Sentences with phrase «for deadpan»

He's known for his deadpan delivery, but comedian Romesh Ranganathan was lost for words during an appearance on Naked News.

Roman Signer (b. 1938, Switzerland) is renowned for his deadpan sculptural installations and performative video works which document the transformative quality of everyday objects and materials.

McQueen, 29, is best known for Deadpan, his tribute to Buster Keaton, in which he re-enacts one of Keaton's famous stunts.

Inspired by a variety of technical illustrations he found on the Internet, Winters invented wild, colorful patterns that took on lives of their own, so that — save for the deadpan titles (Cell, Cobalt, Cinnabar)-- it's almost impossible to tell what their source images depicted.

The Bechers are celebrated for their deadpan images of industrial architecture (the water towers are best known), indebted to the 1920s German realist movement known as New Objectivity.

Pop artist Ed Ruscha, a MOCA trustee known for his deadpan images of parking lots, gas stations and L.A. architecture, now sells pieces for $ 3 million to $ 6 million at auction; he didn't come close to crossing the $ 1 million barrier before 2002.

Bateman and McCarthy seems like terrific matches for their respective Identity Thief roles, playing their knacks for deadpan delivery and raunchy slapstick off one another.

Though he's the straight man for the rest of the movie, he doesn't settle for deadpan.

(Better known for tough guy characters in Rollerball and Mission: Impossible, actor Jean Reno also displays his previously undisclosed talent for deadpan humor in this role as Martin's straight man.)

has received much praise from critics for its deadpan delivery and lack of sensationalism, with director Lanthimos being heralded as an important new voice in European cinema.

George Clooney plays a film star kidnapped while playing Roman emperor Caesar in a sword - and - sandals epic - the cue for some deadpan humour and moviemaking shenanigans and a treat for film buffs

While this quirky mockumentary about the making of a stage musical didn't strike it big at the box office (earning less than $ 3 million worldwide), it soon became a cult classic for its deadpan humor and oddly lovable characters.

Hamer's penchant for deadpan humor is on full display as the scientists share their peculiar slice of reality, exchanging jargon - heavy banter and intermittently appearing bored out of their minds.

Her work in Hartley's films established the blonde, strong - jawed actress as a solid talent with a proclivity for deadpan humor, something she has also exhibited in a variety of film, television, and stage productions including Tom Noonan's What Happened Was..., a darkly humorous date movie that earned Sillas particular praise.A native of Brooklyn, where she was born June 5, 1965, Sillas studied at the acting conservatory at the State University of New York at Purchase.

Armie Hammer has a gift for deadpan humor, and it's put to great use here.

McGuigan doesn't allow his movie to suffer from delusions of grittiness; he's aiming for deadpan urban sophistication, and even when he doesn't hit the mark, you can at least appreciate the direction he's headed in.

Not exact matches

My husband paused for a moment and deadpanned, «That's an interesting comment coming from someone I caught Googling herself yesterday.»

«Backstage, I was talking to the guy from CBS, we were going through the CBS life insurance policy to see if I was covered for jihad,» Letterman deadpanned.

She was memorable in early roles on Funny People and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, two films stuffed with memorable actors, but Parks and Rec — no slouch in the memorable cast department itself — is where she made a name for herself as an unparalleled master of deadpan delivery.

Joe Buck deadpanning, «He's had a rough night» during his intro for Bellinger, however, was glorious.

Asked by a young white reporter why he wasn't fighting for freedom in the South, Liston deadpanned, «I ain't got no dog - proof ass.»

Doyle spends so much time on the course talking to himself that analyst Denny Schreiner deadpans, «A transcript of Allen Doyle's conversations with himself is available for $ 9.95.»

«When I announced yesterday that I'm running for governor, one of Cuomo's top surrogates dismissed me as an «unqualified lesbian,»» the «Sex and the City» actress Nixon deadpanned to supporters during a campaign launch party at the Stonewall Inn.

