Sentences with phrase «comedy kind hearts»
We had classic Ealing / Alec Guinness comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets recently, and now here comes The Ladykillers, possibly my favorite Ealing / Guinness comedy, playing on TCM on Monday.
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You may, at first, balk at the notion of murder as comedy, but Kind Hearts and Coronets carries out its grim duties with such cheer that you surrender morality to Hamer's comedy and guffaw at the film's dry British wit and gallows humor.
Galaxy Quest wasn't a success on release, but it's found a kind of cult status among those people smart enough to realize that it's a hilarious, heart - warming sci - fi comedy.
His last film was 2004's I Heart Huckabees, and for years he was struggling to finish a political comedy called Nailed, but after all kinds of production delays, financial problems and conflicts with actors, he was finally forced to throw in the towel.
Lee Toland Krieger makes this a fine return to Sundance (after directing The Vicious Kind with Adam Scott previously), and a spectacular showing that he knows how to direct comedy with heart.
Kind Hearts And Coronets — Quite silly dark comedy with Dennis Price playing a wanna - be aristocrat who kills off all the relatives ahead of him in line for his dukedom.
Writer - director David O. Russell has made three kinds of movies: offbeat romances («Flirting With Disaster»), surreal comedies («I Heart Huckabees») and dramas about dysfunctional yet appealing families («The Fighter»).
Kind Hearts and Coronets is a delicious Ealing black comedy starring Dennis Price as Louis Mazzini, distant heir to a dukedom, but with eight members of the D'Ascoyne family standing in his way.
2:00 am (10th)-- TCM — Kind Hearts and Coronets In one of the zaniest of the zany comedies that Alec Guinness was best known for in his early career, he plays eight, count»em, eight characters — all relatives in line to receive a duke's massive fortune upon his death.
A genuinely great film, that will surely be ranked alongside classics like Kind Hearts And Coronets (1949) and The Ladykillers (1955) as one of the UK's darkest comedies.
Best Picture — Drama: «Avatar» Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy: «The Hangover» Best Actor in a Motion Picture — Drama: Jeff Bridges, «Crazy Heart» Best Actress in a Motion Picture — Drama: Sandra Bullock, «The Blind Side» Best Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy: Robert Downey Jr., «Sherlock Holmes» Best Actress in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy: Meryl Streep, «Julie and Julia» Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, «Inglourious Basterds» Best Supporting Actress: Mo'Nique, «Precious» Best Director: James Cameron, «Avatar» Best Screenplay: «Up in the Air» Best Animated Feature: «Up» Best Foreign Language Film: «The White Ribbon, «Germany Best Original Song: «The Weary Kind,» performed by Ryan Bingham, «Crazy Heart» Best Original Score: Michael Giacchino, «Up»