Sentences with phrase «through performances in films»

The younger sister of Dakota Fanning and an actress since she was 2, Elle Fanning is a known quantity to many moviegoers through performances in films such as «Somewhere,» «Super 8» and «We Bought a Zoo.»

The Virtuosos Award was created to recognize a select group of actors who have distinguished themselves through performances in film this past year.

Not exact matches

In England, the leading center has been in Cambridge, where Jeremy Begbie's project on theology through the arts in the Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies has sponsored a range of publications, performances and educational initiatives, and is due to culminate in September 2000 with an arts festival embracing new film, drama, sculpture, music, painting and poetrIn England, the leading center has been in Cambridge, where Jeremy Begbie's project on theology through the arts in the Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies has sponsored a range of publications, performances and educational initiatives, and is due to culminate in September 2000 with an arts festival embracing new film, drama, sculpture, music, painting and poetrin Cambridge, where Jeremy Begbie's project on theology through the arts in the Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies has sponsored a range of publications, performances and educational initiatives, and is due to culminate in September 2000 with an arts festival embracing new film, drama, sculpture, music, painting and poetrin the Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies has sponsored a range of publications, performances and educational initiatives, and is due to culminate in September 2000 with an arts festival embracing new film, drama, sculpture, music, painting and poetrin September 2000 with an arts festival embracing new film, drama, sculpture, music, painting and poetry.

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This film feels much more about destiny and fate than it does about choice, and that comes through in Yeoh's performance.

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Vincent Cassel (born Vincent Crochon, 23 November 1966) is a French actor best known to English - speaking audiences through his film performances in Ocean's Profile.

A great deal of the impact in The Piano Teacher comes from Isabelle Huppert's performance, which comes as her finest career moment, as well as one of the year's early choices for 2002's Best Actress (personal list, of course: I highly doubt that the conservative Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be able to make it through the film).

These minor points aside, Beginners is without doubt one of the best films of 2011, with an outstanding performance from Plummer, great writing, and through being an immensely rewarding viewing experience in general.

Another float in the «People Acting Nasty Right There in Front of You» parade that's been marching through our theaters for the past couple of years, the film boasts several respectable performances.

The latest film to depict the heroics and horrors that occurred in the Holocaust, The Zookeeper's Wife is ultimately a mixed bag, but is nonetheless able to capitalize on the inherent power of its story through strong performances and honest emotion.

What I saw in my several viewings was an embracing yet acerbic melange of genres polished to a single piece through a screenplay larded with wit, superb filming, and masterful performances.

The two leads captivate us with strong performances in this simple walk - and - talk film, playing intelligent characters who spend a day together on a date through black culture in America, but the movie is also a bit too respectful and borders occasionally on hagiography.

Kruger's performance anchors the film; she appears in every scene (often smoking), and her journey through grief and into a kind of numb desire for justice (or is it vengeance?)

In short, if we carefully examine the state of contemporary cinema, we easily acknowledge that even though there is a defining economic and technological imbalance between Hollywood and the rest of national film industries, first, it would short - sighted to understand Hollywood cinema as a monolithic structure which survives through the repeated performance of a practice of top - down cannibalism.

Through it all, actress Posey strikes attitudes and preens across the glib surface of the film, and though her campy excesses are tolerable for a brief time, the performance becomes an exercise in overkill.

Reuniting Depp, Bloom and Knightley, the film pits them against the fearsome octopus - faced Davy Jones (Bill Nighy), a legitimately wondrous CGI creation, who both through Nighy's pathos - fuelled performance and some ILM wizardry, can match Gollum and Caesar in the mo - cap hall of fame.

Both films follow a group of students (in 1980, Maureen Teefy, Irene Cara, Paul McCrane, and Barry Miller are the stand outs, in 2009, it's Kay Panabaker, Naturi Naughton, Walter Perez, and Paul Iacono) through their four years at a prestigious New York performance arts school where they learn to act, sing and dance.

It's basically a filmed play, and the drama itself is problematic (Tennessee Williams - lite), but oh what performances are given by Cher (in her first great screen role) as the no - nonsense waitress Sissy, Sandy Dennis as the delusional Mona and Karen Black as the mysterious Joanne who arrives halfway through the film and upends the lives of the women who used to know her as Joe.

