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.