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few really good comedies there are.
Vic asked for some ideas but they're, obviously, for anyone's commentary or appreciation.
Withnail and I: a very Brit look at the 60s hippie life. Hysterical: the only word for many, many scenes.
Ealing comedies, Lavender Hill Mob, Ladykillers, etc.
Some of the Carry On series.
The Big Lebowski.
Animal House.
Neighbors (perhaps the American humor you'd most appreciate).
Mr. Mom.
Chevy Chase Vacation pictures.
First Pink Panther films.
Dona Flor and her Two Husbands.
The Dinner Guest.
Young Frankenstein.
All the screwball stuff from 40s, My Man Godfrey, Philadelphia Story, My Man Friday, Bringing Up Baby, etc.
Stripes.
Lost in Translation.
Arthur.
M A S H.
Groundhog Day.
There are many more, of course, but these are off the top of my head.
The Lady Eve, plus Sullivan's Travels and Palm Beach Story, are three of my favorite comedies of all time. Sturges was one of the wittiest, most original and sophisticated comic minds ever turned loose in Hollywood. His string of films from 1940-48 is one of the great runs in cinema history.Also worthy from Sturges...The Great McGinty (required viewing in an election year), The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek, Hail The Conqoring Hero, Christmas In July and Unfaithfully Yours (Probably the least of a great bunch, interferred with by the studio).
There were at least two comedies in 2007 I laughed my head off at - Death At A Funeral and Juno. There's also two recent ones from Brit director Mike Winterbottom - 24 Hour Party People and Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story. And check out the early ninetys Cold Comfort Farm with a stellar cast of Brit actors. It was made for TV in Old Blighty but released as a feature film here. Very funny. The classic Ealing Studio comedies have already been mentioned.
I also can't believe no one's mentioned This Is Spinal Tap. The mock of mocks that started it all, and still brilliant. I think Best in Show did get a nod below, and I'll add Waiting For Guffman and A Mighty Wind.
I love the classic silent comedies.
Chaplin: City Lights, Modern Times, The Gold Rush, The Kid, Easy Street, The Pilgrim etc etc etc.
Keaton: The General, Sherlock Jr, Seven Choices, Steamboat Bill Jr, The Cameraman
And classic talkies comedies.
Cary Grant is a HUGE favorite...HUGE:
In addition to Philadelphia Story and Bringing Up Baby there's the classics Arsenic & Old Lace, The Awful Truth, My Favorite Wife, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dreamhouse and His Girl Friday. A favorite from late in his career is Father Goose. He certainly livens up Mae West's I'm No Angel. (And Let's not forget Mae's classic She Done Him Wrong.) Then there's W C Fields It's A Gift & The Bank Dick. The Marx brothers have already been mentioned.
I adore Myrna Loy. She was in a great comedy called Libeled Lady with Jean Harlow and William Powell, and of course she was unforgettable as Nora Charles with Powell in The Thin Man series. While we're in the thirties and forties, Powell was perfect with Carole Lombard in the underrated comedy gem My Man Godfrey. And for my money, Capra's best movie is You Can't Take It With You.
Moving over to France, there's Renoir's Boudu Saved From Drowning (remade much later into Down & Out In Beverly Hills).
Modern French: Delicatessen
Let's see moving up the time line...
Paper Moon
A Wedding (I think I'm probably alone on this one)Tootsie
Back To The FutureImpromptu (With Judy Davis, Hugh Grant is actually good in this)
John Cusack - yeah...he's had a good run:
The Sure Thing
Say Anything
Gross Point Blank
High Fidelity
Bullets Over BroadwaySpeaking of Woody:
Annie Hall
Manhatten
SleeperAm I the only person here that was tickled by The Freshman?
Election
The Price of MilkOops...Does A Hard Day's Night qulaify? How 'bout Lester's The Three & Four Muskateers??
I'm sure I've left something off but this could keep you awhile ;-)
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Sorry Tin, shoulda known it would be you ;-)
Yeah, OK, Soapdish is over the top, but call it a guilty pleasure. It boasts some highly entertaining moments and features a fine ensemble cast - Kevin Kline, Sally Fields, Whoopie Goldberg, Elisabeth Shue, Robert Downey Jr, Carrie Fischer, Gary Marshall and a terrific Kathy Moriarity.
I also still like Broadcast News, written and directed by James L Brooks, about the selling of network news. Great cast with Holly Hunter in a star turn, William Hurt, Joan Cusack, Albert Brooks and many other veteran character actors.
