Sentences with phrase «black satire»

BY STAFF The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival has announced Chris Morris» pitch - black satire Four Lions as its Closing Night film, to play on Saturday, March 20 at the Paramount Theatre in Austin, Texas.

I mean, to think that a movie like Get Out — not only a genre movie, not only a February release, but an excoriatingly political and inescapably black satire, to boot — is being talked about as an Oscar front - runner... That's wild to me.

Black satire, odd magical realism — it's really a delight, all the way through.

Still, consider the plea of this penny stock of a blurb: this is Scorsese's greatest in nearly twenty - five years, from Leonardo DiCaprio's career - best work to the masterful way the pitch - black satire both entertains us and makes us hurt.

A graduate of the Tuskegee Institute, Wayans entered the comic arena in the mid -»80s by stepping up to the mike and honing his stand - up act, but he later branched out into movies, by scripting the low - budget black satire Hollywood Shuffle (1987) and the aptly - titled comedy vehicle Eddie Murphy: Raw (1987), both for director pal Robert Townsend.

The film most like it from that year is David Fincher's Fight Club, in that both aspire to be plangent black satires but ultimately end on flaccid off - notes: the one with the idea of an organized posse of anarchists destroying our financial infrastructure, the other with a homophobic Republican gunning down gay Best Actor winner Kevin Spacey in his last role as accidental Christ before he took on the crown and sandals permanently and on purpose.

Not exact matches

The variety of voices is heightened by the different dialogue styles Paton uses: the lyric, almost biblical way he renders the Zulu dialect; the cliché - ridden language of the commercially oriented, English - speaking community; the chanting rhythms and repetition of the native «chorus»; the clear, logical, terse style of the educated black priest who helps Kumalo find Absalom; the cynical, humorous tone of chapter 23, a satire on justice.

Woza Albert, written and presented by two spectacularly energetic young black Africans, is a dazzling set of skits and mime that works off the single premise of Christ staging his Second Coming in South Africa; it is comic apocalyptic that sizzles with satire.

It was an experiment in writing «A Clockwork Orange» - style black comedy and was intended to be a dark satire on the loneliness and frustration that is so often a part of the contemporary male experience, as well as an attack on rape culture.

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He's working in the vein of early Spike Lee, or of Robert Townsend, whose 1987 satire Hollywood Shuffle seemed to herald a new path forward for black filmmakers.

That set - up never blossoms into the pungent satire it wants to be, however, because the black hats and white hats have been so obviously delineated that any social commentary becomes utterly blunted.

Spike Lee's sharp, riotous satire, from 2000, zeroes in on the grotesque misrepresentation of blacks in American media - and their underrepresentation in the corporate offices that control it.

A satire of network television's pitfalls and prejudices, a peek into the way blacks have been represented historically in the media, and the ways in which they have sought to redress the cultural balance (there's a neat look at an extremist hip - hop collective)- it's certainly the nucleus for a meaty and much needed discourse.

It could be [Lubitsch's] finest achievement, and it's certainly one of the most profound, emotionally complex comedies ever made, covering a range of tones from satire to slapstick to shocking black humor.

In addition to directing the George Clooney headlined social satire / thriller Money Monster, Foster has called the shots on episodes of Netflix series House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, and Black Mirror over that period of time.

What clinched the verdict was the social satire subtly packaged into the story: It is a black man who moves in with his girlfriend's mysterious family, and it is race that drives an apparent disparity of power between him and the white family.

This portrayal of the fictional black Louis Lester Band in aristocratic Britain is loosely based on the experiences of the real - life Duke Ellington Band, spiced up with mystery, music, and social satire.

A «Battle Royale» towards the end of the film features a tall black wrestler named «Snowflake» and a Chinese guy named «El Chino» — satire, if you want to call it that, of either the lubricated showiness of pro wrestling or the callow stupidity of the audience for the same.

Every bit as much a satire as it is a drearily honest and sobering look at our country's broken healthcare system, «Getting On» makes the typical black comedy seem lighthearted in comparison.

But that's just how good Jordan Peele's directing debut is, a thoughtful satire on race relations about a young black man who discovers things aren't what they seem when he visits his white girlfriend's family in the country.

In other hands, a zombie movie is just a zombie movie, but Land of the Dead, a horror film laced with rife with social commentary, political satire, and black humor, is not just a return to the genre he practically single - handedly created (or at least definitively redefined), but a return to form.

The horror movie / social satire, which plays with the very real fears that come with being a young black man in today's America, is a confident, assured work crammed full of wit, clever twists and surprising depth.

