Sentences with phrase «with other actors playing»

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MacLeish's contribution, other than bringing the story into the 20th century, making a great contribution to the tiny, tiny pool of American poetic drama, and winning the 1959 Pulitzer with it, is quite a bit of additional commentary by his God and Satan characters, a pair of washed - up actors who observe the Job story being played on a stage, and occasionally take part in it.

you feel like screaming), and the farcical way in which a handful of other key characters are played really jars with the weighty subjects discussed and nuanced misery portrayed by a few of the other actors.

Middendorf plays her good girl character with aplomb while Hughes doesn't bug me nearly as much as other child actors.

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Maïwenn brings up the dirty and dark side of Paris with the help of an excellent team of child actors - Malonn Lévana, the lovely little girl of «Tomboy» (where she plays the sister of the leading character) is someone to keep an eye on - and the best known actors of the French cinema of today: Marina Foïs, Sandrine Kiberlain, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Frédéric Pierrot, Karin Viard, Louis - Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing (L'heure d'été, Le père de mes enfants), Jérémie Elkaïm (La guerre est déclarée), Karole Rocher, and others.

Farrell's performance in the stage play Skidding established her reputation, and in 1929 she was wooed to Hollywood along with many other stage actors in the wake of the «talkie» revolution.

The lead actors are typecast, with Ferrell being goofy SNL - style, Vince Vaughn doing the loudmouth jackass thing he did so well in Swingers and Made and Luke Wilson acting as the straight man like in Bottle Rocket or Legally Blonde, but the refreshing thing is how the three play off each other.

With the possible exceptions of fellow character players Fritz Feld and Gino Corrado, German - born actor Sig Arno played more waiters and maitre d's than any other film actor.

Recruited by an old chum (Peter Boyle) to help find an exotic prostitute missing in Chinatown, Hammett enlists his implausibly gorgeous neighbor (Marilu Henner) to play Girl Friday as he matches wits with colorful actors including Jack Nance («Eraserhead» and other David Lynch works), David Patrick Kelly (whose strangled voice is an interesting counterpart to his iconic «Come out to play - yi - yay» taunt from «The Warriors»), Roy Kinnear and a few old - timers from film noir's heyday (the scene with Sylvia Sidney is especially good).

B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories And Other Stories is largely read by Novak, but it plays with the use of other actors — it includes a really lovely performance from Lena Dunham as a sex robot (just... listen to it, it's very good), as well as turns from Jenna Fischer, Julianne Moore, Rainn Wilson and, of course, Novak's frequent collaborator Mindy Kaling (who's very fuOther Stories is largely read by Novak, but it plays with the use of other actors — it includes a really lovely performance from Lena Dunham as a sex robot (just... listen to it, it's very good), as well as turns from Jenna Fischer, Julianne Moore, Rainn Wilson and, of course, Novak's frequent collaborator Mindy Kaling (who's very fuother actors — it includes a really lovely performance from Lena Dunham as a sex robot (just... listen to it, it's very good), as well as turns from Jenna Fischer, Julianne Moore, Rainn Wilson and, of course, Novak's frequent collaborator Mindy Kaling (who's very funny).

If you're not groaning already, you should be, because we've seen every single one of these actors play the exact same part in other movies — only with far better results.

I sat down with the real - life heroes, now actors, to discuss the fascinating concept of them playing themselves, what they learned about themselves and each other after doing so, and what the film says about bringing a community together to conquer despair.

Shelley Winters plays the concierge, a woman with little time for the others occupants; veteran Hollywood actor Melyyn Douglas is Monsieur Zy, the recalcitrant owner of the building who demands that his tenants live as quietly as possible; other tenants include the shrewish M. Dioz (Jo Van Fleet (East of Eden, The King and Four Queens) who wages spiteful wars on those with whom she has fallen into disagreement, and the meek mother (Lila Kedrova — The Kremlin Letter) and her disabled daughter who become the focus of Dioz's vitriol.

Films from Velvet Goldmine to Moulin Rouge to Down With Love have proven that few actors possess McGregor's dynamism, but in this adaptation of Alexander Trocchi's Beat - era novel, he plays to the other end of his range.

He has been nominated for the Tony Award as Best Actor for the Broadway play God of Carnage (2009), along with his other three cast - mates.

So by the time we got ready to shoot Lincoln, and I had spent the time with the other actors, most of my work was with everybody else, with Tommy Lee Jones, with Joseph Gordon - Levitt, with Sally Field, with David Strathairn, who plays Secretary of State Seward, because we hadn't spent that time discussing this together.

