Sentences with phrase «melancholic comedy»

The melancholic comedy set in the»60s New York City folk scene earned a Best Actor win for Oscar Isaac and a Best Screenplay nod for the Coen brothers.

Based on the memoir of Solomon Northup, a free man kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841, 12 Years a Slave is joined in the Best Film category by Alfonso Cuarón's sci - fi thriller Gravity and Joel and Ethan Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis, a melancholic comedy set in the»60s New York folk scene.

This wry, melancholic comedy from Aki Kaurismäki, a response to the ongoing global refugee crisis, follows two people searching for a place to call home.

Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino directs Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel in this diverting but shallow melancholic comedy

Instead, Hong follows a film director, a few film salespeople, and a tourist as they stumble through a romantic and melancholic comedy of errors.

Not exact matches

And while Melissa McCarthy certainly is the life of the party in everything she's ever done, the phrase conjures up the opening lines of Smokey Robinson's «Tracks of My Tears» — a melancholic melody to associate with your blockbuster comedy.

As the shows producer and writer, it's where Apatow first began working with his cast of regular actors - Seth Rogen, Jason Segel and James Franco - and formulated his brand of melancholic, big - hearted suburban comedy.

Adapted from Mississippi writer Larry Brown's 1991 novel, «Joe» is a moody, melancholic throwback to the dramas that first gained director David Gordon Green («George Washington») attention, and which he ditched to make stoner comedies like «Pineapple Express».

WA's first movie out of the gate was a largely successful attempt to produce a straight comedy (though perfume of melancholic tragedy seen in his later films are certainly present) first made headlines as a mis - marketed box office bomb, the pundits pointing and laughing as this purported Reservoir Dogs knock - off plummeted into obscurity.

But despite all that, Ove is still a winning combo of black comedy and melancholic melodrama with a Scandinavian twist or three.

Offerings range from a multipart experimental narrative involving melancholic distorted guitars and doppelgängers, to Will Sasso's comedy series based on spitting whole lemons, to (of course) thankfully brief cute - kitten - and - baby videos.

The black and white does lend things a melancholic air, though it's not so dazzling that we can't imagine it'll look just fine on the small screen in color too, and the sour - sweet mix, so important to this kind of comedy, errs impressively, if not always convincingly on the sour side, with very few moments of kindness not undercut by something meaner, until we get to the small uplift of the final moments.

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.

Death and comedy aren't natural bedfellows, but this tale about two old friends sharing a final reunion is sweet, melancholic and, yes, gently funny.