Sentences with phrase «screwball farces»

A screwball farce that pulls off a pitifully low percentage of its gags, even with a star - crammed cast.

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

by Walter Chaw Casting about wildly for that elusive «Lubitsch Touch» so prized by his hero Billy Wilder, underdog - uplift auteur Cameron Crowe has patched together Elizabethtown: an awkward, shambling, Frankenstein's monster of a romantic screwball farce that, for all its slickness, shows off every one of its bolts and stitches in monstrous bas relief.

At a swanky suburban residence, the film transforms into a full - fledged screwball farce, sending characters constantly in and out of frame, jokes flying fast in a torrent of overlapping dialogue.

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.

There are no serious moments, no issues to tackle, no themes to discuss: this is screwball farce, pure and simple.

Ultimately, while Big Trouble's images were made uncomfortable in a post-attack America, the film is a harmless screwball farce.

Not exact matches

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Coen Brothers Screwball Comedy Comes to DVD Here, the Coen Brothers serve up a screwball comedy which might best be described as a combination sex farce and political pScrewball Comedy Comes to DVD Here, the Coen Brothers serve up a screwball comedy which might best be described as a combination sex farce and political pscrewball comedy which might best be described as a combination sex farce and political potboiler.

Wacky enough to make us smile but never laugh out loud, this screwball comedy harks back to those nutty 1970s farces Woody Allen used to make about a group of neurotic urbanites.

It's as if the filmmakers were making a screwball 90s period piece, with characterizations and design choices alike coming dangerously close to crossing the line of farce.