Sentences with phrase «time actor whose»

The threesome, best buds since college and now in their forties, include a kindly but somewhat maladjusted party - store owner; an easygoing part - time actor whose glory days seem to be behind him; and a pressured family man who works at his oppressive father's car dealership.

Not exact matches

For long - time residents, supermarkets are paradoxical actors appealing to, as well as, challenging the narrative of a community whose economic strength was based on the surrounding natural environment and local people's endeavours.

This year's ceremony will be hosted by Åse Kleveland, former Minister of culture for Norway, and Alan Alda, actor, director and writer whose long - time support of science has been honoured with the US National Science Board's Public Service Award.

Robert Zemeckis, the same director whose «Who Framed Roger Rabbit» (1988) juxtaposed live action with animation, this time merges them, using a process called «performance capture,» in which human actors perform the movements which are translated into lifelike animation.

«The Prestige» From acclaimed director Christopher Nolan (Memento, Batman Begins, Insomnia) and starring a powerhouse cast including Golden Globe ® Nominee Hugh Jackman (Kate and Leopold), Christian Bale (Batman Begins, American Psycho), four - time Golden Globe ® Nominee Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation, Match Point, A Love Song for Bobby Long, Girl with a Pearl Earring) and the legendary two - time Academy Award ® Winner Michael Caine (Best Supporting Actor for The Cider House Rules and Hannah and Her Sisters), «The Prestige» is the mysterious story of two magicians in Victorian - era London whose intense rivalry leads them on a life - long battle for supremacy filled with obsession, deceit and jealousy with astonishing twists and deadly consequences.

As his English - language debut and first time working with Hollywood actors, The Lobster marks the beginning of a new chapter for Yorgos, whose previous films (My Best Friend, Kinetta, the Academy Award — nominated Dogtooth, and Alps) were each made in Greece on an extremely modest budget with a crew made up of Yorgos's friends.

Actress Blake Lively and actor Jason Clarke lead the way from a script by Forster and screenwriter Sean Conway with a story of intrigue, mystery and chilling uncertainty for a woman whose second chance to see for the first time since childhood brings both happiness, as well as striking new questions about her relationship.

It's time someone was brave enough to explore this difficult topic with unflinching clarity, and because veteran actors Jean - Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva give such subtle performances as the elderly couple whose loving relationship is tested to breaking point by terminal illness.

No, the white characters in «Mudbound» are products of their time, and there's an honesty to that which sometimes supersedes choices that might otherwise have been more satisfying or dramatic — much as the casting favors actors whose weathered faces and strained expressions look as if they might have been lifted from Richard Avedon's «In the American West» series.

Oscar - winner Mark Rylance plays a British civilian whose yacht is requisitioned to cross the English Channel to rescue soldiers at Dunkirk 26 miles away — and scoops up others out of the water en route, including a shell - shocked Navy officer (five - time Nolan actor Cillian Murphy).

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence return as Mike and Marcus, two troublemaking Miami cops on the trail of a Cuban drug dealer (Spanish actor Jordi Molla), whose accent is so wild that we can't understand him half the time.

Clouds of Sils Maria Director: Olivier Assayas Running time: 123 minutes Certificate: R Juliette Binoche stars as an actor whose role in a new play leads her to reflect on her career while developing a close relationship with her assistant, played by Kristen Stewart.

There's a decent supporting cast, with Ben Whishaw as a Copenhagen bachelor attracted to Lili (for a long time it's not clear if he knows she's still a man underneath) while the Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts does his handsome best to bring to life a character who feels he's been invented especially for the film — the childhood friend who once found Einar so attractive he kissed him, but whose romantic attentions are now firmly fixed on Gerda.

Which could leave the door open for Chalamet, a relative newcomer to the SAG Awards whose work in Call Me by Your Name would be a pinnacle performance in the career of an actor four times his age.

And thank god they found Tremblay (whose most notable appearance before now was in «The Smurfs 2»), a 9 - year - old Canadian actor who takes material that performers four times his age would shy away from and simply tears into it.

Very happy for @GaryOldman a fine actor whose time has come to be recognized @ReelBobBloom @TheFilmYap

Like his Eastwood movies, Once Upon a Time in the West would give leading roles to American actors, whose careers either hadn't quite taken off or were on a downturn common to advancing age.

Everything about it promises negligibility, and the promise is kept: a less - than - super star (Coburn), a female lead whose potential has scarcely ever been fully realized (Lee Grant), some character actors who stopped getting — or making — good parts some time ago (Andrews, Hendry), a forgettable British sub-leading man who muffed his one big chance (Jayston — Nicholas of Nicholas and Alexandra), an anonymously pneumatic foreign blonde (Christiane Kruger), an English hack with conspicuously unimaginative pretensions to distinction (Hughes), and above all the tiresomely formulaic genre in which doublecrosses are so taken - for - granted by the audience that no degree of geometric complication can do more than increase the boredom.

Traditionally, it features a straight Caucasian male protagonist played by an actor whose performance can be described as «surprising» because audiences are seeing him either for the first time or for the first time in a capacity like this.

No lead actor in 2010 was given more notes to play in a more curtailed stretch of screen time than de Lencquesaing, whose daughter Alice I already singled out for praise in the first of these columns.

