Sentences with phrase «farce when»

A more optimistic take on the power of Hollywood to orchestrate a media spectacle than Barry Levinson's «Wag the Dog,» Affleck's tale shifts from brooding espionage to amusing farce when Mendez heads west to hire acclaimed makeup artist John Chambers (John Goodman) and cigar - chomping producer Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin) to flesh out the plan.

TCM Select Pick of the Week: Some Like it Hot (1959), Billy Wilder's best loved film and the AFI's number one pick for best American comedy of all time, plays the St. Valentine's Day Massacre for farce when the two musicians (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) who witness the brutal gangland slaying elude mobsters by hiding out in an all - girl band.

[MetroNY] • Speaking of Law & Order: The community - board meeting on renaming a midtown intersection the Jerry Orbach Corner turned into meta - farce when Sam Waterston showed up to address the surly board.

The committee almost descended to farce when Buckles was reminded of an interview this weekend in which he appeared unsure of whether security staff needed to be able to speak fluent English for work at the Games.

Don't you remember that farce when trying to buy Suarez??? Where did that extra pound come from??

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«It's a farce to claim to be offering «free college» to employees when what's being offered is simply the chance to pursue a degree at one specific university, only online, only if you enroll full time and work at least 20 hours a week,» Dr. Sara Goldrick - Rab, professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin, told Think Progress.

with out early indoctrination most children when they get to critical thinking age would see it for the farce it is and reject it all.

Darcourt says at the end of the novel that while he considers the essentials of Christianity, when rightly understood, to form the best possible foundation for life, he holds that this orthodox basis is in genuine need of «farcing out.»

This is a total farce and completely untrue but it is an idea that must be promoted and projected as true when all evidence indicates Muslims hate America, that even the most «moderate» Muslims are very self - righteous regarding their religion, and that they hate our military and the US even though they desparately escaped their worthless Muslim countries to come here.

First the earth doesn't rotate around the sun, then evolution is a farce and dinosaurs fossils are tricks placed by the devil to tempt people into not believing, and now the big bang is more proof that when the bible said the world was 6000 years old... it meant 18 billion years old.

I see near my door Geneva on fire with quarrels over nothing, and I laugh again; and, thank God, I can look upon the world as a farce even when it becomes as tragic as it sometimes does.

When transparency turns to farce and honest reporting is buried by self - censorship, what other options does one have?

As usual no clear strategy of buying and selling player's the whole thing is a complete farce, we can't attract player's because let's face it players talk to each other when they are about to move to another club and the vibes are not good for arsenal with wenger in charge of recruitment it seems to me they see arsenal as not being able to improve player's under arsene wenger sometimes it's not about the money

These are widespread beliefs among the majority of our fans and nothing changes The farce of our year after year inability to keep players fit - far worse than our rivals for injured players and long term like Cazorla, (still out till God knows when!)

we have a huge potential; when we lose to w.ham etc., we're just not concentrating [i'm not counting the mike - dean assisted chelsea farce]

Just shows how low the fan base has sunk when it's the local fans that are to blame for this farce!

At this point it is farce to keep him as a thin chance that he will be fit when we need him.

Personally I don't understand why you would run to the shop and get yourself the new Arsenal jersey every time it comes out... And then complain about the seat prices, the manager and the all farce, when you are in fact part of the problem...!!

Then again, I was raised Jewish, and when you're never under the guise that Santa Claus is real, you do kind of grow up wondering how other kids could be such willing participants in this longstanding holiday farce.

While this use of farce works well, particularly the chaotic triple - phone - line dance in the office when appeasing MPs on «defection - watch», the characterisation is a little thin, which dampens the script's sharpness.

«My colleague Carolyn Maloney had it quite right when she walked out on that farce.

This not only makes politics unnecessarily poisonous but puts off ordinary people when they see politics descending into farce.

Tech can also backfire, of course, as Cochran's team found out today, when Twitter - organized McDaniel supporters basically took over one of his conference calls (via PoliticalWire, which descended fast into chaos and farce («wildly entertaining but wholly unprofessional» is not how you want your press conference call to be described, I'm guessing).

The current system is set up as a farce, with a lot of phony «community charity» organizations being set up as phony grass - roots organizations when they are actually conduits for corporate and wealthy donors.

Westminster sinks into farce again - unforgivable when discussing #WMD - speaker now deciding if calling colleagues «robot» is allowable: -LRB-

Sometimes we give up the farce completely and just buy a second one when while still in the store.

Season 2 was more subtle and was a good examination of conflict tearing people apart, the characters were developing and were interesting, they have now turned into soundbite gimps, the creators have severely erred in trying to reconcile a fictional conflicts of a biker gang with a real world conflict of the IRA without any attempt to create even an iota a sense of realism or use skillful tact, (its difficult to see how a biker gang could make such in roads to the IRA when whole arms of government have tried and failed) The outcome of which is to turn a decent and interesting show into farce.

