Sentences with phrase «1930s screwball»

The subversive use of humor feels like a distinguishing touch on its own — who else would have put the obligatory interspecies hang - out scene in a high - stakes casino straight out of a 1930s screwball comedy?

I'm not claiming this is the equivalent of 1930s screwball comedy, but the impulse — to tickle the audience by staying one light verbal step ahead of it — isn't so different.

The film has more in common with 1930s screwball (films filled with obvious coincidences) than the more clunky, often - humorless films that pass for «rom - coms» today.

Not exact matches

Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal star in a zany send - up of the screwball comedies of the 1930s with Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc?.

As with The Hudsucker Proxy, it harkens back to the golden age of the screwball, though this time out the Coens dispensed with the stylized 1930s / 1950s tone and setting, instead placing the film in the present day.

Released: May 20th Cast: Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, Julianne Moore, Bill Hader Director: Rebecca Miller (The Private Lives of Pippa Lee) Why it's great: If anyone can save the rom - com, it's Greta Gerwig, whose resting screen presence of «screwball comedienne from the 1930s» lights up Miller's tale of crisscrossed lovers and maddening relationship quirks.

Again, these films were a throwback to film history, with O Brother riffing on the work of director Preston Sturges, Cruelty being inspired by the screwball comedies of the 1930s and Burn owing a heavy debt to the paranoia political dramas of the 1970s - a period which appears to have inspired a cast amount of Clooney's cinematic output.

But on a fundamental level, the homage / satire of 1930s - era screwball comedies simply doesn't work.

I like 1930s comedy, but I wouldn't say screwball comedies specifically.

Baumbach and Gerwig go back to the roots of the old - school screwball comedies of the 1930s - 1950s with its jokes.

How can any true movie fan not love the screwball comedies of the 1930s and 1940s?

Though set in the late 1950s, this comic fantasy concoction by the Coen Brothers (Barton Fink, Blood Simple), as well as co-screenwriter Sam Raimi (Darkman, Spider - Man 3), owes much more to the screwball comedies of the 1930s and 1940s than it does to the era in which it's set.

So I wasn't surprised that, when given the freedom to create a personal story, Chris Rock would be more than capable — and Top Five is a very effective, often hilarious adaptation of Rock's stand - up in the tradition of classic romantic comedies (actually, structurally, the film is closer to screwball comedies of the 1930s and 40s — but more on that in a bit).

When characters banter back and forth, arguing or bargaining, you may be reminded of the great screwball comedies of the 1930s.