Sentences with phrase «which dern»

That career would include a Western in which Dern became the only person to kill John Wayne onscreen («The Cowboys»), a thriller in which he blew up the Super Bowl («Black Sunday»), a sci - fi drama that introduced little robots five years before «Star Wars» brought us R2D2 («Silent Running»), a Francis Ford Coppola - written version of «The Great Gatsby,» a Vietnam drama for which he received an Oscar nomination («Coming Home») and, more recently, an Emmy - nominated run on the HBO series «Big Love.»

Not exact matches

She demonstrates obvious kinship with the characters played by Molly Shannon in «Year of the Dog» (which Mr. White wrote and directed) and Laura Dern in the HBO series «Enlightened» (which he created).

Disregard the incoherent ending, which violates the source material (Joyce Carol Oates story): in her debut, Chopra has made a disturbing tale of sexual awakening set against the 1980s new context of shopping malls; Laura Dern is extraordinary as the lead

But «Nostalgia,» which begins with the visit of an insurance assessor (Ortiz) to the untidy home of a man on death's door (Dern) and ends with an accidental death, belabors this point, in a string of somber, pre-and post-mortem conversations over coffee, booze and the inevitable dumpster filled with the unwanted property of the recently deceased.

As said, the acting is superb, especially Ruffalo and Dern, but Krause's character gets left behind big time, and the kids that are treasured so much by the characters as well as the story in general get next to no development, which isn't good when you consider the film's emotionally heavy climax.

Nicole Kidman and Laura Dern have already won well - deserved Emmys for their phenomenal performances — two that rank high on the list of the best of their remarkable careers — but this is one of those rare projects in which every actor and actress seems to be on the same page.

The actress, 50, won Best Actress in a Limited Series for Big Little Lies; Big Little Lies — which also starred Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley and Zoe Kravitz — was one of the big winners at the Globes, also picking up awards for Best Limited Series and Best Supporting Actress for Laura Dern.

Acclaim: The series, which co-stars Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley and Laura Dern, also won the Critics» Choice Award for Best Limited Series.

Laura Dern, Patrick Wilson, Linda Cardellini, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch and B.J. Novak also star in the film which is due out August 5.

On Tuesday, Tarantino told Deadline that Waltz never received the script (neither did Tarantino favorite Samuel L. Jackson), which he personally handed to Dern and Reservoir Dogs stars Michael Madsen and Tim Roth, as well as Django Unchained producer Reginald Hudlin and two other people.»

«Nebraska» has already gained acclaim on the festival circuit, particularly for Dern's lead performance (which won Best Actor at Cannes earlier this year), but there's nothing really special about any of the acting here.

Forte is just coming off a more dramatic role in the Best Picture nominee Nebraska, in which he more than holds his own opposite acting legend Bruce Dern.

The legend was seen in a scene with Nicole Kidman on the set of the the monster HBO hit series which also stars Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern.

And the absence of potential category fraud will also help Laura Dern at the end of a year in which everybody finally kind of figured out that Laura Dern rocks.

Paramount Pictures has released a new teaser for Alexander Payne's upcoming sci - fi comedy drama Downsizing which stars Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig, Christoph Waltz, Jason Sudeikis, Hing Chau, Laura Dern, Alec Baldwin, Neil Patrick Harris, and Maribeth Monroe; take a look below...

Last week we brought you some interesting photos from the set of Star Wars: Episode VIII from Dubrovnik — which you can check out here and here — and now we have some new information regarding a scene involving Laura Dern's character and Poe Dameron (Oscar Issac).

Approaching the facts in a dry, methodical manner, the film depicts old Joe Kennedy (Bruce Dern) protecting his errant youngest son, Ted (Jason Clarke), who never paid the freight for leaving Mary Jo to slowly die during the 10 hours in which Kennedy slept instead of reporting the auto accident.

The trailer for the John Curran - directed film stars Jason Clarke as Kennedy and Kate Mara as Kopechne as well as a roster of actors portraying all the WASPy figures involved in the event including Bruce Dern as the senator's domineering father Joseph Kennedy, Ed Helms as Joe Gargan, Jim Gaffigan as DA Paul Markham, and Olivia Thirlby as one of the «boiler room girls,» a group of single women who worked Bobby Kennedy's 1968 Presidential campaign, which ended with his assassination.

Also getting a nice boost was Alexander Payne's «Nebraska,» which gave Bruce Dern (Actor) and Will Forte (Supporting Actor) their first entry into the race.

Some individual moments in the episodic story — which mostly concerns itself with Wilson connecting with his ex-wife (Laura Dern) and the now - teenage daughter he never knew about — work, but there's little accumulation into anything with much impact.

For, Nenette exhibits the same dogged determination as Bruce Dern in the former film, as well the endearing naivete which enabled Audrey Tautou's title character's ability to touch the hearts of everyone she encountered in the latter.

Joined by Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a squawking onetime Southern bushwhacker who claims to be Red Rock's incoming sheriff, they arrive at Minnie's, which is occupied not by the Mexican - hating proprietress, but, suspiciously, by a bandito - type called Bob (Demián Bichir); Red Rock's English hangman Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth, initially as suave as Christophe Waltz); soft - spoken cowboy Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), who's apparently travelling home to mom; and former Confederate general Sandy Smithers (Bruce Dern, pictured below), who oversaw the mass execution of black Union recruits at the 1862 Battle of Baton Rouge.

