Comedy

  • Matthiew Klinck – Hank and Mike (2008)

    2001-2010CanadaComedyCultMatthiew Klinck

    Two blue-collar Easter Bunnies get fired and try their hand at an assortment of odd jobs, failing at each. Fighting depression, debt and eventually each other, their lives start to unravel until they realize that without their job they are nothing.Read More »

  • Howard Hawks – Monkey Business (1952)

    1951-1960ClassicsComedyHoward HawksMarilyn MonroeScrewball ComedyUSA

    Description: Barnaby Fulton is a research chemist working on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. While trying a sample dose on himself, he accidentally gets a dose of a mixture added to the water cooler and believes his potion is what is working. The mixture temporarily causes him to feel and act like a teenager, including correcting his vision. When his wife gets a dose that is even larger, she regresses even further into her childhood. When an old boyfriend meets her in this state, he believes that her never wanting to see him again means a divorce and a chance for him.Read More »

  • Dino Risi – Il viale della speranza (1953)

    1951-1960ComedyDino RisiItaly

    Synopsis:
    Here is Dino Risi’s second feature film as a director. A film centered around the infatuation with the film industry at the time, and the story of three young women trying to find love and stardom in Cinecitta. Marcello Mastroianni is a cameraman and love interest on the lot.Read More »

  • Yasemin Samdereli – Almanya – Willkommen in Deutschland (2011)

    2011-2020ComedyDramaGermanyTurkeyYasemin Samdereli

    On 10 September, 1964, Germany’s one-millionth ‘guest worker’ was welcomed. Spanning a period of no less than forty-five years, this film by sisters Yasemin Samdereli (director) and Nesrin Samdereli (screenplay) tells the story of guest worker number one-million-and-one – a man named Hüseyin Yilmaz and his family. ‘Who or what am I – German or Turk?’ asks six-year-old Cenk Yilmaz when neither his Turkish nor his German schoolmates pick him for their respective football teams.Read More »

  • George Seaton & Edmund Goulding – The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947)

    1941-1950ComedyEdmund GouldingGeorge SeatonMarilyn MonroeMusicalUSA

    Plot:
    In the late 1800s, Miss Pilgrim, a young stenographer, or typewriter, becomes the first female employee at a Boston shipping office. Although the men object to her at first, she soon charms them all, especially the handsome young head of the company. Their romance gets sidetracked when she becomes involved in the Women’s Suffrage movement.Read More »

  • Lloyd Bacon – An Innocent Affair (1948)

    1941-1950ComedyLloyd BaconRomanceUSA

    From start to finish this little known throwback to the best mad-cap screwball comedies of the 1930s is guaranteed to tickle the most jaded funny bone. Vincent Doane, played by Fred MacMurray, is a successful advertising executive who has come under severe scrutiny by his wife of five years, Paula, played by the gorgeous Madeleine Carroll, for the simple reason that he has been keeping rather late nights trying to woo a rather wealthy client, a Mr. Fraser, into signing a lucrative contract. The problem is Paula has serious doubts about the veracity of her husband’s story, thinking that Mr. Fraser is in reality, well, you guessed it. In order to cover up the real identity of his client–and it really is a client–Vincent goes to great lengths, entangling himself further and further into a hilarious web of lies and misadventures that, in the hands of a master comedian like Fred MacMurray, are simply unforgettable.Read More »

  • György Pálfi – Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)

    2011-2020ComedyDramaGyörgy PálfiHungary

    Quote:
    The real love film tells the story of the “real” man and the “real” woman. What is the real man in life? And the real woman? By recycling the celluloid heroes and heroines of 500 movies (the objects of so many dreams and desires) György Palfi’s collage film shows what they are like and also what happens when they meet.Read More »

  • Jean Renoir – Chotard et Cie AKA Chotard and Company (1932)

    1931-1940ComedyFranceJean Renoir

    IMDb review:

    Sandwiched between “Boudu Sauvé des Eaux” and “Madame Bovary” ,”Chotard et Cie” is necessarily a let-down .Adapted from a stage play,it’s a badly constructed movie.Roughly there are three parts and the connection between them is very thin.

    ACT ONE: Chotard (Charpin) is in the grocery business.After a ball,his daughter marries a poet ,much to her father’s annoyance.The son-in-law is no good at anything,not even weighing ham, and giving sweets for free to the children in the neighborhood.Read More »

  • Todd Solondz – Fear, Anxiety & Depression (1989)

    USA1981-1990ComedyMusicalTodd Solondz

    All Movie Guide says:
    This film focuses on the trials and tribulations of Ira (Todd Solondz), who is an unsuccessful playwright trying to find himself in New York City. — Iotis ErlewineRead More »

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