We shall no longer have spectacle of amusement-starved outlanders flocking to new York to view rehashed continental stuff and silly farces.
It is his wife, Rita Rusic, from whom Mr. Cecchi Gori is now separated, who is credited with producing the films of Leonardo Pieraccioni, silly farces that in Italy have outsold many of Mr. Benigni's most popular comedies.
Mr. Stoppard has created unabashedly silly farces centered on characters hamstrung by speech impediments and spoon-erisms ("Rough Crossing," "On the Razzle"), as well as dizzying homages to artistic ancestors like James Joyce, Tristan Tzara and Oscar Wilde, in "Travesties," and A. E. Housman in "The Invention of Love".
Writer/director/star Tommy Wiseau crafted a film intended to be a serious drama, but instead turned out to be one of the most absurdly silly farces of all time.
For that matter, they turn what might have been a gripping summer beach read into a silly, bloody farce.
An implausibly silly wartime farce set in a vicarage, it was, Alfred thought, redeemed by the moment someone got to say: "Sergeant, arrest most of these vicars at once".
She further proves the point in Spy (Fox, 15), a bouncily silly espionage farce that reunites her with Paul Feig – director of Bridesmaids and The Heat, and a man who repeatedly allows her to draw honest, earthbound characters from inspired lunacy.
I've been emphasizing the play's lightness and humor; it contains an extraordinarily rich concentration of wordplay and loopy misunderstandings, while trafficking in those staples of farce, silly costumes and mistaken identities.
It's a silly, zizzy picture — a farce-parody of Hollywood's mad-scientist-trying-to-be-God pictures, with Wilder as the old Baron Frankenstein's grandson, an American professor of neurology, who takes a trip to the family castle in Transylvania.
