Sentences with phrase «great comedy performance»

CF: Like a great comedy performance, a great presentation is all about communication.

Which is a shame, because Keaton's Oscar win is a hugely deserved one for one of the great comedy performances ever to win in this category.

Not exact matches

Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, and Robert De Niro all give great performances in this dark relationship comedy from director David O. Russell that went on to give Lawrence an Oscar win.

A compilation of the best comedy performances of the late and great Sam Kinison.

Expect to see some great documentaries, performances, music, films and topical features as well as some cracking drama and comedy.

It's written well enough as far as comedies go, and the performances are great of course, making it a fun ride.

Great crime comedy from The Coen Brothers, a smart story with very weird and colorful characters, Jeff Bridges puts on a great comedic performance, great work from the supporting cast that includes John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman and many oGreat crime comedy from The Coen Brothers, a smart story with very weird and colorful characters, Jeff Bridges puts on a great comedic performance, great work from the supporting cast that includes John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman and many ogreat comedic performance, great work from the supporting cast that includes John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman and many ogreat work from the supporting cast that includes John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman and many others

The Revenant — > Serious Drama / Action performance TWOWS — > Very Fun Comedy / Drama performance (SECOND BEST) The Great Gatsby — > Haven't seen but by his dancing gifs, comedic?

Classic performances all round and seemingly unrelated storylines that all come crashing together, a great comedy.

Julia Louis - Dreyfus also gave one of the all - time great romantic comedy performances in «Enough Said,» quite nearly matched by the late James Gandolfini — she's absolutely radiant, even when other characters attempt to shame her into spinsterhood.

A Chinese star who grew up in England (which accounts for her excellent English) and who's appeared in almost 70 films since 1984, including most of the features of Wong Kar - wai, Cheung is exceptionally gifted when she's doing comedy (as in the 1989 The Iceman Cometh) and pantomime (as in her great performance as the silent Shanghai film actress Ruan Ling - yu in Stanley Kwan's 1991 masterpiece Actress).

Robin Williams» movie roles saw him go self - indulgently gooey as often as self - indulgently manic, but in his last great film performance in pal Bobcat Goldthwait's black comedy World's Greatest Dad, he's brilliant.

After striking Oscar nominations and wins for Black Hawk Down, Ridley Scott wonderfully tones it all back for Matchstick Men, a crime - comedy that boasts an exceptional cast including Nicolas Cage, Alison Lohman, and Sam Rockwell, all turning in great performances.

With standout performances in two great 2016 comedies, British comedic actor Tom Bennett is having one of the year's best breakthroughs.

I, Tonya is a comedy of errors with a great performance by Margot Robbie that will have you feeling for skating's most notorious villain.

The combo results in one of the funniest comedies on television centered around a great comedic performance.

Up to and including the film's legendary final line, spoken by the great Joe E. Brown as Jerry's chief suitor, Wilder's sex comedy confuses sexual definitions on a regular basis and even obliterates them at times, most noticeably in the case of Lemmon's fearless comic performance.

You could make the argument that his habit of producing low - brow comedy makes it a total surprise every time he delivers something like Punch - Drunk Love or Funny People, but the truth is that Sandler's always been great — and we should stop acting like compelling performances like The Meyerowitz Stories are the only proof we have that he doesn't suck.

His illustrious filmography is notable for great films and even better performances: opposite Liam Neeson in Michael Collins; in Dean Parisot's hit comedy Galaxy Quest; Lee's Sense And Sensibility with Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet; Richard Curtis» Love, Actually and most recently with Helen Mirren in Gavin Hood's Eye In The Sky.

Complete with a great quartet of performances from Lizzy Caplan, Alison Brie, Mark Webber and Martin Starr, not to mention one of the most authentic pieces of writing, this should make romantic comedies rethink their strategy.

Whereas the book, intended as satire, is sickeningly misogynist, the movie mocks male machismo, plays like a violent comedy and showcases a fearless performance by Christian Bale (brilliant as a murderous fool with a great physique).

The Jason Bateman — starring comedy is better than it needs to be, thanks to sharp setups and a few great performances.

Deutch, in the latest of a string of great performances, provides balance to the film's self - reflexive, dark coming - of - age comedy.

This appealing comedy delivers big laughs and great performances, and even has a heart and soul to boot.

