Sentences with phrase «silent film comedy»

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When the main characters of a Kevin Smith (aka Silent Bob) horror - comedy film are yogis.

A Girl, a Guy and a Gob was one of two RKO Radio films produced by silent - screen great Harold Lloyd, who reportedly dropped in on the set from time to time to offer a bit of sage comedy advice (note the «handkerchief» bit utlized by Edmond O'Brien; it had previously done service in Lloyd's own Welcome Danger).

The opening act in Toronto feels like a standard indie comedy about (yet another) white male's arrested development, the piano - based score and aversion to dialogue feels indebted to silent films, and once the film transitions to the wilderness it goes into European arthouse territory (the title card doesn't appear until James ends up in BC, a choice that implies this is where the film really begins).

The actors engage in the exaggerated performance style of silent movie melodramas and comedies and Maddin digitally «ages» his films with scuffs and scratches and cracks and even distorted frames as if they were from decaying nitrate prints from the 1920s.

A Chinese star who grew up in England (which accounts for her excellent English) and who's appeared in almost 70 films since 1984, including most of the features of Wong Kar - wai, Cheung is exceptionally gifted when she's doing comedy (as in the 1989 The Iceman Cometh) and pantomime (as in her great performance as the silent Shanghai film actress Ruan Ling - yu in Stanley Kwan's 1991 masterpiece Actress).

It veers, dizzily, between slapstick scatalogical comedy and poignant existential philosophy, doing so with the sort of invention generally credited to silent - film clowns.

Bonus features include I Was Born, But..., Ozu's 1932 silent comedy with a 2008 score by Donald Sosin; new interview with film scholar David Bordwell; new video essay on Ozu's use of humor by critic David Cairns; a fragment of A Straightforward Boy, a 1929 silent film by Ozu; and a critical essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum.

They aren't all masterpieces, of course, but they do offer a history of the evolution of film comedy through the silent era to early sound films.

Snow globes, dog - eared pop - up books, vintage advertising, silent cinema, Ealing comedies and the Spirit of ’45 all feed into the essence of the film, and King offers a dreamlike vision of London which mixes mid-century fervour with a modern embrace of cultural diversity.

«Les fiancés du pont Mac Donald» (3 mins., 1080i) is a delightful short film in the style of a silent comedy, starring Karina and Godard themselves, that originally appeared in Agnès Varda's Cleo from 5 to 7, also part of the Criterion Collection.

Those viewers who have yet to embrace the films of the silent era might be surprised at how well Charlie Chaplin's classic comedy The Gold Rush holds up today.

6:00 am — TCM — The Gold Rush Not my favorite Charlie Chaplin film, but it's still one of the best comedies / best silent films ever.

If vaudeville was a ripe feeding ground for comedy teams in the early sound days, the silent film comedians also spawned generations of teams that were not reliant on dialogue.

Upstream Long believed lost, John Ford's 1927 backstage comedy was one of 75 silent - era American films discovered in the collection of the New Zealand Film Archive and repatriated under the auspices of the National Film Preservation Foundation with the collaboration of the Academy Film Archive, Park Road Post Production, and Twentieth Century Fox.

The film is at its best in the early going, during which the acting - technique - obsessed Arthur and Maurice attempt to con their way to free food; a wordless opening credits sequence harkens back to the best silent comedy, and one hilarious scene in a bakery is, as it turns out, the film's premature highlight.

The year's weirdest big - budget movie owes more to spaghetti westerns, silent comedies and midnight films like «El Topo» than to anything being made today.

In this 1927 silent film, Fields» flair for visual and slapstick comedy is on display, but sorely missed is that unique voice which was so adept at conveying between - the - lines contempt, annoyance, sarcasm, and disgust.

Wes Anderson «s «Moonrise Kingdom» seems like an odd choice to open the 65th Cannes Film Festival, with its deadpan Americanism, retro - set timeline and movie - star cast; at the same time, Anderson is clearly influenced by the New Wave, both cinematically and personally, he's a distinctive authorial voice as a director (which is the essence of auteur theory) and while his films are defined by near - silent moments of comedy and human frailty, there's also something mournful and wounded about them.

Blending great silent film era comedy with full blown visceral action sequences, and shifting gears on the spur of a dime, «Kung Fu Hustle» is one of the most richly imaginative, creative, downright enjoyable movies to come along in some time.

Language: English Genre: Musical / Comedy MPAA rating: PG Director: Stanley Donen Actors: Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor Plot: Silent film actors and «singers» are trying to make the transition to «talkies» when one of them can't sing well, but no one seems to tell her.

His first film was Torremillinos 73, a sex comedy about husband and wife amateur pornographers during the Franco regime; his second Blancanieves, a black and white silent film which transposed Snow White to the bullfighting world of the 1920s.

On the menu are political British Gangster dramas, Nazi propaganda films, Art - Giallo hommages, silent comedies, a knuckle - biter suspense spectacular, the Bard with music «n guns, more 80s nostalgia and TVs Party Down.

Elizabeth is well known for her roles in comedy films such as Scary Movie, American Pie, and Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back.

Yasujiro Ozu has been acclaimed as the most «Japanese» of Japanese film directors for his sedate, contemplative family dramas and subdued comedies, but he began his career as a director of lively silent films more indebted to Hollywood style than the quiet restraint and rigorous simplicity of his future films.

It helps that he is using Jean Dujardin, who is working against type as the tough, unyielding magistrate, a performer whose title role in George Valentin's silent film «The Artist» is a gem of comedy in which a Jack Russell terrier stole the show right from under Dujardin.

While the films of the silent era could cover a wide range of genres from drama to comedy and even a bit of soundless dancing, a full - fledged musical, like those performed live on stage, was a domain exclusive to talkies.

They don't pretend it's a silent film, mind you, but rather build a series of visual gags on a basic premise — Peter Sellers as an accident - prone East Indian actor accidentally invited to dinner party by an A-list Hollywood producer — and then let the comedy bits sequences evolve, build on one another, and guide the story, like a feature version of a Chaplin short.

The episodes are very reminiscent of the silent films of the early twentieth century, as there is no spoken dialogue whatsoever (there are sheep bleets, human grumbles and other sound effects, of course) and the comedy is often physical in nature.

The industrial as the setting for a threat or physical comedy goes back a long way, at the very least to silent film.

Inspired by the curious spirit of slapstick comedy and the physical humor of silent film legends such as Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, Plumb employs a low - fi aesthetic by using Super-8 film, stationary camera shots, long takes and hand - made props and costumes.

Describing themselves as performance artists and sculptors whose audience is the video camera, Wood and Harrison are heirs to silent film comics Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton and to uniquely British comedy troupes like Monty Python.

These were years when the artist tutored himself in painting, taking inspiration from sources including Surrealism, Mexican folk art, American comic strips, and silent - film comedy as he developed his distinctively guileless, heart - on - sleeve storytelling style.