Laughing Out Loud Page 24

  M*A*S*H (1970) Director: Robert Altman. Screenplay: Ring Lardner Jr., based on the novel by Richard Hooker. Cast: Elliot Gould, Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman.

  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Director: Frank Capra. Screenplay: Sidney Buchman, based on the novel The Gentleman from Montana by Lewis R. Foster. Cast: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibee.

  My Dinner with Andre (1981) Director: Louis Malle. Screenplay: Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory. Cast: Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory.

  National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) Director: John Landis. Screenplay: Harold Ramis, Douglass Kenney, Chris Miller. Cast: John Belushi, Tim Matheson, John Vernon, Verna Bloom.

  Nobody's Fool (1994) Director: Robert Benton. Screenplay: Robert Benton, based on the novel by Richard Russo. Cast: Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Gene Sacks, Dylan Walsh, Pruit Taylor Vance.

  The Paleface (1948) Director: Norman Z. McLeod. Screenplay: Frank Tashlin, Edmund Hartman, Jack Rose. Cast: Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Robert Armstrong, Iris Adrian.

  The Pink Panther (1964) Director: Blake Edwards. Screenplay: Blake Edwards, Maurice Michlin. Cast: Peter Sellers, David Niven, Capucine, Robert Wagner, Claudia Cardinale.

  The Producers (1967) Director and screenplay: Mel Brooks. Cast: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Dick Shawn, Lee Meredith.

  Slacker (1991) Director and screenplay: Richard Linklater. Cast: Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, Jean Caggeine, Jan Hocky, Stephan Hocky, Mark James.

  Slap Shot (1977) Director: George Roy Hill. Screenplay: Nancy Dowd. Cast: Paul Newman, Strother Martin, Michael Ontkean, Jennifer Warren, Lindsey Crouse.

  Smoke (1995) Director: Wayne Wang. Screenplay: Paul Auster. Cast: Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Stockard Charming, Forest Whitaker, Harold Perrineau Jr.

  To Be or Not To Be (1942) Director: Ernst Lubitsch. Screenplay: Edwin Meyer. Cast: Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Sig Ruman.

  Trading Places (1983) Director: John Landis. Screenplay: Herschel Weingrod, Timothy Harris. Cast: Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche.

  Wayne's World (1992) Director: Penelope Spheeris. Screenplay: Mike Myers, Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner, from characters created by Mike Myers. Cast: Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere.

  Romantic Comedy

  The African Queen (1951) Director: John Huston. Screenplay: James Agee. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Theodore Bikel.

  Annie Hall (1977) Director and screenplay: Woody Allen. Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Paul Simon, Shelley Duvall.

  As Good As It Gets (1997) Director and Screenplay: Richard L. Brooks. Cast: Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear.

  Atlantic City (1980) Director: Louis Malle. Screenplay: John Guare. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid.

  Benny and Joon (1993) Director: Jeremiah Chechik. Screenplay: Barry Berman, from a story by Berman and Leslie McNeil. Cast: Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson, Aidan Quinn.

  Bringing Up Baby (1938) Director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde, based on a story by Wilde. Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Charlie Ruggles, May Robinson.

  Desperately Seeking Susan (1984) Director: Susan Seidelman. Screenplay: Leora Burish. Cast: Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn, Mark Blum.

  His Girl Friday (1940) Director: Howard Hawks, Screenplay: Charles Lederer, based on the play The Front Page by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht. Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Helen Mack.

  Anything by Frank Capra, but particularly: It Happened One Night (1934) Director: Frank Capra. Screenplay: Robert Riskin, based on the story "Night Bus" by Sam Hopkins Adams. Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Alan Hale.

  Preston Sturges's films as writer and as writer/director, especially: The Lady Eve (1941) Director and screenplay: Preston Sturges. Cast: Henry Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck, Charles Coburn; and The Palm Beach Story (1942) Director and Screenplay: Preston Sturges. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Rudy Valee.

  The Quiet Man (1952) Director: John Ford. Screenplay: Frank Nugent, from the story by Maurice Walsh. Cast: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Victor McLaglen.

  Tootsie (1982) Director: Sydney Pollack. Screenplay: Larry Gelbart, Elaine May, Murray Schisgal (uncredited), based on a story by Don McGuire and Larry Gelbart. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Bill Murray, Sydney Pollack.

  Trouble in Paradise (1932) Director: Ernst Lubitsch. Screenplay: Samson Raphaelson, Grover Jones. Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Charlie Ruggles.

  Magical Realism in Romantic Comedy

  Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1978) Director: Bruno Barreto. Screenplay: Bruno Barreto, based on the novel by Jorge Amado. Cast: Sonia Braga, Jose Wilker, Mauro Mendoca, Dinorah Brillanti.

