Sentences with phrase «black comedy directed»

Chop, the black comedy directed by Deadgirl and Cheap Thrills screenwriter Trent Haaga, is finally coming to the UK, four years after it made its debut courtesy of Bloody Disgusting and The Collective.

Sir Ben Kingsley plays a hitman who reluctantly joins Alcoholics Anonymous in You Kill Me, a black comedy directed by John Dahl (Joyride, The Last Seduction).

Roadside Attraction's opening of «The Party,» a British black comedy directed by Sally Potter, earned $ 36,334 on three screens during Friday - Sunday.

Not exact matches

Or when Donald Glover became the first black person to win an Emmy for directing a comedy.

The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 American biographical black comedy crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Terence Winter, based on the The Occupy movement is an international socio - political movement against social and economic inequality and the lack of real democracy around the world.

Some employees of an international arms dealer go out into the Hungarian wildeness for a weekend company retreat, only to find themselves menaced by a group of militants who don't like having them around their territory in this modestly budgeted dark comedy / horror film from Christopher Smith, who also directed Black Death (with Sean Bean).

Dobkin (who previously directed the black comedy «Clay Pigeons,» as well as the absurdly delightful «Shanghai Knights») doesn't make the mistake of trying to ease us into comedy mode; he pitches us into it head - first, which is a lot more fun.

Valletta's roles — given the actress» off - camera motherhood and intermittent magazine work — accumulated slowly over the next several years (in films such as the Nicolas Cage holiday vehicle The Family Man and the Danny DeVito - directed black comedy Duplex); as a result, Valletta only ascended gradually to top billing.

If Pedro Almodóvar, especially in his early days, had directed this film, he might have brought out the black comedy inherent in the piece, which would have made both the blackness and the comedy more fully resonate.

Reiner's later directing assignments included The Comic (1967), a bittersweet farce based on the lives of Stan Laurel, Harry Langdon, and Buster Keaton; the black comedy cult favorite Where's Poppa?

Prior to that, he produced and starred in Phil Morrison's black comedy ALL IS BRIGHT alongside Paul Rudd and lent his vocal talents to the English - language version of the Oscar - nominated French animated feature, ERNEST & CELESTINE, and the highly anticipated feature - film adaptation of THE LITTLE PRINCE, directed by Mark Osborne.

A would - be black comedy written by Tracy Letts, based on his play, and directed by 76 - year - old William Friedkin, who has done little of note since he made «The French Connection» and «The Exorcist» during the Nixon administration, the movie stars Emile Hirsch as a low - level drug dealer who decides to kill his mom to pay off his superiors.

Written and directed by actress Adrienne Shelly, who also has a bit part in this film, I»LL TAKE YOU THERE is an offbeat black comedy that has many bits and pieces that make it worth watching, but as a whole isn't quite substantial enough to remember long afterwards.

Sestero starred in the Tommy Wiseau - directed THE ROOM, a «so - bad - its - good» black comedy, given a measly 3.4 on IMDb.

Opening in UK cinemas this week is the superb The Nice Guys, the Shane Black directed action comedy starring Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling and...

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

White most recently co-created, wrote and directed the HBO series «Enlightened,» starring Laura Dern, and wrote the comedies «Year of the Dog,» starring Molly Shannon and John C. Reilly; «The Good Girl,» starring Jennifer Aniston; and «Nacho Libre,» starring Jack Black.

This one, a kind of horrific black comedy of vengeance, directed and co-written by Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster), may not be exactly groundbreaking or original either, but at least it's done with high style, technical mastery and a singular, highly idiosyncratic vision.

WHY: Phil Morrison is perhaps best known for directing the Oscar - nominated film «Junebug,» but any promise that he may have showcased with that movie has likely already been forgotten about between his little - seen follow - up «Perfect Partner» and this joyless black comedy.

Red Christmas is both written and directed by Australian actor - filmmaker Craig Anderson, making his feature directorial debut after numerous short films and TV work including «Double the Fist», «Black Comedy», and «How Not to Behave».

The best of Guinness» comedies, it's directed by Ealing studio's most deft director, Alexander Mackendrick, as is The Ladykillers (1955), the blackest of Ealing's black comedies.

The black comedy anthology «Wild Tales,» written and directed by Argentine Damian Szifron, won for non-English language film.

Badged up, with half a cup of coffee in me and the printed press screening guide — rendered mostly useless by a dozen last - minute schedule changes — stuffed into my backpack, I head into my first screening of the day: The Lesson, a contrived, slightly smug little Bulgarian number lightened by fitful bursts of suspense and black comedy, and directed in the kind of serioso handheld style that is traditionally associated with the Dardenne brothers, because they're the only ones who know how to pull it off.

Written and directed by Martin McDonagh, this is a razor - sharp and black as tar comedy of grief, bitterness and anger and their consequences when given free rein.

Over in Comedy, Modern Family held off newcomer Orange is the New Black in all of the major categories they competed against each other last night, namely Comedy Series and Directing.

Shane Black is a terrific comedy director and has proven to incorporate the perfect amount in each of his films whether written or directed.

Some of the biggest black entertainers in comedy today who aren't Tyler Perry come together in Death at a Funeral, which African - Americanizes a 2007 British film directed by Frank Oz.

