The annual Screwball Comedy Series is coming back to Palm Springs. Get ready for more laughs and lunacy with another season of fast-talking antics, outrageous plot twists, and unforgettable characters on the BIG SCREEN of the Historic Camelot Theatre inside the Palm Springs Cultural Center! Each screening includes live intros and Film Q + A’s with the Film Society of Screwball Comedy. Check schedules at the Palm Springs Cultural Center, but screenings are generally every other Sunday at 3pm.
About Screwball Comedies: Beginning in the early 1930s and thriving until the early 1950s, Screwball Comedies are a film subgenre of the Romantic Comedy genre that became popular during the Great Depression. Famously, they satirize traditional love stories, often with female characters who dominate a romantic relationship with the male central characters, threatening his masculinity as the two engage in a humorous battle of the sexes. There are secondary characteristics of Film Noir, another film genre, in many of the stories. Other elements of the Screwball Comedy include fast-paced, overlapping repartee, farcical situations, escapist themes, physical battle of the sexes, disguise and masquerade, and plot lines involving courtship and marriage.