However, it doesn't take long to accept him in the role, despite the physical differences and not altogether convincing aging (or lack thereof), as he delivers a quality performance that carries the film through some very dark patches.

Bello's performance is both naked and nuanced... An eerie, sometimes vague film in which the hidden emotions break through like sudden geysers of flame, searing all involved.

Besides, as the film suggests it through the cast's performance, the most beautiful thing about patriotism is to sacrifice ourself for a noble cause even if it means being in front of difficult choices.

More importantly, his overacted and self - effacing performance suggests an understanding that his films are now viewed largely through a lens of irony, by audiences who find unintended humor in films like Timecop and Double Impact.

Masterminds was originally set to release in August of last year, but those plans fell through due to a bankruptcy within the film's distributor, although honestly the fact that the movie is now releasing in the month of September a little over a year later might actually benefit its box office performance, as the movie actually co-stars 3/4 of the Ghostbusters reboot (Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones).

At its core, it is a derivative film, not only because it is a remake, but it is also very similar to other films to come out in the years before it, including Alien and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but it still manages to hold its own through the fantastic action, Ennio Morricone's (The Untouchables) sparse and haunting score, and the lively acting by all of the performers, with especially memorable performances by Kurt Russell (Stargate, Tombstone) and Keith David (They Live, Final Analysis).

In dreams, too, Laura Dern wouldn't also be passing through, but as layered as her performance in Wild may be, it's impossible to shake that the film's editing has so abstracted her character, however purposefully, that the performance itself feels only half - remembereIn dreams, too, Laura Dern wouldn't also be passing through, but as layered as her performance in Wild may be, it's impossible to shake that the film's editing has so abstracted her character, however purposefully, that the performance itself feels only half - rememberein Wild may be, it's impossible to shake that the film's editing has so abstracted her character, however purposefully, that the performance itself feels only half - remembered.

Whether handled delicately or with blunt force, there comes a point where the film either shoehorns in these values or cleverly suggests them through a combination of strong writing and impassioned performance.

In the kind of film that usually relies on the performances of its pop - in cameos — and there is quite a handful, including Anthony Anderson, Ethan Embry, Neil Patrick Harris, Luis Guzman, Ryan Reynolds and Fred Willard — Cho and Penn keep control of the wheel the whole way through, never missing a beat on their unadulterated wit as they continue to push the moral envelope in their search for a late - night snacIn the kind of film that usually relies on the performances of its pop - in cameos — and there is quite a handful, including Anthony Anderson, Ethan Embry, Neil Patrick Harris, Luis Guzman, Ryan Reynolds and Fred Willard — Cho and Penn keep control of the wheel the whole way through, never missing a beat on their unadulterated wit as they continue to push the moral envelope in their search for a late - night snacin cameos — and there is quite a handful, including Anthony Anderson, Ethan Embry, Neil Patrick Harris, Luis Guzman, Ryan Reynolds and Fred Willard — Cho and Penn keep control of the wheel the whole way through, never missing a beat on their unadulterated wit as they continue to push the moral envelope in their search for a late - night snacin their search for a late - night snack.

Though Braga's film career started with 1998's Trampolium, she really came onto the scene through her performance in this Brazilian crime drama.

- Pierce Brosnan's first performance as Agent 007 - Judi Dench's first performance as M - film went through many script changes as the plot was nearly identical to the storyline in True Lies.

Outstanding performances from the female leads carry the film through its dizzying twists and turns, underlaid with a wicked streak of black comedy and an unexpected faith in the power of true love.

But no matter: this is Portman's film through and through: she gives one of her best performances (better even than her Oscar - winning turn in Black Swan).

The film's brilliance shines through in both versions - the complex pop culture references, the dizzying storyline, the celebrated clash of four - color heroics and messy real - world politics - topped by a performance from Jackie Earle Haley (playing the damaged vigilante Rorschach) as memorable as Heath Ledger's Joker.

In the feature, Donaldson effectively compares and contrasts the career trajectories for Mimi Leder, who made her name through her Emmy - winning work on «ER,» directed the one of the top - grossing films of 1998 with «Deep Impact» and then went to «movie jail» and didn't direct another film for nine years after the middling performance of her 2000 family drama «Pay It Forward,» to those of Trevorrow, who made his feature debut with the Sundance hit «Safety Not Guaranteed,» won the choice gig helming «Jurassic World» on director Brad Bird's recommendation and managed steer to the reboot of one of the most popular film franchises of all time to giant box - office success.

