Sentences with phrase «stage and screen plays»

He has more than 10 years experience writing articles, poetry, novels, and stage and screen plays.

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Dark crimson tones as well as ornate moldings and fixtures will set the stage in Kramer's coffee sanctuary while classic rock - and - roll music videos and legendary concerts play on screens in the background.

Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 8 September: Oscar - winning director, Danis Tanovic, took to the stage to resounding applause following the screening of Tigers, his new 90 - minute fact - based drama, and revealed that the character played by Emraan Hashmi, called Ayan in the film, was actually in the theatre.

Best known today for playing Officer Torch in Universal's Flash Gordon serials, American character actor Earl Leslie Askam had studied voice in Italy and appeared in numerous stage operettas prior to making his screen debut in 1930.

The screen version is still a play, but it's aturning point in the movie career of Humphrey Bogart, who had played the gangster's role on stage and then in a TV version with his wife (in Bette davis role)

It's adapted by Tracy Letts from his 1993 play (Friedkin also turned Letts's play Bug into a film in 2006), and its theatrical origins do become obvious in the way certain characters are left disconcertingly off screen; the movie is concluded with a long, slow and single - location sequence, which makes it looks oddly like a filmed stage play.

The end result is a compelling, thoroughly quotable piece of work that generally lives up to its reputation as a modern classic, and it's certainly not a stretch to label it the most effective big - screen translation of a Mamet stage play.

Dan Hedaya has played a wide variety of characters on the stage, screen, and television.

American - born stage and screen actor Elizabeth Marvel will play President - elect Elizabeth Keane on Season 6 of HOMELAND.

Extensive though his stage and screen credits may be, Warden has been just as busy on television, winning an Emmy for his portrayal of George Halas in Brian's Song (1969) and playing such other historical personages as Cornelius Ryan (1981's A Private Battle) and Mark Twain (1984's Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues).

Main game play includes roaming 3 part stages eating everything on the screen (and breaking enemies up if they are currently too large) while gradually becoming larger and larger to the point the stages size in comparison becomes humorous.

Singer, writer, and actor of stage and screen, Renoly Santiago made his film debut playing Raul in the Michelle Pfeiffer vehicle Dangerous Minds (1995).

His plays The Chase and The Trip to Bountiful proved that his unique style of small - town drama was equally effective on the stage or screen.

Character actor Bill Quinn specialized in playing wise or fatherly roles on stage, screen, and television.

His novel Bridge was adapted for the screen as Name the Woman in 1928, while his stage plays So Long Letty and Johnny Belinda were likewise cinematized.

Susan Anspach, a screen and stage actress best known for playing non-conformists in «Five Easy Pieces,» «Blume in Love» and other films, has died at age 75.

Entering the awards season race with their finest work yet in «Fences,» the stage - to - screen adaptation of August Wilson's classic play, Washington and Davis have one thing on their mind: craft.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

When Spanish actress Elena Anaya felt that her talents gravitated toward a life on the stage and screen, the aspiring young actress spared precious little time in getting herself prepared for life in the limelight — a fact that no doubt played a part in her being named one of European Films» Shooting Stars during the 2004 European Film Promotion campaign.

Only the third film that the acclaimed actor has made as a director (after 2002's Antwone Fisher and his last, 2007's The Great Debaters), Washington certainly had familiarity with August Wilson's beloved Pulitzer Prize - winning material when he decided to bring it to the big screen; the actor won a Tony Award of his own for starring in the 2010 revival of the production, to go along with the play's Tony for Best Revival (and the many that it won during its first run on stage in 1987).

Based on both the Susan Hill novel and the hit stage play, this creepy ghost story is nicely translated to the screen with a growing sense of menace that keeps us constantly on edge.

Internationally acclaimed for their performances on stage, screen and television, McKellen («Estragon / Spooner») and Stewart («Vladimir / Hirst») returned to Broadway playing in a rotating schedule of two of the most iconic plays of the 20th Century.

Features on the Blu - ray include: Expanding the Audience: From Stage to Screen; The Company of Fences; Building Fences: Denzel Washington; Playing the Part: Rose Maxon, and August Wilson's Hill District.

Like many plays that try to adapt to the big screen, there is a stiffness factor that settles in to most scenes of the film, and what might work in the knowing artifice of the stage becomes strange when played out in the «real world.»

In our conversation he talks about why he likes working on stage and screen projects with the film's writer - director Martin McDonagh as well as several other top - flight helmers he has acted for in the past including George Clooney — with whom he says he grew close to over the course of two years he spent with him on Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind in which Rockwell played Chuck Barris, the game show host who claimed he was a CIA agent.