As we know, the British do stiff upper lip period drama awfully well, so it comes as something of surprise to discover that The Imitation Game has been directed by Morten Tyldum, the Norwegian who gave us the bloodsoaked black comedy Headhunters.

Jodie Foster directs and co-stars in The Beaver, a black comedy that's solid but never too profound.

Best Directing of an Episode of a Comedy Series «Beach House,» Girls (Jesse Peretz) «Elevator, Part 6,» Louie (Louis C.K.) «Geographical Escapism,» Community «Lesbian Request Denied,» Orange is the New Black (Jodie Foster) «Looking for the Future,» Looking (Andrew Haigh)

A black comedy about a man who dreams of being a reality tv contestant, the French / Italian co-production Reality (directed by Matteo Garrone) has attracted rave reviews at a lot of 2012's film festivals, including a Grand Prix win at Cannes, though it's yet to see a wide release in English - speaking territories.

The ever - diverse David Gordon Green directs, so expect plenty of black comedy in with the banana - republican satire.

They just produced together I, Tonya, the Craig Gillespie - directed black comedy about the rise and fall of Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding that will be released next month by 30WEST and NEON after becoming the biggest sale at the Toronto Film Festival.

The black comedy crime film directed, written and produced by the siblings won Joel the Best Director Award for the festival.

A would - be «black comedy,» directed and co-written by George Clooney, Suburbicon is set in 1959 in a bland suburban community.

We recently learned that Pineapple Express and Your Highness director David Gordon Green would write and direct a new pilot called Black Jack for Comedy Central.

Alice Lowe (Prevenge) Veteran writer and comedy performer Alice Lowe - you know her from Sightseers - made her feature directing debut with pitch black and blood drenched comedy Prevenge, the tale of an expectant mother driven to murder by her unborn child.

Jeff Wadlow (Kick - Ass 2) will direct the action - comedy from a Black List script by Jeff Morris (Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever).

«Meet the Blacks» was directed by Deon Taylor, who also produced the horror comedy spoof and co-wrote the script with Nicole DeMasi.

Written and directed by Sally Potter, it's a spiky piece of filmed theatre, an acid drawing - room comedy, shot in expressionistic black - and - white and performed with zeal by its ensemble cast.

«Mr. Roosevelt»: Noël Wells wrote, directed and stars in this independent comedy that won the Narrative Spotlight Audience Award and the Louis Black Lone Star Award at South by Southwest last year.

Cleverly written by the Coen Brothers (in «Blood Simple» mode), George Clooney and his writing / producing partner Grant Heslov and directed with a keen eye by Clooney, «Suburbicon» is a black comedy with a message attached.

As «Black Panther» racks up the box office over many weeks, it could even top the biggest film ever by a black director: The 1980 comedy «Stir Crazy,» directed by Sidney Poitier, grossed $ 345.7 million domestically when adjusting for inflaBlack Panther» racks up the box office over many weeks, it could even top the biggest film ever by a black director: The 1980 comedy «Stir Crazy,» directed by Sidney Poitier, grossed $ 345.7 million domestically when adjusting for inflablack director: The 1980 comedy «Stir Crazy,» directed by Sidney Poitier, grossed $ 345.7 million domestically when adjusting for inflation.

«SHALLOW HAL» In this comedy from Bobby and Peter Farrelly, the ultimate shallow guy (Jack Black) is hypnotized by a self - help guru (Tony Robbins) and directed to see women's inner beauty.

The Joel Ashton McCarthy - directed short is a pitch - black comedy about Vivian (Alex Duncan), a lonely serial killer whose three loves in life are math, accounting, and killing random people.

Starrbury broke through with his Black Listed script «Watch Roger Do His Thing,» about a retired hitman, and after that, penned a Comedy Central pilot called «Black Jack,» which starred Ving Rhames, and was directed by David Gordon Green, and yet somehow failed to get picked up (we'd give our left arm to see that one...), while a half - hour comedy for ABC produced by Peter Tolan («Rescue Me «-RRB- also failed to proComedy Central pilot called «Black Jack,» which starred Ving Rhames, and was directed by David Gordon Green, and yet somehow failed to get picked up (we'd give our left arm to see that one...), while a half - hour comedy for ABC produced by Peter Tolan («Rescue Me «-RRB- also failed to procomedy for ABC produced by Peter Tolan («Rescue Me «-RRB- also failed to progress.

Much like the late author, Robinson first drew acclaim with a black comedy that he scripted and directed entitled «Withnail and I.» After the debut, he became tired of the restrictive practices in Hollywood, such as producers either refusing to fund his works or drastically altering them, eventually succumbing to heavy drinking and falling into a heavy depression, becoming «unavailable by choice.»

They then tapped Nanjiani's friend and collaborator Michael Showalter to direct (his «Michael & Michael Have Issues» with Michael Ian Black on Comedy Central marked Nanjiani's first TV writing and acting gig in 2009) and cast Zoe Kazan to play Gordon, Ray Romano and Holly Hunter to play her parents, and Bollywood star Anupam Kher to play his father.

Bill Skarsgard (It) and Maika Monroe (It Follows) have signed on for leads roles in the upcoming dark comedy thriller Villains, which is being directed by Dan Berk and Robert Olsen (The Stakelander) from their 2016 Black List script.

It's an apt comparison for this a pitch - black, neo-noir comedy written, co-produced and directed by Martin McDonagh (acclaimed playwright and writer / director of 2008's «In Bruges»).