Broadsheet Trailer Park: She’s Funny That Way

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5WtPcWlae4

What you may need to know:

1. Screwball *shudder* farce in which Broadway director Arnold (Owen Wilson) falls for prostitute-turned-actress Izzy (Imogen Poots) and tries to turn her life around. Hilarious hijinks ensue.

2. Peter Bogdanovich’s eagerly awaited follow up to the critical smash, The Cat’s Meow (2001). As part of the American new wave, Bogdanovich came to prominence in the early 1970s alongside such luminaries as William Friedkin, John Schlesinger and Mike Nichols, but his last truly great movie was Paper Moon in 1973.

3. This trailer contains so much plot that it saves you the trouble of watching the full film.

4. Which is just as well, as it looks like Bogdanovich has set out to make a very bad Woody Allen movie.

5. If the jokes seem a tad clunky and dated, that’s because the screenplay is over 15 years old.

6. Bogdanovich’s work as a film historian is second to none, but being a great director takes more than a rampant ego and a cravat. This might account for the frosty reception he got from John Ford in 1971.

7. Broadsheet Prognosis: The Woolworth Farce (ask your Da).

Release Date: June 26

(Mark blogs about film, TV and other stuff at WhyBother.ie)

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11 thoughts on “Broadsheet Trailer Park: She’s Funny That Way

    1. Bodger

      AuroraBorealice, it seems to be the standard spelling on the only available movie poster. Editing fail? In-joke? Who knows…

  1. mauriac

    would forgive him a lot for the last picture show.
    Goddard mocked the overly revealing trailer by having his one for the interesting film socalisme just be a fast forward through the whole movie.

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