Throughout the film Kaufman experiments with varying degrees of fiction (Cage also plays Charlie's made - up twin brother, Donald) and nonfiction (actual events from «The Orchid Thief» are acted - out by Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper and other supporting actors).

While Willis continues to phone in his performance with the same on - screen persona he's been giving us for the last decade or two, the other main actors get their chances to shine, especially an always fun Helen Mirren (Monsters University, Hitchcock) and John Malkovich, who know well enough to play to the audience that they know that the movie they're in is meant to be nothing but a hammy lark.

But there the quartet is, Boyle and the men who respectively played Renton, Sickboy and Spud (Robert Carlyle, the actor who gave life to the psychotic Begbie, is still back in the U.K. working), joking with each other as if the last 20 - plus years had never happened.

Harvey is an executive producer and he plays himself in talk show interviews sprinkled throughout, but Think Like a Man belongs to others as well, including Friends with Benefits writers Keith Merryman and David A. Newman, Barbershop director Tim Story, and a large, talented ensemble cast composed primarily of African - American actors.

The actor who played Iron Man, 53, revealed to Entertainment Weekly he, along with four others of the original six Avengers including Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Jeremy Renner and Chris Evans, got a sweet reminder of their time in the franchise and how's that for friendship goals?

Two other actors will portray «small Alison» and «medium Alison» (those parts are yet to be cast), revealing her relationship with her dad (played by Zubin Varla) and mother (Jenna Russell).

Apart from anything else, cis actors get an annoying «bravery» bonus from the other cis actors who vote on awards — just as able - bodied actors are rewarded for playing characters with disabilities, playing trans is seen as a demonstration of a cis actor's commitment to the craft.

Nowhere is this more clear than in the Best Actor category, which already seems to have congealed into a solid list of five extremely likely candidates with a number of others waiting in the wings to play the spoiler.

With actors like Plummer and McGregor playing off each other, I was psyched for something good.

If Owen is the standard to which all other performances must rise Foster proves to be the bare minimum you can get away with, playing a character so deeply rooted in some ethical and moral grey area you're not sure if she's being intentionally vague or if the actor ever believed in the part.

Co-written by estimable Frownland director Ronald Bronstein, it's inspired by the experiences of street kid Arielle Holmes, who plays a fictional version of herself alongside actor Caleb Landry Jones in what's described as «a tumultuous drama about a New York City couple battling addiction in the midst of a love affair»... And finally, the prize for oddest remake of the week: French thriller specialist Jean - François Richet is changing gear rather alarmingly with his, er, «reboot» is the word I'm looking for, of Claude Berri's 1977 comedy Un moment d'égarement, in which two fathers take their sexy adolescent daughters on vacation — and one of them is seduced by the other's jeune fille.

These changes in characters, along with a group of powerhouse actors to play them (Jack Lemmon, George C. Scott, Armin Mueller - Stahl, Tony Danza, Edward James Olmos, and others), allow the viewer to intimately know each of these twelve individuals — an amazing feat considering the size of the cast.

With two other projects in play this year as well, 2015 is quite possibly going to be the year of Gyllenhaal, so he's my early pick right now to take home Best Actor.

The first two acts of The Maze Runner play out exactly as you'd expect them to, with all of the various details and requisite dynamics sketched in through the thin characterizations of the group's leader Alby (Aml Ameen, who along with Sangster are the only actors who manage to escape this unscathed), the rote and relentlessly irritating (for no reason other than drama) group villain Gally (Will Poulter, whose acclaim and popularity continues to baffle me as he turns in another dreadful performance), the trite cliche of the young innocent Chuck (Blake Cooper) and so on.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

Other documentary finalists included «Quest,» which follows a black Philadelphia family over the course of a decade, and «Casting JonBenet,» an experimental look at the way a murder haunts the residents of Boulder, Colorado, unfolding through auditions with actors designed to play relatives of the victim.

Mendelsohn is perfectly cast (his terrific poker face makes it difficult for those he encounters to tell if his character is being straight with them) and he plays the character memorably (reeking of desperation and totally convinced his next bet will be the one that will make up for all of the others), which is why it's not surprising that he landed a best actor Spirit Award nom — and why one can't rule out the possibility that he will be a surprise Oscar nominee, as well.

Characters pop in and out of the story with little explanation; others yell and fight with each other for no reason; and Anna Paquin (who plays one of the most annoying film characters in recent memory) simply isn't a good enough actor to carry the whole thing on her shoulders.

Due mostly to the busy schedules of the actors during its production, the fourth season followed one character of the Bluth family for one episode with other members playing supporting or small -LSB-...]

