Sentences with phrase «theater actor who»

And one can only imagine the between - take banter involving not just Smith and Jones but fellow Coen brothers» alumnus, Michael Stuhlbarg, the terrific New York theater actor who starred three years ago on screen in A Serious Man.

Not exact matches

Yul Brynner, the great American actor who played the part of the King of Siam and devoted much of his career to The King and I, was known to prepare for each performance by trying to push down the brick wall at the back of the theater.

«Now, when BroadwayHD pulls up in front of a theater with satellite trucks and 14 cameras, unions are confident that the creators of the shows will be compensated,» says Lane, who is also a proud, card - carrying member of the stage union, Actors Equity.

I can't remember the last time I went to see a movie at a theater so don't get too excited about who's up for the best actor and what film's up for the best movie award.

The closest I got was a guy theater actor from 60 miles north of me, who only wanted chat.

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Like the book on which it's based, a memoir by Wiseau's «The Room» co-star Greg Sestero and writer Tom Bissell, the events of «The Disaster Artist» unfold not from Tommy's point of view, but from the perspective of Greg (Dave Franco), an aspiring 19 - year - old actor who meets the 40 - something Tommy in a San Francisco theater class.

FROGS FOR SNAKES is a neo-noir comic thriller centering on the hopes and ambitions of a motley ensemble of New York theater actors, who moonlight as illegal money collectors.

Here's one for Chicago - based fans of legendary character actor Harry Dean Stanton, who died last month at the age of 91: A chance to see his final film, Lucky, for free during its run at the beautiful, historic Music Box theater.

This heist film with a sensational cast, such as Edward Norton, Seth Green (who, ironically, was Vince and E's nemesis in Entourage) and rapper turned actor Mos Def was both a box office and critical success, doing even better than its theater run with DVD sales.

For an actor, the biggest perk of working with a director who comes from a theater background is that there are usually rehearsals, a surprisingly rare practice on most shoots.

Watching Fences, the film, you can unmistakably see how this was made by someone who was an actor first and a director second — like the theater, it prioritizes the actors above all else, and doesn't really afford much in the way of cinematic virtues.

LESHER: We've cast this really — I can't remember what her name is, this German actress and her aunt as well is this great theater actor here in London who's playing her aunt who also has a really great scene with Brad.

In the much buzzed - about film «Top Five,» opening in South Florida theaters this weekend, director and star Chris Rock plays a comedian who wants to become a serious actor and change public perception about his one career - defining role.

The studio contracted Peter Lorre, a Hungarian actor schooled in the German theater of the 1920s and who made his mark in the 1931 German classic, «M,» to play the sleuth.

The actor, a theater veteran who first broke out in «Tigerland» and «All The Real Girls» in the early» 00s, seems to get better each time we see him, not least on «Boardwalk,» as Nucky's semi-treacherous brother Eli, where he's been continually impressive.

Mark Ruffalo, who Finn has known for more than 20 years from their time together at EST, auditioned for the movie «and should have gotten a part,» she says, «but he didn't get approved because he was an unknown theater actor in New York.»

The 40 - year - old actor was joined outside the theater by his co-star Patricia Clarkson, who took the time to sign autographs.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

Cassavetes, who came up as a theater actor himself and also appeared on - screen throughout his career, gained renown as a director for drawing galvanic and often improvised performances from a regular stable of actors that included Ben Gazzara, Seymour Cassel, Peter Falk, and, most notably, his wife, Gena Rowlands.

The (now - former) actor's purported final film Phantom Thread, in which he portrays a fashion designer who caters to high society, is in postproduction and will hit theaters on Dec. 25, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The new crop of transgender talent includes many actors making their debuts, including Mya Taylor, a star of «Tangerine,» a hit at the Sundance Film Festival scheduled to reach theaters next month, and Michelle Hendley, who as the star of the recent coming - of - age film «Boy Meets Girl» has a bold nude scene.

The dynamic Emmy Award - winning character actor who worked in film, theater and TV («Picket Fences,» «King,» «Roots: The Next Generation») earned a lead actor nomination for 1972's family drama «Sounder,» in which he played the loving sharecropper father Nathan Lee Morgan.

The flick follows a group of stage actors and a crew preparing to perform a musical who lock themselves in the theater to rehearse.

Though the film already wrapped and is set to hit theaters on December 22, the director decided to re-shoot Spacey's scenes with actor Christopher Plummer, who will now take over the role of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty.

