Sentences with phrase «from deadpan»

His works run the gamut from deadpan, minimalist interventions to rapidly rendered, expressionistic portraits.

His visual language is drawn from a deadpan observation of the world around him... McGlynn's work is... about the immediacy of simply looking at stuff...»

We will also show small photographs by Sam Samore from his deadpan, 1973 The Suicidist series and a sixteen - foot wide 1998 automobile painting by Andreas Schulze.

Europe's refugee crisis backdrops this unconventional family drama from deadpan master Michael Haneke.

The assured, ironic tone of the presentation cements the comedic approach, with the laughs flowing from the deadpan introductory sequence.

The trailer goes from deadpan serious...

Yorgos Lanthimos's freeze - dried revenge saga casts Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman as a moneyed married couple who find themselves targeted by a supernatural teenager (Barry Keoghan), while the tale slaloms from deadpan black comedy through Cape Fear - ish thrills towards a finale of such matter - of - fact horror that it can only be watched through splayed fingers.

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Never straying too far from his topic — economic development, good; welfare and idleness, evil — he employs a number of rhetorical asides and deadpan irony to keep his audience alert.

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

Rubin delivered a deadpan sense of humor as a mainstay of Herald Sports from 1976 to 2002.

«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.

Masters of Atlantis is the deadpan account of how a young American Lamar Jimmerson becomes convinced in 1918 that he has been given the charge of bringing the teachings of Gnomonism, the true Pythagorean science esoterically passed down over the ages from the survivors of Atlantis, to his fellow Americans, and of how he actually gathers a significant following of believers, with the help of the Great Depression and some all - American promotional methods.

BS like what DA was saying is just more of the Circus Crapshow the media have put on all year with the Spurs and Kawhi, the media's attempt at revenge on the team that has by and large kept them out during their recent two decades of success (if not from Timmy's deadpan silence then Kawhi's, then it was Pop insulting their intelligence to their faces on a nightly basis).

From sweet, sweet Dave with the rosewater colon to his parents to the school janitor, they take the deadpan and run with it.

And Eagle deployed her trademark deadpan humour after observing that leading Conservatives who back leaving the EU were missing from the front bench.

With deadpan humor (and English subtitles), the World Cup competitors tell a reporter from the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) that it's plain and simple: They really are no good at soccer.

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.

The sight gags and deadpanning from the crew are nowhere to be found, leaving the burden of engagement squarely on the shoulders of a featherweight story which simply does not do enough to carry it.

Two performances in Game Night stood out to me, which is an accomplishment, since everyone in the film gave memorable and entertaining performances from Magnussen's look of child - like wonder when he was right about something everyone else doubted to Horgan's quick wit and ability to quickly and naturally go from moments of honest laughter to moments of unforgettable deadpan.

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.

It's often funny, too, in a deadpan, gallows - humour sort of way, and more than ever Payne allows the humour to rise up gently from his story rather than burst through it.

As Beth, we see her stretching in both directions, deadpanning («What do you want from me, Zach?

November 16, 2017 • We asked the artist behind the popular webcomic Poorly Drawn Lines to share the thinking behind a few of the hilariously deadpan comics from his latest book.

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?»

The result is a much more suspenseful and emotionally engaging exercise that also benefits from well - timed shots of deadpan humor along the way.

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.

With meticulously detailed creations and brilliant voice work from Toni Collette and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, ``; Mary & Max»; touches on some tough topics with hilarious deadpan humor.

Plummer's a very different actor from Spacey: a generation older (actually closer to the age of the actual Getty) and possessed of a trademark irascible warmth, in contrast to Spacey's patented icy deadpan.

Baskets is another brilliant production from Louis CK, Jonathan Krisel, and the wonderfully deadpan Zach Galifinakis.

The older in - laws — Doris Roberts, E.G. Marshall, Diane Ladd, John Randolph, William Hickey and Mae Questel — repeatedly steal scenes from the younger actors, including the remarkably deadpan Juliette Lewis and Johnny Galecki.

Still, this tame but fitfully funny goof on suspense cinema at least assembles an agreeable guest list — from McAdams, beamingly charming even when her character is fishing a bullet out of her husband's arm, to a hysterically deadpan Jesse Plemons, playing the awkward, heartbroken cop who lives next door.

