Sentences with phrase «oddball performance»

He subsequently became interested in language as a subject and in video as a medium and generated a substantial body of work that played with the feel and form of sense, concrete texts, political satire, oddball performance, and a kind of intellectual comedy.

Exquisitely dry humor and Rinko Kikuchi's charming, deadpan, oddball performance make for one of the more esoterically funny films to have been released in quite some time.

It's not the revelation of truth about the Tonya Harding fiasco that it wants to be, but «I, Tonya» is plenty of fun and features solid, oddball performances.

Things unfold in predictable fashion (Beca's comment, «I don't like movies; they're so predictable» notwithstanding), but what makes «Pitch Perfect» work are its funny one - liners, rousing music and oddball performances.

Recommendation: Experimental at best and inconsequential at worst, Prince Avalanche is not a film for everyone yet those who do crack its hard outer shell shall reap the rewards of its heartfelt message and will appreciate the quality of the two oddball performances.

Galleries and spaces in the area were suddenly responsible for oddball performances, offbeat happenings, and the rise of movements like Pop and Minimalism.

Thanks to Reinhard Shlegel, Mitchell - Innes & Nash will show over 500 of these works related to his oddball performances about history and Beuys» personal life.

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Yes, lets all cheer for mediocrity and couldn't care less performances under a weird and oddball manager, eh?

As for the movie's star, Shannon's notoriously idiosyncratic sensibilities serve him quite well here - as the actor delivers as relentlessly oddball and weird a performance as one has come to expect (although it's just as clear that this marks the apex of his career in terms of his ability to tackle similarly over-the-top figures in the future).

This run of performances in awards - season favorites earned Jones the title of «Best Supporting Oddball» in New York Magazine last fall, and it's a measure of his talents that he seemed completely attuned to each of these variegated roles.

Battle of the Sexes has recent Oscar winner Stone very much in the lead, and Carell, once again teaming with his Little Miss Sunshine directors for another oddball supporting performance.

Franco's adaptation, scripted by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, could so easily have been a flimsy vanity frame for a grandstanding, look - Ma - I'm - acting performance — Franco in over-the-top Spring Breakers mode, playing Tommy Wiseau as a shallow narcissist, an obnoxious oddball, or a sad clown.

Given Franco's notorious penchant for performing oddball stunts, many thought his decision to channel Tommy Wiseau in a movie about the making of The Room was just another case of the actor being weird for no good reason, but it appears he actually took the performance very seriously.

Directed by TV veteran Bharat Nalluri (The Crow: Salvation, Tsunami: The Aftermath), it's an impressively mounted romance that is bolstered by a subtle, but still quite strong performance from McDormand, who knows well enough that it's her normalcy that separates her from the eccentric oddballs that inhabit the lifestyles of the rich and famous.

An interesting companion piece to «Mud,» the film tells the story of two best friends (future megastar Nick Robinson, «Super 8» actor Gabriel Basso) who, fed up with their overbearing parents (including Nick Offerman, in his best non «Parks and Rec» performance to date), and with the help of show - stealing oddball Biaggio (Moises Arias), build a house in the woods where they can act like grown - ups.

From its sketchy screenplay to its uninspiring score by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul to its showy but shallow performance by Jackman and its oddball staging of musical numbers (one is actually performed by Efron and Zendaya while they're twirling on ropes and spinning dizzyingly as in a Cirque du Soleil routine), the film does little to advance the cause of musical motion pictures.

Frank is a whining, pathetic oddball with extreme prejudice — and Wilson, in a fearless performance, leaves us uncertain whether to sympathise with, or be repulsed by, this ridiculous schlub who bludgeons not just a queue jumper but also his understandably protesting girlfriend; who acts on prophetic visions that he sees in his own vomit; and who ignores pleas for mercy from a (literally) unarmed man.

While a comedy with ample kooky characterizations, satirical situations, and lots of other - worldly effects would seem right up Burton's alley, all he can manage are a few scattered laughs, some hammy performances, and lots of oddball narrative dead ends.

This is a testament not only to Blair's grasp of the film's tone as writer and director, but to the performances from Lynskey and Wood, both oddball anti-heroes with a core decency that keeps you rooting for them even as they give in to their more misanthropic urges.

«I don't think we're going to learn a lot by looking at states with only six charter schools that started last year,» she says, noting that in their first year or two, charter schools can be «oddball» places, operating out of makeshift facilities and populated by students whose parents are either very experimental or desperate to improve their child's failing performance.

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It may seem like an oddball proposition on the surface, but the truth is Audi's newest S model is arguably the most relevant and polished performance offering from the German manufacturer yet.

Then there are classic oddballs like Surrealist doll contortionist Hans Bellmer, wild performance artist John Bock, pervy comix guru Robert Crumb, self - hypnotizer Matt Mullican, spooky just - off sculptor Duane Hanson, and many more — and those are just the professional artists, who pale in eccentricity compared to Swedish art mystic Hilma af Klint, self - taught deaf illiterate James Castle, freak - out musicologist Harry Smith, and Austrian anthroposophy founder Rudolf Steiner (that's right: not Rudolf Stingel... Rudolf Steiner).

«I like to juxtapose oddball moments with the mundane — and most of these oddball moments do involve performance artists,» explains Jean - Baptiste.