Sentences with phrase «absurdist humor»

He's making art that expands into existential paradox, much like Richard Prince's unfunny jokes (for me, his best work) that have a broader, more melancholy and absurdist humor.

Some of Mr. DiCillo's surrealist - style sculptures and collages made from found objects explore issues of contemporary politics, while others are fused with absurdist humor.

Mischievous absurdist humor runs against more traditional absolutist readings.

Exploring the intersectionalities common to their artistic practices and themes of vulnerability, intimacy, relationality, nostalgia, memory, disruption, determination, absurdist humor, and hope.

Dine renders perfunctory objects like a paint brush with all the seriousness of an historical painter, and adorns gestural fields of color with household objects, introducing an absurdist humor to the work.

Keith Sklar's drawings and paintings are densely packed with cultural references, absurdist humor, and pathos.

This mix of dread and absurdist humor provides an appropriate framework for viewing Alex Da Corte's immersive theatrical installation A Season in He'll at Art + Practice.

Ragnar Kjartansson's work is always laced with absurdist humor and often animated by live musicians.

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.

Many acclaimed graphic novels followed, establishing Brown as both a hyper - sensitive chronicler of bittersweet romance (Unlikely, Any Easy Intimacy) and a deadpan master of absurdist humor (Incredible Change - Bots, Sulk, I Am Going to Be Small).

This pair of preposterously silly books about an armored cat and a spoon - obsessed monkey who take on a drooling dragon has exactly the sort of absurdist humor that appeals to the early - reader age group.

- Booklist «Fforde (One of Our Thursdays is Missing) continues to show that his forte is absurdist humor in his seventh crime thriller starring Thursday Next, a member of the Literary Detectives division of Special Operations in an alternate - universe Britain.»

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.

Release: Friday, August 15, 2015 (limited)[Netflix] Written by: James C. Strouse Directed by: James C. Strouse Bittersweet comedy features Jemaine Clement calibrating his typical absurdist humor t...

His 2009 film Dogtooth, which earned him international acclaim, contained a dizzying array of absurdist humor and uncomfortable family dynamics watching three children confined to their wealthy home by over controlling parents.

The film, which mixes both broad and absurdist humor with melancholy and even depressing themes, has some issues, but in the end it's an iconoclastic piece and a worthwhile character study.

The end product, though, puts that skepticism to bed for 100 minutes of unbridled imagination, absurdist humor, pointed satire about consumerist culture, technical proficiency, and an attitude of «Anything goes.»

Centering on the titular folk singer (Oscar Isaac), a slightly feckless drifter trying to carve out a solo career after the suicide of his double - act partner, it's perhaps closest in tone to «Barton Fink» and «A Serious Man,» but with the near - musical element of «O Brother Where Art Thou» and some typically sharp, borderline absurdist humor.

Bittersweet comedy features Jemaine Clement calibrating his typical absurdist humor to bring warmth and tenderness to a story that both pleases and frustrates in almost equal measure.

WILD AT HEART (1990) Fri, May 26, 10:00 p.m.; Sun, May 28, 9:00 p.m.; Wed, May 31, 9:35 p.m.; Thurs, June 1, 9:00 p.m. Absurdist humor punctuates this thriller cum road movie cum love story cum perverse homage to THE WIZARD OF OZ.

Imbuing the film with his trademark tense atmosphere, mood - breaking absurdist humor, and taut suspense thriller flair, the South Korean auteur broke out globally in a huge way and revitalized the prosaic genre.

Each of these films, in its own way, bears the unmistakable imprint of its director, whether the exploration of identity and representation in «Black Panther,» the genre sleight - of - hand in «Last Jedi,» the liberating optimism of «Wonder Woman,» the absurdist humor of «Ragnarok» or the intense character drama of «Logan.»

Lafleur combines those influences and numerous others into his unique sensibility, though, juxtaposing dreamlike interludes with absurdist humor.

Again, what impresses is the smoothness of the tonal shifts, combining a menacing crime story with absurdist humor.

Voice actors as varied as Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson, and Charlie Day all seem to be actually enjoying themselves, and Lord and Miller's signature absurdist humor allows for jokes ridiculous (Day repeatedly screaming, «Spaceship!»)

Critics Consensus: Its efforts to earn laughs can be as ungainly as its title, but for viewers in tune with its absurdist humor, The 100 - Year - Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared offers much to recommend.

That's how absurdist humor works.

Not exact matches

Although the film wears its utopian ideals on its sleeve, helmer Nitin Kakkar leavens the political content with an absurdist sense of humor and a heartwarming turn of events

It should be no surprise that Nerdland comes from Chris Prynoski (Metalocalypse, Motorcity), veteran of the late night Cartoon Network universe, where absurdist and divisive humor has thrived for the past couple decades.

King's humor and absurdist instincts are winning, from a Mr. Bean - by - way - of - digital - effects scene that finds Paddington taking a disastrous part - time job as a barber's assistant to the various shenanigans of the villain, Buchanan, who scours the city for treasure disguised in his old theater costumes, leading Paddington's friends to pin the crimes on a purported gang that includes a nun, a medieval knight, and the Great Expectations character Abel Magwitch.

Shot on a minimal budget, with a production design that favors ingenuity and creativity and a cast that includes such major European actors as Geraldine Chaplin, Mathieu Amalric, Udo Kier, and recent Oscar nominee Charlotte Rampling (some of them in multiple roles), it has a whimsical, absurdist sense of humor.

They never got much recognition, but they had this great absurdist and sort of bizarre humor.

It is infused with much the same kind of twisted humor that can be found in some of their other absurdist tales, like The Big Lebowski, O Brother, and even Fargo and Raising Arizona.

Though it doesn't rake in as many awards as the former, Mike Judge's absurdist comedy series is a clever blend of lowbrow and highbrow humor that doesn't hold back in its skewering of the tech world.

THE GREASY STRANGLER USA — Dir: Jim Hosking The feature debut of absurdist advertising genius / acclaimed short filmmaker Jim Hosking is the grossest father - son comedy you'll ever see and the weirdest serial killer film on the planet, propelled by an in - your - face drive to baffle, nauseate, and antagonize with its bizarre brand of humor.

From 1983 to 1990, Wallace was part of the collaborative team Wallace & Donohue, which created work that is highly theatrical and self - aware, employing language, an absurdist sense of humor, and various devices — rotating and sliding panels, track lighting, a surveillance camera — to interrupt the otherwise passive act of looking.

And while the exhibition will indeed be imbued with plenty of cats, along with Auerbach's absurdist, deadpan humor, it will also provide a showcase for the more serious aspects of her work.

Wilson's graphic fluency and absurdist sense of humor (one piece features typewriter keys floating like water lilies, another pairs two gramophone horns blasting particles at each other) recall the 1970s paintings of Philip Guston, whose figural motifs flowed with a prolificacy and naturalness verging on the speed of thought.

As Judith Stein notes, «At times Grooms's humor has an absurdist streak, full of the impetuous energy and preposterous puns of the Marx Brothers.