Sentences with phrase «which white actors»

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To add insult to injury, Wilson screened The Birth of a Nation — which glorifies the Ku Klux Klan and portrays actors in blackface, among its other racist offenses — in the White House and subsequently praised the film for being «so terribly true.»

«And [on Monday], we heard the White House Press Secretary condemn the act but very deliberately skirt the actor, which, by all accounts, appears to be Moscow in this case.»

The actor is set to star in a film directed by veteran stunt coordinator Nick Powell (The Bourne Identity, X-Men: The Last Stand, Cinderella Man), which centers on Frank Walsh (Cage), a big game hunter for zoos who has booked passage on a Greek shipping freighter with a fresh haul of exotic and deadly animals from the Amazon, including a rare white jaguar.

The Bollywood actor Imran Khan too couldn't resist the all white look but he went for a self printed one which looks different but amazingly refreshing as well.

Having the stereotype of being lousy lovers and boring computer nerds certainly does not help, nor does the Hollywood habit of casting white actors in Asian roles because they are seen as more bankable, which can sometimes be interpreted to mean «more desirable.»

Also impressive is director Wenders» use of his and Lisa Rinzler's shoots in Assisi, black - and - white, deliberately faded and silent film, showing an actor playing St. Francis who at the key point in his life heard God tell him to restore a dilapidated church — which I believe he did thinking that God's will is more important than his father's rage at the saint's alleged throwing away his money.

Black & White movie from 1949 which is not all that bad, it starts off like a educational film but turns into a great movie, or main actor Robert Lowery who plays Fireman Joe Martin undercover did a excellent job along with Edward Brophy.

The star - studded heist caper «Widows,» from director Steve McQueen and set to begin filming in Chicago this month, is looking to hire two sets of twin infants — one set biracial (unspecified), the other white — who are between the ages of 3 months and 6 months, according to a flyer posted by 4 Star Casting, which specializes in background actors, aka extras.

Mudbound, which features both black and white actors, has a 97 % on Rotten Tomatoes, making it already one of the best - reviewed films of the year.

The Oscars were also criticized in the past for including a vast majority more white nominees than people of color, which gave rise to the social media hashtag #OscarsSoWhite in 2015, when all the actor nominees were white.

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.

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.

Haley amasses more interest in his quartet of young men, though Rob Brown, Michael Pitt, and Christopher Abbott (an actor whose talents are a bit underserved here, especially if you manage to see him in this year's James White, which reached limited theatrical release only a week prior) all play certain «types» of people, while Dan Stevens gets to do something a little more colorful (though quite silly and ultimately, convoluted).

, which shows black - and - white B - roll footage of an aged Curtiz (this was one of his last films) directing his actors on the set.

Ghost in the Shell, which will be distributed by Paramount, was widely accused of whitewashing after Johansson and other white actors were cast as the traditionally Japanese characters.

The special features include «Behind The Mask: The Making of The Phantom Of The Opera», which includes all - new interviews with Director Dwight H. Little, actors Robert Englund, Jill Schoelen, and Alex Hyde - White, Screenwriter Duke Sandefur, Special Make - Up Designer Kevin Yagher, Special Make - Up Effects Artists John Carl Buechler, Everett Burrell and John Vulich, and Composer Misha Segal.

An extensive selection of work from across the world is presented including the World Premieres of William English's HEATED GLOVES and THE HOST, in which director Miranda Pennell delves deeper into her past and her late parents» involvement with the Anglo Iranian Oil Company (BP); Ben Rivers» THE SKY TREMBLES AND THE EARTH IS AFRAID AND THE TWO EYES ARE NOT BROTHERS, the feature element of Ben's current Artangel installation at BBC White City; EVENT FOR A STAGE by Tacita Dean, a filmed presentation of her live theatrical happening in collaboration with actor Stephen Dillane at the 2014 Sydney Biennial; the European Premiere of Omer Fast's REMAINDER, a London - set thriller adapted from Tom McCarthy's acclaimed novel of the same name; the European Premiere of INVENTION which highlights the possibilities of camera movement and the development of artistic apparatus and Kevin Jerome Everson's PARK LANES, set in an American bowling alley over the course of a day.