Best of all is an excerpt from the jury press conference, in which actor Donald Sutherland brings down the house with an uproarious joke delivered with impeccable deadpan timing.

From there, the rest of the movie is mostly a matter of lining up the pins and winding up the mystery with a nice send - off: a touch of violence, another snappy walk on (sign in, Martin Donovan), and a deadpan gem of a dope hand - off to a suburban mom and kids complete with station wagon (the Golden Fang sinks its tooth of crime in everything).

As Time Out says, you need to be in the mood for the «slow, deadpan groove», but this was one of my favourites from the London Film Festival.

Fictionalizing a 24 hour period in Cave's life which unfolds as a first - person documentary peppered with woozy, dreamlike encounters that may simply be ghosts of a dimly remembered past, «20,000 Days» is saved from unbearable self - indulgence by the deadpan but unmistakably self - aware direction.

The show takes cues from the big screen as well: Its absurdist deadpan and quasi-documentary feel (the episodes are shot on handheld camera without a studio audience or laugh track) recall Christopher Guest's improvisational gems.

Favorites of the Moon: 30th Anniversary Edition (Cohen, Blu - ray, DVD), winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, is a deadpan satire of modern life and social hypocrisy with characters, rich and poor alike, from a lively Paris suburb whose lives criss - cross and tangle with one another.

But there's also plenty that moves the spirit in that uniquely Andersonian way, from the endearing amateurishness of young newcomers Hayward and Gilman (their natural fumbling is perfect for a story about naive first love) to the stellar support lent by Murray, McDormand, Norton and Willis, who each convey a lifetime of concealed hurts with every gesture and deadpan - absurd line reading.

Unemployed art school graduates Mingming and Yue take turns filming each other with a small camera, exploring a range of issues rarely shown in any national cinema with such deadpan accuracy — from the complex waters of female friendship to «pussy» as a commodity, from the desire to use filmmaking as a weapon to the decision to make a baby — an up - in - your face, playful, sassy deconstruction of what it means to be a young woman now.

But whenever the move threatens to work, there's Chevy Chase with his monotone, deadpan cynicism, distancing himself from the material.

Building on the tradition he had established in films like Alps and Dogtooth, he there brought his obsession with societies built on arcane systems of governance to glorious fruition in a mesmerizing tale anchored by a deliriously deadpan performance from Colin Farrell (Seven Psychopaths).

Anderson's animal dolls could have stepped right out of museum dioramas and into their vintage - store wardrobes, and the mix of stillness and sudden action (from discreetly ruffled fur to a sudden acrobatic leap) is an animated analogue to the deadpan performances of his human casts.

Endlessly quotable and hilariously deadpan, this end - of - the - world movie benefits from its cast — including Julia Stiles, David Cross, and America Ferrera — and its characters» seemingly endless variations on navel - gazing selfishness.

Duchovny maintains a Fox Mulder - type balance of deadpan sarcasm and seriousness throughout; the pouty Jolie is stiffly earnest; and Massee and especially Hutton seemed to have wandered in from the broad comedy next door.

In many ways, it recalls the Sparrow character he so brilliantly created for the «Pirates» franchise, from his headscarf to his deadpan reactions to his amusing brand of bumbling competence.

To be fair, the first half is actually very engaging and interesting, as the terrier Max (voiced with deadpan humor and line delivery by Louis C.K.) and his new humongous furry mutt roommate (played by Eric Stonestreet) escape animal control (following being kidnapped for accidentally straying away from their dog walker), come across what is essentially a mob of unwanted animals led by a rabbit (voiced by Kevin Hart, and as you can probably assume, his performance is energetic and most definitely fits animation).

Director Luca Guadagnino and star Dakota Johnson showed off a terrifying clip from their remake of Dario Argento's Suspiria, which after it played, marketing and distribution chief Bob Berney deadpanned, «Dancing is dangerous.»

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.

That international breakout status has recently seen Szifron, who has a lovely, confident touch with black humor and deadpan comedic performances, take over the director's chair from Peter Berg on 2017's «The Six Billion Dollar Man» with Mark Wahlberg.

Still, the leads remain masters at mining improvisational gold from even the thinnest material: Peele can register panic in a few hilariously shifty eye movements, and the motormouthed Key retains his flair for both the over-the-top pronouncement and the deadpan non sequitur («Wordness to the turdness,» he notes in a failed attempt at gangsta speak).