Sentences with phrase «social satire from»

«Hollinghurst writes harsh but deeply informed social satire from within, just as Proust did.

This social satire from Payne is a hugely ambitious film where the Norwegians have invented a method to shrink humans down to a very small size - about 4 inches.

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Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Amnesiac Adjusts to Soulless Utopia in Wry Social Satire Suppose you were suffering from amnesia and suddenly found yourself inexplicably welcomed to an unfamiliar city you don't recognize by soulless strangers who inform you that you're an accountant before escorting you to your new home.

A patriarch can not keep the farm going as a concern, can not even educate his youngest child, and can not prevent his embittered sons from violent Oedipal conflict followed by flight; surface naturalism is rent by dream, mysticism, and savage social satire.

In the translation from two to three dimensions, and in the hands of director Matthew Vaughn, the redeeming social satire gets entirely lost in the chaos of bad taste and underlying misogyny.

Olive releases two films from late in Preminger's career, one an overheated melodrama set in 1946 Georgia where the antebellum past is still alive, if not at all well, the other (Such Good Friends) a modern social satire about friendship and betrayal in the wake of the sexual revolution.

The Man in the White Suit (1951) is too tame to be a genuine social satire, but the madcap chase to stop mild mannered inventor and idealist Guinness from unleashing his invention — a textile that never wears out and never gets dirty — finds capital and labor in the unusual position of teaming up to protect their mutual interests.

Jordan Peele's social satire horror «Get Out» and James Ivory's adaptation of the coming - of - age novel «Call Me By Your Name» have won the top honors from the Writers Guild of America.

Featuring a blistering, Oscar - nominated performance from Peter O'Toole, Peter Medak's scathing black comedy satire The Ruling Class takes a caustic shot at British social structure, while creating a truly terrifying portrait of mental illness.

Justine Smith writes about Luis García Berlanga's social satire «The Executioner,» now available from The Criterion Collection.

Boasting dazzling dialogue and stellar supporting performances from Ian McKellen, Anthony Michael Hall and more, Six Degrees of Separation is a piercing social satire and «a rich, challenging cinematic treat» (Playboy).

However you consume them, the behind - the - scenes stories, from John Barry's intentions (he said he thought of it as a love story) to Martin Amis's motivation for taking the script - writing job (apparently he was a sci - fi buff before becoming a novelist famous for literary social satire) to Kirk Douglas's behaviour on set (Amis later said that Douglas «wanted to be naked,» and very much wanted Fawcett to be naked with him), are delicious.

Cowritten by Brooks and Monica Johnson, this satire of Hollywood is embellished with sharp, frequently hilarious observation of its ritual humiliations and shallow social and professional interactions, with notable contributions from Jeff Bridges as a self - absorbed Oscar - winning screenwriter friend, Steven Wright as Stan Spielberg («I'm Steven's cousin»), and Martin Scorsese in a self - parodying cameo.

In a film that delivers big comedy from a small Damon, sometimes all it takes is a change of perspective to better understand the world in the social satire that is Downsizing, available on Digital from March 28 and 4K Ultra HDTM, Blu - rayTM & DVD from April 11, 2018.

Over the course of the three acts, the film's context evolves from social satire (set in a public space) to emotional intimacy (confined to the private space of a single room and a single bed) to domestic drama (set in the awkward private - public space of a family apartment).

Favorites of the Moon: 30th Anniversary Edition (Cohen, Blu - ray, DVD), winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, is a deadpan satire of modern life and social hypocrisy with characters, rich and poor alike, from a lively Paris suburb whose lives criss - cross and tangle with one another.

And with those words, the Oakland - based rapper Boots Riley, making a knockout filmmaking debut as writer and director, spins a social satire that'll make you laugh till it hurts, Stanfield, so good in Get Out, hits all that right notes from mirth to malice.

David Cronenberg forges both a wicked social satire and a very human ghost story from today's celebrity - obsessed culture.

The setting of Ben Wheatley's deranged satire is a skyscraping symbol: social hierarchy in architectural form, like the train from Snowpiercer flipped vertically.

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Tyler MacIntyre's Tragedy Girls is a satire of slasher movies and social media that opens with the stuff of urban legend: a teenage girl running away from a masked, trenchcoated murderer who just split open her date's face with a knife.

Get Out from comedian turned filmmaker Jordan Peele masters a delicate balance of witty thriller, social satire, modern horror, and commentary on race on the so - called «post-racial» era.

An uncompromising adaptation of a novel that might have benefited from a multifloor rehab, Ben Wheatley's ferociously literal take on J.G. Ballard's teetering 1975 social satire is, like Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice, an exquisite testament to cinema's capacity to serve the written page.

Canadians have always been at the vanguard of zombie movies, from Bob Clark's Deathdream, an inspired variation on the «Monkey's Paw» myth about a reanimated soldier returning to his family, to David Cronenberg's still - amazing Rabid, which cross-bred George A. Romero's gory social satire with soft - core titillation, to Bruce McDonald's underseen, language - is - the - virus thriller Pontypool.

Like some sketch - comedy Frankenstein monster made from the cutting - room entrails of «Clueless,» «The Opposite of Sex,» «To Die For,» «Election» and «Heathers,» the puerile social satire «Pretty Persuasion» is stinging only insomuch as its unsophisticated...

Daring, controversial and ambitious, Payne's latest social satire is a commentary on hot topics ranging from consumerism to racism to overpopulation to climate change, much of what it is trying to say needing to be said.

The social condition that ended a dark and disturbing passion play in 1931 also ignites Renoir's very next film in 1932 as an uproarious social satire, Boudu Saved from Drowning.

But beyond the social satire, a lot of the script's creativity lies in its placing the audience in the ants» shoes, seeing familiar things from the insects» eyes.

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This sharp and insightful social satire is an all - too - timely look at race relations in America, as three ostensibly liberal and definitely privileged Berkeley students from various backgrounds travel with a friend and classmate to his home in rural Georgia — just in time for a Civil War re-enactment.

Genre: Literature & Fiction, Humor & Satire, United States, Nonfiction, Teen & Young Adult, Social Issues, American Size: 189 pages Free eBook download for Kindle from 23 April 2018 onward PDT / PST

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[24] He culled objects from nearly every department of the museum, including religious paintings, many depictions of nudes, social satire and some erotica; among the selected works, therew were sculptures by Auguste Rodin of lesbians embracing, and furniture from the Bauhaus, the avant - garde German design school closed down by the Nazis.

Could our society — one obsessed with products, satire, social media, and environmental collapse — be interpreted by future beings as something completely different from our current reality?

Largely collage, these range from early defiant political collages, to gentler feminist social satire to striking, sensual surrealist images.

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