Sentences with phrase «finger at the audience»

Still, you could argue that's a deliberate choice by the filmmakers to draw attention to the artifice you're watching, utilising yet another fourth - wall smashing device to point the finger at the audience and cry out Mark Twain's words: «Never let the truth get in the way of a good story».

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«But for me, it's important to share that statistic when speaking with Protestant audiences so that they stop pointing their fingers at the Catholic Church and engage more with their own church.»

In the closing moments of Thursday night's Southold Town Deer Forum at the Peconic recreation center, a member of the audience pointed a finger at Supervisor Scott Russell and asked what the town's going to do about the deer population.

This point was rammed home to me as I sat in agonized silence, fingers sporadically jammed into my eyes, while audience members laughed at the latest shockingly boring Melissa McCarthy / Ben Falcone cringe machine.

Opening with a series of abstractions that seem like Glazer sticking two fingers up at an audience expecting a sexed - up «Species» re-do, the next couple of hours parcel out some of the most spectacular, searing images I can remember on the big screen, with DoP Daniel Landin showing a Gordon Willis - like capability for photographing darkness, and one FX - aided image in particular proving especially haunting.

Whilst the central characters all get their conflicting say, all are equally ridiculed, reviled, and respected in a film that doesn't so much mock its subjects as much as point the finger of shame and blame at us, the audience, fascinated by this tabloid tale of greed, violence and figure skating.

Like Andy Cohen crossed with Dame Edna, Stanley Tucci is a scream as Caesar Flickerman, the telecast's fairy godfather of an emcee, who essentially solves the film's expository problems while pointing a cheeky, meta finger at not just the in - text audience, but us too.

It was an incredible experience (despite the fact that the audience probably laughed more than they should've) and I've kept my fingers crossed for more March goodness at future events.

by Walter Chaw Tom Green's Freddy Got Fingered is the most startling debut since Luis Buñuel's Un chien andalou, with which it has a few things in common: both are constructed with a wilful disdain towards narrative; both are aimed at the outer limits of shocking imagery; both display an open hostility for the cultural status quo; and both joke on their audience's entrenched preconceptions of film form.

La La Land: Damien Chazelle's love letter to Hollywood came into TIFF with more heat than any other film: It infatuated audiences at the Venice Film Festival, where Emma Stone won a best actress award, and continued to wrap North American critics around its lithe little finger in Toronto.

Slowly he pointed his finger around the room at the Realtors in the audience.