Classics of the genre | Screwball comedy

This special kind of pleasure — to be accommodated in the world of film, which we know well. Or quite the opposite — the joy of discovering canonical works for yourself, seeing them for the first time and admitting that they are really as good as everyone says they are. Above all, however, the satisfaction of watching the classics the way it deserved it: on the big screen of a cinema that loves history.

The classics of the genre will evoke all these emotions and even more, because although we like to unseal the canon and walk along the side paths of cinema, we believe that already recognized masterpieces are still worth watching and looking at them from new perspectives.

The first installment of the series will be devoted to an extremely grateful genre, which has entered the history of cinema with far-fetched narrative ideas, outstanding roles and iconic scenes. Screwball comedy (or shot-comedy, as we sometimes call it) combines the scriptwriting mastery and craftsmanship of Hollywood's finest directors with a sneaky sideways commentary on social classes, gender roles, and modernity that burst into American cinema in the 1930s.

From Frank Capra's model “Their Nights,” to formula master Howard Hawks' wild “Predatory Baby,” Leo McCary's sophisticated “Naked Truth,” and Preston Sturges' morally daring “Miracle on Morgan's Creek,” to Preston Sturges' epigone “So What, Doc?” Peter Bogdanovich - together we will jump on the carousel of laughter and watch the best films of the genre on the big screen of the Iluzjon Cinema.