Sentences with phrase «from human comedy»

They career from human comedy to mind - numbing vulgarity.

Not exact matches

The bathetic pomp of the heavy, tasseled brocades, the marble, the censers hanging from chains, the embroidered antependium, the aspergillum, the crosiers the ornate lamps — some human's idea of elegance — bespoke grand comedy, too, that God put with it.

Many would say that World's Greatest Dad has quite a misleading title, but this couldn't be further from the truth, perfectly summing up a dangerously funny film that pushes the boundaries of comedy, but also how us human beings may deal when tragedy strikes under the most unexplainable of

Disturbing and interesting at the same time, it's a brilliant comedy that shows many human interactions from every perspective, not all of them are equally interesting and characterized.

Aside from these momentary lapses and some third - act stuff that wants us to take the characters far more seriously as human beings than we're capable of doing, «The Campaign» is an effective vulgar comedy about two idiots competing with each other.

From there the Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo turns the film into a dark romantic comedy that focuses on human relationships and human flaws.

And the marvel is that she never loses her innate femininity, even when performing some very outlandish physical comedy — like turning her Lily Garland character into a human barbell so lover boy Bruce Granit (Andy Karl being absurdly macho) can do his bicep curls as the 20th Century carries the two of them from Chicago to New York City in 16 hours.

Up until this point, John Cusack had spent almost his entire cinematic career in teen comedies, from Class to The Sure Thing via cult classic Better Off Dead to the misfired Hot Pursuit, Cusack's unique and very human screen persona stole every show he was in - but by 1988, he'd become determined to move on into more serious and adult cinema.

Take The Human Centipede and sprinkle liberally with the old Bob and Doug McKenzie sketches from SCTV and the result is Tusk, Kevin Smith's underbaked horror - comedy hybrid.

The six degrees of Kevin Bacon, we've all played it; a comedy game which takes from the six degrees of separation - a theory by which every human...

From awkward interactions to fractured relationships, Lynn Shelton is a master at capturing modern day human comedies, frequently focusing on characters in a state of arrested development.

The source material is the 1943 novel «The Human Comedy» from Pulitzer Prize winning writer William Saroyan; and it's the directorial debut of Meg Ryan, the one - time «America's Sweetheart» who reunites with her Sleepless in Seattle co-star Tom Hanks (in a ghostly cameo).

Based on his one - man show of the same name (which was in turn inspired by actual events from his life), the film is a witty, sharply written human comedy about professional rejection and the fear of commitment.

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-...]

In this comedy - drama from Eran Riklis, an Israeli human resources manager battles obstacles, often ridiculous, to transport the body of a deceased woman to her hometown in a nameless Eastern European country.

On his journey back from rock bottom, Callahan finds beauty and comedy in the absurdity of human experience.

LFO is a micro-budgeted, low - fi sci - fi comedy from Sweden's Antonio Tublen that looks at human nature in a supremely twisted way.

Based on his one - man show of the same name (which was in turn inspired by actual events from his life), the film is a witty and consistently funny human comedy about the fear of commitment, and hands - down my favorite movie at this year's SXSW.

TELLURIDE, Colo. — At last here is real humor, welling up from the heart and from human nature, instead of the crude physical comedy of Hollywood's summer specials.

Its awkward mix of high - concept comedy, magic (literalizing the walk - a-mile-in-someone-else's shoes cliché) and grating sentimentality would be off - putting coming from anyone, but from a director whose stock in trade to that point had been gentle dramedies, delivering human insights with a deft light hand?

Mila Kunis will lend her voice to Hell & Back, an R - rated stop - motion animated comedy from Tom Gianas (Human Giant) and Ross Shuman (Robot Chicken).

A comedy with just as many moments of sadness, disaffection and humiliation as there are laughs, the film never shies away from awkward human strangeness.

Becker's impressively batshit comedy attempts to ring laughs out of everything from debilitating / hilarious facial paralysis, tanning accidents, jetpacks, and perhaps most insanely, a subplot involving Bernie Mac (in, tragically, his final performance) as a superstar puppeteer with a weird human - sized puppet suit that allows him to manipulate real people (in this case Williams) as if he were an enormous puppet.

