Owen Wilson in Venice with 'She's Funny That Way'
VENICE, Italy (AP) ― Movies ― they don't make 'em like they used to. 井戸／弁護士席, Peter Bogdanovich does.
The director, part of a 世代 that 注入するd grit into American cinema in the 1970s, 生き返らせるs the froth and fun of classic screwball comedies with his 最新の film, "She's Funny That Way."
The movie, which has its world 首相 at the Venice Film Festival on Friday, 中心s on a call girl and aspiring actress (an impressive Imogen Poots) who gets a part in a Broadway 生産／産物 directed by a （弁護士の）依頼人, played by Owen Wilson. The play 星／主役にするs the director's wife (Kathryn Hahn) and her former romantic 利益／興味, a louche British actor played by Rhys Ifans.
Actor Owen Wilson 提起する／ポーズをとるs during the photo call for the movie She's Funny That Way at the 71st 版 of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Throw in an obsessive 裁判官, a bumbling 私的な 注目する，もくろむ and a therapist with 怒り／怒る 問題／発行するs (a hilarious turn from Jennifer Aniston) and ― to 簡単にする the ますます convoluted 陰謀（を企てる） ― hijinks 続いて起こる.
Bogdanovich, who made his 指名する in 1971 with small-town classic "The Last Picture Show," said he was trying to a harken 支援する to the comedies of Howard 強硬派s and Preston Sturgess ― movies from an 時代 before, he thinks, Hollywood lost its way.
"Comedies today 基本的に depend a lot on 団体／死体 fluid jokes and vulgarity, and getting your appendage stuck in a zipper," the 75-year-old director told The Associated 圧力（をかける） during an interview in Venice. "It's 平易な to get laughs with that 肉親，親類d of stuff because it's 基本的に shock value. I like character comedy."
"She's Funny That Way" 解任するs earlier Bogdanovich pictures such as "What's Up, Doc?" and "Noises Off," and received loud laughs from its first audience of 新聞記者／雑誌記者s ― relieved, perhaps, after days of heavier fare. Critics were divided. The 後見人 thought it felt "musty and 時代遅れの," but London's Evening 基準 called it "a 勝利, a retro screwball comedy that easily matches the classics of the genre."
It's a return to 審査するs ― and, for some, a return to form ― for Bogdanovich, who has not 解放（する）d a feature film in more than a １０年間.
The movie, 初めは 肩書を与えるd "Squirrels to the Nuts," has had a long genesis. Bogdanovich and his then-wife Louise Stratten 初めは wrote the script for John Ritter and Cybil Shepherd. The director 棚上げにするd it after Ritter's 早期に death in 2003, but later thought Wilson might be the one to bring it to life.
"He's one of the very few actors today who is like an old-fashioned movie 星／主役にする, because he has a personality that comes across that's very strong," Bogdanovich said.
Wilson is an old 手渡す at comedy, but said he 設立する the 需要・要求するs of the movie, with its door-slamming, cross-talking and frenzied pace, refreshing.
"One person's going out this door, here's another person ― when you're 現実に doing it, it does 肉親，親類d of make you funny," Wilson said. "There's an excitement where it feels like sports a little bit.
"I think it 控訴，上告s to the little kid in you who likes that 肉親，親類d of 成し遂げるing."
"She's Funny That Way" is 始める，決める in an idealized New York where the sun always 向こうずねs, taxis are always waiting and things 一般に work out ― if not always for the best, at least for the time 存在.
It's a movie that asks the audience to give in to its rhythms. It asked the same of the cast ― and Hahn said they willingly 強いるd.
"It 需要・要求するd a 降伏する to a genre that is a little nostalgic," said the "Parks and Recreation" 星／主役にする. "I just knew it was going to be different comedy muscles.
She said there was no time for "loosey-goosey improvisatory discovering. You've gotta really nail it because it's so much about the タイミング."
If audiences embrace the movie, Bogdanovich's time may have come again. And in the movies, タイミング is everything.
"A couple of actors have been asked how I direct," Bogdanovich said. "And Joanna Lumley said, '井戸／弁護士席, おもに he says faster, darling.' And it's true. 選ぶ up the temp o. Frank Capra used to say film slows things 負かす／撃墜する.
"So if you play something at a normal 速度(を上げる） it will seem slow. Play it at a わずかに faster 速度(を上げる） and it will seem normal. So if you want to have 速度(を上げる）, you've got to really 速度(を上げる） up."
___
Follow Jill Lawless at http://Twitter.com/JillLawless
Actor Owen Wilson 提起する／ポーズをとるs during the photo call for the movie She's Funny That Way at the 71st 版 of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
From left, actress Kathryn Hahn, director Peter Bogdanovich, and actor Owen Wilson 提起する／ポーズをとる during the photo call for the movie She's Funny That Way at the 71st 版 of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Actor Owen Wilson 提起する／ポーズをとるs during the photo call for the movie She's Funny That Way at the 71st 版 of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. (AP Photo/David Azia)
Actress Kathryn Hahn 提起する／ポーズをとるs for portraits during the 71st 版 of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
71st 版 of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. The 71st 版 of the festival opens on Wednesday, Aug. 27th and runs until Sept. 6. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
