Sentences with phrase «grotesque scenes»

Flowing over and out of their gilded frames» physical limits, these three - dimensional paintings capture grotesque scenes with animals, half - human figures and invented beasts that represent Gutheil's continued exploration of excess, exaggeration, chaos, and figurative painting.

The biggest failure for a comedy is the lack of laughter, and I didn't laugh once at the grotesque scenes of employees photocopying private parts, or conservative business men getting drunk and swinging on Christmas lights, even the Kelly Clarkson look - alike pimp wasn't funny.

From March's twelve - year - old daughter Holly (Angourie Rice) spewing out lines that Black and Anthony Bagarozzi seem to have written solely for shock value, to several grotesque scenes of head - bashing and bone - cracking, to countless inexplicable and pointless deaths by gunfire, the film was too extreme and thoughtless with its violence for my taste.

After the grotesque scene ended, what was left of John was claimed by his disciples and laid in a tomb.

In one grotesque scene, she won't even allow her young daughter a bathroom break.

It was a grotesque scene.

Not exact matches

Not only is this a halfhearted attempt at capitalizing on yet another cult classic, but it has received the most offensive CSI - style glazing - over that the networks seem to think is what constitutes good story and visuals these days: Glamour, Glitz, Perfect Hair, Stylish Clothes, Fake Top 40 Music, Anorexic Women and let's not forget Flash Scene Cuts and Grotesque Overuse of CG Recoloring.

But the actors are infectious in their approach to the material: McAdams brings a zesty exuberance even to the film's most grotesque gags (including a back - alley surgery scene), while Billy Magnusson plays the group's resident dimwit, Ryan, with shit - eating glee.

Even The Devils, more frenzied and grotesque, offers some contrast to the scenes of death and torture in the tender scenes of Grandier «s marriage to Madeleine.

The film has the odd interesting loose - end, uses music unpredictably and it is properly grotesque in places, such as the first scene in which we see the Brufort family chewing on the various limbs and body parts of their victims.

Tusk is topped with grotesque transformation scenes, crimson spattered skin, and a plethora of severed limbs that will keep any American travelers out of the Canadian backwoods for many years to come.

The kill scenes are grotesque and satisfy genre thirsty fans.

Character in the old - fashioned sense is distributed much more liberally to character actors in character parts: a prison guard who performs Bach (Tim Blake Nelson), a sadistic mad - scientist surgeon with an archetypally grotesque assistant (Peter Stormare and Caroline Lagerfelt), and the biggest scenery chewer of all, a greenhouse scientist named Dr. Iris Hineman (Lois Smith — the same actress, I was astonished to recall, who played a whorehouse madam's callow young assistant in East of Eden 48 years ago), who's accorded one scene in order to give us some vital exposition.

The murder scene is then artfully arranged into a grotesque tableau, a graphic illustration of each mortal vice.

Smooth camera work that never shies away from the more grotesque moments, strong performances, gracefully patient tension building scenes all lay the groundwork for a third act that is a pure, unadulterated maelstrom.

The film is grotesque without blood and gore and with only one scene of violence.

From his start as the enfant terrible of the early -»90s independent scene, Korine has been obsessed with grotesque beauty.

- Scenes containing some grotesque images.

Amirpour can choreograph and shoot scenes of grotesque brutality like nobody's business, but her command of pacing and composition really sets her apart.

There's energy in the thing, no question, even if it's stolen, a few scenes and shots breathlessly romantic and breathtakingly kinetic, but Once Upon a Time in Mexico is a picture mostly in love with the grotesque and itself — a work of immense hubris, and a series of barely related vignettes with loosely continuous characters.

That last scene is the most insulting, and not necessarily because it's so disgusting, but because Green uses such a grotesque act to drum up sympathy for his absolutely repugnant character (you see, the baby only started breathing after Gord twirled him around... oh, never mind).

A gag might be attempted at some point after the fact but is lost in the carnage (The remaining finger is a prime example), although the movie's other best scene results in the grotesque death of a character who immediately beforehand announces his role as fodder by way of a dry line reading.

And yet he uses such effusive, vivid vocabulary that he somehow renders these shocking scenes artful, as when writing of a corpse: «All that is left is a grotesque and bloody gallimaufry of bones, sinew, and innards.»

The cut scenes feature characters drawn in a grotesque style, which allows for child - like humour and managed to made me chuckle quite a few times.

These psychologically charged works depict figures, often females, caught in grotesque or surreal scenes — from a hand holding a decapitated head to a man lying next to what appears to be his own skeleton.

His female figures seek a peculiar balance between beautiful and grotesque, situated in dense scenes of sexual gluttony or humorously taunting the viewer with awkward nudity.

Laden with mysterious narratives the domestic bourgeois scenes were transmuted into a grotesque reality.

More recently Cindy Sherman has constructed scenes and photographs showing herself as characters from the grotesque and horror imagination, surrounded by discarded food, human body parts and rubbish.

Her paintings often depict scenes that are absurd, goofy, or grotesque: things seen in the mind's eye.

These paintings were often populated by grotesque and damaged figures in scenes that seemed so full as to almost burst from the frame.

The Pace Gallery has just featured its second exhibition of the wonderfully precise work of James Siena, now a fastidious family man, but one who came to Op through psychedelica, grotesque doodling, and the 1980s alternative art scene.

The Victoriana vibe continues in grotesque botanic illustrations of «corpse plants», archival plans for the glasshouses, an 1858 series of paintings by RK Greville who drew tropical scenes for British audiences (despite never even leaving Scotland), and a room upholstered in a cartoonish saffron linen, with Oliver Osborne's forensic paintings of rubber plants lining the walls.

Initially serving as a basis for her paintings, Aerts» collages on paper consist of roughly cut colour planes arranged to form landscapes Using a generous helping of humour, Aerts merges her fantasy, her surroundings and the art scene into a whole which is both poetic and playful, as well as absurd and grotesque.

Confronted by an art scene dominated by the Abstract Expressionists, and having no truck with abstract painting, he just kept doing what he'd always done: painting narrative and acerbically observant scenes of life keyed to the human figure, often his own, sometimes as an element of remarkably assured and phlegmatically grotesque allegory.

Mainly absent from the art scene in the 1970s, Sturtevant reemerged in the 1980s, and has adhered to her rigorous conceptual strategy ever since, even re-creating Paul McCarthy's fabulously grotesque video performance, «The Painter» in 2002.

With his unique use of ink, acrylics and gouache, Marcel Eichner, graduate of Kunstackademie Düsseldorf, paints fragile characters, grotesque creatures and demons that find themselves in imaginative nightmarish scenes, so chaotic and intense, yet skillfully composed, perfectly balanced and controlled, very often spiced with a splash of humor.

Allison Schulnik's EAGER is a jumble of grotesque and beautiful scenes that begins with a dance of skeletal female figures who communicate with their long, stringy hair, since their faces are absent.