Sentence examples for comic filmmaker from inspiring English sources
Critics have made the distinction that, while Chaplin may have been America's greatest comic filmmaker, Fields was America's funniest man.
Jean-Paul Belmondo's character, Émile's buddy, rival and would-be surrogate, is named Alfred Lubitsch, after the greatest comic filmmaker of the studio era.
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said that with this film Baron Cohen "establishes a claim to be the best comic filmmaker now working".
Connoisseurs of more recent French cinema will notice the presence of Jean-Pierre Léaud and Pierre Étaix, a colleague of Tati's and an important comic filmmaker in his own right, whose work has recently enjoyed something of a revival.
In keeping with the straight-ahead nature of the proceedings, clips from the 10 best-picture nominees were shown throughout the show, while another set of clips honored the movies of John Hughes, the comic filmmaker of movies like "Pretty in Pink" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," who died last year without ever having been nominated for an Oscar during his prolific career.
A famous sign on the wall in Billy Wilder's office asked, "What would Lubitsch have done?" Wilder meant the question as a tribute to Ernst Lubitsch, his master, mentor and sometime boss -- a comic filmmaker whose elegant and effortless command represented, to Wilder and many others, the apogee of cinematic wit, sophistication and technical precision.
They were homages to comic filmmakers we liked, and their badness was basically infinite.
Ms. Paltrow gracefully accepts the Farrellys' generous quota of funny lines -- something not many comic filmmakers bestow on women -- and plays the thin woman trapped in the fat woman's body with the right mixture of toughness and insecurity.
It struck me, while laughing my way through "Me, Myself and Irene," that its creators may be the only comic filmmakers in America who truly find white people at least as preposterous as they find black people.
The epochal comic and filmmaker arguably reached his apogee with the Depression-age fable "Modern Times," released in a Criterion edition (Nov. 16).
One inspiration was Jacques Tati, the French comic and filmmaker whose acutely observed comedies include "Mr. Hulot's Holiday" (1953) and "Playtime" (1967).
