Comedy

  • Luigi Comencini – La donna della domenica AKA The Sunday Woman (1975)

    Luigi Comencini1971-1980ComedyItalyMysteryQueer Cinema(s)

    Police commissioner Santamaria is investigating the murdering of the ambiguous architect Mr. Garrone. The investigations soon drive him into the Torino’s high society. Santamaria suspect Anna Carla and at the same time falls in love for her. Lello is the lover of Massimo, a homosexual platonic friend of Anna Carla. He is following another direction in order to find out the truth, and his results are confusing the Policeman. But another murdering happens…Read More »

  • Gjergj Xhuvani – Slogans (2001)

    2001-2010AlbaniaComedyDramaGjergj Xhuvani

    quote from IMDb review:
    Low budget movies need something to draw attention to them, lacking big stars and great effects. Slogans has those somethings in spades! We get to know an Albanian teacher arriving at a country school, around 1984. He seems to be a sympathetic guy.Read More »

  • Hal Ashby – The Last Detail (1973)

    1971-1980ComedyDramaHal AshbyUSA

    Quote:
    The Last Detail fits very nicely into its early 1970s milieu: distinctly anti-authoritarian, the film is chock full of cursing, sexual language, rowdiness, and downright rudeness. Of course, Jack Nicholson’s devilish grin was the perfect vehicle to carry this sort of pointedly subversive material, because he was so likable doing it. From Easy Rider to Five Easy Pieces to The Last Detail to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Nicholson made the role of the (often hilarious) nonconformist his own. Reclusive director/editor Hal Ashby was also a perfect fit for the film and the time period. Fresh from the offbeat critical success of the serio-comic Harold and Maude, Ashby brought an “experimental” feel to the film, most obviously in the jump cut editing borrowed from the French New Wave. Screenwriter Robert Towne was nominated for an Academy Award (his second of three in a row, following Chinatown and preceding Shampoo). Read More »

  • Jonás Cuarón – Año uña AKA Year of the Nail (2007)

    2001-2010ComedyDramaJonás CuarónMexico

    What could be more austere than the first film directed by Alfonso Cuarón’s young son Jonás, who also takes credits for script and photography? Like Chris Marker’s 1962 film La Jetée (the only other example that springs to mind), this is a moving picture that doesn’t move, being told only through still photographs. Moreover the first 20 minutes are in black and white and it is even longer before we hear any music, playing (briefly) on a car radio. Yet this story of the tentative cross-cultural romance between horny Mexican teenager Diego and oversensitive American college student Molly turns out to be, against all the odds, as charming as it is challenging. Indeed, for long stretches I simply forgot that the images were still, so engrossing was the plot and so endearing the characters.Read More »

  • Adriano Celentano & Miky Del Prete – Yuppi du (1975)

    1971-1980Adriano CelentanoComedyDramaItalyMiky Del Prete

    Felice Pietà is a man of modest means living with his second wife, Adelaide. Together, they raise Monica, from his first marriage with Silvia, who committed suicide long ago.Read More »

  • Nanni Moretti – Palombella Rossa AKA Red Wood Pigeon (1989)

    1981-1990ComedyItalyNanni Moretti

    Because of an accident, Michele (a leader of P.C.I. and a water-polo player) loses his memory. During one water-polo match, strange guys torment him; they want him to remember his past. As the match is about to finish, he misses the penalty which would have let his team draw the match and keep the leadership.Read More »

  • Matteo Rovere – Gli sfiorati AKA Drifters (2011)

    Drama2011-2020ComedyItalyMatteo Rovere

    Based on the novel 1990 novel “Gli sfiorati” by Sandro Veronesi; the story of an existential drama where the young Méte, a graphologist fascinated by the psychology hidden behind writing, it’s an embarrassing and difficult situation having to take care of his half-sister Belinda, a seventeen-year-old teenager in the balance between everything and nothing, during the second marriage of Méte’s father (the only thing the two have in common). To avoid the situation, Méte pretends to be mostly busy with Damiano, a womanizer friend, and Bruno, colleague and separated father. The movies revolves around an impossible love affair, that between a half-brother and a half-sister, and is made up of characters who are lost, tormented, aimless, against the background of a Rome that is chaotic, arrogant, immersed in its ruins and its social routines.Read More »

  • Jesús Franco – El hotel de los ligues (1983)

    1981-1990ComedyEroticaJesus FrancoSpain

    Three couples meet in an elegant Costa del Sol hotel. They are from various social classes and are gathered here for totally different reasons. One couple has met through a matrimonial agency. Another is composed of a fashion designer and his wife who are on the verge of seperation because of the husband’s homosexuality and are here because the wife hopes to recover her husband’s desire. The third couple is a German VIP, Ilsa, and her Gypsy gigolo who sells his charms for a few dollars. They are all going to be strongly attracted by Eva Bombon, a cabaret dancer, who came there to seek calm and solitude to prepare her next show. Her exuberant beauty is going to set their senses on fire and end their conflicts… very cordially!Read More »

  • Bob Rafelson – Stay Hungry (1976)

    1971-1980Bob RafelsonComedyDramaUSA

    So-called ‘special agent’ infiltrates into the gym, which is targeted by a dirty business fraud.Read More »

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