Sentences with phrase «of screwball»

After graduating from SAIC, Thiele apprenticed Chicago screen printer Steve Walters of Screwball Press and learned the art of silkscreen printing, primarily printing posters for local and national bands.

The live voice - over (also known as the Gavrilov technique) is common in Eastern European television and cinema, and Slavs and Tatars uses the method in three screenings of screwball comedy films all live - interpreted to German, including that of Polish Seksmisja.

«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.»

Epitomizes the battle - of - the - sexes aspect of screwball comedy perhaps better than any other film.

Clooney is clearly a fan of screwball comedies (as witnessed in past films with the Coen brothers), and while a movie like this certainly doesn't need someone like him behind the camera, it's a project that he's passionate about.

The Palm Beach Story is an entertaining film which fans of screwball comedies and known devotees of Preston Sturges should both enjoy quite a bit.

Is there a better way to spend an afternoon than watching Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell trade witticisms in the sexiest of screwball comedies?

And really, the project sounds right in Bogdanovich's very familiar wheelhouse — he is an unabashed fan of screwball comedy («What's Up Doc,» «The Cat's Meow» etc) and with Anderson and Baumbach helping to guide the project, we are very excited to see what the result may be.

In a nice little recent, now - unlinkable interview with Screen International «s Mike Goodridge, George Clooney talks about falling in love with Joel McCrea and the relatively obscure The More the Merrier as part of his screwball, classic Hollywood tonal research for Leatherheads, opening today.

Intolerable Cruelty, for all its embedded scholarship and flashes of screwball humor, enlightens and charms more in theory than in practice.

George Clooney exhibits the right degree of screwball aptitude as Miles Massey, a hotshot divorce lawyer who may have finally met his match in the gold - digging Marylin Rexroth (Catherine Zeta - Jones).

The ridiculous plot blighted the book and, despite Levinson's efforts to phase out some of the novel's excesses, he still struggles whenever he incorporates some of the the screwball elements into the plot.

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.

That's not necessarily a bad thing, but the amped up quality of screwball can become a bit shrill after a while.

Seeing him attempt something so sincere, so rooted in human behavior instead of screwball goofs, makes for a strange yet welcome bit of cognitive dissonance.

Unfortunately for us as viewers, director Dean Parisot (Galaxy Quest, Home Fries) and the screenwriters see this idea as more of a screwball comedy, and whatever underlying message driving the themes in the background are muted by the constant need to be frenetically madcap.

Arianda took Broadway by storm several years ago in a revival of the 1940s comedy «Born Yesterday,» and she lends «Goliath» a similar kind of screwball energy.

It's a drawback that could be handily remedied on film by softening the acrid edges of Kirn's prose slightly, and refashioning the material as more of a screwball comedy with a romantic streak — which the casting of Clooney and female up - and - comer Vera Farmiga suggests (to me, at least) may be on the cards.

Also, Smith's direction quickly settles into a predictable set - up - and - follow rhythm (Bean is left alone; Bean gets himself into all sorts of screwball trouble; people react).

Such is the life of a screwball comedy.

As with «Frances Ha,» the movie adopts the tone of a screwball comedy to explore the frustrations and aspirations of young women — one of whom played, once again, by an endearingly wacky Gerwig — but it has a more conventional structure and cynical attitude that synthesizes the two authors» distinct voices.

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.

In their attempt to wheedle the money out of a sanitary napkin heiress (Stockard Channing in her film debut), Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson jump into the roles of befuddled, sometimes outsmarted, and pathetic men in the world of the screwball force.

While she wasn't offered that part her chance to collaborate with Baumbach finally came a decade later in the shape of screwball comedy Mistress America.

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.

Fiennes in particular conjures a surprising spirit of screwball grace.

One of the most tried and true of the screwball comedy formulas: uptown girl, downtown guy, together temporarily and hating it.

Neurosis and charm co-mingle, taking the shape of a screwball - lite romcom about domesticity, marriage and monotony.

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.

Plenty of screwball comedy, slapstick, sight gags, stupid word play, and overall silliness is all you will get for the 85 minutes duration, where nothing is serious, not even the end credits.

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.

The film doesn't necessarily «work» in the traditional sense, because it's not really a faithful parody or re-imagining of the screwball comedy.

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?.

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.

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.

Lubitsch's classicism gets continually cracked by the unruliness of the screwball genre and by the caustic thrust of the Billy Wilder - Charles Brackett screenplay

Now wait a minute, I can see that it must be disappointing to see 300k slip away from your grasping hands to the equally grasping paws of a bunch of screwballs, but is it «worse» that the world did not end?

Not exact matches

Believing in a bunch of impossible, screwball things to explain the physical world around them in the 21st Century.

The pace of Star Wars is rapid fire for most of its hour and 57 minutes, and the script is filled with a verbal and visual wit that has been rare in Hollywood movies since the screwball comedies of the «30s.

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!

This man should not be put in charge of a whelk stall, so my friends, at this dawn of a New Year for us all and the club we love, please say a prayer to whatever you believe in for that deity - or just fate, if you prefer — for something, ANYTHING, to remove this screwball manager from our club.

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.»

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.

But the NBA ought to really acknowledge its role in creating this hideous mess and be sure it doesn't create another one in the process of unraveling the current screwball system.

Trump's New York co-chair, Carl Paladino, slammed Ryan, calling him a «screwball» for criticizing some of the presumptive GOP presidential nominee's controversial statements.

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.

Staffers in payroll offices, benefits departments, and computer services departments labored to develop new job codes, some of which violated longstanding UC procedures; to extensively revise software, some of it decades old; to establish a single enrollment and accounting setup despite very different local circumstances; and to find answers to some screwball questions.

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.

When Roger says he'll be fine, the director snaps back «I'm not worried about you, I'm worried about the refrigerator» — the script's dialogue has traces of»30s and»40s screwball about it.