Word: deadpan
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...another Dutch film, combines phoney detective dramatics with comic violence and political protest, but impromptu performances by Lene Lovich and Nina Hagen more than compensate for lapses in the story. When they sit together at a bar, spontaneously crooning up lost melodies and inhuman sounds in deadpan seriousness, they win the "Lucy and Ethel of the Eighties Award" hands down...
...punt wasn't as pretty as I wanted--I try and put a priority on aesthetics," Flach said, deadpan. He paused. "It sure is a fine line between saving the game and losing the game." Steven Flach saw both sides of that line Saturday, and--lucky for Harvard--he wound up on the winning side...
...film's comic tone, however, is as deadpan as that of a New Yorker profile. The interested-disinterested camera follows its subject for a few days, records snippets of conversation, refuses to strain for socko punch lines or an apocalyptic climax. As an ironic True Confessions, the film may satisfy the benign curiosity millions of people seem to have about Woody Allen. The star of cover stories in virtually every major magazine has now written and directed his own. It is the story of his life and his films, a defense of a public artist's need...
...banal patter: "Joe Turner, you know that you are a Kansas City figure. You're a backbone of Kansas City, so tell us something about yourself." Later, Basie sits down at the foundation's scarred piano and improvises a few bars of two-fisted stride, then looks up, deadpan, at the camera: "That...
...that were a feature of institutional life under Stalinism, little Angi Vera rises to denounce herself for her romantic weakness, which has the effect-another paradox here-of ending her lover's party career and enhancing her own. The film is written and directed with a kind of deadpan subtlety (perhaps the only way it could be done in a country that is, after all, Communist). It is impossible to say if careerist calculation enters into this act of betrayal. Mostly it seems to be the result of the girl's radical innocence. One feels, leaving the theater...