Sentences with phrase «where film actors»

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She was memorable in early roles on Funny People and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, two films stuffed with memorable actors, but Parks and Rec — no slouch in the memorable cast department itself — is where she made a name for herself as an unparalleled master of deadpan delivery.

Everyone I know who has grown up here or lived here for more than five years has a story, wants to tell you where this show was filmed, where that actor ate or where the scene where he finally kisses her was filmed.

In March 2009, while Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Miliband attended the UK premiere of climate change film The Age of Stupid, where he was ambushed by actor Pete Postlethwaite, who threatened to return his OBE and vote for any party other than Labour if the Kingsnorth coal - fired power station were to be given the go - ahead by the government.

The plot is rather simplistic, in where the actors appearing in a film about ancient Rome are summoned by Hollywood «fixer» Eddie Mannix to go out and find recently kidnapped main star, Baird Whitlock.

It's like reading a book and visualising what the individual character would look and act like, and having that illusion shattered when you see the the film adaption where the actor is not what you visualised... for example Christian Grey

Django Unchained is an epic film with a simple and straightforward story that is as entertaining as they come; for all the hyper - explosive and bloody bullet hits, the film shines in its more quieter moments, where an actor like Christoph Waltz can excel in his charm or Samuel L. Jackson can ooze with ill - intent.

There are moments in Real Steel where I forgot I'd already seen enough movies about fighting robots, forgot I was too old to be the target audience, forgot that I think Hugh Jackman is turning smarmier with every passing film, forgot that overly expressive child actors set my teeth on edge, forgot to think about all the other underdog / boxing / father - son movies this one is ripping off.

Sammy and Max head for Vegas, where actor Steven Seagal (as himself) is shooting a film with a villain role perfect for Max.

The actor originally hailed from Jonesboro, AR, where he was tormented by school bullies for being a «pretty boy,» and he came to film via New York's Juilliard School, where he acted in a number of productions.

Some things that probably factor into the industry's disagreement: Peter Jackson adapted books fifty years old and respected as great literature, the Potter books were being written alongside the first movies; Lord of the Rings centered on adult characters and played to a wider audience with PG - 13 ratings, the first Potter movies were PG, skewed younger, and starred kids (though anyone can see the films matured and so did the fans, many already wrote the series off); finally, where Jackson provided one distinct vision and a cast of respected performers, Potter had a rotating director roster (all of them secondary to Rowling) and limited opportunities for its accomplished actors, giving the brunt of the work to the three kids and spectacle.

But where Asquith (who only had the best players in his films) took this approach out of respect, Crabtree deferred to his actors principally because his main concern were the visuals.

Cutting his losses at home (where ethnic actors like Al Pacino and, interestingly enough, Robert DeNiro were getting the plum roles), Dullea returned to Canada for a number of interesting but distinctly B - grade films (Welcome to Blood City with a pre-comeback Jack Palance) and the continent for guest starring roles in poorly - received art house productions (Pope Joan with Liv Ullmann) and the occasional thriller (as Mia Farrow's disbelieving stuffed shirt of a husband in The Haunting of Julia).

Some of the banter between Ruth and the jaded cop named Det. William Bendix (Gary Anthony Williams, TMNT: Out of the Shadows — yes, William Bendix, like the classic film actor) on the case offer some insights on where the film could have found its comedic spark, but even those scenes lose flavor when we see that cop break down in anguish because of his own personal relationship issues bubbling up to the surface.

Although Nixon's starring role on the hugely popular series may have brought her to the attention of a new audience, observers of the New York theater had been watching the actor on and off Broadway since 1980, where she had performed in productions that included David Rabe's Hurlyburly, Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, Angels in America, and Indiscretions, for which she earned a Tony nomination.Born in New York City on April 9, 1966, Nixon made her film debut in the 1980 movie Little Darlings.

There's some very candid, fascinating footage here capturing the process of making the film (in, for a surprise revelation, not a real Parisian flat but a studio - built apartment replica surrounded by green screens, not at all dissimilar to David Cronenberg's use of similar magic for A Dangerous Method, not that you can tell in either film in its finished form, where the technology is seamless and unobtrusive), with Haneke working with the actors in a rigorous, nitty - gritty way that lets us see what infinitesimal precision he's looking for in performance, in movement, in blocking, and in composition.

Actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Toby Jones, who portray Charles» supporters in this film, also star together in another period piece, Amazing Grace, where they find themselves on opposite sides of the debate over England's involvement in the slave trade.

The common problem of Solondz's characters is an inability to see the world in shades of grey, which is fitting in a film where color - garish, boring or just plain ugly - is so important, and the actors are working off palettes of such extreme emotions.

Lee Pace is in a fantastic film called «The Fall» where he plays an actor with a broken leg and a drug habit.

With looks that allow him to either play soft - skinned pretty boys or greasy - haired white trash refuse, Sarsgaard has used his malleable features and brooding charisma to great effect in such films as Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry.A graduate of St. Louis» Washington University, where he was a co-founder of the improvisational group Mama's Pot Roast, Sarsgaard studied at the Actors» Studio in New York.

These live reads are a regular event where Reitman assembles actors to perform a script of a classic film, live on stage.

Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady Bird,» which won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for women in film both as actors and also writers and directors and producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them in their homes, I think all of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop of filmmakers who want to tell stories about women.»

