Sentences with word «irreverence»

Introversion's Chris Delay introduced us to the indie upstarts fresh from their success with Uplink, Seamus Blackley began his monthly column of irreverence with a tirade against E3, and we relocated the Develop pub to the US for an Uncle Sam - themed chew of the fat.

Natalia Valdebenito: El Especial (Netflix Original, 2018): A Chilean comedian fuses activism with irreverence for a stand - up set filled with jokes about misogyny, reproductive rights and respecting women.

By bombarding viewers with irreverence in all aspects of the film, Miller actually undermines the title character's gestures in that direction.

Freddie indicates an attitude of playful irreverence in art making, neither looking too far forward nor too far backwards; a heightened curiosity for the present, a willing of the everyday to offer up occasional wonder.

He pursued his M.F.A. at the University of Colorado and during the late 1960s gravitated towards a Pop sensibility, particularly admiring the playful irreverence of the Chicago Hairy Who artists and the California Funk movement, having studied under visiting professor William Wiley.

The SCAD Museum of Art and SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film present «Refined Irreverence,» a dual exhibition celebrating Carolina Herrera and the 35th anniversary of the House of Herrera.

Today, it remains a model of artists getting - by - and making - do with few resources, a «pop - up» venue before such a thing became a marketing tool and, above all, a space with a healthy sense of irreverence towards arts institutions.

«He has the same irreverence as Steve Jobs had,» Lopez told the E-Commerce Times.

Morris has worked with Crumb since 1999 and says the artist, who built his reputation on irreverence and countercultural comics, remains pertinent, highlighting the potential influence of his output on American painters including Lisa Yuskavage and John Currin.

Beerfest bubbles with the cheeky irreverence of early John Landis and David Zucker.

Although the Spirit Awards are the indie film community's response to the Oscar — the ceremony usually features a healthy irreverence for the Academy Awards — several Independent Spirit Award nominees and winners have gone on to win Oscars, including last year's best - actress winner, Charlize Theron, for Monster.

Reckless driving means your driving showed irreverence or indifference to the safety or property of others.

Yves Saint Laurent's eponymous collection immortalized Parisian irreverence when it launched in 1961.

In which David Wain, he of Wet Hot American Summer fame, takes on the life of Doug Kenney (played by Will Forte and, in his omniscient - narrator state, Martin Mull), a Harvard man who'd co-create the National Lampoon, co-write Animal House and inject much - needed vulgar irreverence into American comedy before mysteriously falling off a cliff in 1980.

The iconoclastic musician Captain Beefheart came along at the same time and performed with the same irreverence as his friend Frank Zappa.

Tony Award winners Miranda and Olivo fluidly deliver complicated passages, moving from Spanish to English, didactic to idiomatic, while maintaining a gleeful irreverence in the saga of «ghetto nerd» Oscar.

The difference here from before is that Monáe is now approaching the subject of her sexuality with more irreverence, still powerful, but now «with a little bit of tender,» and a whole lot of «bisexual lighting.»

Today's resurgence of «90s fashion is evident in new collections that exude the decade's laid - back quality, minimalist sporty style, cool irreverence, and tough - girl edge.

With Reynolds» charismatic irreverence at its core, the pic moves from bloody mayhem to lewd comedy and back fluidly, occasionally even making room to go warm and mushy.

This «feminist Fountain,» states the exhibition catalogue by Kokoli and Śliwińska, «exorcises the phallic arrogance of Duchamp's readymade while also challenging the breezy irreverence of Bruce Nauman's 1960s riff».

It sounds fun in theory, I guess, and there are some entertaining moments of rude irreverence here and there but the giddiness gets a bit tedious after a while.

Ruscha achieved recognition for paintings incorporating words and phrases and for his many photographic books, all influenced by the deadpan irreverence of the Pop Art movement.

In many ways a fitting avatar for Brătescu, Aesop manifests in the works on view as a symbol of antic irreverence, mocking authority and status.

This very earnest and pious new film about Mary Magdalene would surely have benefitted from a little of the ribaldry and irreverence found in Monty Python's The Life Of Brian.

It takes the idea of a classic piece and treats it lightheartedly and with a little irreverence.

Known as an inventive poet of early sound cinema in France, thanks to such sharp, creative films as Under the Roofs of Paris (1930), Le million (1931), and À nous la liberté (1931), Clair had a reputation that preceded him to Hollywood, and I Married a Witch overflows with the same comic irreverence and fleet storytelling as his earlier films.

«Deadpool 2,» cracking wise at the expense of nearly every intellectual property in the DC and Marvel universes — and occasionally drawing metaphorical blood to go along with the abundant onscreen gore — uses its self - aware irreverence to perform the kind of brand extension and franchise building it pretends to lampoon.

John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter: «With Reynolds» charismatic irreverence at its core, the pic moves from bloody mayhem to lewd comedy and back fluidly, occasionally even making room to go warm and mushy.

This defiance of expectations, done with bold - faced irreverence, allows Lucy to work on its own terms.

And this decade, a lot of other bloggers mistook a strong writing voice for caustic irreverence.

It's so excessive and theatrical, and the choreography is of course stunning, but Fosse's complete irreverence toward the subject of his own death is what really gets me.

The sub-Mad Magazine style irreverence that characterizes Troma movies spawns gags about... read more

Their friendships matter most to them, and that's what gives the show its emotional potency, but «Cougar Town» very much enjoys reveling in energetic irreverence, running jokes and bawdy high jinks.

Because no amount of wacky irreverence and wank gags can mask the fact that this Deadpool is little more than a dutiful company man, the kind of faux - chummy authority figure who claims to have the common touch but spends his weekends rubbing shoulders with top - ranking execs at highly exclusive country clubs.

They five artists are sometimes identified with «California funk,» characterized by bawdy irreverence, iconoclasm, and self - deprecating humor.

One of Ubisoft's madcap, bug - eyed mascots dressed in Princess Peach cosplay, she fuses the anarchic irreverence of the former with the queenly preening of the latter in a squat, sassy bundle of diva delight.

Leitch's ability to create violent eye - candy is a given, but he and the screenwriters find the right balance between irreverence and storytelling.

In its refreshing irreverence, however, this 1981 time - travel fantasy gives more time to the Evil Genius, or just Evil, slitheringly played by David Warner, who proves the age - old wisdom that bad guys are way more fun to watch than good guys.

Deadpool's comic book appearances have always had a certain irreverence to them, and the films have managed captured that spirit rather well.

The writer / director's distinctive brand of genre homage remains, evolving from horror to action to science fiction; his good - natured irreverence again rears its head in satirical commentary and clever comedy; his man - child protagonists return, with different character names and dynamics but the same immature traits.

Mixing arcade style high score gameplay with humorous irreverence, Dangerous Golf isn't about Par or Birdie.

A side - scrolling shooter, Cyber-Lip falls somewhere between being a Metal Slug clone and a Contra rip - off that nevertheless achieves its own unique blend of punk irreverence and chaotic sci - fi.

Upending traditional distinctions between fine, folk, and decorative arts, Grebenak subverts the readymade tendencies of the Pop - era to establish a cheeky - irreverence all her own.

by Nadiah Fellah Humor and irreverence mark Chicago artist Scott Reeder's new exhibition of paintings and sculptures at Lisa Cooley in New York.

Discussing her choice of title for the Serpentine exhibition with the gallery's Artistic Director, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Wylie explained, «It was Dada, it was irreverent, and I like irreverence.

He alludes to the punk aesthetic that I consider understated subversion — irreverence combined with a sophisticated and technically proficient practice.