The other hot contender for Best Picture was the horror thriller GET OUT which earned Daniel Kaluuya the BEST ACTOR AWARD as the African - American boyfriend of a rich white girlfriend who goes home to meet her parents one weekend at their affluent estate, and discovers that his «having the creeps» is not unfounded.

Among the carnage, the pod people chat to director Anthony White and actor Caoimhe Cassidy, about their film The Devil's Woods, which screens at the IFI Horrorthon this weekend.

However, when director Ridley Scott mounted his own production of the Moses story, titled Exodus: Gods and Kings, quite a few heads were turned by the fact that the principal cast - which includes Christian Bale as Moses, Joel Edgerton as Rhamses and Aaron Paul as Joshua - was comprised almost exclusively of white actors.

That's the superficial starting point of The Gift, the directorial debut of actor Joel Edgerton, who takes the cuckoo - in - the - nest thriller template — which became ubiquitous in the early»90s with films like Pacific Heights, Unlawful Entry, Single White Female and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle — and, by introducing psychological depth and a streak of social conscience, fashions an intriguing morality tale.

Either way, they had Beasts of No Nation, Straight out of Compton nominated for ensemble, and Idris Elba for Supporting Actor, all shut out at the Oscars, which led to the now famous Oscars So White hashtag.

The legendary actor and pioneering film director received a lead actor nomination for 1958's «The Defiant Ones,» which revolved around two escaped prisoners — one black, one white (Tony Curtis)-- who are shackled together.

Up until now, the only weekend in which a film with a white male lead actor had won the box office came when «Maze Runner: The Death Cure,» starring Dylan O'Brien, knocked «Jumanji» off the top spot at the North American box office on the weekend of Jan. 26.

The actor is best known for playing Chalky White on Boardwalk Empire and is currently shooting 12 Years a Slave, which co-stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt and Michael Fassbender.

Ben Stiller is the kind of actor whose default expression is around 5 on the face pain scale, and that tenuous middle ground between hurt and happiness is the bittersweet spot in which writer - director Mike White's masterfully handled seriocomic character study «Brad's Status» operates.

Finalists were invited to screen their films — all of which focused on the power of technology in the classroom — at the White House, in the company of President Obama, actor and associate director of the White House Office of Public Engagement Kal Penn, Bill Nye the Science Guy, and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Zaatari's two - part contribution to dOCUMENTA (13) similarly challenges the expectations audiences may bring by casting his latest works on archives not in the context of politics, history and memory but rather as a love story for two men played by three actors, in the black and white, 16 mm silent film The End of Time (2012), and as a mentor — apprentice drama in Time Capsule (2012), an extended performance for which the artist buried a concrete - encased collection of small monochromatic paintings — a tribute to an unnamed photographer said to be losing his sight — in a hole in the ground that was dug next to the Fulda River in the Karlsaue Park, with four spokes of rebar marking the spot.

They submitted their withdrawal to the Whitney yesterday, which Yams Collective member Maureen Catbagan said was driven by objections to the Biennial's inclusion of Joe Scanlan's «Donelle Woolford» piece, in which the white male Princeton professor hires black female actors to play the part of a fictional black artist named Donelle Woolford (the piece has been ongoing since 2005, according to the artist's website).

In Life of Imitation, 2009, for example — the artist's contribution to the Fifty - Third Venice Biennale — three male actors of Chinese, Malay, and Indian descent, respectively, reenact an infamous scene from a Douglas Sirk melodrama in which a mixed - race daughter proclaims to her black mother, «I'm white.

My guess is that it is a conceptual project, not unlike Joe Scanlan's «Donelle Woolford» piece, in which the white male Princeton professor hires black female actors to play the part of a fictional black artist named Donelle Woolford.

Accordingly, difference blindness, which holds all lawyers accountable to seemingly neutral standards, disproportionately disadvantages diverse populations and normalizes the dominance of certain actors — here, white men — by creating the illusion that success or failure depends upon individual rather than structural constraints.

In an April 2017 white paper, your security team disclosed an incident during the 2016 election in which «malicious actors» were discovered to be using fake Facebook accounts to promote links to stolen information.