Word: humorousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chosen faces leering ever so faintly from a 16th century fresco. Dressed and undressed in sumptuous Renaissance style, or hatching intrigues among the cobblestones of two ancient Umbrian villages where the action was filmed, they look comfortably removed to another time. With a lusty feel for the broad, vulgar humor of the period, Lattuada adds a delectable scene at the public baths, where gentlemen voyeurs and unsuspecting ladies are suddenly desegregated by a collapsing wall. Making a new movie from an old play can easily bring both to ruin, but Director Lattuada, with the slow and graceful style...
...TAKE IT WITH YOU. George Kaufman and Moss Hart's 30-year-old tour de farce is a riotous reminder that absurd may mean wacky, not world-weary, that humor, after all, may be amusing rather than bruising...
...BONNES FEMMES. All the humor, horror and futility in the lives of four commonplace Parisian shopgirls fill a downbeat but poignant tale by French Director Claude Chabrol (The Cousins...
...carefully eschewed support of extreme right-wing causes in favor of a pragmatic middle-of-the-road approach-and his managers have made certain that the far right has no place in his campaign organization. Speaking to housewives in vegetable-growing Salinas, he conveyed just the right blend of humor and concern at the rising cost of living. "You ladies," he charmed, "know that if you stand in front of the asparagus counter at the supermarket these days, it's cheaper to eat money." To the charge that he is without experience in government, he has a simple, homely...
...comedy with residual plot development or a semblance of character, a few such antics might be funny. Ears mistakes physical exercise for humor, and before one-third of the marathon unreels it has exhausted everyone except its agile leading man, who is still one of filmdom's sprightliest actors. But not sprightly enough, perhaps, to carry off a role that requires him almost simultaneously to be like Harold Lloyd on a high wire, Buster Keaton pratfalling in a Chinese opera, and Humphrey Bogart doing a striptease in drag...