Comedy List for Dust
Posted: 12 Oct 2007 21:24
A while ago I told Dust I would put a list together for him on some comedies which I really think are timeless. Here they are. What are other peoples?
'Duck Soup' - Leo McCarey (1933)
The Marx Brothers at their finest. Whenever bad mood hits, you can watch this film and just amaze yourself that just genius comedy existed so many years ago and in a time when things were starting to turn upside down.
'The great Dictator' - Charlie Chaplin (1940)
If Chaplin had known of the actual cruelties under the fascist regimes in Germany at the time he said he would have never made the film. So in all its irony, good that he didn't know. The true magic of the film lies in the conversion at its end into a really powerful message about universal love and peace and about the call to soldiers to never fight for tyranny.
'To be or not to be' - Ernst Lubitsch (1942)
A small Polish theater group tries to deal with the invasion of Poland by Hitler's forces. There is a terrible remake by Mel Brooks, which one should avoid.
'Bananas' - Woody Allen (1971)
Fielding Mellish tries to impress a left-wing girl in NY by fighting on the side of rebels in a small Banana republic, then gets installed as president.
'Love and Death' - Woody Allen (1975)
Funniest WA movie - it is a spoof on Russian novels. And you can laugh yourself silly even if you have not read any - it shows that the 70s were the best time for film. So much risk, so much reward.
'The Big Lebowski' - Coen Brothers (1998)
How can one describe that film?
'Duck Soup' - Leo McCarey (1933)
The Marx Brothers at their finest. Whenever bad mood hits, you can watch this film and just amaze yourself that just genius comedy existed so many years ago and in a time when things were starting to turn upside down.
'The great Dictator' - Charlie Chaplin (1940)
If Chaplin had known of the actual cruelties under the fascist regimes in Germany at the time he said he would have never made the film. So in all its irony, good that he didn't know. The true magic of the film lies in the conversion at its end into a really powerful message about universal love and peace and about the call to soldiers to never fight for tyranny.
'To be or not to be' - Ernst Lubitsch (1942)
A small Polish theater group tries to deal with the invasion of Poland by Hitler's forces. There is a terrible remake by Mel Brooks, which one should avoid.
'Bananas' - Woody Allen (1971)
Fielding Mellish tries to impress a left-wing girl in NY by fighting on the side of rebels in a small Banana republic, then gets installed as president.
'Love and Death' - Woody Allen (1975)
Funniest WA movie - it is a spoof on Russian novels. And you can laugh yourself silly even if you have not read any - it shows that the 70s were the best time for film. So much risk, so much reward.
'The Big Lebowski' - Coen Brothers (1998)
How can one describe that film?
