The response has been even greater than I'd expected," he says.. "But we're talking about great presentation of the highest calibre performances to a very cultured audience that now has the opportunity to see anything they want, live, a couple of blocks down the road from where they live, every other week.
What is incontestably real is Ms Portman's triumph in rising to the demands of the role, and the weird beauty of the film Mr Aronofsky has created to display her Oscar-calibre performance.In this section Caught in the net History of an unfinished fight Left out in the rain Piecing it together The king's shilling Inside moves Reprints.
Using arguably the greatest racing car of the late 1950s as its template, Lister retains the original machine's in-line six-cylinder engine, a reliable, 3.8-litre chunk of brimstone delivering Porsche 911-calibre performance (zero to 60mph in 4.3 seconds, 181mph top speed).
We still have high-calibre performances at the Playhouse, but when developing new audiences it's sometimes useful to give them a recognisable factor.
As a temperamental father looking for love, De Niro delivers a sharp turn in a film that is filled with awards-calibre performances.
Though there aren't any details yet on what part Carey will play on the Fox hip-hop drama, I'm just hoping the calibre of her performance will be more Butler than Glitter.
Even at the age of 40 there is a feeling Giggs's retirement has come too soon, given the calibre of his performances at Bayer Leverkusen and in the Champions League comeback against Olympiakos this past season.
It says something about the calibre of Kline's performance that, even in this farcical setup, as Cyrano and Roxane grasp each other's hands in the dark, our laughter freezes in our throats and is replaced by tears.
Can any artistic or creative performance of this calibre be adequately explained by "procedural memory"?
More remarkable, though, than either performance is the calibre of audience contributions.
Only a side which bonded tighter than any of its recent predecessors could have produced a performance of this calibre at the end of an achingly long season with a host of first-choice players missing.