The film ultimately belongs to Riggan, who suffers repeated humiliations (learning a drunk Carver probably wrote a prized note, having to wander Times Square in his underwear after a mishap with a stage door, and getting a lambasting from Lindsay Duncan's cruel critic) while the voice of his movie alter - ego prattles in his head about the actor's failures, and Keaton, whose performance finds the right balance between longing determination and outright insanity.

Finally making its way into select theaters, Bahrani — whose best - known work includes Chop Shop, Goodbye Solo, and Man Push Cart — took some time to speak with me about the film, what his experience has been like working with non-actors and actors, and what he hopes his late friend Roger Ebert would have said about his film.

One of its strongest assets is its cast, with superior actors in the leading roles: Cumberbatch as Steven Strange, the brilliant and arrogant New York surgeon whose reason for existence is cut short by a horrific car crash... Tilda Swinton as a mystic known as the Ancient One who is willing to lead him to enlightenment in Kathmandu if only he will subjugate his inflated ego... Chiwetel Ejiofor as her faithful follower and right hand man... Benedict Wong as the guardian of the library where the accumulated secrets of their sect are stored... and Mads Mikkelsen as the brilliant student gone rogue who may soon destroy the earth, one major city at a time.

The English actor plays a well - off San Francisco shrink whose life is turned inside out when his long - time live - in, played by Julianne Moore, announces she's pregnant.

Along the same lines, Hellion, which premièred at Sundance, turns on the paired central performances of first - time actor Josh Wiggins as Jacob, a 13 - year - old budding delinquent in rural Southeast Texas and Aaron Paul as his troubled widower father, whose loving yet hands - off approach to parenting results in child - protective services sending Jacob's little brother Wes (Deke Garner) to live with his aunt (Juliette Lewis).

Taken just as a list of actors, without considering the actual movies, this would be a pretty plausible roll - call for any year's Best Actor nominations: two prior winners (Crowe for «Gladiator» along with two other nominations, Firth for «The King's Speech» plus a nod for «A Single Man»); one two - time nominee who has bizarrely never won (Fiennes, nommed in support for «Schindler's List» and in the lead for «The English Patient»); a character actor of long - standing reputation and popularity (Turturro); and a rising star whose meteoric ascent to bankable leading man suggests his Oscar is only a matter of when, not if (HaActor nominations: two prior winners (Crowe for «Gladiator» along with two other nominations, Firth for «The King's Speech» plus a nod for «A Single Man»); one two - time nominee who has bizarrely never won (Fiennes, nommed in support for «Schindler's List» and in the lead for «The English Patient»); a character actor of long - standing reputation and popularity (Turturro); and a rising star whose meteoric ascent to bankable leading man suggests his Oscar is only a matter of when, not if (Haactor of long - standing reputation and popularity (Turturro); and a rising star whose meteoric ascent to bankable leading man suggests his Oscar is only a matter of when, not if (Hardy).

The complex, off - putting protagonist seems to remain a puzzle for Murray, my all - time favorite actor and one whose dramatic gifts have been appreciated and well - served this century.

He's convincing as a no - fuss guy's guy, but he's upstaged by the lesser - billed crowd of 30 - ish working actors, whose ample screen time is this movie's finest pleasure.

When Mark suggests that marchers in the pride parade raise money for the striking miners, it's the launch of the activist group Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM), an organization whose members will include Joe (George MacKay), a suburban college student tentatively taking his first steps out of the closet; defiantly flamboyant actor Jonathan (Dominic West) and his partner Gethin (Andrew Scott), whose encounters with the miners will bring him home to Wales for the first time in decades; and Steph (Faye Marsay), who loudly and proudly reminds everyone that she's the «L» in the group.

Nellie's hangdog face made her the quintessential Jarmusch actor, but she also benefited from Jarmusch's perfectly timed editing, just as Kristen Stewart's riveting non-performance in Personal Shopper resulted from the collaboration between the actor and the director Olivier Assayas, whose timing and shot selection is impeccable.

The 1953 book features a woman whose entire life revolves around her «interactions» with actors whose shows take up three full walls of her living room — an immersive kind of entertainment unheard of in Bradbury's time, but commonplace now.

Highlights from Michelle Grabner's crowd - pleasing selection include Dawoud Bey's presidential portrait photography (Barack Obama, 2008), Karl Haendel's Theme Time Drawings, pencil drawings of various subjects arranged in shaped frames across a massive section of wall, and works by Donelle Woolford, the fictional young black female artist «created» by Joe Scanlan and played by various actors whose Joke Painting (detumescence)(2013) investigates the notion of authenticity.

The challenge then becomes being able to accurately separate the actor who has a goal in mind (the sale) from the genuine knowledge - dispenser whose primary goal is to educate a prospect / client and thence help with whatever the prospect / client decides he / she wants to do based upon acquiring said pertinent knowledge The way to do this is to interrupt a suspected spiel spinner a number of times with questions that have nothing to do with the spiel, and then watch to see if he / she sluffs the questions off and quickly picks up right where he / she left off... as if not wanting to lose one's place whilst reading a mental script.