  Michael (1996) Director: Nora Ephron. Screenplay: Peter Dexter, Jim Quinlan. Cast: John Travolta, Andie MacDowell, William Hurt, Robert Pastorelli, Bob Hoskins, Jean Stapleton, Teri Garr.

  The Preacher's Wife (1996) Director: Penny Marshall. Screenplay: Nat Mauldin, Leonardo Bercovici. Cast: Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston, Courtney B. Vance, Gregory Hines.

  Half 'n' Half (Anarchistic and Romantic)

  Forrest Gump (1994) Director: Robert Zemeckis. Screenplay: Eric Roth, based on the novel by Winston Groom. Cast: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field, Mykelti Williamson.

  Mighty Aphrodite (1995) Director and screenplay: Woody Allen. Cast: Woody Allen, F. Murray Abraham, Claire Bloom, Olympia Dukakis, Michael Rappaport, Mira Sorvino.

  Raising Arizona (1987) Director: Joel Coen. Screenplay: Ethan & Joel Coen. Cast: Holly Hunter, Nicolas Cage, Trey Wilson, John Goodman, Frances McDormand.

  Sullivan's Travels (1941) Director and screenplay: Preston Sturges. Cast: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, William Demarest, Robert Warwick, Margaret Hayes.

  The World According to Garp (1982) Director: George Roy Hill. Screenplay: Steve Tesich, based on the novel by John Irving. Cast: Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close, John Lithgow, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy.

  Buddy Comedy

  Blues Brothers (1980) Director: John Landis; Screenplay: John Landis, Dan Aykroyd. Cast: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cab Calloway, John Candy, Henry Gibson, Carrie Fisher.

  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Director: George Roy Hill. Screenplay: William Goldman. Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katherine Ross, Strother Martin.

  City Slickers (1991) Director: Ron Underwood. Screenplay: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, based on a story by Billy Crystal. Cast: Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby, Jack Palance, Patricia Wettig.

  The First Wives Club (1996) Director: Hugh Wilson. Screenplay: Robert Harling, from Olivia Goldsmith's novel. Cast: Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, Bette Midler, Maggie Smith.

  Ghostbusters (1984) Director: Ivan Reitman. Screenplay: Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Sheldon Kahn. Cast: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver.

  Some Like It Hot (1959) Director: Billy Wilder. Screenplay: Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond, from a story by R. Thoeren and M. Logan. Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Joe E. Brown.

  Teen and Youth Comedy

  The Breakfast Club (1985) Director and screenplay: John Hughes. Cast: Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy.

  Clueless (1995) Director and screenplay: Amy Heckerling. Cast: Alicia Sil- verstone, Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy, Phil Rudd, Donald Fairson, Breckin Meyer.

  Fly Away Home (1996) Director: Carroll Ballard. Screenplay: Bill Lichman, Robert Rodat. Cast: Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, Dana Delany, Terry Kinney.

  A Little Romance (1979) Director: George Roy Hill. Screenplay: Allan Burns, based on the novel E = mc2 Mon Amour by Patrick Cauvin. Cast: Laurence Olivier, Diane Lane, Thelonious Bernard, Arthur Hill, Sally
Kellerman.

  Children's Comedy

  The Great Muppet Caper (1981) Director: Jim Henson. Screenplay: Tom Patchett, Jay Tarses, Jerry Juhl, Jack Rose. Cast: The Muppet Performers (with voices by Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Jim Henson, Richard Hunt), Charles Grodin, Diana Rigg, John Cleese.

  Home Alone (1990) Director: Chris Columbus. Screenplay: John Hughes. Cast: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern.

  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) Director: Ben Sharpsteen. Screenplay: Ted Sears, Otto Englander, Earl Hurd, plus five others. Cast: voices of Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucille laVerne.

  Space Jam (1996) Director: Joe Pytka. Screenplay: Herschel Weingrod, Leo Benvenuti, Steve Rudnick, Tim Harris. Cast: Bugs Bunny, Michael Jordan.

  Toy Story (1995) Director: John Lassetter. Screenplay: Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow, Joss Whedon. Cast: voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn.

  Comedy in Drama

  Brazil (1985) Director: Terry Gilliam. Screenplay: Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, Charles McKeown. Cast: Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro.

  Casablanca (1942) Director: Michael Curtiz. Screenplay: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, based on the play Everybody Goes to Rick's by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet.

  Clockwatchers (1997) Director: Jill Sprecher. Screenplay: Jill and Nan Sprecher. Cast: Toni Collette, Parker Posey, Lisa Kudrow, Alanna Ubach.

  A Clockwork Orange (1971) Director: Stanley Kubrick. Screenplay: Stanley Kubrick, from the novel by Anthony Burgess. Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee.

  The Crying Game (1992) Director and screenplay: Neil Jordan. Cast: Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson, Forest Whitaker, Jim Broadbent, Ralph Brown, Adrian Dunbar, Jaye Davidson, Breffini McKenna, Joe Savino.

