Sentence examples for eccentric comedy from inspiring English sources

Ms. Streisand and Garland embodied femininity as pure talent, ardor and eccentric comedy.

We are on set of the movie Frank, an eccentric comedy about an eccentric rock band led by a man who has wandered off the spectrum of eccentricity and into mental illness.

But there's also a grand tradition of quieter, more eccentric comedy from Ireland over the years, practised by acts such as surrealistic oddball Kevin McAleer, deadpan genius Michael Redmond, and the incredible David O'Doherty.

(Kino, Blu-ray $34.95, DVD $29.95, not rated) A NEW LEAF Elaine May wrote and directed (and Robert Evans heavily re-edited) this engaging, eccentric comedy about a society wastrel (Walter Matthau) who pursues a shy, wealthy botanist (Ms. May) as the answer to his money problems.

Set in a small Southern town in 1967, with a title character struggling to hold on to an increasingly unfashionable view of womanhood and worldliness, the play is initially an eccentric comedy that manages to make a vanished and insignificant American subculture vivid and worth revisiting.

Family relations and cross-cultural mishaps might be the stuff of Hollywood cliche, but Delpy whisks it all into a delightfully eccentric comedy, here, big on laughs, low on pretense, exaggerated but emotionally sincere – not least in Delpy's dealing with the death of her mother (in real life as well as in the movie).

This eccentric comedy-drama is a truly folkloric film.

A prolific creator of dark and defiantly eccentric comedies since the early 1990s ("Raised in Captivity," "The Food Chain"), Mr. Silver has had productions mounted all over Manhattan, with varying success.

Once upon a time there was a British film factory called Ealing Studios, it specialized in slightly eccentric comedies, and one of the best was Henry Cornelius's PASSPORT TO PIMLICO (1949).

By Benjamin Shapiro Mark Mulcahy's group Polaris performs the soundtrack for an eccentric cult comedy about growing up.

He also wrote and directed the eccentric romantic comedy "Muriel's Wedding".