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HAWKISH: HOWARD HAWKS’ SCREWBALL COMEDIES ARE MARKED BY ROMANTIC ANARCHY

Written by JAKE MULLIGAN Posted July 20, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Film

The curiously celibate romantic action comedies of Edgar Wright and Peter Bogdanovich, the rhyming wordplay of Quentin Tarantino and Wes Anderson...they all owe their existence to screwballs.

Filed Under: A+E, Film Tagged With: Brattle Theatre, carey grant, Comedy, Edgar Wright, his girl friday, howard hawks, Peter Bogdanovich, Quentin Tarantino, romantic, screwball, Wes Anderson

ZOOM-ZOOM: ON THE FILMS OF EDGAR WRIGHT

Written by JAKE MULLIGAN Posted July 8, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Film

The beauty of these films isn’t always what they say—it’s how they sing.

Filed Under: A+E, Film Tagged With: Bryan Lee O’Malley, Cambridge, Dave Kehr, Edgar Wright, Gary King, Hard Boiled, Hot Fuzz, John Woo, Nick Frost, preston sturges, Ramona Flowers, Run Lola Run, Scott Pilgrim, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Shaun of the Dead, Simon Pegg, slacker, The Brattle Theatre, The World’s End

INTERVIEW: EDDIE IZZARD, FORCE MAJEURE

Written by KRISTOFER JENSON Posted May 1, 2014 Filed Under: A+E, Comedy

"My theory is that all humor is human."

Filed Under: A+E, Comedy Tagged With: acting, amc, arabic, Boston, bullet in the face, drama, eddie izzard, Edgar Wright, English, Force Majeure, french, german, hannibal, lock stock and two smoking barrels, Monty Python, Revolutionary War, Russian, Spanish, Stand-up comedy, turn

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