Buddy Comedy Films from Top 25 Grossing Films of 2007

Comedy Films $30 This book is in New – Excellent condition

Greatest Classic Films Comedy DVD $17.98 Cary Grant and a stellar cast romp through the classic farce, Arsenic and Old Lace , based on the Broadway hit. Grand opera equals grand comedy as the Marx Brothers cram a ship’s stateroom and more with wall-to-wall gags and musical riffs in A Night at the Opera . Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz play newlyweds who hit the honeymoon road with a 40-foot house trailer in tow in The Long, Long Trailer . Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor star in Father of the Bride – a comic celebration of an American rite (and wrong) of passage. Includes: Arsenic and Old Lace / A Night at the Opera / The Long, Long Trailer / Father of the Bride (2 DVD) approx. 6.8 hrs.

Greatest Classic Films Collection Romantic Comedy DVD $20.98 Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and Best Actor Academy Award winner James Stewart star in The Philadelphia Story , the tale of a faultfinding, bride-to-be socialite who gets her comeuppance. When scatterbrained heiress Katharine Hepburn meets mild-mannered museum curator Cary Grant, the results are riotous in Bringing Up Baby . Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn play married prosecutor and defense attorneys assigned to the same sensational, attempted-murder trial in Adam’s Rib . Tracy and Hepburn show what chemistry is all about in Woman of the Year , a witty Oscar winner about the bumpy romance of a meat-and-potatoes sportswriter and a world-renowned political pundit. (2 DVD), approx. 7.2 hrs.

The Musical Comedy Films of Grigorii Aleksandrov: Laughing Matters $44.59 No Synopsis Available

La comedia en peliculas / The Comedy in 100 Films $17.56 This book is in New – Excellent condition

Silent Comedy $95.79 <p>On the surface it may seem slightly surprising that a master of verbal humour should also be a devotee of silent comedy, but Paul Merton is completely passionate about the early days of Hollywood comedy and the comic geniuses who dominated it. His knowledge is awesome – as anyone who watched his BBC 4 series <i>Silent Clowns</i> or attended the events he has staged nationwide will agree – his enthusiasm is infectious, and these qualities are to be found in abundance in his book. </p><p> </p><p> Starting with the very earliest pioneering short films, he traces the evolution of silent comedy through the 1900s and considers the works of the genre’s greatest exponents – Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy and Harold Lloyd – showing not only how each developed in the course of their career but also the extent to which they influenced each other. At the same time, Paul brings a comedian’s insight to bear on the art of making people laugh, and explores just how the great comic ideas, routines, gags and pratfalls worked and evolved. His first book for ten years, this is destined to be a classic.</p>

The Hollywood Romantic Comedy: Conventions, History and Controversies $59.99 The most up-to-date study of the Hollywood romantic comedy film, from the development of sound to the twenty-first century, this book examines the history and conventions of the genre and surveys the controversies arising from the critical responses to these films. Provides a detailed interpretation of important romantic comedy films from as early as 1932 to movies made in the twenty-first century Presents a full analysis of the range of romantic comedy conventions, including dramatic conflicts, characters, plots, settings, and the function of humor Develops a survey of romantic comedy movies and builds a canon of key films from Hollywood’s classical era right up to the present day Chapters work as discrete studies as well as within the larger context of the book

Tcm Greatest Classic Films: Comedy (4Fe) Dvd from Warner Bros. $22.95 ARSENIC AND OLD LACE Cary Grant and a stellar cast romp through this classic farce based on the Broadway hit and breezily directed by Frank Capra. A frazzled drama critic’s two maiden aunts put a secret ingredient in their elderberry wine – and the result

The Comedy Of Charlie Chaplin: Artistry In Motion $25.59 From his early shorts in the 1910s through his final film in 1967 Charlie Chaplin’s genius embraced many arts: mime dance acting music writing and directing. The Comedy of Charlie Chaplin: Artistry in Motion examines Chaplin’s fusion of thesearts in his films providing new understanding of how movement communicates how comedy routines are structured and how stage skills can be translated to the screen. An acclaimed comic performing artist himself Dan Kamin brings a unique insider’s perspective to the subject. He explores how Chaplin’s physical virtuosity led him to create the timeless visual comedy that brought silent films to their peak. Kamin uncovers the underlying principles behind the filmmaker’s gags illuminating how Chaplin conjured comedy from the fundamental physical laws of movement. He then presents provocative new interpretations of the comedian’s sound films showing how Chaplin remained faithful to his silent comedy roots even as he kept reinventing his art for changing times. Kamin also offers new insights into how Chaplin achieved rapport with audiences and demonstrates how comedy created nearly a century ago is still fresh today. Lavishly illustrated with many never-before-published images The Comedy of Charlie Chaplin provides the only in-depth analysis of Chaplin as a movement artist and physical comedian. Revealing the inner working of Chaplin’s mesmerizing art this book will appeal not just to Chaplin fans but to anyone who loves comedy. This paperback edition features an annotated bibliography and a foreword by Scott Eyman author of Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille and Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford.From his early shorts in the 1910s through his final film in 1967 Charlie Chaplin’s genius embraced many arts: mime dance acting music writing and directing. The Comedy of Charlie Chaplin: Artistry in Motion examines Chaplin’s fusion of thesearts in his films providing new understanding of how movement communicates how comedy routines are structured and how stage skills can be translated to the screen. An acclaimed comic performing artist himself Dan Kamin brings a unique insider’s perspective to the subject. He explores how Chaplin’s physical virtuosity led him to create the timeless visual comedy that brought silent films to their peak. Kamin uncovers the underlying principles behind the filmmaker’s gags illuminating how Chaplin conjured comedy from the fundamental physical laws of movement. He then presents provocative new interpretations of the comedian’s sound films showing how Chaplin remained faithful to his silent comedy roots even as he kept reinventing his art for changing times. Kamin also offers new insights into how Chaplin achieved rapport with audiences and demonstrates how comedy created nearly a century ago is still fresh today. Lavishly illustrated with many never-before-published images The Comedy of Charlie Chaplin provides the only in-depth anal

The Last Ealing Comedy $6.65 Alastair Strange is having trouble. His girlfriend Martha, tired of late night telly and takeaway pizzas, has reinvented herself as the real estate princess of Putney. His dream job has turned into a nightmare and his Dad’s been arrested for burglary. Just when things couldn’t get worse, along comes Alastair’s old friend, society It-girl Tara, with a tantalising job offer. Alastair finds himself teaching media studies in an Ealing school. A cushy number, he thinks, but that’s before Tara calls the favour in- The derelict Ealing Studios are next to the school – their presence haunts Alastair and acts as a continual motif for his story, combining the quirky wit and eccentricity of the Ealing films with an eye for the absurdities of modern urban life. Flat-sharing with the impossible Davenport, dealing with mysterious girls on the bus and disastrous blind dates, it would seem that there is, perhaps, one last comedy left in Ealing.