by Sam Juliano
There is much excitement on the political scene, what with Kamala Harris gaining traction against Trump. The next few months will be frantic.
Greatest Feature Film Comedies of All-Time!
With a broad genre like Best Comedies, we need to address only FEATURE comedies in this poll, and because of the massive number of comedies, we need to allow 5 more, meaning everyone gets to pick 25. (We will do shorts at a later time) Please don’t use numbers. Many thanks. Mine are:
City Lights (Charles Chaplin)
The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin)
Modern Times (Charles Chaplin)
Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton)
The General (Buster Keaton)
Safety Last (Harold Lloyd)
Oh! Mr. Porter (Will Hay)
It’s a Gift (W.C. Fields)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer)
Playtime (Jacques Tati)
Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman)
Duck Soup (Marx Brothers)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam)
The Producers (Mel Brooks)
Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
Being There (Hal Ashby)
The Graduate (Mike Nichols)
The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
Sullivan’s Travels (Preston Sturges)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel)
The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
National Lampoon’s Animal House (John Landis)
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Stanley Kramer)
It was blasphemy to leave off: Sideways, The Times of Our Lives, Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein, His Girl Friday, Trouble in Paradise, Sons of the Desert (though L & H will score big when we do shorts), A Night at the Opera, The Lady Eve, Groundhog day, It Happened One Night, What’s Up Doc?, Airplane!, To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch), Young Frankenstein, The Man in the White Suit, The Ladykillers, A Fish Called Wanda, Moonstruck and others.
Here is the WIKIPEDIA LINK to feature film comedies:
Wishing everyone a great week as we move into August.