Sentences with phrase «silent movie comedy»

The Party (Kino Lorber, Blu - ray, DVD) reunited Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers after a falling out during the second Pink Panther movie for a difference kind of comedy: a modern sound version of a silent movie comedy.

The French director's follow - up to his Oscar - winning silent movie comedy, The Artist, is everything The Artist was not: long, unoriginal and heavy - handed.

Not exact matches

Woody Allen's bittersweet comedy about the magical allure of movies in the Depression era was nominated for Original Screenplay Oscar, but it's premise is smiliar to that of Buster Keaton's 1924 silent.

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.

But perhaps the oddest entry on his annual run through the movies is the tie between silent movie sensation «The Artist» and the thoroughly average ensemble comedy «Our Idiot Brother.»

Laurel and Hardy, probably the most successful movie comedy team of all time, made the transition from silent to sound quite effortlessly, as their personas»; so recognizable as the bullying and boorish Oliver Hardy, and his sweet man - child partner, Stan Laurel, had voices and speech that mirrored their skills at mime perfectly.

John Wick: Chapter 2 opens with a movie projected on a wall, as John races past an outdoor screening of a silent slapstick comedy.

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.

You can, believe it or not, see some of Leitch's affinity for the silent classics in Deadpool 2, a movie that often blends action and comedy with visual wit and efficiency, offering an unexpected new angle to a sequel that returns with the expected load of R - rated snark and in - jokes for movie buffs (Celine Dion sings over the opening sequence, which invokes everything from Bond movies to Flashdance.)

As three silent movie stars mistaken for actual heroes, all three comedy icons find different ways to be funny and are clearly having a great time working together.

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.

I appreciate Shaun the Sheep Movie, which is essentially a Buster Keaton silent comedy starring some sheep, sneaked into the category.

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.

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

And now it's a 21 JUMP STREET: THE MOVIE (the last half of that title is silent / implied) The twist is that rather than the earnest though light - hearted procedural drama it was in its infancy when it introduced us to Johnny Depp, it's now a full fledged buddy comedy starring Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill.

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Silent Movie is far from perfect, but it is a uniquely clever idea for a modern comedy, which is enough to merit a viewing, particularly for the biggest fans of any of the stars that make cameo appearances.

What next, Mickey will end up hanging from the clock hands in a manner spoofing those old silent comedy movies?

Mack and Mabel: Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart's musical tells the bittersweet love story of silent - screen director Mack Sennett and his leading lady Mabel Normand, the movies» first great female comedy star.

That is why silent movie slap - stick comedy so easily crossed international boundaries.