Sentences with phrase «manic screwball»
A runaway bride seeks refuge on a tropical island inhabited by a reclusive perfumer in this manic screwball comedy, dazzlingly filmed on location in New York, Provence, and Venezuela.
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Like Frances Ha on Adderall, Mistress America finds Baumbach working with a manic screwball energy that has more in common with Preston Sturges or Howard Hawks than it does any of his previous films.
Frances Ha on Adderall, Mistress America finds Baumbach working with a manic screwball energy that has more in common with Preston Sturges or Howard Hawks than it does any of his previous films.
Not exact matches
If screwball comedies are about sex (previously without the actual sex) and about gender politics and power dynamics between men and women, Mike Nichols» The Fortune falls into this solid, if not always successful, attempt at reviving those little discourses under the guise of manic comedy.
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.
To his credit, he does manage to actually gain a few extra chuckles from his manic performance, but the weakness in the material eventually does show, and Mazursky's (Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Moscow on the Hudson) attempt at a throwback to the screwball comedies of the 1920s and 30s replaces wit and panache with fits of desperation.
Gerwig and director Noah Baumbach conceived «Mistress America» as a tribute to the screwball comedies of old, giving the movie a manic, theatrical fizz - characters running in and out of frame, dialogue coming in volleys.
A familiar plot turns into a delicious screwball comedy when a tough kid is exposed to a manic household and people who are willing to let him change.