Sentences with phrase «as deadpan»

Her photo - text piece — The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems ‖ (Dec. 1974 — Jan. 1975), currently on display at the Lethaby Gallery in Central Saint Martins, wrestles with issues of representation and serves as a deadpan expression of her disappointment and frustration with mainstream humanist documentary.

Delivering lines as deadpan as you can imagine, she is fully committed to bringing this world to life.

(There's a Keatonesque boat that sets sail with a similar comically pure, precise and idealized motion that I can only describe as deadpan.

Only music superstar John's catalogue of hostage sighs and profane outbursts, which practically count as deadpan humor here, come closest to possibly mirroring how the audience might feel at any given moment.

Though many know him as the deadpan comedy star, Vince Vaughn has also conquered dramatic roles.

Hrant Alianak deftly steals every one of his scenes as a deadpan academic who deciphers this verbally induced plague with a priceless air of emotional immunity.

Even the small roles are affectionately written and acted, from True Blood «s Fiona Shaw as deadpan spy boss Carolyn to Penny Dreadful «s David Haig as Eve's hapless superior Bill.

(For those who recall Depp in Jim Jarmusch's 1995 neo-Western Dead Man, this is essentially a role reversal, with him taking on the Gary Farmer part as a deadpan Native American sidekick to a clueless white man.)

Burge characterizes Marty as a deadpan loser, a lower class user trying to milk the system to continue fostering his unimpressive existence.

As the deadpan title announces, Western is a film about the tension between colonizers and natives.

Even the most banal dialogue is designed to be read as deadpan.

The mood that Athina Rachel Tsangari evokes in Attenberg is as deadpan as the films of countryman / collaborator, Yorgos Lanthimos, but with sincere emotional motivation dialled up to a discernible level.

For her performance as the deadpan employee, she received universal praise throughout the entire show, being referred to as one of the show's breakout character.

The tone is as deadpan as Plaza's demeanor, but just as rich, in a script that bubbles with wit as well as profanity.

The dry script, co-written by Emma Thompson, who also features as the deadpan gynaecologist, drains the film of what little potential there might have been for frothy comedy.

The film is split down the middle, with many elegant symmetries and curling plotlines bridging the two halves: one part is a bracing, funny, almost Keaton-esque comedy starring Harry as a deadpan center of disaster; the other is a brooding, brutal film noir, starring Sondra Locke as a vengeful femme fatale.

Not exact matches

«This is pioneering content,» deadpanned Chris Sacca, a noted investor in Twitter (which owns Periscope), as Professor Fuzzlepants snacked on hay, planted firmly in the «Study» section.

«It came to me as a drawing,» Dermer explains, his thick eyebrows arching like Slinkys, lending him an air of mischievousness — the kind of guy who is incapable of playing deadpan while stalking his next whoopee cushion victim.

Rubin delivered a deadpan sense of humor as a mainstay of Herald Sports from 1976 to 2002.

She was memorable in early roles on Funny People and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, two films stuffed with memorable actors, but Parks and Rec — no slouch in the memorable cast department itself — is where she made a name for herself as an unparalleled master of deadpan delivery.

Whether fighting rampaging zombies in Zombieland or teenage ennui in Adventureland, Jesse Eisenberg broke out big in 2009 as a young star with a unique mix of deadpan wit and...

«When I announced yesterday that I'm running for governor, one of Cuomo's top surrogates dismissed me as an «unqualified lesbian,»» the «Sex and the City» actress Nixon deadpanned to supporters during a campaign launch party at the Stonewall Inn.

Many of the xtranormal videos that have caught on with a big audience have followed a similar formula as this one: the jokes that work tend to be those whose humor relies on repetition and deadpan delivery, since characters say the same lines exactly the same way every time.

Cuomo, as you can hear, got a laugh when he deadpanned: «OK.

And they laughed along as Zemsky deadpanned about almost missing the Dec. 8 ceremony because, waking up in his Buffalo home, he called an Uber.

Asked about his goals and dreams for The Monti, Polish deadpans, «world domination,» adding, «I do want to be recognized nationally... as an organization that does something that is important, interesting, entertaining, and provocative.»

The audience laughed at that — and also as he recounted his mother's deadpan response when he asked her how she wound up with six children, all but two of whom have different fathers: «It was the 1960s and people were having a lot of sex.»

As before, she wears a long lab coat and a deadpan expression.

At once profoundly dignified, as birds of such ancient lineage should be, they are at the same time masters of deadpan clowning, particularly when two or three birds contend for the same fish.

