Sentences with phrase «deadpan comedy»

Payne's deadpan comedy implicates viewers into his view of pathetic, banal people and society.

Indie - film legend and Adam Driver turn deadpan comedy about a New Jersey bus - driving poet into a quiet celebration of everyday people

Jack Benny was a king of deadpan comedy.

As a film, Don Verdean is rough around the edges, but filled with subtle character detail that plays well against the deadpan comedy.

This film is a master class in deadpan comedy.

John Goodman's enigmatic Howard could be someone's weird but harmless dad; there are scenes of deadpan comedy involving his completely ingenuous attention to restroom etiquette, spaghetti sauce, and Pretty in Pink.

For Jeff Daniels, the role is a departure from his usual deadpan comedy roles and straight drama.

Though many know him as the deadpan comedy star, Vince Vaughn has also conquered dramatic roles.

The actress excels at playing a schoolteacher at odds with her inner turmoil in the French director's deadpan comedy.

Eastwood's film is dark and brutal, leavened by some deadpan comedy, a tour de force performance from Gene Hackman, and a sly encapsulation of the history of the Western genre, as seen through the eyes of a pulp writer played by Saul Rubinek.

This Swedish film is so bizarre that it almost defies description: is it a deadpan comedy, a satire of Swedish history or a wry exploration of how people cope with imperfection and mortality?

Perfecting his style of absurdist deadpan comedy, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth) introduces new rules, activities, and gruesome punishments at every turn: Matches are made based on arbitrary similarities; trial couples are assigned children; and time extensions can be earned by hunting down renegade singles who live in the woods and only listen to electronic music.

Mixing warm drama with hilariously deadpan comedy, this is one of the most unusual road movies you'll ever see.

The films are swathed in his bedrock style of deadpan comedy and aching melancholy within meticulously constructed visuals.

So no, it's not a sly, dark, romantic deadpan comedy after all.

Keep high expectations at bay, and an open mind, and you might find this deadpan comedy to be dead on the money.

Yet for all its visual baubles and deadpan comedy, it is shot through with nostalgia, melancholy, and deep echoes of historic loss.

Maquiling creates an unusual and intriguing tone somewhere between sharp, deadpan comedy and a soft, dreamy surrealism.

The first half hour is an excellent, deadpan comedy of alienation that feels like a 21st century riff on THE GRADUATE; momentum slowly fades away as the script yields originality to the conventions of the romantic comedy genre.

«On the whole, this episode is the most straightforward of the new Twin Peaks in the first batch, balancing quirky deadpan comedy and over-the-top soapy melodrama, just like the old show.»

Not exact matches

The humor at Stand - Up Comedy for Science often took a cerebral turn — Robert Mac deadpanned that a simple solution to instantly decrease the rising temperatures due to climate change would be converting to the metric system.

As always, there are many laughs to be had in the characters» deadpan delivery of strange, intentionally stilted dialogue, as well as in the understated and decidedly non-wacky physical comedy.

The actress's combination of deadpan comic timing and undeniable beauty made her an instant hot property in Hollywood, and she was soon appearing in comic fare like The House Bunny and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, as well as the hugely successful horror comedy Zombieland (2009).

[Merchant and Gervais»] meetings are gemlike exchanges of deadpan incompetence and hair - pulling frustration, worthy of the bygone era of comedy teams.

Much like Lanthimos» other movies, his deadpan sense of comedy is his prescription for an absurd world.

The film is split down the middle, with many elegant symmetries and curling plotlines bridging the two halves: one part is a bracing, funny, almost Keaton-esque comedy starring Harry as a deadpan center of disaster; the other is a brooding, brutal film noir, starring Sondra Locke as a vengeful femme fatale.

Yorgos Lanthimos's freeze - dried revenge saga casts Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman as a moneyed married couple who find themselves targeted by a supernatural teenager (Barry Keoghan), while the tale slaloms from deadpan black comedy through Cape Fear - ish thrills towards a finale of such matter - of - fact horror that it can only be watched through splayed fingers.

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.

«What We Do in the Shadows» sounds like a bad comedy sketch — a «Real World» - esque reality show with vampires in place of horny millennials — but it's actually a really funny satire of the vampire subgenre that's done in the deadpan style of a Christopher Guest mockumentary.

The dry script, co-written by Emma Thompson, who also features as the deadpan gynaecologist, drains the film of what little potential there might have been for frothy comedy.

