Sentences with phrase «good screwball»

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.

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.

He shakes his head when he thinks of Marichal: «When he's at the prime of his game he throws a good fastball, a good screwball, a good changeup, a good slider, a good you - have - it... and obviously the elimination system can't work; you can't just throw out five or six different pitches in the hope of seeing the one you want; the odds of seeing it would be too much against the batter.»

This is the best screwball comedy ever made, with rapid - fire overlapping dialog and hilarious performances from Grant, spunky Rosalind Russell and a sublimely bland Ralph Bellamy.

«Mistress America» Stars Greta Gerwig as the Best Screwball Heroine Since Holly Golightly (Trailer)

Or at least study the best screwball comedies or rom - coms.

Not exact matches

A one - joke movie if ever there was, but the joke happens to be a good one — a Tracy - and - Hepburn - style battle of the sexes in which Kate can fly and blast through walls — and director Ivan Reitman (who made Ghostbusters) feels at home with the mix of screwball and supernatural.

Stuck between screwball comedy that allows Alex to emerge unscathed from a high - speed collision with a car and honest romance that features Alex and Juliette staring longingly into the sunset, Heartbreaker is a mixed bag that is charming and funny when it's good and insufferably sophomoric when it's bad.

Lighthearted screwball comedy that serves its two stars, Ginger Rogers and James Stewart, very well.

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new villain has the comics» Crimson Dynamo's name — Ivan Vanko [Mickey Rourke]-- but instead of wearing the hopelessly out of date crimson armor, wields a pair of plasma whips that can slice and dice even Stark's fancy suit; and finally, there's Justin Hammer [Sam Rockwell — who was a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.

For my money, still the best Bond, with a screwball plotline that keeps the locales changing and the surprises coming — even when reason dictates that the picture should be over.

Granted by France's Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers, the SACD Award for best French - language film went to Pierre Salvadori's screwball crime romcom «The Trouble with You.»

The second of 2015's collaborations with her real - life director boyfriend Noah Baumbach, Mistress America was one of the best films at the Sundance Film Festival, an old - school screwball comedy about a young woman who befriends her dad's new girlfriend.

It's somewhat better in the lightweight - uplift department — Rudolph himself aptly calls it a «screwball noir.»

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.

O'Neal did get some pretty good work, appearing alongside Barbra Streisand in the screwball comedy What's Up, Doc?

Would have cut down on the screwball farce by ten minutes or so but otherwise a really good film

It's a sweet, faintly screwball, faintly Shakespearean look at love, families and what happens when a well - made plan goes just a bit awry.

-RRB- about an American opera promoter's discovery that his prospective Italian in - law (real - life tenor Fabio Armiliato) is a talent only when he sings in the shower coasts nicely on its screwball premise and pays off in a funny set - piece that unfortunately goes on well past the punchline.

Allen's own subplot (this is his first onscreen appearance since Scoop) about an American opera promoter's discovery that his prospective Italian in - law (real - life tenor Fabio Armiliato) is a talent only when he sings in the shower coasts nicely on its screwball premise and pays off in a funny set - piece that unfortunately goes on well past the punchline.

After failing to win the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (he lost to Robert Donat in Goodbye, Mr. Chips, which is a very good performance in a fine film, but come on), James Stewart was rewarded by the Academy the very next year for The Philadelphia Story, in which he plays third lead to Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in George Cukor's monumental screwball.

There's no attempt at drama here, just good, old - fashioned screwball comedy abounding with double - entendres and sight gags and anchored by two charmingly presentational and presentationally charming lead performances.

At the same time, it's staggering to discover the huge gap in quality between Cavalcade and the next Best Picture Oscar winner: Capra's ahead - of - its - time screwball romantic comedy It Happened One Night.

His slangy eloquence, his brilliance at scene making, and his nose for the zeitgeist fostered a slew of smash movie classics, including the seminal silent gangster film Underworld (1927), which won the first Oscar for best original screen story, and its sound - film successor, Scarface (1932); the screwball satire Nothing Sacred (1937); and the seductive romantic thriller, Notorious (1946).

There may be a way to mix the monumental tragedy of the Native American genocide with a screwball comedy about a well - meaning chucklehead and his mystically addled Comanche sidekick, but Gore Verbinski has not found it in his pretentious and smug version of THE LONE RANGER.

The German director Ernst Lubitsch (1892 - 1947) is best known for the insouciant screwball comedies he made in Hollywood.

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.

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.

Millennial communication patterns — a constant, rapid shuffle between angst, oversharing, self - mythologizing, self - abasement, insincere social ritual, and sincere shared enthusiasm — slot incredibly well into the framework of a screwball comedy.

The best way to support Brooke's outsized personality and big - time ambition proved to be a nimble narrative that switches things up halfway through the film's snappy 84 - minute runtime, when the film transitions from a more traditional comedy to one that firmly nods to screwball sensibilities.

Silver Linings is one of the most charming movies of the decade and a delightful throwback to the zany screwball romantic comedies of the «30s and «40s, a better tribute than the previous years Best Picture winner The Artist.

Jonathan Demme's breakthrough movie is many ways his best and certainly his most enjoyable, a screwball fling that takes a road movie turn into darkness.

This capriciously offbeat sophomore offering from director Rian Johnson starts off in the tradition of good old - fashioned Hollywood screwball comedies.

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Apart from Cary Grant's collaboration with director Alfred Hitchcock, we like his screwball comedies and light romantic roles best.

On the one hand, it wants to be a thinking man action's picture, the sort that hires against type for its leading role (Wilson is best known for his screwball comedies).

Wonder no longer: Aided by producers Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach, «Squirrels to the Nuts» finds Bogdonavich returning to the screwball comedy genre that he explored so well with the likes of «Paper Moon» and «What's Up, Doc?»

A screwball splatter flick which might best thought of as a campy cross of Cotton Comes to Harlem and No Country for Old Men.

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.

The kind of comic actor that Anna Faris represents, and the kind of unabashedly screwball comedy that she embraces, is quite possibly rarer than a comet hitting Earth — or a good, solidly - made American movie comedy.

Some excellent performances from the leads (and some of the supporting cast as well: Lucille Ball, Ann Miller, Adolphe Menjou, and Eve Arden), flashes of brilliant screwball dialogue and Gregory La Cava's efficient if uninspired direction make for a solid film.

The latest trailer puts any fears to rest and sets a much better tone of the film, looking less like a screwball comedy and more like an epic action - filled drama.

The stars aren't the whole show, not when they're backed by the usual assortment of Coen - kooks (you just know that a character named «Wheezy Joe» will be good for some laughs) as well as a screenplay that ably captures the long - established rhythms of the screwball comedy.

Either way, this proto - screwball comedy is worth a good look because everyone involved is at the top of their game and though it is not any masterpiece, it is fine for what it is and holds up incredibly well for its age.

The films he made between these animated efforts — Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)-- were among his better works, as the former evinced a real sense of poignant feeling that sometimes gets lost in his penchant for irony and pastiche, while the latter was a marvelous screwball farce with a fantastic central performance by Ralph Fiennes.

It's a comedy that might as well have been transported from Hollywood's Golden Age of high - concept, screwball comedies (if it had been in black - and - white and had a few edits for content, obviously).

While Davis primarily shined as a dramatic actress, she was also capable of delivering strong comic performances and her turn in the screwball comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner ranks as her best.

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.

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.

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.