We've already professed here how much we enjoy the droll, dry films of Whit Stillman, and his latest, "Love & Friendship," is another sparkling gem.
"Zero for Conduct," Jean Vigo's ironic and droll movie about the schoolboys who rebel against their demoniacally oppressive wardens, has been beloved by both film fans and filmmakers since its release in France in 1933.
IF you're thinking of a summer vacation in Maine, you may want to consider other destinations after viewing LAKE PLACID (1999), a droll creature film pitting Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda and Oliver Platt against a very large crocodile that has inexplicably turned up in a Maine lake.
The writer and director Pjer Zalica's droll, soulful film, set in a war-ravaged Bosnian village, pits Serbs and Muslims, black marketeers and the government, against one another, with the corrupt cop Mugdim (Izudin Bajrovic) playing both ends against the middle.
With its droll wit, the film sends up the band members' affectations while leaving their souls unscathed.
In the revealing and droll one-off film, Coren presents his book to literary stars such as Jacobson, Hanif Kureishi, Rose Tremain and Jeffrey Archer – and also to critics, including Stephen Bayley, who commented on Winkler's "lavatorial awfulness" – to try to understand what went so horribly wrong.
Elizabeth Price, for instance, has made a wonderfully droll black-and-white film that achieves all three.
GALA Jean-Daniel Pollet's exquisite, droll, and bittersweet short film, from 1961, is both a triumph of aestheticism and a surprising view of a primordially multicultural France.
On the same program is "Bete de Scene," a droll 18-minute French film by Bernard Nissille, with an amusing theatrical setting.
Set in the Côte d'Azur and peopled with an amusingly droll supporting cast, the film leavened its serious inquiries about faith and reason with lavish cinematography and generous doses of arch humour.
(With its wide-open desolation, Phoenix works as the place an alien would find inviting.) The film is droll and organized; in their meticulousness, Mr. Nichols and Mr. Shandling are a little too much in sync.
