Sentences with word «absurdist»

It's just that those moments are surrounded by the kind of absurdist comedy so typical of French filmmaking that so completely fails to capture my imagination.

Frog Fractions was, in some ways, an accident, a stream of consciousness slice of absurdist humor whose central design philosophy was whatever made Crawford laugh.

Laced with absurdist comedy and cogent social commentary, it's also quite...

I have to say arresting Gates for disorderly conduct was an exercise in absurdist literalism.

Birdman takes advantage of every facet of Keaton's talent, from his knack for absurdist comedy to his seemingly effortless ability to tap into graceful profundity without making a big show of it.

This comic take on «The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn» and «The Adventures of Tom Sawyer» is infused with a gleefully absurdist sense of humor while retaining a childlike sense of wonder.

The woman, a spinster in her forties with little hope of a lasting relationship with a man, certainly tries her best anyway, and in the hands of director and co-scripter Atsuko Hirayanagi in her freshman full - length feature which has been expanded from a 22 - minutes thesis short, we can accept that a movie starting as absurdist comedy turns to melodrama and even tragedy.

Written by Darko Macan and illustrated by Igor Kordey, the series offered an almost absurdist take on the superhero concept, with a never - more - powerful Cable struggling with his methods and motives while tracking a super-powered Russian peasant girl.

As the church model looms like the dollhouse in Tiny Alice, this ending seems to evoke absurdist drama.

There's An Axe In My Head» takes absurdist satire to the League of Nations in this board game of strategy, diplomacy and risk management!

It isn't as original as Jim Jarmusch's film, but shares a similarly absurdist view of the workings of fate.

The first American movie by absurdist Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, Dogtooth) sees him throwing the full weight of classical tragedy at a suburban family.

The writing also continues to be top - notch — from the sparkling dialogue, to the excellent character development, to the smartly plotted narrative that keeps you coming back for more — while the show's absurdist tone works even better in a period setting like the late 1970s.

Alma Leiva built absurdist play - scapes in small rooms that allude to violence against Central American immigrants for her «Celda» series.

Against a backdrop of ecological decline, this memoir / travelogue follows Dr. Falke (the narrator), Count Orlofsky, and Madame Lulu, three members of an itinerant theatrical troupe known as the Truppe Fledermaus, as they stage absurdist performances in various locations including Europe, England, America, and Japan.

But in a night filled with traditional, safe, punchlines from Fallon, the duo's brief detour into absurdist black comedy was probably the funniest moment of the whole show.

It's like an Owen Wilson rom - com, doused in David Lynch's bitter coffee and peppered with British absurdist humour.

Artists including Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Tacita Dean, and Sarah Lucas have wrestled with identity, sexuality, and mortality in their provocative and at times absurdist work.

Cantor's work often involves staging absurdist scenarios.

queries the heroine of his short absurdist film Tell, 2007 — 2008.

There is a series of absurdist video installations by Doncaster - born Nathaniel Mellors; meanwhile, Sheffield - based Haroon Mirza's sculptural installation causes a nine - carat gold nugget to leap in the air like a jumping bean according to the violence of the bass beats it is subjected to.

Former president of the Czech republic, anti-communist icon and absurdist playwright Vaclav Havel passed away this weekend at the age of 75.

Ganahl, who was wearing a Christmas - y red and green sweater vest over a checkered shirt, began by talking about Alfred Jarry, the French author whose absurdist theater piece Ubu Roi (1896) inspired his new work.

Influenced by absurdist theatre, in particular Samuel Beckett and the satire of 16th century French playwright Molière; Fitzpatrick has devised a short three - part play (the horse, the king and the nurse) considering transgression and rebellion.

Her conceptualist and absurdist sensibility treats the white cube as a staging ground in which her work stands at the intersection of language, objects and bodies in space.

Jeanine Oleson works with craft, performance, and video with absurdist twists that will make those who are paying attention laugh.

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It is precisely the sort of attitude that absurdist thrillers should be produced with; Salt and others should take note.

Gerard Byrne's photography and film works come together for a substantial retrospective at London's Whitechapel Gallery — head downstairs for a series of absurdist short films dramatising real conversations between cultural figures, from Surrealist artists to sci - fi writers (till 8 Mar).

This isn't a silly or absurdist movie, and all of the jokes are rooted in highly identifiable aspects of the nerd experience.

With Andrew Guenther's masterful absurdist style and approach to contemporary painting he constantly is pushing the envelope of our personal awareness and pokes at an uncomfortable yet profound awakening of the banal that makes everything real.

One of the biggest bones of contention about the film has always been in regards to the laughter that it does inspire throughout — is it a genuine example of wonderfully absurdist black humor, as its proponents suggest, or is it such a luridly overheated mess that it doesn't work as anything other than camp?

I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore has a violent streak in common with Blair's films with Saulnier, but a more absurdist comedy angle.

One of my favourite films of last year, Demon is a uniquely strange and disturbing film, mixing absurdist family comedy with the most terrifying of imagery, that shakes the viewer to the core.

Nancy Davidson's Dustup offers a humorous, absurdist critique of the American cowgirl as a spectacle to admire, a tall tale fantasy of western legend.

Margaret Lee places pieces of absurdist sculpture atop recognizable furniture, similarly altering the viewer's experience of an otherwise domestic scene.

This porcelain sculpture, titled First and Last Breath, presents a darkly absurdist commentary on environmental degradation.

The war in eastern Ukraine, a conflict that's been raging since 2014 between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian, Putin - backed separatists, is evoked as an anarchic and absurdist horror show in writer - director Sergei Loznitsa's powerful if ultimately enervating dramatic feature Donbass.

He does absurdist set - ups well, and his new film The Lobster is no different.

Feats of endurance, acts of absurdist wit, public actions confronting political repression, celebrations of the natural world, accidental moments of revelation.

The result is a surprisingly effective sequel that nearly matches the original for its blend of delightfully absurdist humor and satirical bite even while offering a narrative that is completely different from the film it follows.

«Alum creates absurdist video installation to covey love to cartoon.»

The Greek director, who took the Prix Un Certain Regard in Cannes for the film, would go on to further demonstrate his penchant for absurdist world - building in his 2015 English - language debut The Lobster.

With absurdist images and surrealist GIFs, the Berlin - based artist explores sexuality and female objectification using disembodied breasts.

She's at the center of this Jim Hosking's mondo absurdist tale of a woman named Lulu Danger searching for a «mysterious man from her past» (played by Craig Robinson) who is mounting a one - night - only theater piece called «An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn.»

Giddy with the same spirit of absurdist self - referentiality, Andrew Disney's daffy new comedy Balls Out receives that scene's lateral pass and runs with the ball.

MONTE HELLMAN By Chuck Stephens Monte Hellman has been the stuff of cinematic legend since 1966 when, under the aegis of scholckmeister - general Roger Corman, he and Jack Nicholson collaborated on a pair of utterly unprecedented absurdist westerns, The Shooting and Ride in the Whirlwind, completing both in a matter of days and forever changing the genre, not to mention the artistic parameters of no - budget, on - location filmmaking.