comedies
Le dîner de cons (1998) – Francis Veber
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It starts really stupid but it Omelettes itself up into a kind of karma theater-play that’s different, kind and refined in an unpretentious way.
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Don’t Look Up (2021) – Adam McKay
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Long-winded screw-eightball of a dark & daring political comedy for the news-aware long-attention spanner du jour expansively mirroring 1976´s “Network” efforts.
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To Rome with Love (2012) – Woody Allen
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Brass-balled Baldwin articulates the angry voice of reason coming from a late self-awareness that reflects the present with polished regret and self-derision.
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Rushmore (1998) – Wes Anderson
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Strongly-subtle dark comedy that can for days on end make one consistently laugh out loud at punch-line silences that stitch to the mind.
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About Schmidt (2002) – Alexander Payne
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First:
Watch NO SOUND
(just subtitles).
Next:
Watch w/ voices
(& excellent musical “commentary”).
This delivers Nicholson’s
“Lear/Quixote”
As SUPREME
(Max Sennett)
TRAGI-COMEDY.
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The Graduate (1968) – Mike Nichols
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With youth one can hide from adulthood either by extending it or revisiting…but to escape it entirely, however: one has to try much harder.
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The Cable Guy (1996) – Ben Stiller (Coincidental IMDB 25-WR)
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“A lonely and mentally disturbed cable guy raised on television just wants a new friend, but his target, a designer, rejects him, with bad consequences.”
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Maverick (1994) – Richard Donner
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“What good is an empty chair?” We have here a silver-tongued sharp-shooter poisonous charmer (who´s obviously up no fucking good) wanting to sit!
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Barry (2018) – Bill Hader
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Slow-developing, but not arrested characters in a dark comedy show where everyone is a character-study in his own right.
It does incrementally improve.