Albert Brooks wrote, directed and starred in Lost In America, a small comedy about American family and values.
While it's not as good as Holy Grail, Monty Python's Life Of Brian is pretty damned funny.
I got a couple others that I'm saving for a future guilty pleasures thread.
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...it's brilliant, but I truly don't think of Brazil as...comedy.
That basically means it's a "comedy" that is depressing and unfunny.
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for the most part sans dialog.......
in "The Long Goodbye" when asked the baseball trivia question.
funny stuff....I wish youtube had the Odd Couple poker party scene...best lines there "I've got green sandwiches and brown sandwiches"...."What's the green?"....."it's either very new cheese or very old meat"....
Is a very intriguing look at look through the eyes of the lover and the loved. We see that their perspectivies are hilariously different.
Love Me If You Dare is another French goodie that shows a competitive, romantic relationship grow nearly fatal from childhood to adulthood.
Both films worth seeing.
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I don't know that relative difficulty is obvious, but I know this is often said...not sure I agree though.
Unless I missed it, can't believe nobody's mentioned "Dr. Strangelove".
Also Bunuel's "The Milky Way" and "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie". Also Anderson's "O Lucky Man".
... but mocked most social conventions, very especially religion, using reductio ad absurdum in most cases: hidden satires, yes; but no comedies, even if his masterly use of surrealism can make you smile, even laugh...
Or would you take a sardonic smile as a sign of mirth?
Regards
BF
I laugh through all of them, and they are funnier to me than traditional comedies, so it's all comedy to me.
Strangelove was listed as the best comedy of all time on a couple lists I've seen recently.
I thought "A Clockwork Orange" was a comedy also. Heck, I also thought much of "Monster" was a black comedy, much to the confusion of my wife who thought it was devastating and disturbing.
You are free to put satire in it's own category if you choose, and I do understand the distinction you make.
Cheers
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..."Amelie", pretty surrealistic, very funny; "The Day of the Beast":simply delirant; "My Friends": bittersweet, with excellent cast and some unforgettable moments in it; "L'Emmerdeur" ("A Pain in the Ass"), with Jacques Brel (Billy Wilder filmed a remake "Buddy, Buddy" with Mattau/Lemon, but a pale shadow of the original); "The Odd Couple"...;"His Girl Friday" (Hawks) / "Front Page" (Wilder), both successful on every count; "One, Two, Three", one really over the top, and incredibly dynamic Cagney; "Sabrina"...; "The Magic Christian", with Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr among others...; "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas"...; much of Lubitsch, "To Be or Not To Be" being something special...; Huston´s "The African Queen"...
Yes, the list could be loooong indeed.
Regards
BF
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Noboday should forget that one.
And Lubitsch´s " heaven can wait ".
The one I grow fond with every year a bit more.
As for the shop around the corner.
Then there is a whole pleiade of French Films..From ( Lady in red ) to le dinner des cons....
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What about Clerks or more recently Napoleon Dynamite. Not aimed for mainstream laughs or feel good storylines but both a riot nonetheless. Clerks being extremely abrasive and unbounded, ND being completely left field, slow and stylish.
The Producers -- the original with Gene Wilder and the Zero the Great, Mel Brooks' best script ever, in my opinion.I can't think of a better acted comedy, though it is quite broad.
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World -- Stanley Kramer's farce
An absolutely outstanding cast of comedic greats, all in roles the show their talents at their zenith. Perhaps a bit too zany and quaint for today's coarser comedic tastes, but still one of the greats of this genre.
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maybe it's not in line with it but I always think of them together for some reason.
"You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
actually one of the top 20 FILMS of all time, at least in my mind.
Baba-Booey to you all!
I'll second that with a "Harumph!"
Mr. Spindlelegs
"A record unplayed is a record wasted!"
Spinal Tap, Fish Called Wanda, Saving Grace, La Cage Aux Folles (American version not as bad as some claim either), Shaun of the Dead.
I love the The Marx Brothers films because you can watch them over and over and catch something new every time, because they were so quick and it's easy to miss things. Groucho was a freakin' comedic genius. I once read a book of his letters, and I was on the floor many times. There will never be another one like him.
Charlie Chaplin & Buster Keaton, also, for pure physical comedy...
A few others...
Best In Show
Midnight Run
The Odd Couple
Bowfinger
When Harry Met Sally
Raising Arizona
"You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
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