What If the Marx Brothers Got Around to Making That Movie With Salvador Dalí?

Josh Frank brings the legendary unproduced movie to printed life

"...for those who've known about it, that the surrealist Marx Brothers movie that Salvador Dalí pitched to MGM was..."

March 22, 2019 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Blues Brothers 2000

"...Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, John Landis' The Blues Brothers remains one of my favorite screwball comedies. Both films..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Expert Marx Man

Gabe Kaplan knows Groucho, and he's bringing him back to life on stage.

"...The sharpest, slyest, wittiest Marx brother is back and in residence at One World..."

Oct. 8, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Josh Frank Writes Himself Into the History of the Marx Bros.

There ain't no sanity clause

"...honked car horn, the blaring trademark blast of the Marx Bros. Anytime there was a marathon of their chaotic..."

April 5, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Brain Donors

"...La Pena. Executive producers David and Jerry -- The Brothers Zucker -- best known for the Airplane! and Naked..."

April 24, 1992 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

I've Had a Wonderful Evening ...

Marx Brothers Month at the San Antonio Street Cafe

"...serves to point out the timeless relevance of Chico Marx's foul-weather non sequitur...."

June 30, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Duck Soup (1933)

Four Marx Brothers

"...Hail, hail Freedonia! As Zeppo Marx's final screen appearance, 1933's Duck Soup was the last..."

May 17, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Hello I Must Be Going

The marvelous Melanie Lynskey, for once, gets the starring role in this movie about a woman who gets blindsided by divorce.

"...but the two bond mostly in silence while watching Marx Brothers’ movies on late-night television (hence the film’s title)...."

Sept. 28, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The True Value of a Seven-Cent Nickle

"...Funny Farm; it’s quite another not to like the Marx Brothers. That’s beyond my comprehension. I can understand going..."

Oct. 14, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Me, Myself & Irene

"...Chris Cooper, Renée Zellweger and Jim Carrey. The Farrelly Brothers -- Providence, Rhode Island's answer to global intellectual depreciation..."

June 23, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space

This new anime import marks a break with the Japanese traditions and invents a wholly original and kittenish appeal.

"...sublime silliness to put it on par with the Marx brothers' most nonlucid moments. Taken as a whole (and..."

Sept. 26, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Make Someone Happy – Someone Else, Because Chances Are It’ll Never Be You

Jimmy Durante will bring us together

"...to pinpoint exactly what my problem is with the Marx Brothers and Kaufman combined. I’m not so thick-headed as..."

Oct. 15, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Monkey Kingdom

Disneynature doc profiles Sri Lanka's famed Temple Troop of toque macaques

"...Disneynature’s latest foray into the real-wild world puts the Marx Brothers’ Monkey Business to shame in terms of endearingly..."

April 24, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Screwed

"...be currently at work on a biopic about the Marx Brothers, so that might be considered as the antic..."

May 19, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Baseketball

"...a very warped comedic ladder that began when the Marx Brothers were still in diapers. Sick, twisted, and very..."

July 31, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

There's Something About Mary

A classic from the kingpins of comedy.

"...is reminiscent of the crazed, hellzapoppin' style of the Marx Brothers. More and more characters pop into the scene,..."

July 17, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Play It Again, Sam

All About Eve (1950)

"...D: Leo McCarey; with Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont. Monkey..."

June 4, 1999 Screens Feature

Duck Soup

A sublime, Surrealist comedy from the Marx Brothers, in which Groucho plays the new dictator-for-life of tiny Freedonia who declares war on a whim on neighboring Sylvania.

"...DUCK SOUPD: Leo McCarey; with the Marx Brothers, Margaret Dumont, Louis Calhern, Raquel Torres. War and..."

April 19, 2002 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

Frank Ferrante's Groucho

Groucho lives in this filming of Ferrante's one man show

"...There's an old story about Groucho Marx. One day, when the Marx Brothers were still primarily..."

March 12, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

All Over Creation: Two-Stepping With Lyndon

To play historical figures like LBJ and Groucho, actors ought to dance with them

"...What do Lyndon Johnson and Groucho Marx have in common?..."

Aug. 10, 2012 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM: Why a Duck?

The Marx Brothers were funny but they weren't kidding

"...sixth grade. He wrote that Chico was "the only Marx brother to graduate from public school." As for Harpo:..."

July 27, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

DVD Roundup

"...The Marx Brothers Collection Warner Home Video, $59.99..."

May 21, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Scanlines

Shine

"...D: Edward Buzzell (1939) with Groucho, Chico, and Harpo Marx, Margaret Dumont, Eve Arden..."

July 11, 1997 Screens Feature

Book Reviews

Southerners, Strange Foreigners, and Unabashed Perverts

"...Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marxby Stefan Kanfer..."

June 2, 2000 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

Duck Soup

"...Directed by: Leo McCarey. Starring: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx and Margaret Dumont...."

June 30, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Greatest Stories Ever Told

The 2010 Paramount Summer Film Classics

"...head-on with a kinder, gentler, but no less absurdist Marx Brothers, and art gets the stuffing knocked out of..."

May 21, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Marxist Philosophy

"...You’re absolutely right about the Marx Brothers, and George S. Kaufman as well. They did..."

Oct. 15, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

"Before I Speak, I Have Something to Say"

Digging a hole three Marx Brothers deep

"...I do not care for the Marx Brothers...."

Oct. 14, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

2019 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentary

Tales of love and hate dominate these Oscar hopefuls

"..."A Night at the Garden" to evoke some lost Marx Brothers comedy, but intentional or not, the titular irony..."

Feb. 8, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Day Trips

Nacogdoches has more history in its little finger than most other Texas cities have in all of their city limits

"...of the stories about the old Nacogdoches involved the Marx Brothers before their movie careers. Performing at the vaudeville..."

July 20, 2007 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

1   2   3   4   5     NEXT ›    5 »