Sentences with phrase «great screwball»
When characters banter back and forth, arguing or bargaining, you may be reminded of the great screwball comedies of the 1930s.
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Here Christmas time provided a great screwball love / hate set up for its leads.
Off the top of my head I can only think of five truly great screwball comedies.
The film is such candy - floss that it may not realise what a great screwball clinch it could have staged: the seer versus the shrink, two lovers fighting to get a lead on human behaviour.
There is, no doubt, a great screwball comedy to be made about adult children who won't leave home, and the mothers and fathers who collude in the arrangement — and not just for reasons of economics.
Great screwball comedy about the transformation of a plain and repressed girl (splendidly played by Irene Dunne) into an eccentric and loving woman.
A homage to the great screwball comedies of the past, but strained through» 90's irony.
With her sparkling presence and sharp timing, the stunning Lombard delighted audiences in some of the greatest screwball comedies ever made, but she spent the early part of her brief career playing dramatic roles and romantic ingénues.
IMHO, it's the greatest screwball comedy since Hollywood's golden age ended (Grand Budapest Hotel is close though).
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how does fair, unbiased CNN, AKA ACNN (Anderson Cooper News Network) pick and choose stories as noteworthy... a comment is made by a very elderly priest, probably not quoted properly, and is «front page news» on CNN's website... this same man (priest) has written many great books, done a lot of great charity work in the poorer parts of New York and nothing is ever posted on the website... but something is said incorrectly and its published... is this fair, is it right, is it unbiased or is the motivation to make an entire Church lokk bad and let the anti-Catholic screwballs have their heyday in hateful posts... I didn't see this wonderful netwrok post anything about the disgusting, bigoted and hateful attacks, written by the liberal left wing media elites, like Maureen Dowd, against Rep. Paul Ryan and his Catholic faith... it's all acceptable to you liberal HYPOCRITES!
Can we all just agree that casting Sam Rockwell and Anna Kendrick in a screwball crime caper rom - com is a great idea?
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.
Frank Capra's It Happened One Night would seem to have all the earmarks of the great Hollywood genre the screwball comedy, but the jury has long been out on whether it can be classified that way, as it was released in 1934, a couple of years before...
It's shot with a lot of style, pastel technicolors, witty split screens and so on, and the cast (which also includes David Hyde Pierce and Rachel Dratch) is great at the screwball comedy dialogue.
Baseball has been at the foreground of a diverse group of great films, from the classic drama Pride of the Yankees to the screwball comedy Major League, from coming - of - age tale The Sandlot to Disney's own spiritual family dramedy Angels in the Outfield.
Great Directors on TCM: Billy Wilder Billy Wilder had an incredible ability to make definitive films in most genres — screwball comedy, film noir, socially conscious drama, bittersweet comedy - drama.
Talk can be great too, of course: my favorite period in Hollywood is the»30s and»40s, when all those screwball and absurdist comedies were having such brilliant fun with dialogue.
But «Superman» remains an absolute blast, at once celebrating and lampooning its patriotic roots and delivering one of the all - time great sass - talking heroines in Margot Kidder's screwball Lois Lane.
2016 at the movies got off to a great start with the Coen Brothers» old - Hollywood screwball extravaganza Hail Caesar, and while Channing Tatum did his level best with a tap - dancing - sailors production number to steal the show, the MVP ended up being the unassuming angelic face of Alden Ehrenreich.
Only part film noir — the rest is gangster movie parody and screwball comedy — but noir can be proud to claim even a portion of the greatest American sound comedy.
Frank Capra's whimsical screwball comedy starring John Barrymore and James Stewart was one of the director's great masterpieces and the highest - grossing film from 1938, making it a favorite to win Best Picture.
[Read more...] about Writer - director Rebecca Miller discusses her great remarriage screwball comedy Maggie's Plan
The difference between a good screwball comedy and a great one is that you care about the screwballs, and in that sense, Mistress America is great indeed.
«The Front Page» (1974) Even for a comic titan like Wilder, it took some balls to remake arguably the greatest of the screwball comedies, 1940's «His Girl Friday.»
From film noir to screwball comedy to the roman - tic classics, here are some of the greatest films of Hollywood's Golden Age featuring cocktails in unforgettable supporting roles.