Allen is notorious for offering his actors little to no direction, which often produces films where every one in the cast seems to be acting in a different movie, but it could be liberating for an actor as organic and instinctual as Phoenix.

These comments perhaps serve as a testament to just how far digital performance capture has come in recent years, to the point where some actors actually prefer the process to - or at least would put it alongside - traditionally filmed roles.

But this is a year where Kristin Scott Thomas, Daniel Kaluuya, Josh O'Connor and Florence Pugh are nominated, where Simon Farnaby and Paul King's remarkable Paddington 2 screenplay is honoured (the film deserved a Best Film / Best British Film nod too), where Saoirse Ronan is celebrated, where Jamie Bell is justly remembered for Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, and where Hugh Grant is nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a family film about a CGI bear.

The 53 - year - old actor showed up to the Alamo Drafthouse on Sunday (January 29) where some big fans were hosting an annual marathon of Nicolas «films called C4GED.

Carano's screen presence evokes nothing less than»70s Pam Grier — where the effect is not that of an actor giving a natural and charismatic performance in a film, but, rather, a natural and charismatic person acting in a film.

The youth and comparative inexperience of the «Social Network» ensemble would make it an atypical winner in the category — but at the same time, counting out Jesse Eisenberg's long - shot Best Actor bid, this is the only place where voters can acknowledge the most acclaimed and awarded film in the race.

ET caught up with the 28 - year - old actor at the «Black Panther» premiere on Monday night, where he opened up about his Oscar nomination and starring in the new Marvel film, which hits theaters on Feb. 16.

The film remains fascinating for a good portion of its running time, most acutely in scenes where it isn't entirely clear who's running the show: the director or the actors.

The drama about the last chapter of a long marriage, which stars two veteran French actors (Jean - Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva) and premiered at May's Cannes Film Festival (where it won the Palme d'Or), was claimed by Austria because the Academy's rules dictate that a film's nationality is dependent not on the language that is primarily spoken in the film or the origins of the stars, but rather on the origins of the majority of the film's principal behind - the - scenes talent — the writer, director, and producer.

Jared Leto says gaining weight for film roles is harder than losing it.The 42 - year - old actor piled on the pounds for 2007's «Chapter 27» - where he...

Audiences loved the chemistry between McConaughey and Kate Hudson so much in How to Loose a Guy in 10 Days (where both are trying to get rid of each other in a bet), the actors reteamed for Fool's Gold, an adventurous treasure hunt film.

Coming into his own after a long gap, the actor does a convincing job of showing where Dixon's rage is coming from, and has picked up one of the Oscar nominations among the film's seven (including acting nods for McDormand and Harrelson too).

Even today, «Cruel Intentions» uses drama and manipulation to take you back to a simpler time: the»90s, where now - famous actors were on their rise to fame, and an iconic teen story that endures as a must - see film for a generation first got its start.

Resnais constantly blurs the line between fantasy and reality shifting the actors from the couch where they watch the filmed play so that they take an active role within stylized dreamlike scenes, where the fiction of the play becomes their reality.

Malick's two years in post-production, (the actors said they spent more time doing voice recordings than in front of the camera) are where he creates a film (if you can call it that) out of the footage.

Granted, anything with Ashton Kutcher is doomed to miserable failure, but in a film where you have proven comedic actors... who is the weak link?

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.

The film explores a world where John Cusack discovers a portal in an office building that puts you in the head of the actor John Malkovich for 15 minutes.

Where the film excels, however, is director William Wyler's measured tone, which accepts the story's focus — of gradual changes and carnage on the home front — and uses lengthy sequences emphasizing actor reactions.

The film's action is solid, with some innovative long takes and lots of fights where we can see the actors» faces (although we know they can put their faces on stuntmen now, and Wade is covered with face makeup anyway).

The first of which is The Walk, a film directed by Robert Zemeckis, where the actor plays famous French high - wire artist Philippe Petit.

Deadline reports that actor Dan Fogler has been cast in the upcoming «Harry Potter» spinoff film «Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,» based on the book by J.K. Rowling, who also penned the script.

Among reasons cited for the underrepresentation of blacks and other minorities in starring film and TV roles is a perceived resistance to nonwhite actors in foreign markets, where distribution accounts for a growing share of revenues.

I forgive a lot of storytelling problems with films just because the set pieces where the actors are singing are so amazing, which might be why I'm still watching Glee.

The framing device serves largely to establish who the main actors are channeling, and the juxtaposition of the personalities with their new forms is where most of the film's humour is derived from.

In the film, which is already generating Oscar buzz, the 31 - year - old actor portrays Oliver, a graduate student who sparks a romantic relationship with Eli, a 17 - year - old boy who lives at the cliff - side mansion on the Italian Riviera where Oliver is staying.

Something better than another damn quote: The line - up scene was scripted as a serious scene, but after a full day of filming takes where the actors couldn't keep a straight face, Singer decided to use the funniest takes.

Other ties include 1931 - 32 where Frederic March and Wallace Beery shared best actor; in 1949 when two films tied for best documentary short; and in 1986 when there was a tie for best documentary.

The Independent watch on as the three - time Oscar - winner - deemed by many to be one of the best working actors today - spoke at London's V&A Museum following a screening of new drama Phantom Thread where he was asked if there have been any film roles he wishes he could have played.