static mid-shots, the film suddenly admits one very long, very
beautiful long-shot of our hero walking steadily across a gloomy, silty
river. We are clearly moving from satire to tragedy.
What we end up with is a film that adeptly meshes political anger with
Germany’s cultural elite was starkly divided. Heinrich Mann watched as
the serialisation of his novel Der Untertan (The Subject) was halted,
so vicious was his satire of Prussian militarism. His brother Thomas,
meanwhile, supported the Kaiser’s effort to destroy the “depraved
police state” of Tsarist Russia.
about the dramatic irony that colours everything from Hamlet’s
soliloquies to the grandiloquent self-deceit of David Brent. This is
not the loaded irony of a satire by Swift or Juvenal. What we’re
dealing with here is a mess of sarcasm, kitsch and camp that allows us
to derive easy pleasure from trash when we could be extracting more
I could never understand why everyone was so down on this very amusing
satire on the barn-door target that is the English national side and
its poor, harried managers. We award Ricky Tomlinson and his team three
and a half turnips out of five.
disguises herself as a boy in order to attend a World Cup qualifying
game between her own nation and Bahrain. She is caught and detained
tantalisingly close to the action. Touching and satirical.
ZIDANE: A 21ST CENTURY PORTRAIT (2006)
With four awards including Darko Tresnjak’s statuette for best
director, the musical satire A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder tied
with Hedwig and the Angry Inch with the most Tonys.
Fuchsia MacAree’s booklet on moral panics on Irish radio is an amazing
simultaneous homage to and satire of Joe Duffy’s Liveline.
Thu, Jun 5, 2014, 17:51
David Cronenberg and Julianne Moore joust with the press
The director and star are in Cannes for Cronenberg’s Hollywood satire
Maps to the Stars
Cosmopolis, which competed here two years ago, but, to me, the film
seemed a little to keen on taking cheap shots at easy targets. It’s a
satire of Hollywood’s venality and triviality, you see. And we’ve seen
a few of those down through the years.
IN ANY case, the incident provides me with an almost seamless link to
mention the annual Swift Satire Festival in Trim, the seventh edition
of which takes place this coming weekend. It promises the usual
intoxicating mixture of politics and comedy, with David McSavage among
Monde features section.
Keynote events include a two-course satirical lunch, with Val O’Donnell
performing his one-man show on Flann O’Brien, followed by former
Mountjoy governor John Lonergan, who will deliver this year’s festival
humour, if only because, for one of the events, a bag of clay has had
to be imported from Antrim. Details of this and the rest of the
programme are at swiftsatirefestival.com.
Patrick Kavanagh once wrote poetically about the “tremendous silence of
mid-July”. That was the era before summer schools and satire festivals,
obviously. Now, he himself is adding to the annual cacophony around
this time, thanks to another of his poems, which since last year has
Troubled star to step into Madonna’s old shoes in David Mamet’s Hollywood
satire
Fri, Jun 27, 2014, 13:23 Updated: Fri, Jun 27, 2014, 13:48
about the movie business.She will appear in Speed-The-Plow, by US
writer David Mamet, from September 24th. The play, described as a
“satirical portrayal of Hollywood”, will run at the Playhouse Theatre
in London until November 29th.
As recently as 2007, Paul Schrader made terrific use of her in his
sombre social satire The Walker. She seemed as sharp and as charismatic
as ever. We just don’t get actors with that degree of presence any
more. We must “identify” with them. We can’t avoid paparazzi shots of
MacDermott is an amusing and tight writer; his set-piece vignettes
weave small everyday adventures. Whimsy, satire and farce – and a
flavour of Richmal Crompton – are all found in the silliness of
situations.
In 2009 Conor Casby placed his Brian Cowen nudes, and accompanying
captions, in the National Gallery and the RHA. Crude as their satire
was, they ended up shedding a grim light on the humourlessness of the
government, and the ludicrous deployment of gardaí, and briefly made
Directed by Amy Heckerling Starring Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash,
Brittany Murphy, Paul Rudd, 97 min Amy Heckerling’s brilliant, funny
reworking of Jane Austen’s Emma doubles up as a lively satire on
Beverly Hills vanity. Alicia Silverstone’s ditzy Valley Girl Cher
remains one of cinema’s most appealing characters. TB
obscured.
The graffiti artist is famous for his dark humour and political satire
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Human Capital review: a cracking social satire and a mystery story
Donald Clarke
the late discovery of a hitherto unseen character is a bit of a cheat,
but that trickery does allow Virzì to sideswipe carefully built-up
assumptions. At any rate, the film is as much a social satire as a
mystery story and, in that area, it works very well indeed.
I was not among those who paid towards the campaign that allowed Zach
Braff to make this largely terrible unintended satire of the previous
decade’s hipster aesthetics, but, if asked, I would happily contribute
any sum required to dissuade him from shooting another. Braff focuses
One of the finest pieces of Irish satire in recent years is Irish
Pictorial Weekly’s depiction of civil servants sitting around a table
inventing spin. There’s a great scene with Enda Kenny’s fictional
believe, in the closing years of the Austro-Hungarian empire, has
achieved a certain longevity because it has been interpreted as a
satire on positivism (or science in its most assertive form). On the
stage is revealed a man walking around in circles under a street-lamp,
apparently searching for something he has lost, with the benefit of the
The Financial Times took a snarkier approach – because, of course, a
subject as sensitive as fertility problems is the perfect fodder for
satire. “Will an Apple-frozen egg still be compatible with its mother
after a couple of years of new product releases?”
