Sentences with phrase «as screwball»

If they play it as a screwball comedy, then it hits the aforementioned unholy mess levels, because it would allow Diane Keaton to mug even more than she already does, and the woman needs to be muzzled as it is.

It works as a screwball comedy if you're willing to embrace its strange but strong charm, as well as its ridiculous scheming later on in the movie.

Indeed, it's difficult to think of a post-code film that feels as much like a pre-code film as this screwball comedy, recently re-issued by the Warner Archive Collection.

Recreating the Exorcist as a screwball comedy date... - Bohemian Cinema Salon * first time participant *

Mistress America's generic context as screwball comedy frames Brooke's quarter - life crisis, and Tracy's coming of age, in a manner of unexpected honesty: behind the frenzied dialogue, so keenly written by Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, is the destruction of ambition and the construction of a self.

The new film has been described as a screwball comedy, but the Brothers» earlier Raising Arizona, despite its contemporary setting, had a better claim to that description.

However, plot isn't important, as a screwball comedy like this is all about the dialogue.

Not exact matches

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!

Last year Juan Marichal saw this activity, the plate umpire reaching in a special ball bag at his waist to introduce a special ball to the game, and not being aware of the procedure, Marichal felt that he was the victim of some odd plot, that perhaps the ball he would get from the umpire was going to pop in two and emit smoke as he gripped it for his screwball.

And looking at his cocky expression, I found out that my dad as a young man was very much like me, only he had that screwball.

Donald Trump's New York co-chair slammed House Speaker Paul Ryan Wednesday as a «screwball» for criticizing some of the presumptive GOP presidential nominee's controversial statements.

Pitching also involves the ability to angle the wrist through varying degrees of rotation and deviation for pitches such as curveballs, sliders, sinkers, and screwballs.

While not as horrifically intense as its predecessor, Evil Dead 2 manages to find a perfect blend of supernatural craziness and screwball comedy.

The movie acts like screwball comedy, but there are no laughs as Daisy and Jay's connection lurches toward implausible romance.

But to complain that nothing much happens here or ponder the film's curiously tame view of university life (Rodney Dangerfield would most definitely get no respect here) is to miss the point of the movie, which is to serve as a vehicle for McCarthy, spotlighting her warm, screwball spirit and irrepressible physical comedy.

It's as much a snapshot of a screwball neighborhood as it is a loose - ended shaggy dog story, with a weird, buoyant spirit that lifts it up over its somewhat sloppy storytelling.

It started off as what I thought was going to be a screwball comedy but slowly shifted gears into a heartbreaking tale of beauty and political corruption.

What it really is is a screwball comedy with a black - hearted center, an energy extremely difficult to capture and maintain, but Healy — as actor and as director — manages to do so.

A screwball road movie set in a middle - of - nowhere town, Kwik Stop suggests «It Happened One Night» as reimagined by David Lynch or Hal Hartley.

The good news is that some parts of this shopping list are checked off with style and grace: Tony and Pepper are still, at heart, the leads in a screwball comedy — and Downey and Paltrow are top form here; the new villain has the comics» Crimson Dynamo's name — Ivan Vanko [Mickey Rourke]-- but instead of wearing the hopelessly out of date crimson armor, wields a pair of plasma whips that can slice and dice even Stark's fancy suit; and finally, there's Justin Hammer [Sam Rockwell — who was a finalist in casting Stark], a hi - tech weapons manufacturer who got Stark's old Department of Defence contracts even though he's not nearly as talented.

Inspired by an iconic photograph of Nixon shaking Presley's hand and appointing him as an honorary federal drug - enforcement agent, the screenwriter spun the meeting into a full - on screwball comedy.

As the film teeters the line between ridiculous and generic screwball, the all - star cast dazzles to hilarious effect.

As with all screwballs, of course, there must be a fetching female to spar with, and she soon emerges in the person of Lexie Littleton (Renée Zellweger), a reporter who's gotten a tip that Carter's war record may not be quite as heroic as advertiseAs with all screwballs, of course, there must be a fetching female to spar with, and she soon emerges in the person of Lexie Littleton (Renée Zellweger), a reporter who's gotten a tip that Carter's war record may not be quite as heroic as advertiseas heroic as advertiseas advertised.

Brooke's ex-boyfriend Daryl (Michael Chernus, who plays a similar role in PEOPLE PLACES THINGS) and ex-bestie Mamie Claire (Heather Lind) are both there purely as script devices for screwball - inspired shenanigans to ensue.

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.

Frequently laugh - out - loud funny and tangibly tender where it ought to be, the immensely satisfying screwball romp feels freshly contemporary even as it largely conforms to genre conventions.

Like many screwball comedies, this is critic - proof, as the non-stop barrage of jokes may be hilarious to some while nauseatingly bad to another viewer.

