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In Reply to: What are your favorite comedies? posted by Dmitry on August 08, 2000 at 21:16:49:
I don't know about that Gentlemen of Fortune prize (nice film to be sure), but I would certainly add some black comedies like Eating Raoul and Montenegro.I agree wholeheartedly on Fernandel films. Some of his early ones are simply classic.
I would also say that several of Woody Allen films are top class too - who could forget the Orgasmotron or the pale insecure sperm?
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Loved Eating Raoul. If you like that you'll maybe like Putny Swope (black comedy from the 60's... something to offend everyone,,, if they aren't too busy laughing)Zachariah (stoned cowboy flick)
Ballad of Waterhole #3 (remember hearing "Oh it's the code of the west, a man soaps his own saddle, he brands his own cattle... and some of his neighbor's as well.... do unto other's before they do it unto you...")
Harlem Shuffle (guy that made this did the whole thing on credit cards and got his props from Sears... wonderful flick)
The Gods Must be Crazy (kind of an endearing little comedy based in S. Africa)
Hair Spray (funny 50's mock)
the Ab Fab movie (of course you have to watch the tv series first to build up to this one)
Python flicks (Fawlty Towers tv show is also a scream)
Please Don't Eat the Dasies (remember that one)
Airplane
Young Frankenstein (and anything with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor in it)
The Mouse that Roared.
Tenchi Muyo OVA (anime... subtitles are even better than the dub)
La Cage aux Follies (et.al.)
There's lots more but I'm spacing at the moment.
"I would certainly add some black comedies like Eating Raoul and Montenegro."What are those, by whom, with whom?
I forgot to add Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas.
I read Dr. Hunter s. Thompson's seminal work of Gonzo journalism in 1970, fortunately -- in the right place at the right time. I doubt it would seem funny to anyone of any age reading it today. The film has it's moments (the motel room is a bit understated, but the bar scene is just about right, at least that's the way it looked to me, but it's a mescaline thing), and trys hard to remain true to the spirit of the times, but it just doesn't work.I forget who that jerk is who trys (and fails miserably) to play "Duke", but it's plain to see he's nowhere near smart enough for the role, or fearless enough, or cruel enough, or scared enough, or that he's ever dropped acid, snorted coke, inhaled ether, drank a fifth of burbon while smoking dope and sucking on a "fresh" pineal gland and firing a 44, all in a moving vehicle, and all at the same time, while dictating a story over the phone to his editor and carrying on a demented psychotic rant with a hapless hitch-hiker. Anyone who has read anything by Thompson knows this guy is lying about his drug abuse. It has to be worse than what he's confessed to. It just has to be.
I've never laughed harder at anyting in my life -- the evening I tried to read his book. I say tried because my sides and face hurt too much to read it all in one sitting. It is, without a doubt, the high-water mark of all journalism written of those times. He nailed it, and he nailed us. All of us.
The best film made about Duke is "Where the Buffalo Roam". Just try not to laugh druing the opening scene in Duke's cabin in Aspen. Peter Boyle, the monster of "Young Frankenstein", plays his attorney brilliantly. That scene with the car speeding down the highway with Boyle carrying on a conversation with Duke, while holding a topless salt-shaker of coke that is inhaled by the rushing amerikan landscape, is priceless. Is there a better metaphore for that time? No. That is true brilliance. That was our lives, literally, blown away in a moment. Salt of the earth. Salt for the Devil.
***What are those, by whom, with whom?Eating Raoul is by Paul Bartel. Here is a quote:
"Paul Bartel and Mary Woronov are hilarious in this black comedy about a married couple who find out that beating swingers over the head with a frying pan can be quite a lucrative pastime. What to do with the bodies? Enter Raoul ...... Raoul is a trouble maker though and Paul is out to prove it. A must see for every twisted American film fan who hasn't seen it already."
Great film made on shoe-string budget.
The Montenegro in by Dusan Makavejev and features Susan Anspach and Erland Josephson.
"Marilyn Jordan is a bored housewife in Sweden who is liberated (sexually and otherwise) by her relationship with a group of gregarious Yugoslavs. Based on a true story."
It is one of the most hilarious and well-made films ever - yes, I know, a pretty tall statement. Watching Josephson dance to the ABBA tune is something completely special. The bedroom scene is one of the pinnacles of the world cinematography.
It is available on DVD.
Thanks, I'll look these up. My neighborhood Blockbuster is nothing but a joke, probably the worst selection of films I've seen(or rather not seen), yet it killed all the little mom-and-pop video stores that were in a 10 block radius of it, except for the ethnic ones(Indian, Pakistani, Egyptian, Korean, etc.).
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