Sentences with phrase «zany screwball»

Victor is presented as not so much a zany screwball, but more of a case study.

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.

Among those that I recall once driving audiences wild here in México were «The Party» (1967), starring Peter Sellers, with all the guests falling into a pool full of bubbles, and Peter Bogdanovich's zany screwball feature «What's up Doc?»

Not exact matches

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?.

In the portfolio, the actors assembled on the cover are set free to pose as themselves: screwball triple threat Emma Stone gave what Diehl terms «Annie Hall realness»; Elle Fanning in Valentino was at her Boticelli best; this year's breakout red carpet oracle Ruth Negga wears a dress by zany - brainy Celine; Greta Gerwig like a windswept Truffaut ingénue in «that fabulous The Row coat with some brogues on,» Diehl said; and actor's actor Amy Adams in a marabou - trimmed Prada, like a rosier Sunset Boulevard, among others.

, has a lot to live up to as the follow - up to 2013's masterful Inside Llewyn Davis, and quite shrewdly the Coens have chosen to move on from that soulfully sad rumination of a folk singer on the brink by providing what could be their zaniest film this side of The Ladykillers, a screwball romp through the backlots of Hollywood at the height of its power and influence.