punch drunk love. I like that I watch that one with my girlfriend. super-cute, i know
To Have and Have Not
Swing Time
Singin’ in the Rain, Some Like it Hot, Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera, What’s New Pussycat, The Trouble With Harry. If I don’t have the time to watch a movie, any Fawlty Towers, Get Smart or Absolutely Fabulous episode will do the trick.
When I packed up to go live in provincial China for a couple of years, I packed these DVDs: ALL ABOUT EVE, NASHVILLE, TRUE STORIES, FUNNY FACE, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN.
Royal Tenenbaums or The Apartment
Every single Jacques Tati film. But especially, Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot.
Love, Honour and Obey.
The Big Lebowski
2001: A Space Odyssey
Lola Martini: Yes! Another Trouble with Harry fan! :)
I know it’s not Hitchcock’s best, but I enjoy it so much.
42nd Street
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
After Hours
Chungking Express
Raising Arizona
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
Time for some guilty pleasures!!
Charlie’s Angels
Don’t Tell Mom The Baby Sitter’s Dead
Showgirls
The Apartment – simply classic.
The Trouble With Harry – Shirley (and Forsythe) at their comic best.
City Lights – the best Chaplin ending (imo.)
Chungking Express – ‘all the leaves are brown…’ O Faye…
ditto Jeunet – the ‘production values’ and gags in Amelie still make me smile.
Baraka – a feast for the eyes, no narration, set to amazing music. The opening scene (no spoiler) is key for me.
Brazil (Gilliam) – a perennial favorite.
and I just finally rented ‘Borat’, which almost literally made me pee myself several times with laughter. (and the film had some ‘depth’, too!)
Kurosawa’s ‘Lower Depths’ gets honorable mention.
anything with Judd Apatow’s name on it.
@Shadiqu- Good choice! His films always put a smile on my face.
for this I really need something old…maybe it’s about (perceived) simpler times, values, wholesomeness? or people just dressed better?
The Philadelphia Story
Harvey
Funny Face
Duck Soup (any Marx Bros will do the trick)
then there’s just plain silly, guaranteed to give good laughs: Caddyshack, The Man With Two Brains, Flying High
but when you just want to wallow in it: Wings of Desire, The Sea Inside, Watership Down
Dancer in the Dark picks me up and then throws me off a cliff.
anything Marx Brothers makes me laugh and parts of Raising Arizona – mostly the Diaper Robbery.
If you can take silent films, try Clara Bow’s “It”. Works for me. Actually, I think it’s down to the skill of the director (Clarence Badger) that you almost forget it is a silent film because it flows so smoothly.
“Amelie” would work as well.
Actually, in a funny sort of way, “The Fifth Element” makes me smile.
Zachary Phillip Brailsford, I cried when I first saw Lost in Translation in a tiny little theater. It depressed me for next 3 days. When I need to cry, I still watch either Lost in Translation of Cinema Paradiso.
I also find Chungking Express extremely gloomy. Nonetheless, it’s on my top 10 list, but it makes me so sad. I can’t imagine watching that when I’m down.
When I feel down, I guess I can go for some Woody Allen (not the sad ones like Purple Rose), Merchant/Ivory, or Katharine Hepburn-ish comedies. Also, 80s comedies are always great too especially with Judge Reinhold ;). Ruthless People, anyone?
some like it hot
Une Femme est Une Femme, A Woman is a Woman (1961, Godard)
“ARIGATO-SAN” (Mr Thankyou) of Shimizu Hiroshi ….where laughter and tears and a never-ending landscape of beauty
transports you out of the ghastly realities of this world…
Fellini’s NIGHTS OF CABIRIA
Chaplin’s CITY LIGHTS
Keaton shorts: COPS, ONE WEEK
american movie
Highlander, Young Guns, Harvey, Death Race 2000,
Anything from Pixar except Cars
A Matter of Life and Death – puts a smile on my face every time.
Apart from that, I’ve got odd pictures – usually anything that makes me feel anything picks me up. For example, the Apartment and Cinema Paradiso, even if I do start bawling my eyes out at some point, but equally something like Evil Dead 2 for making me smile and jump.
Owen Sound
Annie Hall.
This film has been there for me for a long time. No matter when and where I find comfort with this on.