Sentences with phrase «for human comedy»

Not quite every year brings a new Mike Leigh film, but the years that do are blessed with his sympathy, penetrating observation, and instinct for human comedy.

Preston Sturges, who contributed to screenplays for more than 40 films from 1930 to 1958, twelve of which he also directed, is widely celebrated for his human comedies.

Not exact matches

For Bob Sutton, leadership is not a set of abstract principles and behaviors but an expression of human comedy and tragedy.

Meanwhile, back here on earth, the human comedy has been renewed for yet another season.

Makes me think of the Rat Race movie where that guy is transporting a live human heart for a transplant and it accidentally gets tossed into some weeds and a dog finally ends up chewing on it... That has got to be the funniest comedy movie of all time!

Yeah, vulgarity for the sake of vulgarity strikes me as uninteresting, but raunchy comedies are compelling when they treat their flawed characters like human beings we can observe and understand.

Jon Negroni: Yeah, vulgarity for the sake of vulgarity strikes me as uninteresting, but raunchy comedies are compelling when they treat their flawed characters like human beings we can observe and understand.

For example, he says, Honoré de Balzac's The Human Comedy was released in serial form as a work of «popular» fiction, but has since attained the status of a classic.

If the humor in «Let the Sunshine In» is slightly amped up by its maker's usual standards, it hardly reaches for its chuckles: Denis, like the best artists, knows all human life is a comedy, albeit with an unhappy ending.

Some of the biggest and brightest stars in British comedy appear in this performance film, which documents a revue staged by John Cleese of Monty Python as a benefit for the human rights group Amnesty International.

The film admirably fights off similarity to Greg Mottola's theme park - set Adventureland by plumping for heartwarming human relationships over comedy, rather than the other way around.

He also received a Best Actor nomination in 1944 for «The Human Comedy» and earned Best Supporting Actor nods in 1957 for «The Bold and the Brave» and 1980 for «The Black Stallion.»

Deceptively clever and possessing an innate understanding for the follies of human nature, the film is a romantic comedy that offers up more thoughtful questions than one with pre-conceived judgments may expect.

Drew Barrymore is a suburban realtor who suddenly dies, then comes back with a taste for human flesh in Netflix's gory comedy.

Of Human Hearts and No time For Comedy are available as manufacture on demand (MOD) DVDs through Warner Archive.

Displaying his protean talents, Stoppard adapted Vladimir Nabokov for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's English language black comedy Despair (1978), Graham Greene's spy novel The Human Factor (1979) for Otto Preminger, J.G. Ballard's World War II story Empire of the Sun (1987) for Steven Spielberg, and E.L. Doctorow's gangster saga Billy Bathgate for Robert Benton.

Where The Hangover is funny in a mean - spirited, rude - boy way, Bridesmaids taps into Apatow's gift for producing comedies with human characters Read the rest of this entry»

Instead of yuck, we get something wonderful: a scrappy human comedy that takes an honest path to laughs and is twice as funny and touching for it.

Oh and for the record Downey's use of «fuck» was definitely needed, you can not have an R rated comedy without one of the most used words in the human language.

But these are defects in a movie that, for the most part, is bracingly perceptive about the human comedy.

Brown is best - known for MGM family tearjerkers «The Yearling» (1947) and «National Velvet» (1946), which starred young Elizabeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney, who also starred in Brown's nominated William Saroyan story «The Human Comedy» (1944).

Apatow produced Rogen and Goldberg's first forays into screenwriting, but they've gone separate ways, with Apatow clearly preferring to tell conventionally romantic human interest stories and Rogen - Goldberg displaying more of an appetite for genre - infused comedy.

Luckily, there are enough clever moments to justify the rather silly plot for the sake of the comedy, and some of the rips at contemporary society, particularly in the corporate advertising (not a stitch of clothing isn't fully emblazoned with various corporate logos) and the trivializing of basic human values for the sake of profit (water has been replaced in everything but toilets by a Gatorade - like sports drink), is broad but plays well for the brand of comedy that this is.

There's nothing groundbreaking about Anders Thomas Jensen's blessedly non-Dogme The Green Butchers, the latest movie to mine the consumption of human flesh for laughs (even the title suggests a cheeky allusion to Soylent Green)-- but for a comedy, that most culturally - specific of genres, the Danish production travels remarkably well.

These days, every Arnold Schwarzenegger performance is a battle between the present and the past: To watch the Austrian muscleman play his advancing years for comedy (the Expendables series) or pathos (the recent Maggie) is to see a once - herculean action star acknowledge that he's not the perfect human specimen he...

Ithaca (PG for mature themes, smoking and a violent image) Meg Ryan makes her directorial debut with this adaptation of The Human Comedy, William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize - winning novel, set in 1942, revolving around a 14 year - old's (Alex Neustaedter) attempt to provide for his widowed mother (Ryan) and siblings (Spencer Howell and Christine Nelson) after his older brother (Jack Quaid) goes off to fight in World War II.

