GREAT COMEDIES BY DIRECTORS NOT GENERALLY KNOWN FOR COMEDIES

By: swotus

Not to say that these directors haven’t made other comedies or that there aren’t comedic moments in their more serious films, but just that the word “funny” wouldn’t immediately come to mind when thinking of their films.

• 01
  Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  Stanley Kubrick
• 02
  Minnie and Moskowitz
  John Cassavetes
• 03
  After Hours
  Martin Scorsese
• 04
  The Boss of It All
  Lars von Trier
• 05
  Four Nights of a Dreamer
  Robert Bresson
• 06
  The Ballad of Cable Hogue
  Sam Peckinpah
• 07
  Smiles of a Summer Night
  Ingmar Bergman
• 08
  Punch-Drunk Love
  Paul Thomas Anderson