Sentences with phrase «between deadpan»

The abstract gestures in Kissick's latest renderings drift in the space between the deadpan and the ironic, while remaining committed to the sheer materiality of paintings as objects.

With clear references to folk painting, the lack of context and disjoint between the deadpan emotion and activity also evoke Surrealist work.

Not exact matches

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.

Maquiling creates an unusual and intriguing tone somewhere between sharp, deadpan comedy and a soft, dreamy surrealism.

A political fairy tale that exists somewhere between the reality of contemporary France and the classic cinema of Jean - Pierre Melville and Marcel Carné, Le Havre is a charming, deadpan delight.

It's a performance full of deadpan non-sequiturs like that one, and Scott nails them, walking a delicate line between innocence and idiocy.

Shooting the movie as if it were a mix between sincere drama and gothic horror, Jensen finds just the right deadpan tone to deliver his sicko lunacy and also grounds things enough to sneak in some moving drama towards the end.

Director Nick Park brings a love of heist flicks and Alfred Hitchcock thrillers to this tale of a deadpan penguin who drives a wedge between man and dog as part of a nefarious plot that includes a robotic pair of pants and the most hilariously peculiar train chase in movie history.

The quiet, subdued performances by the eternally deadpan Bill Murray and unsuspectingly versatile Scarlett Johansson make for convincing chemistry between the two as they explore an indefinable friendship.

The key to appreciating any Wes Anderson film (memorable efforts as «Rushmore,» «The Royal Tenenbaums»), is to have the ability to either pick up on his clipped and funny dialogue (usually voiced by actors in a totally serious deadpan monotone), or somehow connect with his goofy situations and quirky characters that slip between incredibly believable and ridiculously surreal.

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

Another meticulously stylish and deadpan Wes Anderson movie that walks the fine line between masterpiece and folly.

or a deadpan - serious discussion between who can run the fastest, between an out - of - shape college professor and a guy with an arrow lodged in his back.

The training scenes are played for laughs — especially the gruff deadpan humor of Tommy Lee Jones as Col. Chester Phillips (a Men in Black - style role he could play in his sleep) and the flirtations between Rogers and his comely British superior Peggy Carter (buxom caricature Hayley Atwell).

There are plenty of funny exchanges between the two, such as when Kratos deadpans, «A soldier only sees beauty in the blood of his enemy.»

After recently seeing the film The Lobster with Colin Farrell in, the similarities in tone between Jim's deadpan voiceover here and the film's own is frightfully uncanny.

With Automobile Tire Print, Rauschenberg picked up a trace of the city streets in another way, creating an artwork that strikes an irreverent balance between abstract gesture and deadpan humor.

Without irony, but with a deadpan «directness that suggested innocence», he depicted the bomber as though flying through the flak of a consumer society, questioning the «collusion between the Vietnam death machine, consumerism, the media, and advertising.»

Typical to a point, the bride steps out of character with an odd sideways look, characterized by a deadpan stare that lies somewhere between resignation and a scowl that would prevent a pick - up line from ever leaving the safety of a suitor's lips, and, worse, chill the will of a nervous groom.

Seen from afar they read loosely as geometric abstractions, residing formally somewhere between Mary Heilmann's deadpan blocks of color and connective tissue, and brightly patterned, mid-20th century Naugahyde upholstery.

Earl A. Powell III, director of the National Gallery of Art notes, «With his unique combination of technical invention, deadpan humor, and cultural daring, Roy Lichtenstein moved the line between commercial and fine art and changed the way we look at our world.