It's always exciting for us to give these fans a taste of what we're bringing to theaters in such a direct way, connecting them with the talented actors and filmmakers who work so hard to make everyone's movie - going experience a memorable one.»

McKay is not just a superlative imitator here (that he looks uncannily like Welles is helpful) but also a conjurer of his spirit — a sort of smooth confidence man playing a man who here finds multiple ways of conning his producer, actors, and the rest of the theater staff into doing exactly what he needs them to.

But even more fascinating - at least to anyone who's interested in how artists and theater work - are the interviews with «Hamilton»'s actors.

Also, it's rare for an actor who's almost completely unknown in the U.S. — Weaver's career goes all the way back to Picnic At Hanging Rock, but she worked mostly in Australian theater until Animal Kingdom jump - started her career — to get this degree of attention and acclaim.

Disc two, though, includes a making - of documentary, deleted scenes, theatrical theater, the actors» screen tests, the music video for «No Tears for Caesar,» a television pilot for a movie review series called «Café Fantastique» (it's hosted by the guys who inspired the characters in «Free Enterprise»); in addition, the screenplays are available on the DVD - ROM.

We're a bit behind on some Sundance coverage, but we're catching up now, and the first thing I wanted to bring you guys was our interview with actor & comedian Ed Helms, who stars as Tim «Timbo» Lippe in Fox Searchlight's Cedar Rapids (watch the trailer) that is coincidentally arriving in theaters this very weekend!

The first film has not yet been released but will hit theaters on Aug. 1 and actor Josh Brolin, who's portraying the villain Thanos in «Guardians,» had showed up for the panel.

Upset scenario: Just remember the Rylance - over-Stallone year in which a revered theater actor triumphed over a well - liked performer who had won everything up to the Oscars.

Trained in the theater, with a versatility and discipline more common among British performers than Americans, he was a character actor who could take on any role, large or small, loathsome or sympathetic.

He's somebody who's been a consummate actor in all ways, and fully respected in both theater and film.

Zookeeper's, which opened in over five hundred theaters in late March, also featured actor Daniel Brühl who stars in 7 Days, and went on to cume over $ 17.57 M. Focus caught 7 Days in Entebbe at the end of last year.

Accompanying her in the cast are Victor Allan Miller (Harry Shearer), a veteran theater actor most famous for hot dog ads, Callie Webb (Parker Posey), a former standup comedienne, Brian Chubb (Christopher Moynihan), Callie's boyfriend, and Debbie Gilchrist (Rachael Harris), an insufferably Method actress who plays the lover of the Pischer daughter.

Oren Moverman's Rampart arrives in select theaters this weekend, adding Woody Harrelson to the pantheon of actors who've taken on crooked cop roles, playing officers who uphold the law about as well as a cheerleader holds her liquor.

Originally from Chicago, John is an improvisor, actor, director, and writer who trained at the Second City and iO Chicago theaters.

With no clue how to get home, Emma gamely plays her role as backstage assistant to the original production of Hamlet, learning a thing or two about the theater, and meeting an incredibly hot actor named Alex who finds Emma as intriguing as she finds him.

Zombies in Spaceland tells the story of four aspiring actors who come upon a mysterious movie theater for an audition.

That said, he thought it would be more suited to theater actors than those who work on film.

Curators William Keyse Rudolph and Carol Eaton Soltis, the organizers of Thomas Sully: Painted Performance at the San Antonio Museum of Art, argue that Sully — who grew up in the theater and launched his career painting actors and actresses, often in character — was instinctively in sync, even presciently so, with the 21st - century truism that all portraiture is performative.

Kate Valk is an actor and founding member of the Wooster Group, a company of artists who make work for theater, dance, and media.

The granddaughter of a television and theater actor and one of the first - ever female television directors, Budor was a child of the silver screen who spent her days holed up in cinemas.

The term Arte Povera was actually borrowed from the theoretical performance manual, Towards a Poor Theater, written by the Polish theatrical director Jerzy Grotowski, who called for the removal of excess props and ornament (the moneyed theater of spectacle) from the stage to the point that the actors used only their natural gifts to activate meaning with facial expressions, voice, gesture, and acrobatic movements (hence materially «poor»).

Ernesto Briel (b. Guanabacoa, 1943 - d. New York, 1992): An artist with a particular interest in the theater, Briel was a painter and set designer who also worked briefly as an actor.

The series is titled Tectonic paintings, to complement the shifting and overlapping of aesthetic terms with this physical metaphor of transformation; Onnagata, the exhibition title, is the Japanese word for male kabuki actors who play female roles in Japanese theater.