Sentences with phrase «deadpan style»

Thus, even though he was part of a Neo-Dadaist group that created the Happenings, he didn't progress to Conceptual art; even though he was then associated with Pop, he didn't embrace Pop's deadpan style, or the later purity of Minimalism.

Judd responded to such charges by arguing, in his typically deadpan style, that «Art need only be interesting» and that it was «Something you look at».

Judd responded to such charges by arguing, in his typically deadpan style, that «art need only be interesting» and that it was «something you look at.»

This primary - color portrait of the cartoon mouse introduced Lichtenstein's detached and deadpan style at a time when introspective Abstract Expressionism reigned.

I really can't put my finger on why he is one of my favorites, but I think his deadpan style and sense of justice are traits that have always spoken to me personally.

The line, delivered in a deadpan style by «Game of Thrones» actor Peter Dinklage, who voices the AI companion Ghost in Destiny, gave gamers a good laugh and prompted Bungie to assure players that Dinklage would return to the recording booth before the game's release.

Befitting writer - director Jarmusch's deadpan style, Depp gives one of his stranger and more low - key performances, allowing more florid scene partners like the terrific Farmer, Lance Henrickson, John Hurt and, in his final film appearance, Robert Mitchum, to steal scenes as often as need be.

WHY: «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 very funny satire of the vampire subgenre that's done in the deadpan style of a Christopher Guest mockumentary.

Overall, this deadpan style isn't fresh or new and feels downright lackluster even in the hands of an incredibly talented director and screenwriter.

Written and directed by the brothers Jay and Mark Duplass, «Cyrus» is a furtive little farce with a deadpan style all its own.

Banzai is perfect for Peter Weller's laid back deadpan style.

«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.

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The site prides itself on its deadpan style, current headlines include «Desperate Tories taking copious notes during Game of Thrones» and «You owe me money, Hammond tells public sector workers».

Not exact matches

In the trailer, she roleplays Frozen with Kristen Bell (and ends up pointing a gun at her), deadpans the line «I guess orange is the new white,» and has a lot of Zack Morris - style breaking - the - third - wall winks at the camera.

Jarmusch's punk minimalist style, deadpan humor and delicious timing are all his own, and his oddball drifters, whose major goal in life is hanging out, are three slob existential stooges Sam Beckett might envy.

When frustrated shirt salesman Wikström (Kaurismäki regular Sakari Kuosmanen) first swerves his vintage car past Syrian refugee Khaled (Sherwan Haji, folding depths of emotion into Keaton - style deadpan), it's a fleeting introduction that ties their fates together through low - key coincidence — a force that eventually reunites them, once the former's quest to open a restaurant coalesces with the latter's path through applying for asylum.

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

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.

It's done in A Christmas Story style, only with a caustic and deadpan irreverence that will jolt you before the opening credits have even rolled.

His deadpan acting style hasn't seemed so close to contempt for the material since his late - run appearances on X-Files, and his renewed obligation to sort through mouthfuls of fuzzy pseudo-science doesn't help.

The star of «The Overnight,» now in theaters, and «Parks and Recreation» has a similar, deadpan, intellectual comedy style.

The training scenes are played for laughs — especially the gruff deadpan humor of Tommy Lee Jones as Col. Chester Phillips (a Men in Black - style role he could play in his sleep) and the flirtations between Rogers and his comely British superior Peggy Carter (buxom caricature Hayley Atwell).

Using a style that faintly echoes Hartley's, Shelly beautifully balances deadpan humor, pathos and heartbreakingly lovely moments of happy truth.

It's been almost a week since I saw True Grit and my family and I are still speaking to each other in Mattie Ross's deadpan, contraction-less style of dialogue.

, to the deadpan appropriations of Mike Bidlo's Not Picasso series, a wide swath of art historical territory is being covered in an equally wide range of styles, attitudes and approaches.

I contrast a deadpan, Photorealist style with English romantic subjects such as trees.

Drawing on a variety of sources that also included his own drawings, prints and artist's books, Ruscha was often associated with the west coast cool style, but ultimately his work confounded the art world with its sly and elusive sense of deadpan humor, as seen in his series of bird paintings and in the liquid word paintings that rounded out the decade.

CHOREOGRAPHER»S STYLE: LIGHTS, CAMERAS, DEADPAN ACTION FOR «PARTIAL REVIEW», NEIL GREENBERG ONCE AGAIN HAS PERFORMERS INTERACTING WITH VIDEO PROJECTIONS The Boston Globe (Boston, MA); July 17, 2005; Christine Temin, Globe Staff; 700 + words Buster Keaton crossed with Merce Cunningham.