What does carpe diem, that perennial favourite for tattoos, actually
mean? (Not, in fact, just “seize the moment”.) Do we sneer along with
the satire of Juvenal or of Lucian, or find them the butts of their own
posturing wit? How far would we really go along with rants against
immigrants, aristocrats, the nouveaux riches, prostitutes,
Here’s a project I worked on about the road to Other Voices.
Brilliant satire from SNL on one-dimensional female characters in
male-driven comedies:
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Woods furious with parody interview
Dan Jenkins’ satirical Q&A “a grudge-fuelled piece of character
assasination”, says Tiger
Tiger Woods has lashed out at veteran golf writer Dan Jenkins for
penning a fake satirical interview with the 14-times major winner,
describing the parody as “a grudge-fueled piece of character
assassination”.
After Woods had published his response, Jenkins tweeted: “My next
column for Tiger: defining parody and satire. I thought I let him off
easy.”
So dazzling is the cinematic footwork that it proves easy to overlook
the uneasy blend between genuine theatrical navel-gazing and satire of
the theatrical navel-gazing mindset. There is not a weak performance on
display. Keaton allows all dignity to fall away as he makes an
Iñárritu’s own script is certainly wary of Riggan’s self-absorption.
But the importance given to the awful trials of being a thespian do
suggest scenes from Nigel Planer’s satire I, An Actor. Copies of Jorge
Luis Borges’s Labyrinths are waved conspicuously. Darling, that
subtitle. “The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance”? I ask you. Either these
collection of 15 short stories found their way to a bookshop shelf.
Joyce's unflinching realism and controversial satire led him into
conflict with over 40 publishers who feared libel charges and public
uproar. Objections ranged from the petty and unwarranted, such as use
Almost 45 years since Monty Python's Flying Circus first hit screens,
Idle believes the material is still relevant. "We followed a satire
boom in England and everything was topical. When we came on, we tried
to not do that. "Our humour tends to be just general types and funny
October 12, Des Dillion's acclaimed comedy drama Singing I'm No A Billy
He's A Tim puts two rival football fans in a shared courtroom cell.
This satire of '90-minute bigotry' finds the mismatched pair taking
turns to watch the big match on TV through their cell door - a winning
bet offers their only hope of paying their fines and getting out. As
Providing a rare big-screen starring role for Peter Cook, it's a cold
hearted but slickly entertaining satire on political spin and media
manipulation of the public that could just as easily have been made
today. As a surreal and anarchic spoof of Westminster and its wicked
become Britain's first ever president.
Cook is remarkable throughout this broadest of broad satires. Aloof and
distant, he uses superficial charm to con the public and his sleazy
political paymasters. Rimmer feels brilliantly new Labour even though
Cook co-wrote the script with director Kevin Billington and his old
satirical running mates John Cleese and Graham Chapman and there's much
of the classic sketch show vibe at play here. Frantic, Pythonesque
skits are played out by a cast that is practically creaking at the
of society.
The satire of a poet could bring about misfortune and even death to
those who had wronged him.
poets - they are no longer regarded as visionaries who can bring
insights from the otherworld, prophesise or cause an enemy to die with
a satirical quatrain.
Walk into a pub and recite a couple of sarcastic couplets at a drunken
mayor - is worried that the economic prosperity of the spa town will be
threatened. Suddenly the support for Stockmann's concerns begins to
wane. This satire of greed and corruption with a modern twist includes
live music and songs including Changes by David Bowie. It brings
Ibsen's parable to a boil and a solitary whistleblower to his knees.
of big houses peopled with aspirational neighbours desperate to show
off their fancy cars and neatly trimmed hedgerows just screams out for
satirical re-invention. The 'Burbs first arrived on cinema screens in
1989 but a brand new Blu-ray release from Arrow Video proves how much
quality comedy material can be squeezed out of that middle class world.
The cul-de-sac in question here is Mayfield Place and the seemingly all
American residents are the focus of a satire that is both very much of
its time yet oddly still relevant today.
matters.
As a dark, mirth making satire on American middle class values The
'Burbs delivers.
*
The film - by Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, of 21 Grams
and Babel fame - is a brilliant satire on a film industry dominated by
blockbuster comic book sequels. It is both darkly thought-provoking and
laugh-out-loud funny. Edward Norton, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts and Zach
historically the least scary, most boring of all horror movie monsters
(even the great George Romero essentially used the shuffling undead as
props to shore up his satires on consumerism), would be the focal point
of not one but four hit series, each with its own unique style?
Dead Set carried on Romero's satirical legacy by letting rabid zombies
loose in the Big Brother house. The Walking Dead put flesh on comic
book characters and then let the hungry hordes tear it back off in
Despite being well-received by viewers, the Herald can reveal his
satirical show won't feature on RTE's autumn schedule launch in what
will come as a huge surprise to his fans.
It's a good thing that Heartbreak House is entertaining, and its
satirical look at British high society in the early 20th century (all
greed, vanity and idleness) is what keeps this one going.
Despite the apparent detachment, Smiley's tone is full of warmth and
humour; it comes with a touch of satire when needed, but is always
leavened by the sheer fondness of a writer writing about something that
touches her heart. In turn, it touches the reader's heart. Cannot wait
wellies in her hands."
One satirical website also reported that Kim became "posterially
wedged" between two stalagmites in the Aillwee caves.
whose poster looms over his dressing room.
The film is a brilliant satire on a film industry dominated by
blockbuster comic book sequels. It is both darkly thought-provoking and
laugh-out-loud funny. Edward Norton, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts and Zach