There are a few over-the-top scenes, as when Andy gets his jungle of chest hair waxed, yet Carell, letting loose torrents of Tourettic obscenity, gives even the painful farce of this moment a hint of something extra.

A pretty uneven film, lurching from comedy to violence to sentiment, but it's best when it sticks in the realm of flat - out farce.

Blue collar comedy rules the roost with this hilarious farce starring Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engvall and D.J. Qualls as buddies who are mistaken for Army Reservists and sent to the Middle East - but when they are accidentally dropped into Mexico, they misread the situation and set about trying to «liberate» a besieged village from a demented drug lord.

It really bothered me that someone could take such an excellent script as Swingers, and, when given the opportunity, make it into a choppy, unintelligeble, ridiculous farce of the true pain that Mikey felt in the script.

The script, written by Trevor De Silva and Kevin Hood, falters when farce gives way to melodrama, but the movie regains momentum with a climax in a ballroom.

Equally disappointing in terms of bodily function humor, Delta Farce is stocked with fart, spit, digestive, feces and urine gags, my favorite being when Kilgore unwittingly drinks a glass of fluid excreted from Everett's bladder.

In the premise of a grouch who can't ditch the local holy rollers, there's an opportunity here for a very funny farce or a comedy - drama in the vein of Capra or Sturges, but director Mark Pellington leans toward the maudlin, trite and sentimental when Henry meets his other neighbors: six - year - old mute Millie (adorable Morgan Lily) and her divorcée mother Dawn (radiant Radha Mitchell).

When it comes to farce, nobody does it better than the French.

As the farce becomes increasingly tangled, we begin to wonder when it will start to get funny.

Kevin Kline's comic turn highlights this winning farce about a straitlaced teacher whose world is shattered days before his wedding when a former student refers to him as gay on TV.

Directed by (more...) Kevin Kline's comic turn highlights this winning farce about a straitlaced teacher whose world is shattered days before his wedding when a former student refers to him as gay on TV.

While highlighting the messier side of human interaction, this Norwegian black comedy blends snappy wit and romantic farce to keep us entertained even when things get rather dark.

Honestly, I think you have to add the ellipses and caveat when you're dealing with a season that includes «Delta Farce» in its lineup of film releases.

It makes the Oscar race kind of a farce, ultimately, because though good movies do win in this climate (Moonlight, for instance, is a great movie), the reasons they seem to win can seem a little bogus when seen through this lense.

When Brooke goes in search of $ 75,000 from a rich ex-boyfriend whose heart she broke - and brings along a make - shift entourage of Tracy and her friends - «Mistress America» goes from a light comedy to farce, but it makes the transition smoothly.

Blonde Bombshells Where: Castro Theatre, 429 Castro St., 415-621-6120 When: All Week Why: The Castro's celebration of all things blonde continues through Sept. 5 with Billy Wilder's classic sex farce Some Like It Hot, Jean Harlow and Lionel Barrymore starring in the pre-code, Depression - era comedy Dinner at Eight, and Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe's final screen appearances in the 1961 John Huston drama The Misfits.

Turning history into farce probably wasn't what Antonio J. Mendez, a Central Intelligence Agency officer, was after when he was tapped to help free six State Department employees stranded in Tehran.

Identity Thief is all over the map when it comes to the kind of film it wants to be, sometimes playing like a wacky farce, sometimes as a black humor raunch-fest, sometimes as a silly thriller with laughs, and sometimes trying to draw out even some touching moments in a mismatched buddy road - trip comedy, a la Trains Planes and Automobiles.

For such a ribald farce, when there are laughs, they are mild, and hardly the knee - slappers you'd expect from a game cast of comedic actors.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Carell and Company Serve Up Unappetizing Remake Although Hollywood has a horrible track record when it comes to remakes of foreign films, especially French farces, I nonetheless approached Dinner for Schmucks optimistically and with an open mind.

Labor Day is well cast and played with conviction by its three leads, particularly the ever - reliable Winslet who, despite being bizarrely cast as a dowdy housewife, manages to be heartbreaking even when the film borders on farce.

It's rarely a good sign when a big - budget epic with a topline cast is bumped from a planned July release to the wintry wastelands of early February but, in all honesty, a slow week for new releases is probably the only way Warner Brothers have of clawing back even a fraction of their investment in this farce.

It's just another wry New York family - dysfunction farce, with a stronger supporting cast and (slightly) better production values than Robespierre's first film but also a propensity for playing it safe and dulling the pain just when the pain should be sharpest.