Benicio del Toro, Laura Dern and newcomer Kelly Marie Tran have joined the cast of «Star Wars: Episode VIII,» which began principal photography this morning at Pinewood Studios in London.

Three years after he made that film (which dealt with marathon dancing contests in the Depression, not with cowboys), Dern's mother died while he was making «The King of Marvin Gardens,» one of his most admired films.

There is a telling scene in which Bobbi Jene — the dancer subject of this doc — has a sit down discussion with the actress Laura Dern and explains that she defeated her eating disorder by throwing so much energy into her work that indulging afterwards was necessary for balance.

There's a depressing timeshare - presentation vibe to the whole enterprise, complete with showroom demos in which a tiny Neil Patrick Harris and Laura Dern hilariously model the benefits of diminutive living: Turns out $ 83 buys you an awful lot of diamonds when you're five inches tall.

Description: Stars Bruce Dern as Freeman Lowell, a nature - loving crewmember aboard the Valley Forge, a gigantic spaceship in a small fleet that carries the last surviving forests of the Earth, which has fallen victim to overpopulation and ecological neglect.

An almost unrecognizable Michael Chiklis is the way too sensitive assistant coach, and Laura Dern's best scene, as Bob's wife, is a bizarre monologue which comes out of nowhere and doesn't fit at all.

The filmmaker told the trade that he «knows» Roth wasn't behind the leak, but suspects talent agency CAA (which represents Dern) to be the culprit.

He also directed Dern and Jack Nicholson in the movie, «The King of Marvin Gardens» which also famously switched types — Nicholson playing the meeker character and Dern playing the more boisterous one.

IFC Films has released the official poster and first trailer for director Kelly Reichardt's (Wendy and Lucy, Meek's Cutoff) new film Certain Women, which stars Michelle Williams, Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Lily Gladstone and Jared Harris.

I haven't seen the 1949 version, featuring Alan Ladd as Gatsby, but I recently watched the 1974 version, directed by Jack Clayton, which starred a miscast Robert Redford as Gatsby, Mia Farrow as Daisy, Bruce Dern as Tom, Sam Waterston as Nick, Lois Chiles as Jordan, Karen Black as Myrtle, Scott Wilson as George, and Howard Da Silva as Meyer.

A physical and visceral viewing experience which effortlessly captures the captivating power of dance, as well as offering bonus cameos from famous faces such as Laura Dern and Oscar Isaac.

The film is structured as a triptych in which each segment stars a different actress (Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart and Reichardt regular Michelle Williams), and investigates class division, sexism and unrequited attraction all through her trademark wide - angle prism, via conversations in which the participants talk «past each other.»

I don't want to bring up Baron Davis in this post which is definitively about Laura Dern but we can't talk about Laura Dern without talking about Laura Dern's 2017, which, you know, notably ended with those pictures of her and Baron Davis.

She recently scored Jennifer Fox's, The Tale (Laura Dern, Elizabeth Debicki, Jason Ritter, Ellen Burstyn, Common and John Heard), and Shawn Snyder film, To Dust, which will premiere at Tribeca Film Festival, April 22nd.

Additionally in 2017, Dern was seen in The Weinstein Company's biographical drama «The Founder,» which recounts the story of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc played by Michael Keaton.

Adapted by Ellen Brown Furman from Mazur's autobiography and directed by Brad Furman («The Lincoln Lawyer»), «The Infiltrator» is one of several recent high - profile pickups by the company, including Ramin Bahrani's «99 Homes,» with Andrew Garfield, Laura Dern, and Michael Shannon, and Terrence Malick's «Knight of Cups,» starring Christian Bale and natalie Portman, which debuted in Berlin.

Davis was also pictured holding Dern's purse which is a pretty dedicated move for a first date, so perhaps the couple have kept things quiet until now.

Dern looks like a tougher guy, which is what he is most famous for playing.

And the brand's happy - go - lucky spirit is as palpable as ever in its latest fragrance campaign for In Full Bloom, which stars Laura Dern, Sasheer Zamata and Tavi Gevinson and was photographed by Inez and Vinoodh.

And beyond Garfield, it stars Michael Shannon and Laura Dern, which is alone enough reason to be curious about a film.

A character which can fall into so many cliche's, Howard avoids many of them and provides a performance worthy of being included alongside Laura Dern's Dr. Ellie Sattler from the first film.

Laura Dern, from the first time I saw her in Jurassic Park (in which she inspired me to want to pursue paleobotany for some time after the release) to her erratic performance in Citizen Ruth, she is up for any role thrown her way.

For another, giving her the award would also mean the Globes could serve as the cherry on top of Dern's huge 2017, a year in which she pulled stellar turns in Twin Peaks and Star Wars: The Last Jedi as well as HBO's blockbuster not - so - limited series.

Analysis: Tina Fey («30 Rock») and Laura Dern («Enlightened») are gone, which probably guarantees the return of the remainder of last year's class — winner Louis - Dreyfus, Poehler, Dunham and Falco.

In it, he reveals a bunch of little tidbits — like which movies influenced shots in the film or how Laura Dern couldn't stop saying «pew» when she fired her blaster.

Laura Dern's nomination was an inspired one considering her role in Wild is limited to flashbacks — which means a smaller amount of screentime — and the fact that she was largely ignored before her nomination from the Academy.

We never full connect to Wilson and his relationship with Dern's ex-wife Pippi or his burgeoning friendship with Isabella Amara as his estranged daughter Claire, which makes a large portion of the films middle - section feel rather so - so.

Laura Dern at the 75th Annual Golden Globes Awards which took place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.