Sentences with phrase «into deadpan»

Charles Ray, All My Clothes, 1973 A total classic — conceptual art pushed into deadpan goofy territory by the younger generation: Charles Ray showing us all of his clothes in a row of photographs.

A step yet further into the deadpan weird from Yorgos Lanthimos.

THE VERDICT: A step yet further into the deadpan weird from Yorgos Lanthimos.

Instead of tightening the reins on Copley or Jenkins, he recedes into deadpan affectations, which basically amount to saying «wait, what?»

As tap dance - loving Violet falls into a «downward spiral,» her group of friends incorporate a new student (played by Crazy Stupid Love's Analeigh Tipton) into their deadpan world of boys, suicide prevention centers, and the «Sambola.»

Director Johan Renck essentially builds Nancy and Albert's reality out of an aggregation of overwrought kitsch... and so what seem like occasional lapses into deadpan moments of fantasy aren't always productive in contrast.

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Lemieux's deadpan expression dissolves into a beatific smile when he's told of all the kvetching.

Jennifer Jason Leigh, as psychologist Dr. Ventress, seems to be aging into a Clint Eastwood type: She's so deadpan, she barely opens her mouth.

As a sign of how well Daley and Goldstein have cast the film, there's an early scene featuring a deadpan Camille Chen as a fertility doctor, whose backhand insults and dives into inappropriate personal matters almost go past our notice.

Then Brooks invites the guests out to his rich - guy house for a different kind of game night, modeled on those murder mystery dinner parties that became a fad a few years ago, and «Game Night» becomes a roller coaster ride, whisking the audience through broad slapstick, deadpan exchanges and imminent threats that sometimes erupt into mayhem.

As Lucille, in her restrictive gowns and with her deader than deadpan voice tone, Chastain sinks her teeth into the considerable scenery.

When frustrated shirt salesman Wikström (Kaurismäki regular Sakari Kuosmanen) first swerves his vintage car past Syrian refugee Khaled (Sherwan Haji, folding depths of emotion into Keaton - style deadpan), it's a fleeting introduction that ties their fates together through low - key coincidence — a force that eventually reunites them, once the former's quest to open a restaurant coalesces with the latter's path through applying for asylum.

The Netflix series turns him into a kind of omnipresent, lachrymose host played with deadpan, note - perfect solemnity by Patrick Warburton.

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.

Admittedly, Gossip Girl's Ed Westwick is cast as Prince Charming but he, too, gets into the dryly deadpan spirit of the thing.

Simultaneously, Miyagi is exposed to the indignities of being mortified by walking in on a brassiere'd Julie, wandering into her wet stockings hanging in the shower, and deadpanning his incredulity at the stupidity of the girly breed.

Here's where I launch into my now - annual call for Martin to host the ceremony with Tina Fey: a pairing that provided the highlight of the 2008 ceremony, where their kooky - deadpan presentation of the writing awards (see the video below if your memory needs jogging) provoked more laughs than the rest of the ceremony put together.

Often indies fall into a pattern of deadpan post-Wes Anderson quirk, but this film firmly carves out its own identity.

The standout scene of the brothers» semi-affectionate riff on 1950s Hollywood throws the brunt of their combined talent for writing and deadpan timing into a two - man vaudeville routine of words and manners, in which a sophisticated director (Ralph Fiennes) and a bumpkin - ish actor (Alden Ehrenreich) struggle to get through a single line of dialogue: «Would that it were so simple.»

The episodic narrative that follows, in which Johnny explores his gifts, investigating incidents of escalating significance, is really just a vehicle for Cronenberg to mine his fascination with bodily horror, with a deadpan approach to violence that occasionally erupts into spectacle.

The film hits the same note of deadpan depression over and over again, until shock calcifies into boredom.

An inveterate and hilarious truth - teller, he delivers exact estimates of the mission's probable failures; Tudyk insinuates a sardonic sensibility and deadpan valor into his patter.

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.

But such ways of control and discipline add to strange dream - like qualities Lanthimos and co-writer Efthymis Filippou infuse into the film: stunted walks, deadpan responses, long periods of silence and stilted surroundings all add to the notion that perhaps everything is but a dream.

They display a wonderful chemistry, and complete command over the process of turning droll, deadpan humor into some uproarious moments.

Peter Bradshaw: A deadpan black comic insight into mafia violence, and a Greeneian meditation on the spiritual lives of those intelligent, middle - management types sucked into its web of fear

A deadpan Thompson aside, female pride of place in Sonnenfeld's view of things goes to Nicole Scherzinger, who sashays into view within minutes of the start only to vanish soon after for keeps.

