Sentences with phrase «comedy sightseers»
Thus we were graced with the 5 - hour Bollywood gangster - epic Gangs of Wasseypur, the Korean anime Dwae - ji - ui wang (The King of Pigs), the Chinese period film Dangerous Liaisons, and British horror - comedy Sightseers (well, Britain can seem strangely distant in the eyes of a Parisian).
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A familiar face in British comedy, Oram stood out in Ben Wheatley's 2012 horror comedy Sightseers.
He did so again with 2012's brilliant black comedy Sightseers, blending elements of horror and dark English satire, and once more in 2013's wildly experimental, black and white historical drama / «horror» film A Field in England, though to lesser effect.
From his terrifying folk horror KILL LIST, to the uncomfortable dark comedy SIGHTSEERS, Wheatley is a cinematic chameleon.
The first trailer for Kill List director Ben Wheatley «s dark comedy Sightseers has gone online, and it's pretty damn nutty.
Not exact matches
But where Sightseers was merely incompetent, We're The Millers seems to take delight in human misery as an end or source of humour in itself; it doesn't use pain or suffering to deepen the characters, it simply offers it as a benchmark of modern comedy.
2012's Sightseers is a vicious and bleak comedy that is as hilarious as it is gory.
While English comedies of this sort can go the way of cute and light Feel Good Brit Flick (an often way too saccharine genre), they can also produce generally winning films like «Billy Elliot» and «The Full Monty,» and production company Big Talk have an excellent track record, with «Shaun Of The Dead,» «Attack The Block» and «Sightseers» among their triumphs.
Their highly idiosyncratic output includes the 2012 bloody black comedy «Sightseers» and last year's «High - Rise,» based on a dystopian novel by J.G. Ballard.
Prevenge Sightseers and Adult Life Skills star Alice Lowe makes her directorial debut in this black comedy about a pregnant woman out for revenge.
MIFF delivered many other memorable movies, from the giallo scares of Berberian Sound Studio to the bleak, black comedy of certain English hit Sightseers.
Sightseers is a near - perfect black comedy that brought back nostalgic feeling to this West Midlander whose childhood was filled with trips to the Lakes to kill innocent bystanders.
The genius (yes, I'll break out the «G» word) behind films like Kill List, Sightseers, and High - Rise has been a favorite of mine for years, leaping between genres while maintaining his signature dark comedy and unflinching ability to sell genuine pain and terror.
Director Ben Wheatley (of Kill List fame) is back with Sightseers, a blissfully black comedy that is equal parts shocking and hilarious.
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.
13) «Sightseers» It wasn't really a banner year for comedy (bar the inventive and consistently funny «21 Jump Street «-RRB-, but the closing weeks of 2012, in the UK at least, came to the rescue with the arrival of «Sightseers.»
«Sightseers» If Alexander Payne went to England and decided to cheekily remake «Natural Born Killers,» it would probably look something like «Sightseers,» Ben Wheatley «s latest humanist horror comedy.
Sightseers was also a great black comedy.
Having co-written and co-starred in the wonderful Sightseers, Steve Oram makes his directorial debut with this utterly bizarre comedy horror that blends social satire, surreal domestic fantasy, gross - out comedy and wince - inducing gore to winning effect.
Ben Wheatley's Sightseers is gearing up for its release through IFC as the dark comedy will be hitting theaters and VOD next month.
Alice Lowe, who cameos in The Ghoul (pictured above), moved from co-writing and starring in Wheatley's most atypical film, Sightseers, to directing the dark pregnant serial - killer comedy Prevenge (while herself heavily pregnant).
In a Director's Statement provided in the press kit, Ben Wheatley writes, «I have endeavoured to marry the emotional intensity of Down Terrace and Kill List, the comedy of Sightseers and the formal exercises of A Field in England.