The Stranger

Preston Sturges's 1941 screwball comedy answers the most compelling question of our time: "How did Paul Blart: Mall Cop make so much fucking money?" John Sullivan, a director of comic films, is sick of being funny. Instead, he wants to live with the hoboes and make a serious movie about the "true canvas of the suffering of humanity!" If you've never seen this movie, you've missed one of the best comedies ever made. If you've seen it before, you should rewatch it just for Veronica Lake (as "The Girl") and her million-mile legs. Hubba hubba! (SIFF Cinema, 321 Mercer St, 633-7151. 7:30 pm, $10.) by It's Paul Constant's Birthday, Everybody!!!

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