Both young inexperienced actresses give bold performances in a film that meanders through one summer in their character's lives.

Through it all, a few performances actually increase the disappointment, for one wishes they were in a better film.

It's a theme reflected in the film as well when Hannah takes acting classes, not just to relieve boredom but to allow her the chance to release hidden feelings through performance.

He also delivered remarkable performances alongside Jennifer Lawrence in Passengers, in Antoine Fuqua's The Magnificent Seven and through supporting roles in the films Moneyball, The Lego Movie, Her and Zero Dark Thirty.

Catherine Shoard and Peter Bradshaw join Xan Brooks to review the year in film, rewinding back through the last 12 months to pick their performance of the year, hidden gems and total turkeys

Davis, of course, has been a familiar on - screen face since her small but memorable early roles in eventual classics like «Tootsie» and «Fletch,» continuing through star turns in enduring iconic films including «Beetlejuice,» «The Fly,» «A League of Their Own,» «The Long Kiss Goodnight,» «Stuart Little» and career high points like her Oscar - nominated turn in «Thelma & Louise» and her Oscar - winning performance in «The Accidental Tourist.»

There are no dud performances in the film, it just feels that the plot is by the numbers and going through a check list of clichés.

In this sense, Nashville is like a Cassavetes film that — thanks both to Altman's ability to «kill his darlings» and sheer through his footage mercilessly and his formal sophistication — that balances a concern for character and performance with momentum.

The film, which had a limited theatrical engagement on May 3 through Fathom events, has been touted at various film festivals with awards including Winner Best Picture, Best Ensemble Cast, Best Screenplay and Best Breakout Performance — Boston Film Festival; Winner Audience Award for Best Picture — Austin Film Festival; Winner Outstanding Achievement in Film making, Best Actor — Newport Beach Film Festival; and Audience Award for Best Film, Audience Award for Best Actor, Winner Best Actor — Napa Valley Film Festival.

Braff's acting is respectable as the main character, delivering a performance that's good enough for the film but not for an Oscar, though his ingenious cinematography will blow you away with a healthy mix of experimental over-processing and beautifully lit shots of a nighttime dip in the pool and a rainstorm journey through the city junkyard.

Rescue Dawn — Werner Herzog's remake of his own documentary about the true story of an American pilot shot down on his first mission in Vietnam who escapes from a Laotian POW camp and has to fight his way through the jungle has terrific performances from Christian Bale (with a wild accent), Steve Zahn (not being funny) and Jeremy Davies (who played my most reviled character in Saving Private Ryan, a war film much inferior to this one).

Of course, because the whole thing was shot in one take, we're watching her performance occur in real time too, and the various colors the film cycles through (which can strain the strictest believability, to be honest) give her so many different notes to play.

Though she isn't in the film long, McAdams leaves such an indelible impression through her performance that it gives Southpaw the needed emotional resonance to give all of the rest of the scenes that play out a good deal of weight, as we root for Billy, not because we see him as sympathetic, but because she believed he was a good man underneath his thuggish tendencies.

And, after starring in a succession of Belgian films, including Loft (2008), the highest - grossing Flemish movie of all time, Schoenaerts broke through to Stateside audiences with two notably visceral performances in 2012.

The film then shifts gears, going back in time to the beginnings of Slade's music career through performances, business deals, and the occasional sexual experience.

In the better comic book films, you'll have that dynamic performance from either the hero or villain (i.e. Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man, Heath Ledger's Joker in The Dark Knight, Hugh Jackman in X-Men) that raises the film to another level and drags the audience along with them through every scenIn the better comic book films, you'll have that dynamic performance from either the hero or villain (i.e. Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man, Heath Ledger's Joker in The Dark Knight, Hugh Jackman in X-Men) that raises the film to another level and drags the audience along with them through every scenin The Dark Knight, Hugh Jackman in X-Men) that raises the film to another level and drags the audience along with them through every scenin X-Men) that raises the film to another level and drags the audience along with them through every scene.