Featuring a heap of great performances from Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Ben Whishaw, and Olivia Colman, The Lobster manages to thread the needle between dry comedy and an intelligent meditation on the way we socialize love.

The returning cast does a great job with their performances and Lizzy Caplan adds to the comedy and charm.

Abrahamson is a terrifically versatile filmmaker (see the absurdist comedy of «Frank,» next to the searing moral drama of «What Richard Did»), but perhaps his greatest strength is his ability to coax breathtaking performances out of actors.

It's just a superior blend of great comedy timing, character chemistry, brilliant performances and solid writing.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels — Very simple con artist comedy highlighted by great performances by Steve Martin, Michael Caine and Glenne Headly.

Less a spoof of vampire flicks than a fish - out - of - water romantic comedy about a Victorian nobleman trying to negotiate the dating scene of Studio 54 - era Manhattan, this enjoyably silly film is no one's idea of great cinema, but writer Robert Kaufman's concept of a vampire being the standard bearer for old - style morality and romance is an inherently funny conceit helped immensely by a straight - faced lead performance by Hamilton.

A great script and some excellent supporting performances made this a modern - day comedy classic that's even managed to spawn spin - offs and online casino games like Bridesmaids slots.

A lean, punchy, fast paced, and extremely endearing sci - fi action comedy - basically Ghostbusters with aliens - packed with irreverent jokes, boasting two great central performances, and overloaded with hilarious aliens.

Challenging and creative work for teenagers in drama workshops A dark, surreal and comic tale For the PERILOUS TALES collection of surreal and slightly dark cautionary tales by Offbeat Theatre's Barbara Hockley A tale concerning the perils of greed, self interest and narcissism Flexible staging and versatile character work Open to extreme creativity and physical comedy - a great workshop activity, but performances also possible with a licence Plot: Gerald is narcissistic, beautiful, vain and, unfortunately, extremely dim.

• Tony Smith (1912 — 1980), sculptor who bridged AbEx and minimalism (dad of Kiki) Mel Kendrick (b. 1949), formalist process - based sculptor Chris Wilmarth (1943 — 1987), sculptor of steel, bronze, and etched glass Joel Shapiro (b. 1941), minimalist sculptor who flirts with figuration Christopher Wool (b. 1955), Neo-AbExer with a taste for graffiti and repetition Alex Hubbard (b. 1975), rising master of painterly materials and abstract coloration Josh Smith (b. 1976), Factory - like painter of great expressive volume Jacob Kassay (b. 1984), mirrored - painting - wunderkind - turned - sackcloth artist • Andy Warhol (1928 — 1987), Pop maestro and appropriationist world - changer David Robbins (b. 1957), artist and «Concrete Comedy» theorist David LaChapelle (b. 1963), lush photographer of celebrity decadence Ronnie Cutrone (1948 — 2013), Factory personality and East Village cult figure George Condo (b. 1957), Neo-Picassian painter of the grotesque Mark Dagley (b. 1957), Op abstractionist • Richard Serra (b. 1939), grand master of process art and the post-industrial sublime Grégoire Müller (b. 1947), painter of current - event appropriations Philip Glass (b. 1937), «Einstein on the Beach» composer Lawrence Chandler (b. 1951), composer, musician, and sound artist • Sol LeWitt (1928 — 2007), father of conceptual art, multitasking artistic outsourcer Adrian Piper (b. 1948), performance art innovator Mark Williams (b. 1950), monochromatic minimalist painter

Other Grooms films include: The Big Sneeze (1962), a hand - drawn comic filmed by Rudy Burckhardt; Before an» After (1964), a sadomastic comedy that casts Mimi Gross as part dominatrix / part healthclub operator; Fat Feet (1966), a collaboration with Mimi Gross, Yvonne Andersen and Dominic Falcone that begins where Shoot the Moon ends; Tapping Toes (1968 - 70), which uses his first sculpto - pictorama City of Chicago (1967) as its set; Conquest of Libya by Italy (1912 - 13)(1972 - 3), a black and white animation that spoofs that era's newsreels; Hippodrome Hardware (1973), based on Grooms» 1972 live performance of the same name, whose main character Mr. Ruckus is played by Grooms; Grow Great (1974), a live - action short that features Mimi Gross as the household consumer; Little Red Riding Hood (1978), which features his daughter Saskia; and Man Walking Up (1984).