Sentences with phrase «certain kind of comedy»

Mike Birbiglia's sensitive, funny, sad, honest film Don't Think Twice, which has more affection for and understanding of a certain kind of comedy person than perhaps any piece of fiction that's ever been written about them.

Not exact matches

In some sense, indeed, Kierkegaard's life could be written as a kind of dark comedy; despite his premature death, and a great number of sadnesses that afflicted him along the way, there was something enchantingly absurd about his character, a certain benign perversity that often prompted him to make himself willfully ridiculous, and a peculiarly touching element of the ludicrous that clung to him all the way to his early grave.

Zissis and Duplass don't quite have the same dramatic heft, but both have a gift for a certain scruffy, loose kind of naturalistic comedy and their longtime friendship and professional relationship helps them make believable best friends.

Even those who find extended success at a certain kind of picture — say, Will Smith in heroic sci - fi action or Adam Sandler in goofy romantic comedies — eventually find audiences growing tired of their shtick and wanting them to challenge themselves.

While the film might sound depressing, it is actually a very funny comedy that happens to deal with such cold, hard realities as familial difficulties, the physical and mental deterioration of aging, and the morass of realizing that one hasn't lived the life one expected or desired — maybe even realizing one was never certain of what kind of life that might have been in the first place.

WHY: Whether he's making poetic coming - of - age films or pot - fueled buddy comedies, David Gordon Green hasn't allowed himself to be confined to a certain genre, although he does seem to have an affinity for the kind of naturalistic, salt - of - the - earth dramas that he's returned to in recent years, including his latest movie, «Manglehorn.»

It takes a certain kind of director to turn this adaptation of a French graphic novel into a comedy of (t) errors; it takes a satirist of In the Loop director / Veep creator Armando Iannucci's talents to transform this into the sort of farce that makes you lose bladder control.

I think comedy works better when it taps into a certain kind of humor, as opposed throwing out a wide net and trying to make everybody laugh.