And that's also why the film works so well as a comedy; for the most part, it is a human one.

Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber have written a terrific adaptation of the Sestero book that never goes for the easy joke but always is aware this is first and foremost a human comedy.

Following on from the latest poster comes a new trailer for DreamWorks Animation's extraterrestrial comedy adventure Home, which you can check out below after the official synopsis... When Earth is taken over by the overly - confident Boov, an alien race in search of a new place to call home, all humans are promptly relocated, while all -LSB-...]

Christopher Nolan deserves much respect for addressing these human emotions and desires with the overwhelming vastness of space, and doing so in a time when Hollywood producers would much rather financially back the next superhero or even a sequel to a 20 year old comedy.

The first meeting between Arlo and the human boy doesn't go smoothly in the latest trailer for Pixar's new comedy - adventure.

Both men were born in Brooklyn, started as stand - up comedians, and became famous for writing distinctly Jewish comedies, works steeped in neuroses and observational human humor.

Marshall would probably argue that the audience is laughing with them, but when a scene where Carla loudly yet earnestly describes human reproduction is played for comedy, the audience is clearly supposed to laugh at her.

Vampires are one thing (and though the «Twilight» comparisons are inevitable, they're completely unwarranted), but the idea of doing a romantic comedy where a zombie falls in love with a human is ripe for exactly the kind of dark humor that «Warm Bodies» will hopefully deliver in spades.

In fact, most scenes tended to go completely against the grain, where one scene played for silly comedy while the next ended up being dark, brooding and excessively violent in a way that loses the audience sympathy and ability to identify with any of the characters as human beings.

«The Room» is a drama that is also a comedy that is also an existential cry for help that is finally a testament to human endurance.

However, as much of an actors» director as Cassavetes has been known to be, there's only so much he can do for the likes of bikini bombshell Kate Upton and perpetually - smiling male model Taylor Kinney (Zero Dark Thirty), whose inability to emote like normal humans sucks all the air out of the comedy whenever they appear on screen.

Shooting in a 4:3 aspect ratio (apparently for practical reasons), Oram's direction is assured throughout, shifting seamlessly between genuinely shocking moments, gross - out comedy (there are certainly more prosthetic penises on display than in your average humans - behaving - like - apes movie) and surprising moments of tenderness.

Things acclaimed British director Mike Leigh is known for: wry comedy - drama poking at ordinary lives and the class system, a compassionate yet sharp take on the human condition, his almost unique working method that involves workshopping and improvising for months with his cast before a frame of film is shot.

There is clearly a space for high concept family comedies featuring talking animals and some humans looking like they'd rather be anywhere else doing anything else.

http://www.nerdlocker.com — This week the Nerds discuss topics like: Miley Cyrus becomes part of Adam Sandler's crew in Hotel Translyvania, Star Trek 2 has its sights on a villain, Maniac enlists a hobbit, Titans just can't help itself, Steve Carell only does comedy, Mad Max: Fury Road goes for the warm and fuzzies, Robocop analyzes human emotion.

Their comedy works because the Farrellys have not only a keen eye for but also a deep sympathy with human foible; when Jack Black's Hal in Shallow Hal scolds his overweight girlfriend's father for denigrating her looks, we get the gag that in Hal's eyes, she's Gwyneth Paltrow, and we likewise understand that many of this fat girl's self - esteem issues probably do have something to do with the amount of support she's getting from the people closest to her.

by Angelo Muredda The apocalypse becomes an occasion for everything from learning what makes humans tick to getting to know the distant alien who is your significant other in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's genre - defying twentieth feature Before We Vanish, which might be most firmly characterized as a black comedy if it weren't so puckishly sunny.

Known for his work with the sketch comedy team Human Giant and his role on the FX sitcom The League, Scheer also co-hosts the podcast How Did This Get Made?

«Dear White People»: Justin Simien's debut film sputters and sizzles with energy, making for comedy that says something and drama that finds the humor in human fallibility; it's been a long time since a debut by an American writer - director showed so much coordination between its ambitions and execution.

It's also been a year for a mild rejuvenation of comedies, whether they avoid farce and focus on the human elements for humor or, in a few cases, incisively satirize a genre while still paying respect (Only two of them are on my list proper, so I've isolated the others apart from the honorable mentions — not to say they're better than those below them but to give them their due).

In Maum's charming and funny mix of romantic comedy and acid social critique, trend - forecaster Sloane accepts a job at a showy tech firm, but instead of initiating luxury electronics, she finds herself advocating for less screen time and more human - to - human contact.

The comedy manga, which was nominated for Best Comic at France's Angoulême International Comics Festival this year, follows two aliens posing as students in Tokyo to observe the human race.

The pratfall reveals an innate human truth, and comedy is exactly about incorporating such folly, or potential for failure, into our actions.

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