The film maintains the original audio recordings with actors playing Hull and various other people in his life, occasionally lip - synching to the pre-existing audio.

At the recent press day, Tarantino and his actors talked about the advantages of shooting in 70 mm, how a Tarantino set differs from other movie sets, how Leigh and Russell played off each other while chained at the hip for 4-1/2 months, why Russell remained in character after his character met his demise, the decision to stay close to the script, Tarantino and Jackson's take on race relations in America, why a period film affords a filmmaker the opportunity to comment on the present in ways a present day film does not, what their filmmaking adventure was like for the veteran actors who have been with Tarantino from the beginning, and why Tarantino doesn't mind dancing on the edge of political correctness.

Bob Balaban — the only prominent American actor in the cast, who plays an American film producer — reportedly came up with the initial idea for the film, and most of the other forms of inspiration and discipline seem actor related as well.

The companies then moved on to other actors before circling back to Keaton, the actor who once played Bruce Wayne / Batman and then poked fun of his own image as an actor living in the shadow of a superhero role with his Oscar - nominated turn in Birdman.

With something like Churchill, you're not only playing arguably the greatest Briton that ever lived, to some, and this icon, but you are walking in the shoes of all the other great actors who have played him, and quite recently too.

There are other good performances: Barry Pepper as Jack's right - hand man Michael Scanlon; Jon Lovitz as a crooked Florida mattress salesman who joins forces with Jack; and the late Maury Chaykin, the great Canadian actor, who plays a mob kingpin and whose last screen appearance this is.

Other notable films that will screen at TIFF include Tom Ford «s «Nocturnal Animals,» with Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams; «Whiplash» director Damien Chazelle «s musical «La La Land,» with Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone; Peter Berg «s «Deepwater Horizon,» a true - life drama about the oil spill, starring Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell; Werner Herzog «s «Salt and Fire,» a drama in which Michael Shannon and Gael Garcia Bernal face ecological disaster in South America; Ewan McGregor «s Philip Roth adaptation «American Pastoral,» the actor's directorial debut; Denis Villeneuve «s sci - fi drama «Arrival,» formerly titled «Story of Your Life,» with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner; Juan Antonio Bayona «s «A Monster Calls»; «Denial,» Mick Jackson's drama starring Rachel Weisz as a historian sued by a Holocaust denier; Irish director Jim Sheridan «s «The Secret Scripture,» with Vanessa Redgrave and Rooney Mara playing two different ages of a woman who keeps a diary of her time in a mental hospital; and «Mascots,» Christopher Guest «s comedy about the world of sports mascots.

Although the three lead actors are all working under serious impediments — Travolta has been equipped with a singularly ridiculous soul patch and a Boston accent that runs the gamut from non-existent to «SNL» sketch broadness, oftentimes in the same scene, Plummer has a role that all but insists on being played in the hammiest manner imaginable and Sheridan (whose previous films have included such better projects as «The Tree of Life,» «Mud» and «Joe») is playing a contrivance instead of a character — they are not without a certain innate charm, and indeed, the best scenes here are the ones in which they are simply allowed to interact and bounce off of each other in a relaxed manner before having to return to the mechanics of the increasingly forced plot.

On the other hand, in the company of incandescent actresses such as Catherine Keener, Frances McDormand and Joan Cusack in «Friends With Money,» Aniston — ostensibly the biggest name in the cast — faded out, becoming blurry and indistinct almost like that actor played by Robin Williams in Woody Allen's «Deconstructing Harry.»

Director Trip Cullman has worked with young actors in plays like Punk Rock and Significant Other.

Jenny Agutter provides «Call the Midwife» with a solid center as the head of the order of nuns with whom the midwives live and work, and several other razor - sharp character actors fill out other roles extremely well, but Miranda Hart, who plays Chummy, walks off with the show.

Said Russian mole Rudolf Abel (played by renowned stage actor Mark Rylance) and Donovan start off as mutually uncomfortable with each other, the former out of incredulity and the latter out of fear.

The other actors all acquit themselves well enough with the exception of the actress playing the younger daughter.

After collecting trophies for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series and Best Television Series (both in the Musical or Comedy categories), the triple threat was met with questions from the press about his other major project — playing young Lando Calrissian in the upcoming Han Solo Star Wars anthology film.

In an interview with i09 published on Monday, the actor who plays Vision, Paul Bettany, revealed that the hero gets attacked early in the movie, and he flees to Wakanda with other Avengers not just for protection, but also for surgery.