Sentences with phrase «such deadpan»

Unemployed art school graduates Mingming and Yue take turns filming each other with a small camera, exploring a range of issues rarely shown in any national cinema with such deadpan accuracy — from the complex waters of female friendship to «pussy» as a commodity, from the desire to use filmmaking as a weapon to the decision to make a baby — an up - in - your face, playful, sassy deconstruction of what it means to be a young woman now.

While zombie rom - coms aren't original (see Shaun of the Dead or Warm Bodies), this take on the genre has such a deadpan tone that it feels refreshingly unpredictable.

Not exact matches

At once profoundly dignified, as birds of such ancient lineage should be, they are at the same time masters of deadpan clowning, particularly when two or three birds contend for the same fish.

Yorgos Lanthimos's freeze - dried revenge saga casts Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman as a moneyed married couple who find themselves targeted by a supernatural teenager (Barry Keoghan), while the tale slaloms from deadpan black comedy through Cape Fear - ish thrills towards a finale of such matter - of - fact horror that it can only be watched through splayed fingers.

Written and directed by co-stars Taika Waititi (Eagle vs. Shark) and Jemaine Clement (Tongan Ninja), the film is chock - full of the kinds of deadpan reactions, awkward situations and off - the - wall humor that has been in fashion on such TV shows as «The Office» and Clement's own «Flight of the Conchords».

But such ways of control and discipline add to strange dream - like qualities Lanthimos and co-writer Efthymis Filippou infuse into the film: stunted walks, deadpan responses, long periods of silence and stilted surroundings all add to the notion that perhaps everything is but a dream.

Farrell's previous collaboration with Lanthimos in «The Lobster» serves him well here, once again impressively investing in droll deadpanning, and Nicole Kidman («Lion») has worked with such an extensive roster of different directors that it's no surprise she can leap onto the right wavelength immediately, but Keoghan is a relative newcomer and his performance here is frighteningly nuanced, masterfully plucking the strings of ambiguity.

La Mort de Louis XIV (The Death of Louis XIV, Albert Serra, 2016) Nobody brings such renegade flair and deadpan wit to costume histrionics as Serra.

Starring Joe Mantegna as a slick Seattle con man and Lindsay Crouse as an anxious therapist eager to learn the rules of the trade, the film featured the writer's trademark staccato dialogue delivered with deadpan aplomb by a slew of Mamet regulars such as Mike Nussbaum, J.T. Walsh, Ricky Jay and William H. Macy in a small role.

Stewart has such an odd energy on the screen, withdrawn and deadpan, her face buried in multiple cell phones as she juggles handling the particulars of Maria's ongoing divorce proceedings with her career and working to keep her on a level head as the play's premiere looms on the horizon.

The animation is lively and unusual, and the script is full of grace notes and genuinely funny moments, but what really makes the movie work is the characters, who are voiced with such intelligence, compassion, and deadpan humor that I found myself truly caring about them and whether or not they would survive their adventures.

The graphics were cute, giving way to a few character tropes that are found in mystery games and books, such as the hardened, deadpan head detective and the brightly colored main character.

There are plenty of funny exchanges between the two, such as when Kratos deadpans, «A soldier only sees beauty in the blood of his enemy.»

The story progressively introduces even more characters, with secret organisation JP's (pronounced «jips»), and their members such as the kind nurse Otome, and deadpan computer genius Fumi.

Judd responded to such charges by arguing, in his typically deadpan style, that «art need only be interesting» and that it was «something you look at.»

Even as such works appear to aim for a Minimalist degree - zero of sculpture, their deadpan humor surprisingly invokes a broad range of potential meanings and emotional responses from fear and anxiety to pleasure and empathy.

Judd responded to such charges by arguing, in his typically deadpan style, that «Art need only be interesting» and that it was «Something you look at».

He delighted in the deadpan materiality that gave his works form, graphically reproducing such ordinary subjects as kinks of twisted wire or the optical effects of transparent plastic.

Offset books such as Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1963) and Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966) revolutionized the artist's book and pointed the way to the deadpan serial imagery of the New Topographics photography of the following decade.

Isolating key sentences and phrases from the novel for his paintings and drawings such as «In California you chew the juice out of grapes and spit away the skin, a real luxury,» «the holy con man began to eat,» or «fit and slick as a fiddle,» Ruscha adds another layer of deadpan aesthetic analysis to Kerouac's original and radical use of language.

His paintings of deadpan phrases such as «I Du n no» and «Just Us Chickens» read like absurdist love poems written in the sky.

Unlike much heavily worked abstraction, and in spite of their scale, their total effect is not heroic — Richter's almost - deadpan, process - oriented transparency cancels out such chest - beating — but the artist that responded to the direct energies of Pollock's work has clearly found a way, some decades later, to conjure both zest and detachment simultaneously.

Her recent photographs extend her deadpan configurations with such objects, but now with a heightened level of concentration, where objects are animate, flirting with one another in ingenious ways.

I contrast a deadpan, Photorealist style with English romantic subjects such as trees.

Since the late 1970s, photographer Judy Fiskin has captured deadpan images of architecture in themed series such as Military Architecture, 35 Views of San Bernadino, Desert, My Trip to New York, New Orleans, and Dingbat.

Whereas a current exhibition such as State of Play at London's Serpentine Gallery is so understated in its playfulness, so deadpan in manner as to be an unrewarding disappointment (apart from some great gags by David Shrigley), New Blood is crammed to the point of incoherence.

Jianyi first earned recognition with his oil paintings of deadpan laughing faces, such as The Second Situation, 1987, which was featured in the controversial 1989 group show «China / Avant - Garde» at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, marking the artist's move to collage, photography, video, and conceptual installations.

Anyhow, one of the other guys, completely deadpan, says «Intel people are such showoffs».