download: Going on a successful date with Schternvart's character model can be seen on the movie posters for the films The Mainframe and Silent But Violent in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories.

Smith swears «'' Strike Back»» signifies the end of Jay and Silent Bob's memorable film careers, but you have to wonder if he has the strength to put these characters to rest.

Captured indelibly by cinematographers Nestor Almendros and Haskell Wexler, Malick's film has a visual syntax so eloquent and graceful — its fields of gold cause its quiet characters to stand out like mythic figures — it would play powerfully as a silent film.

However, unlike silent star Marsh, Parker's characters usually enjoy a satisfying «worm has turned» moment — one of her first major film roles was as the abused wife in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) A more self - reliant Parker was seen in the 1990 AIDS - related TV movie Longtime Companion, as the supportive «earth mother» to a group of urban homosexual men.

Even though it tells a simple tale, has only two main characters and features several scenes that are mostly silent, it is more moving, more memorable, and just so much BETTER in every way possible than 95 % of the films I see each year.

Rose has a fascination with a silent film star (a character based on the real life actress Lillian Gish).

«There is a silent side of the characters, and the music in this film is trying to connect with the silence,» Iglesias said.

«I watched silent films, since my character is a silent film actress, as well as iconic films from the «70s.

Marling spends most of the film in a silent daze, but her every facial gesture and tentative move registers her character's guilt, while Mapother is brilliant as a man festering in tragedy.

But the more Molly's Game tries to decide what its story is about rather than just telling it, the more the film feels like it's trying to «solve» Molly rather than portray her, to the point where its two big emotional moments involve Molly being sat down and informed about her own daddy issues by one male character, and getting passionately defended by another, her lawyer (Idris Elba), while she stays silent.

I love physically embodying characters and atmospheres that have a strong cinematic feeling, so maybe a cross between Blanche Dubois from A Streetcar Named Desire and Clara Bow, the silent film actress from the 1920s.

Much like other horror and thriller films, A Quiet Place has a dominating, droning score that, while fairly good in terms of melodic interest, somewhat undermines the feeling that everything should be utterly silent as our characters hide desperately from the monsters.

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).

And the film introduces Smith stock characters Jay and Silent Bob, so there's that.

The Beaver State is the film's silent third character.

As a depression - prone war photographer whose death has sent her husband and two sons into decidedly separate states of emotional denial, she's a dangerous open wound of a character even from the confines of flashback; at one point Trier closes in on her silent, trembling, feeling - flushed face for what feels like a full exquisite minute, and it's the most riveting moment in the entire film.

Universal's classic monster movies all existed in the same world, Kevin Smith built his View Askewniverse that was connected by shared characters such as Jay & Silent Bob, Quentin Taranito's movies all have little connections to each other, and they even shared some connections with the interconnected films of Grindhouse co-director Robert Rodriguez.

Crowe plays Krasinski's silent husband for laughs by making him one of the more expressive characters in the film.

Morvern Callar, Ramsay's sophomore film, opens in a gloomy apartment, completely silent but for the hypnotic, lulling buzz of blinking Christmas lights, on the titular character caressing the body of her dead boyfriend.

That said, it is Nicholson, his fascinating character, and Payne's empathy toward him that ultimately rules over the entire film; a simple, silent, static shot of his face is one of the most beautiful, powerful, indelible images of the 2002 movie year.

It is shown as shot for Olivier Assayas in 2014, and the characters in the film at one point watch the 1924 Arnold Fank silent, black and white documentary The Cloud Phenomena of Majola.

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.

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.

It was also revealed that the film's main character would be Heather Mason, the protagonist of the Silent Hill 3 video game.

This film would have worked extraordinarily well as a borderline silent film, forcing all of the character onto the visuals, which are uniformly excellent.

I'm not crazy about basing this new film on Silent Hill 3, but I do appreciate the desire to develop better defined characters and a more intriguing story.

If you are a fan of Kevin Smith and have seen all of his films, you will probably enjoy Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back much more than those unfamiliar due to the many in - joke references and cameo appearances by the characters from his previous films.

Kevin Smith's (Dogma, Chasing Amy) fifth film was intended to be his last in the microverse (aka, the View Askewniverse) of Jay and Silent Bob, who appeared as characters in his four previous films, though he would return back to it after the less - than - stellar results of the Jay and Bob - free Jersey Girl with 2006's Clerks II.

Since Silent Hill is stunningly beautiful with its Innsmouth - style of fog and moisture texture, will you render the film (if post-production isn't already completed) with a more «amateur / gritty» texture, or will the film break from tradition, and although be visually appealing, have a feel that centers more around character rather than franchise norms?

Most of the film, though, is about these characters trying to cope, with little aid and while remaining silent about their pain to the people closest to them.

When I spoke to her and the film's writer / director Sean Durkin on September 1, 2011, I started by asking about the choice to have Olsen's character be mostly silent throughout the film.

She had a coming out doubleheader at this year's Sundance Film Festival where she was the star of two of its most buzzed about films: Martha Marcy May Marlene, in which she plays a girl who escapes from a cult, and Silent House a film that uses a single camera shot to follow her character, a terrified girl descending into madness, around an abandoned summer house.

Stitching together story elements from «A Star is Born,» «Sunset Boulevard,» and others, as well as characters inspired by real - life silent film stars John Gilbert and Charles Chaplin (and others), and recycling music wholesale from later films (most notably, Bernard Hermann's score for «Vertigo»), «The Artist» bears an unmistakable resemblance to Woody Allen's «Zelig,» another nostalgic movie that wove together real - life incidents with fictional recreations.

Tuxedo cats are also called Felix cats after Felix the Cat, a character created during the 1920s silent film era.

It will also apparently feature a character whose likeness is based off of famed film director Guillermo Del Toro, a close friend of Kojima's who was previously tapped to help the Metal Gear creator develop a new entry in the Silent Hill franchise called «Silent Hills» before Konami scrapped the project during their tumultuous split from Kojima.

The silent assassin was a character that is still unique in games, tv and film with nothing else being able to capture the enigma of what made Quiet so endearing to fans of the Metal Gear games.

Losing yourself in the environment is sort of like falling into an esoteric silent film, in which ethereal characters scavenge and assemble little shrines so aesthetically pleasing that tastefulness competes with purpose.

With the decaying Grand theater as a central character, the artists connect three seminal movies of the southwest: Wim Wenders» Paris, Texas (1984), Bruce Beresford's Tender Mercies (1983), and King Baggot's classic silent film, Tumbleweeds (1925).

The pianist scoring Nothing Is Enough (2012), a silent film continuing Stark's sex - chat narrative, is one of the characters who populates My Best Thing (2011).

Through a labor intensive process, Steers bridges stories and characters from silent films of the early 20th century to now, with the use of thousands -LSB-...]

Through a labor intensive process, Steers bridges stories and characters from silent films of the early 20th century to now, with the use of thousands of handmade collages.