Comedy

A young woman must resist the charms of a handsome stranger and stay single if she wants to inherit a fortune.Read More »

Letterboxd Review by Voc_17 ★★★½
Chu Yen-Ping was Taiwan’s factory comedy filmmaker, he shat out films quickly with an extreme tonal whiplash between scenes of broad comedy, action and pathos, he is a junk food artist and it’s hard to make a case for him as being an effective filmmaker dramatically. However, I’m going to try and make a case for this film and by extension him because I kind of liked this movie a decent amount. Hsu Pu-Liao was a popular stage comic who Chu wanted to place within a Chaplin type narrative, although whole Chaplin’s tramp was very poor he was never as downright miserable as Hsu is in this. The film will go especially early on from a broad but amusing comic setpiece to the stronger dose of pathos possible within a single cut, it’s bizarre but after awhile I felt it kind of working. Read More »

Frank S. Nugent wrote:
THE SCREEN; At the Paramount

Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray skip through the formular devices of “Swing High, Swing Low” (née “Burlesque”) with their usual ease at the Paramount, raising a routine story to a routine-plus picture. The plus is extremely small, sometimes being almost invisible. We recall being impressed by the photography of the Panama locks, by a shot of Mr. MacMurray with a beard, by Charles Butterworth’s tropical wardrobe of overcoat and muffler. The rest is so much surplusage: a thin excuse for a film that requires an hour and thirty-five minutes to trace the rise, the fall and the potential ascendancy of a trumpet king.Read More »

Alain and Marie moved to a quiet suburb house of their dreams. But the real estate agent warned them: what is in the basement may well change their lives forever.

A mysterious tunnel in the cellar of their new home will turn their lives upside down. When Alain’s boss and his girlfriend come over for dinner, the temptation to share the incredible story about the tunnel is strong.Read More »

Oscar is a 1991 American slapstick crime comedy film directed by John Landis. Based on the Claude Magnier stage play, it is a remake of the 1967 French film of the same name, but the setting has been moved to Depression-era New York City and the plot centers on a mob boss trying to go straight. The film stars Sylvester Stallone, Marisa Tomei, Ornella Muti, Tim Curry and Chazz Palminteri, and was a rare attempt by Stallone at doing a comedy role.Read More »

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Unashamedly nostalgic, and almost autobiographical, ‘My Favorite Year’ has a standout performance by Peter O’Toole, who was Oscar nominated. The clips we see of Alan Swann’s great roles come from O’Toole’s earlier films, Lord Jim and Great Catherine.

Produced by Mel Brooks, who wrote for Sid Caesar (Kaiser, geddit?) in the early years of television, the plot is a fictionalisation of Errol Flynn’s appearance on Caesar’s “Your Show of Shows”. In reality Brooks and Flynn never even met, and the show passed off without incident, but the film is a great alternative reality.Read More »

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Lemonade Joe also known as Lemonade Joe or the Horse Opera is a film directed by Oldrich Lipský, based on a series of short stories by Czech writer/animator Jirí Brdecka. It was the Czechoslovak entry to the 1964 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.

Probably the most well known of the spoofs on Western culture and cinema (which included science fiction, comic strips, and spy movies) to come out of the Czech New Wave—and in my opinion the most effective—Lemonade Joe is a hilarious musical parody of the Wild West inspired by B grade silent era westerns and infused with that wonderful Czech sense of satirical comedy that holds universal appeal.Read More »

Sight gags, puns and non-sequiturs abound as bumbling Sgt. Det. Lt. Frank Drebin and his colleagues of Police Squad solve various puzzling cases.Read More »

An early short film by Douglas Sirk (Detlef Sierck) which takes a satirical look at dubious business practices during the Weimar Republic.Read More »