Sentences with phrase «influence on comedy»

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I would add several authors / books that influenced me outside of Evangelical circles: Alan Jones (Soul Making) Hans Urs von Balthazar (Engagement with God) Frederich Buechner (Telling the Truth) Walker Percy (The Second Coming) Fyodor Dostoyevsky (The Brothers Karamazov) Dante (The Divine Comedy) Madeleine L'Engle (Walking on Water) Anne Lamott (Traveling Mercies)

But the comedy suffers for the egotism or love of the subject, depending on whether you believe McCarthy or Falcone is the driving creative influence on the film.

The narrator of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's, a key influence on Noah Baumbach's blissful mad comedy Mistress America, muses that Holly Golightly is «a lopsided romantic.»

All three of the boys discuss their Top 5 male performance picks of 2010 (and add a few honorable mentions in there to boot), and along the way there are digressions on Stanley Kubrick, Stephen King, the nature and requirement of good comedy writing and whether or not it is a good idea to watch mega-blockbusters under the influence of strong cocktails and bacon popcorn.

The movie becomes a situational comedy once the couples realize that Vivian is a bad influence on them (In case one wasn't certain, she's presented as a miserable person because of a divorce, and the movie makes a rather discomforting argument that the only thing she needs to be happy is to be roughly handled by a man).

Wes Anderson returns to the animal hijinks and stop - motion animation that powered his Fantastic Mr. Fox with this futuristic, supposedly Kurosawa - influenced comedy about a little boy searching for his lost canine companion on a remote Japanese landfill where all of the country's dogs have been quarantined.

From the midlife - crisis title on down to the casting of Brooks as Rudd's father (his own warm, shaggy work as a writer - director has clearly influenced this writer - director in creating credible characters and comedy), «Forty» feels like a logical progression for Apatow's career, and if that tentative December date is any indication, it might finally earn him and his cast of regulars some much deserved awards attention.

In its final third especially, as Prince Ning turns jealous and villainous, the movie's wild violence spikes, though not enough to completely derail its carnival atmosphere, which comes across like an Oriental take on Werner Hedman's Danish In the Sign of... 1970s sex comedies crossed with the aforementioned influences with maybe a little bit of Circle of Iron thrown in for good measure.

You will recognize the influence of Frank Capra's charming screwball comedy on the Coen Brothers» The Hudsucker Proxy.

Director Jon Wright's Tremors influenced Irish horror comedy Grabbers has been on our radar for a while now, but only today...

Created by comic David Steinberg and executive produced by Steve Carell, «Inside Comedy» began as a documentary that outgrew the bounds of a feature running time and became instead of a half - hour Showtime series that's now on its third season of Steinberg interviewing comedians and other funny people about their process, careers and influences.

(Oddly enough, this makes one of its closest cousins 1982's E.T.) The film's mix of voiceovers from Shepherd, fantasy sequences, and hyper - real depictions of Ralphie's childhood as it «actually» happened feels like a distinct influence on The Wonder Years, which would make the movie an indirect influence on many of the single - camera comedies of the last 30 years.

Director Paul Thomas Anderson cited Howard Hawks's slippery 1946 thriller The Big Sleep as a major influence on his freewheeling new comedy Inherent Vice, particularly the suggestion that it doesn't actually make sense.

Its influence on mainstream comedy is clear to see, though usually it's punky young guys — think Jonah Hill or Michael Cera — with the verbal diarrhea.

WHY: Christopher Landon's «Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse» desperately wants to be the next great horror / comedy, but while it boasts some great gore effects and inventive kills, the film is disappointingly short on laughs, despite being clearly influenced by cult classics like «Shaun of the Dead» and «Zombieland.»

While audiences remain divided on the quality of his later film work, he touched us deeply — and made us laugh hysterically — in films as diverse as The World According to Garp, Moscow on the Hudson, Good Morning Vietnam, Dead Poets Society (his portrayal of Mr. Keating had an enormous influence on my own early teaching), The Fisher King, Mrs. Doubtfire and Good Will Hunting (for which he won an Oscar after 3 previous nominations), not to mention his multitude of stand - up comedy performances.

They share a background in comedy, but cite everything from punk to surrealism and the occult as influences on Tunley's...

Thematically rich and pointedly written, the film is a black - comedy screed on the legacy of the Catholic Church, its various sex scandals and its waning influence, and though a melancholic solemnity guides the existential second half, «Calvary» never loses its predestined focus.

She draws regularly from literary influences — from Dante's epic Divine Comedy to the Icelandic writer Halldór Laxness» writings on the spiritual aspects of nature, which served as an important reference point for They Come to Us without a Word (2015), her recent critically - acclaimed work for the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (9 May — 22 November 2015).

Artist Michael Smith discusses the influence of standup comedy and television on his early video and performance works, on - view in the exhibition Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama — Manhattan, 1970 — 1980 (October 31, 2013 — February 2, 2014).

(It's clear that Monty Python is the key influence on Canada's political Zeitgeist this summer considering the recent anti-spam laws and «spam» nomenclature's debt to the legendary sketch comedy troupe.)