«They certainly weren't desperate for pastrami,» Felder deadpanned about the 1412 Ave. J break - in in Midwood.

Asked for confirmation of this description, Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, who vouched for Silver this week until the bitter end, said, «I really don't remember any particular remarks, but with his grumbly voice and deadpan manner, he was always the funniest person on the program.»

Asked about his goals and dreams for The Monti, Polish deadpans, «world domination,» adding, «I do want to be recognized nationally... as an organization that does something that is important, interesting, entertaining, and provocative.»

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.

At once profoundly dignified, as birds of such ancient lineage should be, they are at the same time masters of deadpan clowning, particularly when two or three birds contend for the same fish.

Though * actual * calorie requirement is reasonably predictable in approximation once the necessary variables are controlled for — height, weight, bodyfat %, activity levels, etc. — it's still not deadpan uniform across the population.

«Hunt for the Wilderpeople» employs the same, supremely deadpan humor that director Taika Waititi used in «Eagle vs Shark.»

Exquisitely dry humor and Rinko Kikuchi's charming, deadpan, oddball performance make for one of the more esoterically funny films to have been released in quite some time.

Then Brooks invites the guests out to his rich - guy house for a different kind of game night, modeled on those murder mystery dinner parties that became a fad a few years ago, and «Game Night» becomes a roller coaster ride, whisking the audience through broad slapstick, deadpan exchanges and imminent threats that sometimes erupt into mayhem.

There's the same deadpan, high - octane pacing, penchant for the completely silly, love of weird names, and passion for bizarre pop - culture reference....

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

Though both stars are sometimes eclipsed when the film strains for big action episodes, Mr. Duchovny sustains enough cool, deadpan intellect and suppressed passion to give the story a center.

A fable - like story about a young African girl banished from her village for alleged witchcraft, it blends deadpan humor with light surrealism, vivid visuals and left - field musical choices.

Trank's take on the material, in sharp contrast, is dead serious, albeit in a way that allows for a surprising amount of wry, deadpan humor so understated it can be easily overlooked or missed altogether.

Among the major players, though, the perpetually fabulous Judy Greer — as Wilson's dogsitter — has the most natural affinity for Clowes» deadpan sensibility.

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

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.

There are also perfect miniature performances from Mason Gamble as Max's chapel partner (for a child actor, he deadpans lines like «with friends like you, who needs friends?»

And while most of The Loveless feels like what it is (a Columbia graduate thesis for Bigelow and a preview of coming attractions for Bigelow's and Montgomery's future work), there remains something of the deadpan all - American road flick that predicts Jim Jarmusch's own early - career take on the same.

Wilson has been turning up in too many movies as the charming, deadpan co-star for us to be charmed anymore, while Murphy must play something other than that smart - aleck motor - mouth character if he has to be funny again.

>> After the dreary arthouse po - faced Archipelago what a relief to see a home grown film which is movie - literate and bounces along with a deadpan humour which makes you chuckle quietly throughout >> There was more and louder laughter for Archipelago than for Submarine when I saw it a couple of weeks ago.

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.

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.

Along with Kendrick's character Beca, an aspiring DJ with a spiky cool - girl attitude who joins the Barden Bellas reluctantly, viewers can hang their skepticism on Gail and John (Elizabeth Banks and veteran Christopher Guest film improviser John Michael Higgins), the aged - out adults who provide alternately unenthused and deadpan - idiotic color commentary for each starry competition in «making music with your mouth.»

Along for the ride are Paul Dano as their alienated teen son, Alan Arkin as Dad's junkie father and a deadpan - hilarious Steve Carell as Mom's brother, a Proust scholar who's been suicidal since his studly boyfriend dumped him.

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.

While he's an inherently warm screen presence, Colin Farrell — who won a Golden Globe for The Lobster — again proves perfect at delivering an off - puttingly deadpan script, which won best screenplay at Cannes this year.