Though Martin is best known for his stand - up comedy, which mixes deadpan one - liners with quirky drawings and musical interludes, «Dean» showcases a more serious, meditative side to the comic that works well with his low - key brand of humor.

Chris Elliott may have been born with a funny spoon in his mouth — he's the son of Bob Elliott, the more deadpan half of the famous comedy duo Bob and Ray — but he's developed his own offbeat brand of humor and gained his own substantial cult following.

When Aki Kaurismaki, Finland's deadpan farceur of minimalist slapstick, absurdist comedy and bruised romanticism, teamed up with the aggressively eccentric rock and roll cover band Leningrad Cowboys, a mix of bar band performance, punk attitude and polka flourishes, to make the surreal rock and roll road movie Leningrad Cowboys Go America, who knew it would be the beginning of a surreal collaborative friendship?

The actor adds a few layers of deadpan physical comedy to the role, much like his Buster Keaton-esque performance in Benny and Joon, and also recalling his earlier western, the masterpiece Dead Man.

Though Winona Ryder made a bit of a splash in 1988 in Beetlejuice, in which she's hilariously deadpan (befitting a character who starts out more interested in death than life), she truly became a star when she landed the lead role in one of the most demented high - school comedies ever made.

Reeves is using his stiff and forced expressionism, sometimes deadpanning, to heighten the comedy of the piece, making it one of his most enjoyable performances as he goes all in on the camp.

Director Terry Zwigoff shares his own musical taste in this article about how he went about selecting songs to underscore the deadpan tone of his cult comedy Ghost World.

Not that you'd really want it any other way, as you know you're going to get more jokes per minute than nearly any other comedy out there, and one of the funnier deadpan comedic actors in Leslie Nielsen (Nuts, Soul Man).

Duchovny maintains a Fox Mulder - type balance of deadpan sarcasm and seriousness throughout; the pouty Jolie is stiffly earnest; and Massee and especially Hutton seemed to have wandered in from the broad comedy next door.

That's the message at the heart of writer - director Jeff Baena's debut Life After Beth, which begins its life as a sensitive indie comedy with a winning deadpan shtick and ends up salivating and snarling after developing an appetite for riotous, blood - splattered slapstick.

Waititi, 42, is a veteran of the cult comedy series «Flight of the Concords» and has previously directed largely offbeat irreverent indies like the deadpan vampire tale «What We Do in the Shadows» and the oddball outlaw comedy «Hunt for the Wilderpeople.»

That's the message at the heart of writer - director Jeff Baena's debut Life After Beth, which begins its life as a sensitive indie comedy with a winning deadpan shtick and ends up salivating and snarling after developing an...

People can laugh openly at a Lemmon schnook without derailing him or the comedy, but Sellers thrives best in the midst of deadpan elegance on the part of his fellow players as well as the pristine set waiting to be demolished.

With his deadpan indie comedy Frank, director Lenny Abrahamson does just that, hiding the often - photographed face of Michael Fassbender behind a giant papier - mâché mask.

«We lost 19 of our best guys that day,» a deadpan Kumail Nanjiani quips in The Big Sick, resulting in the year's most audacious joke (it's about 9/11) which sealed the Silicon Valley star's status as the most exciting comedy actor on the scene.

The Grand Seduction Taylor Kitsch plays a doctor, Brendan Gleeson a fisherman in this Canadian comedy that looks to play fast and loose with the deadpan side of things.

It's loaded with very physical slapstick comedy and perfectly ridiculous deadpan humor.

In the meantime, when asked about his fellow Best Comedy Album nominees receiving puppies from host James Corden as consolation prizes, Chappelle deadpanned, «I would love to get one of those puppies.»

Wes Anderson «s «Moonrise Kingdom» seems like an odd choice to open the 65th Cannes Film Festival, with its deadpan Americanism, retro - set timeline and movie - star cast; at the same time, Anderson is clearly influenced by the New Wave, both cinematically and personally, he's a distinctive authorial voice as a director (which is the essence of auteur theory) and while his films are defined by near - silent moments of comedy and human frailty, there's also something mournful and wounded about them.

But it was his 2011 appearance as himself, on Ricky Gervais» rightfully brief HBO series Life's Too Short, that outlined the particular set of skills Neeson possesses to make his transition into comedy a natural one: a brutal, unflinching deadpan, and a resourceful willingness to play with and mock his increasingly terrifying image.