And finally, if you are counting calories, you don't necessarily have to be deadpan accurate with it (which is impossible anyway)-- as long as you're close enough, like 10 - 15 % within the truth, that's good enough to facilitate long run progress, especially if by doing so you make the process easier and thus more sustainable.

As always, there are many laughs to be had in the characters» deadpan delivery of strange, intentionally stilted dialogue, as well as in the understated and decidedly non-wacky physical comedAs always, there are many laughs to be had in the characters» deadpan delivery of strange, intentionally stilted dialogue, as well as in the understated and decidedly non-wacky physical comedas well as in the understated and decidedly non-wacky physical comedas in the understated and decidedly non-wacky physical comedy.

And his sidekick is so damn deadpan, it feels as if Johansson is just plain bored.

Deadpan, the film allows us to register the difference between T'Challa and Erik as an African and an African American — Erik being burdened by the traumas and injustices of American history in a way T'Challa is not.

The actress's combination of deadpan comic timing and undeniable beauty made her an instant hot property in Hollywood, and she was soon appearing in comic fare like The House Bunny and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, as well as the hugely successful horror comedy Zombieland (2009).

Mr. Warburton is his usual deadpan self as Mike, which makes him seem decidedly out of place in this household, where everyone else is over-energized and overacting.

Jennifer Jason Leigh, as psychologist Dr. Ventress, seems to be aging into a Clint Eastwood type: She's so deadpan, she barely opens her mouth.

As a sign of how well Daley and Goldstein have cast the film, there's an early scene featuring a deadpan Camille Chen as a fertility doctor, whose backhand insults and dives into inappropriate personal matters almost go past our noticAs a sign of how well Daley and Goldstein have cast the film, there's an early scene featuring a deadpan Camille Chen as a fertility doctor, whose backhand insults and dives into inappropriate personal matters almost go past our noticas a fertility doctor, whose backhand insults and dives into inappropriate personal matters almost go past our notice.

The lonely Wiseau (Franco, as in James, in full deadpan squint) may have suffered an unrequited man - crush on the handsome Sestero, as the film suggests, but it's possible that deep down the mystery man's heart secretly belonged to Dada.

The deadpan Galifianakis emerges as the movie's biggest scene - stealer, playing a creepy, childlike outsider who will do anything to be accepted.

The first half hour is an excellent, deadpan comedy of alienation that feels like a 21st century riff on THE GRADUATE; momentum slowly fades away as the script yields originality to the conventions of the romantic comedy genre.

Her work in Hartley's films established the blonde, strong - jawed actress as a solid talent with a proclivity for deadpan humor, something she has also exhibited in a variety of film, television, and stage productions including Tom Noonan's What Happened Was..., a darkly humorous date movie that earned Sillas particular praise.A native of Brooklyn, where she was born June 5, 1965, Sillas studied at the acting conservatory at the State University of New York at Purchase.

In some ways, Lucy represents the point at which both roles converge, and Johansson has the unusually difficult job here of subtly conveying her character's observations, reactions and eventual epiphanies in a mostly deadpan, flattened - out register that becomes only more subdued as the film progresses.

As Lucille, in her restrictive gowns and with her deader than deadpan voice tone, Chastain sinks her teeth into the considerable scenery.

As Beth, we see her stretching in both directions, deadpanning («What do you want from me, Zach?

Among the major players, though, the perpetually fabulous Judy Greer — as Wilson's dogsitter — has the most natural affinity for Clowes» deadpan sensibility.

Hamer's penchant for deadpan humor is on full display as the scientists share their peculiar slice of reality, exchanging jargon - heavy banter and intermittently appearing bored out of their minds.

Yorgos Lanthimos's freeze - dried revenge saga casts Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman as a moneyed married couple who find themselves targeted by a supernatural teenager (Barry Keoghan), while the tale slaloms from deadpan black comedy through Cape Fear - ish thrills towards a finale of such matter - of - fact horror that it can only be watched through splayed fingers.

There are also perfect miniature performances from Mason Gamble as Max's chapel partner (for a child actor, he deadpans lines like «with friends like you, who needs friends?»

His longing pre-fight ode to peanut butter - chocolate ice cream — «You can get it at Wal - Mart,» he deadpans — is, in its way, as revealing about the suffering athlete as anything in Black Swan, not to snark too much on Darren Aronofsky, whose recent films till similar ground.

Wilson has been turning up in too many movies as the charming, deadpan co-star for us to be charmed anymore, while Murphy must play something other than that smart - aleck motor - mouth character if he has to be funny again.