  Dead Man Walking (1995) Director: Tim Robbins. Screenplay: Tim Robbins. Cast: Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Robert Prosky, Raymond J. Barry.

  Heavenly Creatures (1994) Director: Peter Jackson. Screenplay: Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh. Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse, Diana Kent.

  Lenny (1974) Director: Bob Fosse. Screenplay: Julian Barry, from his own Broadway play. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner, Stanley Beck, Gary Morton.

  Pulp Fiction (1994) Director and screenplay: Quentin Tarantino. Cast: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer.

  Thelma and Louise (1991) Director: Ridley Scott. Screenplay: Callie Khouri. Cast: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Brad Pitt, Stephen Tobolowsky.

  Trainspotting (1996, UK) Director: Danny Boyle. Screenplay: Irvine Welsh, John Hodge. Cast: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd.

  Witness (1985) Director and screenplay: Peter Weir. Cast: Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Joseph Sommer, Lukas Haas, Jan Rubes, Alexander Godunov.

  Comedy from around the World

  Australia and New Zealand

  Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994, Australia) Director and screenplay: Stephan Elliott. Cast: Terrence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Bill Hunter, Sarah Chadwick.

  Babe (1995, Australia) Director: Chris Noonan. Screenplay: George Miller, Chris Noonan, based on the novel The Sheep-Pig by Dick KingSmith. Cast: James Cromwell, Magda Szuzbanski, and the voices of Christine Cavanagh, Miriam Margolyes, Danny Mann, Hugo Weaving.

  Bad Taste (1988, New Zealand) Director and screenplay: Peter Jackson. Cast: Peter Jackson, Pete O'Herne, Mike Minett, Terry Potter, Craig Smith.

  Green Card (1990, Australia-France) Director and screenplay: Peter Weir. Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Andie MacDowell, Bebe Neuwirth, Gregg Edelman.

  Shine (1996, Australia) Director: Scott Hicks. Screenplay: Scott Hicks, Jan Sardi. Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Noah Taylor, Alex Rafalowicz, Sonia Todd, Lynn Redgrave, John Gielgud.

  Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic

  Closely Watched Trains (1966) Director: Jiri Menzel. Screenplay: Jiri Menzel, Bohumil Hrabal, based on Hrabal's novel. Cast: Vaclav Neckar, Jitka Bendova, Vladimir Valenta, Libuse Habelkova.

  The Firemen's Ball (1967) Director: Milos Forman. Screenplay: Milos Forman, Jaroslav Papousek. Cast: Josef Kolb, Marie Jezkova, Jan Vostreil.

  Kolya (1996) Director: Jan Sverak. Screenplay: Zdenek Sverak. Cast: Zdenek Sverak, Audrey Chalmon, Libuse Safranokova.

  Denmark

  Babette's Feast (1987) Director: Gabriel Axel. Screenplay: Gabriel Axel, from a story by Isak Dinesen. Cast: Stephane Audran, Jean-Phillipe Lafont, Gudmar Wivesson.

  Finland

  Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989) Director and screenplay: Aki Kauris- maki. Cast: Marti Peliopaa, Karl Vaanaenen, Jim Jarmusch, Nicky Tesco.

  France

  Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932) Director: Jean Renoir. Screenplay: Jean Renoir, based on the play by Rene Fauchois. Cast: Michel Simon, Charles Granbal, Marcelle Hania, Severine Lerczynska.

  Day for Night (1973) Director and screenplay: Francois Truffaut. Cast: Francois Truffaut, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Valentina Cortese, Jean-Pierre Leaud.

  Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953) Director: Jacques Tati. Screenplay: Jacques Tati, Henri Marquet, Pierre Aubert, Jacques Lagrange. Cast: Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud.

  Pauline at the Beach (1983) Director and screenplay: Eric Rohmer. Cast: Amanda Langlet, Arielle Dombasle, Pascal Dreggory.

  Pierrot le Fou (1965) Director and screenplay: Jean-Luc Godard. Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina.

  Rules of the Game (1939) Director and screenplay: Jean Renoir. Cast: Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Mila Parely, Jean Renoir.

  Great Britain

  The Captain's Paradise (1953) Director: Anthony Kimmin. Screenplay: Alec Coppel, Nicholas Phipps, based on a story by Alec Coppel. Cast: Alec Guinness, Yvonne De Carlo, Celia Johnson, Bill Fraser.

  Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) Director: Mike Newell. Screenplay: Richard Curtis. Cast: Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Kristin Scott Thomas, Simon Callow, Rowan Atkinson, James Fleet.

  The Full Monty (1997) Director: Peter Cattaneo. Screenplay: Simon Beautoy. Cast: Robert Carlyle.

