Comedy

  • Michele Massimo Tarantini – La Liceale AKA The Teasers (1975)

    1971-1980ComedyEroticaItalyMichele Massimo Tarantini

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    Italian sex-comedy starring the lovely Gloria Guida. Loredana (Guida) is a schoolgirl who takes advantage of her fellow students and teachers by using her innocent schoolgirl beauty. After she loses her virginity to an older man she soon realizes there are more important things to life than teasing men. Also stars Giuseppe Pambieri, Ilona Staller, Alvaro Vitali and Gianfranco D’Angelo.Read More »

  • Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi – What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

    2011-2020ComedyHorrorJemaine ClementNew ZealandTaika Waititi

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    One of the funnest films of 2014 is misfit-vampire-roommate mockumentary “What We Do In The Shadows”

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    Follow the lives of Viago (Taika Waititi), Deacon (Jonathan Brugh), and Vladislav (Jemaine Clement) – three flatmates who are just trying to get by and overcome life’s obstacles-like being immortal vampires who must feast on human blood. Hundreds of years old, the vampires are finding that beyond sunlight catastrophes, hitting the main artery, and not being able to get a sense of their wardrobe without a reflection-modern society has them struggling with the mundane like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts.Read More »

  • Ruben Östlund – Force Majeure (2014)

    Drama2011-2020ComedyRuben ÖstlundSweden
    Force Majeure (2014)

    A family on a ski holiday in the French Alps find themselves staring down an avalanche during lunch one day; in the aftermath, their dynamic has been shaken to its core, with a question mark hanging over their patriarch in particular.Read More »

  • Anna Brownfield – The Band (2009)

    2001-2010Anna BrownfieldAustraliaComedyMusical

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    When lead singer Jimmy Taranto dumps his girlfriend Candy then his rock band Gutter Filth, Candy decides to take his place in the band. Together with anal bass player GB, cross-dressing drummer Dee and Jennifer their loyal manager, they begin a journey to stardom. While their success eclipses Jimmy’s, Candy still can’t find the true love she is looking for. But sometimes the things you want are right in front of you.Read More »

  • Billy Wilder – The Apartment [+Commentary] (1960)

    1951-1960Billy WilderClassicsComedyUSA

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    The Apartment is a 1960 American comedy-drama film produced and directed by Billy Wilder, which stars Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray. It was Wilder’s next movie after Some Like It Hot and, like its predecessor, a commercial and critical smash, grossing $25 million at the box office. The film was nominated for ten Academy Awards, and won five, including Best Picture. The film was the basis of the 1968 Broadway musical Promises, Promises, with book by Neil Simon, music by Burt Bacharach, and lyrics by Hal David.

    Synopsis:
    A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.Read More »

  • Terry Gilliam – Brazil (1985)

    Comedy1981-1990Sci-FiTerry GilliamUnited Kingdom

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    Brazil constitutes Terry Gilliam’s enormously ambitious follow-up to his 1981 Time Bandits. It also represents the second installment in a trilogy of Gilliam films on imagination versus reality, that began with Bandits and ended in 1989 with The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. To create this wild, visually audacious satire, Gilliam combines dystopian elements from Orwell, Huxley and Kafka (plus a central character who mirrors Walter Mitty) with his own trademark, Monty Python-esque, jet black British humor and his gift for extraordinary visual invention. The results are thoroughly unprecedented in the cinema.Read More »

  • Franco Maresco – Belluscone. Una storia siciliana (2014)

    2011-2020ComedyDocumentaryFranco MarescoItaly

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    The film critic Tatti Sanguineti arrives in Palermo to find out what has happened to Franco Maresco’s unfinished movie: Belluscone. Una storia siciliana. A film that was supposed to tell the story of the unique relationship between Berlusconi and Sicily through the misadventures of the Palermitan impresario of Neapolitan “neomelodic” singers and organizer of street festivals, Ciccio Mira—an undaunted supporter of Berlusconi, nostalgic for the old days’ Mafia— and two artists in his stable, Erik and Vittorio Ricciardi, who perform in the squares of Palermo a song entitled “Vorrei conoscere Berlusconi” (“I Want to Meet Berlusconi”). The film focuses on three failures: the political and human one of a Berlusconi now on the wane; that of the unfortunate and “slapdash” Ciccio Mira, rooted in an old but tenacious culture; and finally, the artistic one of the director, who chooses to disappear after realizing that tilting at political windmills is pointless, in a country that has long identified with Berlusconian “culture” and probably continues to do so.
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  • Ramon Zürcher – Das merkwürdige Kätzchen AKA The strange little cat (2013)

    2011-2020ComedyDramaGermanyRamon Zürcher

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    Synopsis:
    Siblings Karin and Simon are visiting their parents and their little sister Clara. That evening, other relatives will be joining them for dinner. Over the course of the day, the washing machine is repaired, people sit together at the kitchen table, carry out an experiment with orange peel, talk about lungs, and sew on a button that was deliberately torn off. This sequence of family scenes in a Berlin flat complete with cat and dog creates a wondrous world of the everyday: Coming and going, all manner of doings, each movement leading to the next, one word following another. It is a carefully staged chain reaction of actions and sentences. And in between, silent gazes and anecdotes about experiences. The people act oddly even-temperedly; their dialogues are direct and unemotional. Even the pets and the material surroundings play a part. Some objects seem alive as if by magic. Commonplace actions and familiar items appear absurd and eerie in this narrative cosmos. Putting the absurdities of daily life on display and translating unspectacular events into an exciting choreography of everyday life, this film is no small feat.
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  • Jean-Julien Chervier & Agnès Obadia – Du poil sous les roses AKA Hair Under the Roses (2000)

    1991-2000ComedyFranceJean-Julien Chervier and Agnès Obadia

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    Synopsis :
    A sexually-troubled young man runs away from home, while a girl wakes up one morning with a single cyclops breast…

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    A quatorze ans, l’amour et le sexe intriguent. Entre les phantasmes, les phobies, les incertitudes et les croyances, comment reagir? Roudoudou, qui est tres amoureuse, reve d’avoir une poitrine imposante comme celle de sa mere, mais cela ne marche qu’a moitie. Romain et Francis, quant a eux, sont persuades que leurs meres sont homosexuelles et qu’il leur faudrait coucher avec elles pour les sauver…Read More »

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