But just in case you find the game too difficult, try playing on an easier setting as Dark Witch Music Episode: Rudymical has four available (Easy, Normal, Hard and Lunatic, but Lunatic can only be unlocked by beating every stage once), you can of course skip the 1 Player story mode and try out the split screen co-op mode instead, as you and a friend go toe - to - toe against the bosses you couldn't beat, armed with a single Joy - Con Controller each.

Based on the popular novel by Patrick Dennis, «Auntie Mame» became a smash stage play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, and was ultimately adapted for the screen by veteran screenwriters Betty Comden and Adoph Green in 1958.

«My Old Lady» does not feature much physical action, and as you watch it on the big screen, you'll have no problem figuring that it was meant to be played on the stage.

But over a long career on stage and screens large and small, Helen Mirren, who plays the spiky policewoman, has enacted a raft of bloody Queens, one of whom won her a richly deserved Oscar and swelled her already solid cachet with royalty - loving American audiences.

With interviews from the cast and crew, including actor / director Denzel Washington and Viola Davis, discover how August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize - winning play was adapted from stage to screen.

At the time he was playing Hamlet opposite Vanessa's father Sir Michael Redgrave, cementing her destiny as one of the all time great stars of stage and screen from the earliest age.

In addition to his celebrated acting both on stage and on screen, Hoffman made his directorial debut with the feature film Quartet, based on Ronald Harwood's stage play.

Previously embodied by Tallulah Bankhead, Anne Bancroft, Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor and Stockard Channing on stage and screen, Regina has become canon for women of a certain age — and the chance to play the main antagonist excited both actresses.

Leonard Nimoy and co-star Christopher Plummer have both played Holmes on stage and screen.

Morgan's screen adaptation of his own play achieves a truth about these two men and their utterly unlikely encounter on the world stage.

John Mahoney became known to the world for playing Martin Crane for eleven seasons on the hit sitcom Frasier (1993 - 2004), for which he won a Screen Actor's Guild award and two Emmy nominations, but he had an impressive career on stage and screen, even more impressive considering he came late to aScreen Actor's Guild award and two Emmy nominations, but he had an impressive career on stage and screen, even more impressive considering he came late to ascreen, even more impressive considering he came late to acting.

As TCM's Oscar - celebratory month winds down, they've still got a few new ones to throw at us — the first musical to win a Best Picture Oscar, The Broadway Melody, shows on Monday; an actual good Merchant - Ivory film in A Room With a View turns up on Thursday; and fantastic underrated film noir The Killers plays on Thursday; finally, one of my personal all - time favorite films, Stage Door, hits the screen late Saturday / early Sunday (trust me, picture quality is higher than the still above; couldn't find a decent cap).

Welcoming the audience, Fry paid tribute to Dame Helen joking that the actress - who has played the Queen on stage and screen - has «this year brought her grandson along.

Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman bring their hit London stage play to the big screen — and the result is a theatrical triumph, combining creepy surprises and quiet emotion to chilling, entertaining effect.

Before Ready Player One screened to a packed audience in The Paramount last night, Steven Spielberg took the stage and talked animatedly about how much he loves Ernie Cline's book, and how he knew this was the right movie for him to make because, «I've been a gamer since 1974, when I played Pong on Martha's Vineyard while filming Jaws.»

«King Louie's Temple: Layer by Layer» (3:14) shows us Richard Sherman visiting the symphony about to record «I Wan «na Be Like You» and then plays the scene jumping between storyboards, different stages of animation, footage of Sethi acting against blue screen, and Walken recording his vocals.

EVANSTON, Ill. — Six new critically - acclaimed plays from the U.K. and Russia will be captured on film and featured in the National Theatre Live's and Stage Russia HD's popular Stage on Screen series at Northwestern this winter / spring.

Already a stage mainstay and an emerging talent on screens big and small when he directed and starred in Henry V, Kenneth Branagh propelled himself to stardom with his take on Shakespeare's famous play.

«Miss Julie,» the infamous play by August Strindberg adapted for the screen and stage in multiple countries and languages, gets an Anglophone interpretation from the legendary Norwegian actress.

«OT: Our Town,» his documentary about a high school's attempt to stage its first play in more than 20 years with no money and no stage, screened at TFF in 2002.

David Strathairn — One of America's most respected stage and screen actors, David plays the central role in The Sensation of Sight, and also serves as one of the film's producers.

Built around one 14 - hour long interview, McKellen: Playing the Part is a fascinating and deftly handled portrait of one of the most important actors to ever grace both stage and screen.

We begin with Emily Watson as struggling actress Olive Stanton, awakening from a nap on stage behind a movie screen that's playing a newsreel about Mussolini and Hitler.

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