@McGregger

Pleased to meet you! I'm a small-city Canadian movie fan. I love Australian and New Zealand movies particularly because they're kind of like us - limited population means small budgets - but they're more isolated from the American cultural steamroller, so they do amazing things. Story is a whole lot more important when $100M of CGI is not an option.

Any particular movies? I'd love some recommendations I've never seen.

#saskatchewan #sk #comedy #zany #screwball

Nothing else in Theodora Goes Wild is as good as Irene Dunne’s performance, but it’s a pleasant screwball comedy.

https://boxd.it/3V6GsZ

#CineMastodon #Letterboxd #screwball #CriterionChannel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBmRcrFDnZY

This toy looks really fun.
I love those weird complex toys.

#toys #ashens #screwball #screwballscramble #vintagetoys #fun #trivia

I received a bottle of Screwball Peanut Butter Whiskey as a Christmas gift. Before this I was only vaguely aware that peanut butter whiskeys existed. I'm sure I never would have bought it for myself, which makes it a great gift. It's surprisingly delicious, quite sweet, tastes like peanut brittle candy. I'm drinking it neat and if I hadn't poured it myself I would think it's a cocktail.

Only 70 proof.

#whiskey #Screwball #PeanutButterWhiskey

3 things about Preston Sturges' THE LADY EVE [1941]

1. “But then she must be very, very … ?”
“Oh, very!”
2. Covered in roast and pan drippings.
3. Mr. Murgatroyd.

#3things #movies #PrestonSturges #screwball #HenryFonda #BarbaraStanwyck

3 things about Preston Sturges' THE LADY EVE [1941]

1. “But then she must be very, very … ?”
“Oh, very!”
2. Covered in roast and pan drippings.
3. Mr. Murgatroyd.

#3things #movies #PrestonSturges #screwball #HenryFonda #BarbaraStanwyck

THE LADY EVE just gets better every time I see it. The double (and triple!) entendres he pulls off, you couldn't even attempt today. This is now a Preston Sturges stan account. "Oh, go peel an eel!"

#PrestonSturges #BarbaraStanwyck #Screwball

THE LADY EVE just gets better every time I see it. The double (and triple!) entendres he pulls off, you couldn't even attempt today. This is now a Preston Sturges stan account. "Oh, go peel an eel!"

#PrestonSturges #BarbaraStanwyck #Screwball

I moved back to Canada after 23 years abroad. I was widowed during the pandemic so I couldn't make new friends in person or benefit from hugs and human touch like bereaved people deserve and need.
#Mastodon and the friends and support found in #SDF community remind me there is still good in the world.

Current interests
#shibuyakei #psych #jazz #funk
#KonMari #deathcleaning
#qigong #energymedicine
#celebritydeathpools
#comedies of #silentfilm & #screwball genres
#bulletjournals

#introduction

I moved back to Canada after 23 years abroad. I was widowed during the pandemic so I couldn't make new friends in person or benefit from hugs and human touch like bereaved people deserve and need.
#Mastodon and the friends and support found in #SDF commu its remind me there is still good in the world.

Current interests
#shibuyakei #psych #jazz #funk
#KonMari #deathcleaning
#qigong #energymedicine
#celebritydeathpools
#comedies of #silentfilm & #screwball genres
#bulletjournals

#introduction

“Twentieth Century” (1934) 2/4 - It’s got all the right elements, but the telling causes this #CaroleLombard and #JohnBarrymore prototype #screwball comedy to drag. The scenes with #Lombard and #Barrymore trying to out-theatre the other are insanely fun even if #Barrymore feels like he is more acting than ‘reacting’. From a writing standpoint, it’s interesting to stack against #Hecht, #MacArthur, and #Hawks’s better known film, “His Girlfriend Friday” (4/4), which never fails to dazzle.

“Twentieth Century” (1934) 2/4 - It’s got all the right elements, but the telling causes this #CaroleLombard and #JohnBarrymore prototype #screwball comedy to drag. The scenes with #Lombard and #Barrymore trying to out-theatre the other are insanely fun even if #Barrymore feels like he is more acting than ‘reacting’. From a writing standpoint, it’s interesting to stack against #Hecht, #MacArthur, and #Hawks’s better known film, “His Girlfriend Friday” (4/4), which never fails to dazzle.

Woohoo! We will be *all over* this! New on the Criterion Channel for December. #screwball #classicfilm

@heikor143

Ja, es ist ganz sicher mehr #Screwball als eine hintersinnige Komödie. Aber gerade dieser Wahnwitz und das dazugehörige Tempo ist das, was den Film so grandios macht. Auch hier gilt natürlich, dass man sich den Film unbedingt im Original anschauen sollte, da die Gags, die auch aus den sprachlichen Unterschieden herrühren, so noch mal deutlich besser kommen ...

@Gambolloch Classic old screwball comedies! Dinner at Eight, Midnight, The Lady Eve, Libeled Lady, My Man Godfrey, His Girl Friday, Palm Beach Story.... #film #movies #screwball #comedy

Yo. What a stream tonight! Gotta play #back4blood with one of my best dudes (going back to freshman year in 98), a touch of goat simulator 3 and finishing the night with some #fallguys #Corona and #screwball

I moved back to Canada after 23 years abroad. I was widowed during the pandemic so I couldn't make new friends in person or benefit from hugs and human touch like bereaved people deserve and need.
#Mastodon and the friends and support ffond on the #SDF instance remind me there is still good in the world.

Current interests
#Japanese #psych #jazz #funk
#KonMari #deathcleaning
#qigong #energymedicine
#celebritydeathpools
#comedies of the #silent & #screwball genres
#bulletjournals

#introduction