[3] February 6, 2013
Sleepless in Seattle [4] is a romantic comedy that slyly ridicules Hollywood's unrealistic depictions of love and at the same time wants to be the same sort of preposterous-but-beloved screen romance it spoofs.
[3] Sleepless in Seattle [4] is a romantic comedy that slyly ridicules Hollywood's unrealistic depictions of love and at the same time wants to be the same sort of preposterous-but-beloved screen romance it spoofs.
[6] It says something that Bye Bye Birdie [7], a musical inspired by a very specific news story of the late 1950s and devised as a humorous commentary on the cultural ethos of that era, has over the last 50 years become timeless.
[9] Raymond Chandler, on whose novel The Big Sleep [10] was based, confessed that even he couldn't figure out the plot of the movie version. But Bogie’s sardonic tough guy and the heat generated by Lauren Bacall make it a film noir classic.
[12] Can violence be funny? That's not a question you'd expect from a movie starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn, but that was the issue when the comedy thriller Charade [13] hit America’s movie screens.
[15] Funniest movie of all time? That’s a tough call, but Bringing Up Baby [16] has to be a contender. This screwball masterpiece screens on Sunday, January 27 at the Plaza Branch as part of the Movies That Matter film series.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/Film+Blog/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-sleepless-seattle-1993
[4] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Nora+Ephron%22+title:%22Sleepless+in+Seattle%22
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19458#comment-form
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-bye-bye-birdie-1963
[7] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22George+Sidney%22+title:%22Bye+Bye+Birdie%22
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19451#comment-form
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-big-sleep-1946
[10] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Howard+Hawks%22+title:%22Big+Sleep%22
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19409#comment-form
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-charade-1963
[13] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Stanley+Donen%22+title:%22Charade%22
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19394#comment-form
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-bringing-baby-1938
[16] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Howard+Hawks%22+title:%22Bringing+Up+Baby%22
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19388#comment-form
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=6
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=3
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=4
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=5
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=8
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=9
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=10
[26] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=11
[27] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=62