Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...charming film; the romance between Lise and Antoine takes over, leaving the viewer happy in the knowledge that there is love in middle age. Noiret, a bearish, bemused-looking type, brings a wonderful sense of middle-aged bewilderment with the trappings of everyday life that complements his intelligence and humor. His winning portrayal of an academic bachelor suddenly rekindling his interest in the outside world charms the audience and negates the possible adverse appeal of his tubby, if otherwise endearing, figure...
Carlin clearly believes his contact with Columbia's students and bohemians during the smoldering '50s shaped both his humor and intellect. "There were all kinds of ruffian elements in our neighborhood, and then we had the college kids, intellectuals...'faggots'. I can't believe that whole spirit of erudition just passed through our existence. I'm sure it was a force on our lives--it can be measured some day when we have the right instrument...
...refuses to divulge her age), Cannon's screen trademark is an odd but appealing mix of sensuality and wacky spontaneity. Says Paul Mazursky, who directed her in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice: "She has this strange sexuality, which has the slightest edge of being funky, and this humor." She is the exact opposite of a gently provocative Diane Keaton, much more like a latter-day Judy Holliday (but brassier). Cannon downright dares to be vulgar. Says Buck Henry, co-director (with Beatty) of Heaven Can Wait: "She's successful because she's not afraid to make a fool...
Bananas-Early Woody Allen, and while this film surely lacks the polish of his later work, it has more of the wild, reckless humor and endless one-liners that made Woody famous before everyone knew he was neurotic and an intellectual, too. In this one, he plays a nebbish, of course, who by weird circumstance ends up leading a Latin American revolution and reclaiming his lost sweetheart (Louise Lasser). Best moments Howard Cosell covering the assassination of a banana republic dictator and Woody ordering 500 hamburgers to go, 300 with cole slaw...
Harold Rome's music has an infectious amiability and moves the show along on dancing feet, though the level of choreography is primitive. Rome's lyrics achieve something that is perhaps rarer than wit, a good humor that arises from compassionate fellow feeling...