Sentences with word «screwball»

«That's the first half of the film and then the mystery element kind of dies off into the background and it becomes a kind of screwball comedy between the two and they have these verbal jousts.

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.

Leslie Nielsen has excelled in screwball comedies in the past, but what this film really needs is new blood if there were to be any chance at sustaining our interest.

Not that you'll be in a particular hurry to get there, given how entertaining it is to watch the talented cast perform Potter's rat - a-tat script (the speed and complexity of the dialogue are reminiscent of classic screwball comedies like «His Girl Friday»).

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.

The movie plays into screwball humor and some plotlines we've seen in Date Night or Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn's Charade, but this is a sweet couple who brings out the lovey - dovey chemistry.

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

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.

This program looks back on screwball comedies including It Happened One Night and His Girl Friday.

If you're familiar with Bogdanovich's love for screwball comedies, you probably know what to expect from «She's Funny That Way».

Great screwball comedy about the transformation of a plain and repressed girl (splendidly played by Irene Dunne) into an eccentric and loving woman.

Jason Isringhausen is a solid closer — very live fastball and his curveball is better than he thinks... Jim Mecir is a perfect setup guy; he has a good screwball with good command.»

The Lovers is interested in exaggerating how people lack the ability to communicate, not in screwball antics.

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

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.

All seems to be going fine enouh, but he suddenly gets thrust into a mad cap screwball plot that's such a wacky and convoluted mess that it makes fellow cult classic The Big Lebowski seem normal and mainstream by comparison.

Brooks asks Max, sniffing him as he leans in for a hug — but his attempts at screwball patter are shaky.

It's like a classic Hollywood screwball comedy starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn.

The stars settle nicely into their roles — he turning up the wounded - nice - guy smolder, she radiating a lust for life — and there's a certain old - fashioned, even screwball charm to the courtship.

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.

It's hard to be a sharp screwball spoof when the focus is this broad and scattered over so many decades and so many different styles of films.

The Triumph of Love is an old - fashioned screwball farce, adapted from the Maurivaux's old play.

I yearned for the laugh - out - loud fluidity of, say, Russell's Flirting With Disaster — a rare example of modern screwball done right.

Anti-Communist politics and screwball romance make strange bedfellows in this comic tale that plays like a cross between the previous year's It Happened One Night (1934) and a less - sober version of a later generation's The Way We Were (1973).

David O. Russell makes screwball comedies.

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.

The philosopher Stanley Cavell has called the classic screwball movies like The Awful Truth (1937) and The Lady Eve (1941) «comedies of remarriage,» in which couples are rudely bounced from their Edenic connubial gardens and reunited (after a series of farcical / magical contrivances) in a spirit of wry realism: This time they know they'll live bumpily ever after.

Featuring David Schwimmer, Cheech Marin, and Sharon Stone, the film was a satirical comedy infused with screwball humor, with a notable appearance by Woody Allen.

Done in the style of pre-war screwball capers, Mortdecai is about Charlie Mortdecai (human cartoon Johnny Depp), an insufferable English aristocrat and art dealer of questionable ethics.

A zany screwball farce, the film casts Kirke — best known, perhaps, for her brief but memorable supporting turn in Gone Girl — as wide - eyed college freshman Tracy, who begins spending her evenings with Brooke (Gerwig), the free - spirited New York daughter of the man her mother is marrying.

Frank's band itself is a satirical take on the often impenetrable world of indie alternative music: not one of the pretentious screwballs who play in Soronprfbs knows or cares how to pronounce its name.

The film has more in common with 1930s screwball (films filled with obvious coincidences) than the more clunky, often - humorless films that pass for «rom - coms» today.

Joy has all the hallmarks of your average Russell delight, from a working - class backdrop to a dysfunctional screwball family to the combined star power of Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, and Robert De Niro.

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.

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.

Its situational dilemmas, fierce character archetypes and screwball sensibility toward gender roles seem fitting for an early 90s sitcom.

Lucius, who also works in collage, works out of a studio in Screwball Space in Red Hook.

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

The gifts in question are robot versions of themselves that are younger and hotter, setting off a series of screwball situations that should provide plenty of laughs to go with the tunes.

Thanks to Tomy for sending us these great games to try, next on my list is Screwball Scramble, as I always wanted it as a child and never had it.

JUMP TOMORROW (Grade: B): This story of a shy, buttoned - down, Nigerian - born man who falls for an impulsive young Spanish woman is an old - fashioned screwball road - trip romance with a modern flair and a funky lounge score.

This movie keeps a lot of balls in the air: generational and cultural conflict, hospital drama, screwball banter — and only rarely lets one drop.

The final third of the film escalates, in classic screwball style, through a masterful series of set - pieces, as hilarious as they are devastating.

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.»

Due to vagaries of scheduling, A24 is releasing «While We're Young» March 27 after which Fox Searchlight will eventually open enchanting comedy «Mistress America,» which Baumbauch wrote with his partner and actress muse Greta Gerwig (who collaborated with him memorably on «Frances Ha»), creating Brooke, the most entertaining screwball heroine since Holly Golightly.

by Walter Chaw An unlikely romance, an unlikely road movie, and an unlikely buddy picture all in one that somehow works (and with a surplus of charm and sweetness), Joel Hopkins's debut feature Jump Tomorrow could be described as either Harold Lloyd by way of Jacques Tati or Jim Jarmusch by way of Thirties screwball.

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.

It's a throwback to old screwball comedies where anything could happen without having to make sense, and it relies on that zaniness to drive laughs rather than pairing it with rapid - fire jokes like an Airplane!

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.