  The Horse's Mouth (1958) Director: Robert Neame. Screenplay: Alec Guinness, from the novel by Joyce Cary. Cast: Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Renee Houston, Mike Morgan.

  Local Hero (1983) Director and screenplay: Bill Forsyth. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Fulton MacKay, Denis Lawson, Norman Chancer, Peter Capaldi, Jenny Seagrove.

  Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) Director: Terry Jones. Screenplay: John Cleese, Graham Chapman. Cast: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin.

  The Mouse That Roared (1959) Director: Jack Arnold. Screenplay: Roger MacDougall, Stanley Mann, based on the novel The Wrath of Grapes by Leonard Wibberly. Cast: Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, David Kossoff, William Hartnell.

  Greece

  Never on Sunday (1960) Director and screenplay: Jules Dassin. Cast: Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin, Georges Fondas, Titos Vandis, Mitsos Liguisos.

  Hungary

  Mr. Universe (1988) Director: Gyorgy Szomjas. Screenplay: No credit given. Cast: Mariska Hargitay, George Pinter, Micky Hargitay.

  My Twentieth Century (1989) Director and screenplay: Ildiko Enyedi. Cast: Dorotha Segda, Oleg Jankovskij, Paulaus Manker.

  Iran

  The White Balloon (1995) Director: Jafar Panahi. Screenplay: Abbas Kiarostami. Cast: Aida Mohammadkhani, Mohsen Kalifi, Fereshteh Sadr Orfani, Anna Bourkowska, Mohammad Shahani.

  Italy

  The Bicycle Thief (1947) Director: Vittorio de Sica. Screenplay: Cesare Za- vattini, based on a novel by Luigi Bartolini. Cast: Lamberto Maggiorani, Lianella Carell, Enzo Staiola.

  Cinema Paradiso (1988) Director and screenplay: Giuseppe Tornatore. Cast: Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Salvatore Cascio, Mario Leonardi.

  Mediterraneo (1991) Director and screenplay: Gabriele Salvatore. Cas
t: Diego Abatantuono, Claudio Bigagli, Giuseppi Cedema, Vanna Barba, Claudio Bisio.

  Swept Away (1975) Director and screenplay: Lina Wertmuller. Cast: Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangelo Melato.

  Russia/USSR

  Cloud Paradise (1991) Director: Nikolai Dostal. Screenplay: Georgi Nikola- jev. Cast: Andrei Zhigalov, Sergei Batalov, Irina Rozanova.

  Fountain (1988) Director: Juri Mamin. Screenplay: Vladimir Vardunas. Cast: Asankul Kuttubayev, Sergei Dontsov, Sharma Kerimtayeva.

  South Africa

  The Gods Must Be Crazy (1981) Director and screenplay: Jamie Uys. Cast: Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo, N'xau, Louw Verwey.

  Spain and Mexico

  Luis Bunuel, the master of comic surrealism! All, including The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) Director: Luis Bunuel. Screenplay: Luis Bunuel, Jean-Claude Carierre. Cast: Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Stephane Audran, Bulle Ogier.

  Viridiana (1961) Director: Luis Bunuel. Screenplay: Luis Bunuel, Julio Alejandro, based on a story by Luis Bunuel. Cast: Sylvia Pinal, Fernando Rey, Margarita Lozano.

  Sweden

  My Life as a Dog (1985) Director: Lasse Halstrom. Screenplay: Lasse Hal- strom, Reidar Jonsson, Brasse Brannstrom, Per Berglund, based on the novel by Reidar Jonsson. Cast: Anton Glanzelius, Tomas von Bromssen, Anki Liden, Melinda Kinnaman.

  Switzerland

  Jonah, Who Will Be 21 in the Year zooo (1976) Director: Alain Tanner. Screenplay: John Berger, Alain Tanner. Cast: Myrian Boyer, Jean-Luc Rideau, Miou-Miou, Roger Jeandy, Jacques Dennis.

  Taiwan

  Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) Director: Ang Lee. Screenplay: Ang Lee, Hui Ling Wang, James Schamus. Cast: Sihung Lung, Kuei-Mei Yung, Chien-Lien Wu, Yu-Wen Wang.

  Yugoslavia

  Innocence Unprotected (1966) Director and screenplay: Dusan Makavejev. Cast: Dragoljub Aleksic, Bratoljub Gligorijevic, Vera Jovanovic.

  Something in Between (1983) Director: Srdjan Karanovic. Screenplay: Srdjan Karanovic, Andrew Horton, Sasha Marinovic. Cast: Miki Manolovic, Drago Nicholis, Carris Corfman.

  Time of the Gypsies (1989) Director: Emir Kusturica. Screenplay: Emir Kusturica, Gordan Mihic. Cast: Davor Dujmovic, Bora Todorovic, Ljubica Adzovic, Sinolicka Trpkova, Husnija Hasi.