The standout of the group is also the one we see most rarely in movies these days: Bergen lays into her character's wry aperçus with the impeccable timing and deadpan facial expressions that made her a comedic star on the sitcom «Murphy Brown.»

There is a real sense of life to the action, even when it steers well into the realm of the absurd, although the emotional core of the film is often subsumed by its deadpan humor.

Yet, sliding on the veneer of eye - pleasing production design and a deadpan sense of humour, Anderson never sinks into the frozen abyss.

92 % Ghost World (2001) With acerbic wit, Terry Zwigoff fashions Daniel Clowes» graphic novel into an intelligent, comedic trip through deadpan teen angst - and Thora Birch and Johansson are delightful as a pair of snarky adolescents just out of high school.

But it was his 2011 appearance as himself, on Ricky Gervais» rightfully brief HBO series Life's Too Short, that outlined the particular set of skills Neeson possesses to make his transition into comedy a natural one: a brutal, unflinching deadpan, and a resourceful willingness to play with and mock his increasingly terrifying image.

The actor could easily follow that muse into the late - night world that's been so kind to the aggressive antics of Tim & Eric and Eric André, deadpanning his way through hifalutin works of mindfuckery 15 minutes at a time.

With acerbic wit, Terry Zwigoff fashions Daniel Clowes» graphic novel into an intelligent, comedic trip through deadpan teen angst - and Thora Birch and Johansson are delightful as a pair of snarky adolescents just out of high school.

The Greek writer - director Yorgos Lanthimos's premise plays out with deadpan absurdity: single people must find a mate at a country hotel or be transformed into an animal of their choosing after 45 days.

So we get Pacino doing a Tony Montana growl and A Scent of the Woman dance; Walken doing his deadpan delivery and even a quick little soft shoe; and Arkin falls back into his half - crazed, moment - seizing act.

Flattened out on DVD, the mix begs to be played loud to catch all the deadpan humour layered into Skip Lievsay's richly ambient sound design.

Reeves and Winter are killed by evil robot doubles and sent to hell, where they play Twister with the Grim Reaper (a hilariously deadpan William Sadler with an indeterminate accent) and draft him into their band Wyld Stallyns (where the Grim Reaper goes show - biz with a vengeance).

Her material has never seemed staler, and those deliberate, tumbleweed pauses into which she deadpans her lines are now just gaping abysses where laughs should be.

Indie - film legend and Adam Driver turn deadpan comedy about a New Jersey bus - driving poet into a quiet celebration of everyday people

Payne's deadpan comedy implicates viewers into his view of pathetic, banal people and society.

One week the deadpan host will be tricking someone into marrying him in an attempt to overthrow Uber, the next he will be staging an elaborate cop encounter to have a talk show story.

The film is played noticeably straighter in tone and humour than Anderson's previous deadpan efforts to the point of settling into an overtly laconic rut that struggles to extract even a titter, let alone a wry chuckle.

Jokes about whether or not you can crack it will inevitably follow «The Lobster» into cinemas — where audiences will have to decide whether the film's deadpan weirdness and high - concept ruminations on love and life are for them or not.

«TrollHunter» isn't outright scary, but it sure is fun and goofy combining what's - out - there tension with deadpan humor into the

The joy of transforming seventh graders» deadpan stares into unbridled glee as an active learning experience helps them «get» a difficult concept; the pathos of witnessing the reluctant learner struggle with concepts that others readily grasp; the satisfaction derived from heartfelt appreciation expressed by a former student in a letter or during an impromptu conversation at the local grocery — I derive energy from those situations.

During an Emmy night interview with TV Guide, Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie revealed that several songs would soon be offered for download via the Rock Band Network, leaving us hoping Sub Pop was finally following through on plans to convert the entirety of their catalog into playable tracks, but fearing we'd been fooled by the Kiwi's notoriously deadpan delivery.

Leveraging player expectations as a core design ingredient, The Messenger is first presented as an 8 - bit action platformer with a simple story only to turn into an epic time travelling tale, eventually revealing itself as a 16 - bit Metroidvania packed with replay value and deadpan humor.

Based on Ken Follett's 1200 - page book about 12th century English cathedral - building, Daedalic has taken on a hell of a task by taking a topic that's drier than a deadpan comic dying of thirst in a desert and attempting to turn it into something entertaining.

In the works on view here — including wall pieces, artist's hooks, and one video — Bunn perused the subject headings to cull successions of titles into texts that range from melancholic odes to deadpan truisms.