Kathleen Hepburn's Never Steady, Never Still, a meditative portrait of a mother's battle with Parkinson's while her son comes to terms with his identity, is nominated for Best Canadian Film along with two other exceptional first features: Cory Bowles» Black Cop, a timely satire about an African - Canadian police officer who fights back against entitled white citizens, and Antoine Bourges» Fail to Appear, a quiet and precise study of institutional systems of support available for those on parole.

The 21st century corollary to George Kaufman's maxim that «satire is what closes Saturday night» might well be that indie black comedies — which almost never make money but continue to attract name actors — are what play contractually mandated one - week runs at the Village East before heading off to DVD.

Sally Potter's (Ginger and Rosa) caustic comic satire of a broken, post-Brexit England, The Party; offering a masterclass of acting from a stellar ensemble headed by Kristin Scott Thomas and filmed entirely in stunning black and white.

Featuring a blistering, Oscar - nominated performance from Peter O'Toole, Peter Medak's scathing black comedy satire The Ruling Class takes a caustic shot at British social structure, while creating a truly terrifying portrait of mental illness.

Echoing Stardust Memories and forming a kind of hyper - misanthropic double bill with Deconstructing Harry, Celebrity is Allen's jet black industry satire, composed of a series of increasingly brutal vignettes in saturated black - and - white, presented with cokey, non-sequential skittishness.

The Lobster was a bit of a shock for everyone who went in expecting an off - kilter black romance — instead director Yorgos Lanthimos served up a disquieting social satire with underpinnings of horror as his first English - language feature.

Rich and Strange is a strange entry indeed in the Alfred Hitchcock filmography, but his sensibility is very much present in the stragne social satire and black comedy.

A satire of a 21st - century minstrel show, the movie parodies blacks on television and film today, and questions just how much progress Hollywood has made.

Dear White People (2014)- This biting satire follows four black college students making their way in «post-racial» America.

Trapero directs with a high level of energy, employing pop songs (including several Kinks» numbers) to provide rueful commentary and making sure we never mistake the film for some sort of black - hearted family satire by rubbing our noses in the brutality of Arquímedes» methods.

Despite its exploitationist leanings (girls with big boobs, lots of gratuitous blood) Death Race 2000 is actually a black - humoured satire.

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

«Get Out» is a compelling, crowd - pleasing horror satire that draws as much from «The Stepford Wives» as its director's sketch comedy series «Key & Peele» to reflect on the insidious nature of contemporary racism, in which the ostensibly tolerant are outwardly accommodating but inwardly desire to control and commoditize black lives.

That film — which nabbed Simien an Independent Spirit Award for his screenplay — weaved together satire and social commentary in its tale of four interconnected black students on a journey of self - discovery at an Ivy League college.

Black Mirror — Once prophetic, the Charlie Brooker anthology satire became virtually breaking news regarding our troubled relationship with technology with its third season on Netflix.

That reached something of a peak across 2011, as he gave excellent performances in both Jack Thorne «s gripping supernatural drama «The Fades» (somehow managing to make a «previously on» summary genuinely moving) and in Charlie Brooker «s dystopian reality TV satire «Fifteen Million Merits,» part of the «Black Mirror» anthology series.

After all, this film from Christopher Landon (Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones), is a crude combination of that beloved Bill Murray satire, Tina Fey's hit teen film Mean Girls and any of the various slasher films from 1974 onward, particularly Black Christmas.

Here are 25 from this year's lineup that have us salivating — from docu - profiles on musicians, artists and iconoclasts to left - field biopics on raunchy comedians, black metal Norwegians and paraplegic cartoonists, postapocalyptic character studies to sociopolitical satires.

, which are all better movies than this well - meaning misfire of a black - humored satire as anti-war statement.

Dredd is black humor and satire, that's right up my alley, but it's probably a hard sell to a mainstream audience.

BLACK COP Cory Bowles» sharp political satire skillfully, and uncompromisingly, places the audiences in the shoes of others in order to truly open their eyes to the systemic levels of injustice.

The film is a sly feature that combines horror, satire and sociology as it jabs at race relations and perceptions about black people in the United States.

I've got a few codes to give away for Cory Bowles» social satire, Black Cop, which premiered during the Toronto International Film Festival last year.

With the splendid drawing - room black comedy «The Party,» shot at the run - up to the nihilist Brexit referendum, Potter finds a medium of satire and belly laughs in seventy swift minutes, shot in black - and - white, etched in vitriol, shot in the confines of her own longtime London townhouse in under two weeks.