Not exact matches
Laurie Boeder is a lifelong movie
fan and professional writer who especially loves the fabulous Hollywood films of the»40s,»50s and»60s, and has a soft spot for
screwball comedies, cheesy old sci - fi, and old - fashioned patriotic potboilers.
Also, the movie's main shortcoming is that it does not always walk the line between a satire and a
screwball comedy, which may not appeal to casual
fans of the Coen brothers and sometimes takes away from the clever dialogue.
How can any true movie
fan not love the
screwball comedies of the 1930s and 1940s?
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.
To be honest, I'm not the biggest
fan of Clooney doing
screwball comedy, it's not his strong suit.
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.
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.