Sentence examples for a screen performance from inspiring English sources

In 1951 no one had seen a screen performance quite like Brando's in A Streetcar Named Desire: as Stanley Kowalski, his sweat-stained sexuality and method mumbling announced a new generation of Hollywood leading man.

This result corresponds to a screening performance of over 1.6M fingerprints per second.

"It is a great screen performance, as good as the best of Marlon Brando and Sean Penn".

Mr. Reynor's portrayal of this man-child is an extraordinary screen performance in which his face registers all the conflicting emotions gripping Richard.

In A Man For All Seasons (1966), his genius was in redefining More in a perfectly nuanced screen performance.

Channeling the rambunctious spirit of the Puerto Rican playwright, poet and actor Miguel Piñero, whose prison drama "Short Eyes" created a sensation in the early 1970's, Mr. Bratt turns in a tour-de-force screen performance reminiscent of Dustin Hoffman's Lenny Bruce.

Ms. Rampling's greatest screen performance, a clip from which is included in "The Look," may be her portrayal of Ellen, an unmarried New England professor of French literature in Laurent Cantet's "Heading South".

But in the end it all comes down to the actress, who seems, before our eyes, to be participating in the invention of a new kind of screen performance.

PLUSES -- Ben Kingsley gives his greatest screen performance as a proud Iranian immigrant desperately grabbing at a slice of the American dream.

Beginning with his first credited screen performance, as a Cheyenne warrior in Cecil B. DeMille's "Plainsman" in 1936, he became Hollywood's all-purpose ethnic.

His last big screen performance, as a mob boss in the Tom Hanks' film Road to Perdition, was suited to his talents.