In the «30s, there was a series of screwball comedies — cleverly disguised as mysteries — that revolved around a rich, happily married couple, Nick and Nora Charles [William Powell and Myrna Loy] who drank too much; engaged in something called witty repartee, and solved mysteries.

This all too rare comic foray for the actress found Sidney as a Ruritanian princess and lookalike actress (yeah, it's one of those dual identity movies) has a screwball spin on its now familiar curves.

Carrell and Fey have terrific chemistry and the script allows us to see their intelligence, wit and charm develop as they are pushed further and further onto kinds of preposterous situations that a good screwball comedy demands.

«The films that [Noah and I] were talking about as influences — a strain of it was the screwball comedies of the «30s and «40s: Ernst Lubitsch, Howard Hawks, Preston Sturges, and George Cukor.

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...

Here as in They All Laughed, that compromise has to do with romantic dissatisfaction, a tension the film's screwball plot methodically breaks down.

The lengthy set piece at a Connecticut mansion is a classic of screwball escalation, as Baumbach ably piles a Sturgesian array of characters and relationships into a few crowded rooms.

Still, there are a few films whose second or third viewing is as likely to «set the hook» as the first, and David O. Russell's 2004 existential screwball comedy is one of them.

Maybe not in the Coen brothers» top tier, this modern screwball is nonetheless severely underrated, with charismatic, goofy performances from George Clooney and Catherine Zeta - Jones and a twist - heavy script that acts as a showcase for the Coens» indebtedness to Preston Sturges.

Brooke, as played by Greta Gerwig in director Noah Baumbach's brilliant indie screwball comedy, Mistress America, is also a freelance interior decorator of at least one hip laser hair removal center waiting room, a plagiarized T - shirt designer, a writer of stories — not short stories, though — an aspiring SAT tutor, and maybe a cabaret singer too, sometimes.

Bogdanovich contends that this film made Cary Grant a superstar because it proved he could win the girl as a romantic leading man, not a screwball comic (as in Leo McCarey's The Awful Truth) or a poetic misfit (as in George Cukor's peak - high comedy Holiday).

In between his grey - haired later roles and beginnings in Vaudeville, Grant first became a star in Hollywood thanks to his roles as a comic leading man in screwball comedies.

Veronica Lake casts a seductive spell as a charmingly vengeful sorceress in this supernatural screwball classic.

According to one fansite the directors» «screwball comedy angle» was «starting to interfere with what the character of Han Solo is really about», and Alden Ehrenreich's portrayal of a young Han Solo was described in the report as being «oddly comparable to Jim Carrey's performance in Ace Ventura at times».

The Grand Budapest Hotel is at its heart a screwball caper, wherein Gustave finds himself framed for Madame D's murder and on the run from the cops (led by Ed Norton, resplendent in his giant handlebar moustache) and Madame D's unscrupulous son (Adrien Brody, essentially dressed as Snidely Whiplash) and bodyguard (Willem Dafoe, clad in a black turtleneck with matching skull - emblazoned brass knuckles).

They are ideas of female screwball archetypes that Channing, much to her talent as an actress, is able to run with, but offer no solid characterization.

The Bachelor And The Bobby - Soxer — «Screwball comedy that isn't very funny, though it stars Cary Grant as a celebrity caught between two sisters: teenaged Shirley Temple and judge Myrna Loy.

The definitive screwball comedy, My Man Godfrey follows the madcap antics of a wealthy and eccentric family when they hire a down - and - out «forgotten man» as their butler.

Packed with sparkling dialogue and stellar performances, the film represents Hollywood screwball at its most effervescent, but as James Harvey argues in his liner notes for our release, its achievement is profound, marked by «the richness, completeness, and resonance by which we recognize something fully and seriously done, whether we can explain it or not.»

The idea of a renewal of society is common in Hitchcock's work (even The Birds, his most nihilistic piece, finds Melanie eventually supplanting the mother and taking her catatonic place as the broken, passive, utterly domesticated housewife), but in Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the standard sunny resolution to the screwball master plot doesn't land with a hint of irony — the suffering in the picture is the couple's joy.

Russell's penchant for barely controlled chaos just isn't funny in the context of diagnosed mental illness, and while Playbook's late shift into a conventional, crowd - pleasing rom - com works exceedingly well, it does so at the expense of all the previous manic episodes, making it seem as if men who suffer from bipolar disorder just need to find a screwball dame to nurse them to health via wacky dance routines.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes — Howard Hawks lunatic screwball musical stars Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell as a pair of hot chicks looking for husbands on a cruise ship.

Still, there's something about Grant's performance that carries the film; the whiff of anxiety and facile insincerity that fuels Grant's iconic turns in screwball comedies serves him well as the slightly askew Johnnie.