Dramatic films which have portrayed the «homefront» during times of war, and the subsequent problems of peacetime adjustment include William Wyler's Mrs. Miniver (1942) about a separated middle - class family couple (Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon) during the Blitz, Clarence Brown's The Human Comedy (1943) with telegram delivery boy Mickey Rooney bringing news from the front to small - town GI families back home, John Cromwell's Since You Went Away (1944) with head of family Claudette Colbert during her husband's absence, and another William Wyler poignant classic The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) with couples awkwardly brought back together forever changed after the war: Dana Andrews and Virginia Mayo, Fredric March and Myrna Loy, and Harold Russell and Cathy O'Donnell.

Some great comedies have arisen from the darkest periods in human history.

But there is much more on the films plate than simply laughing - to - prevent - from - crying at the current state of America, the film delves into life philosophy, behavior etiquette in the modern world and simple human dignity in ways that only a good comedy can.

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.

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.

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.

But when the comedy from the humans starts to sag and audiences miss the subversive kick of Key and Peele, there's always Keanu's third star — an adorable sprightly kitten — to help the whole thing hang together.

Starring Craig Robinson (The Office, This Is the End) and Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation, Big Little Lies), Ghosted is a comedy about the partnership between two polar opposites — a cynical skeptic and a genius «true believer» in the paranormal — who are recruited by a secret government agency, known as The Bureau Underground, to save the human race from aliens.

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).

Rituals since 1851», Fondazione La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy (2015); «Chercher le Garçon», MAC / VAL, Paris, France (2015); «Staying Power: Photographs of Black British Experience 1950s - 1990s», Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England (2015); «Progress», The Foundling Museum, London, England (2014); «Study from the Human Body», Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (2014); «The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists», Frankfurt MMK, Germany; travels to Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, USA; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Correo Venezia, Venice; Hayward Gallery, London, England (2014); «Education», Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Pfäffikon, Switzerland (2013); «Victoriana: The Art of Revival», Guildhall Art Gallery, London, England (2013); «Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa», Smithsonian Institute, National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA (2013); «The Desire for Freedom: Art in Europe since 1945», Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany (2012); «Six Yards, Guaranteed Real Dutch Wax Exhibition», Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem, Netherlands (2012); and «Migrations: Journeys into British Art», Tate Britain, London, England (2012).

In both videos, as speakers engage with technical processes and bureaucratic systems, human vulnerability is gently drawn out, suffusing the works with an atmosphere of existential comedy, wrought from a present governed by opaque systems of control.

Select group exhibitions and biennials featuring her work include Making & Unmaking, Camden Arts Centre, London (2016); Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney's Collection, Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York (2016); Surrealist: The Conjured Life, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2015); Picasso & Contemporary Art, Le Grand Palais, Paris (2015); Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, traveled to Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, GA, and the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (2014); The Shadows Took Shape, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2013); Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013); The Luminous Interval, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain (2011); The Spectacle of the Everyday, and Black Womanhood, San Diego Museum of Art, CA (2009).

Be it drama or comedy alike, exploring existential philosophical or simply very personal ideas and thoughts on the human condition and working from deep down my own emotional pipeline.»

What follows is what appears to be a fictional review of Henri de Marsay's «latest work» — a fictional character from Balzac's The Human Comedy — who was given five out of five stars by the «reviewer» and writer of the press release, SICKLUCY.

-- Carnival, Masquerade and other Forms of Authorised Anarchy, Kunsthalle Villa Rot, Burgrieden, Germany 2014 The House of The Flying Wheel, Backlit Gallery, Nottingham, UK: travelled to Morley Gallery, England 2014 Study from the Human Body, Stephen Friedman, Gallery, London, England 2014 Progress, The Foundling Museum, London, England 2014 Misled by Nature: Contemporary Art and the Baroque, The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada 2014 Ship to Shore, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, England 2014 The Human Factor, Hayward Gallery, London, England 2014 Interchange Junctions, 5 Howick Place, London, England 2014 The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists, curated by Simon Njami, Frankfurt MMK, Frankfurt, Germany; travels to Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, USA; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Correo Venezia, Venice; Hayward Gallery, London, England 2014 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England 2014 Collection IX.