So this year BBC Culture decided to get serious about comedy. We asked 253 film critics – 118 women and 135 men – from 52 countries and six continents a simple: “What do you think are the 10 best comedies of all time?” Films from any country made since cinema was invented were eligible, and BBC Culture did nothing to define in advance what a comedy is; we left that to each of the critics to decide. As always, we urged the experts to go with their heart and pick personal favorites, films that are part of their lives, not just the ones that meet some ideal of greatness.
Created August 2017
250 films from throughout Italy's history, 1905-2011. From the book by Roy Menarini.
Missing: I miserabili (1964)
Source: https://www.amazon.com/grande-cinema-italiano-Roy-Menarini/dp/8874550650/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1448737166&sr=8-1&keywords=Il+Grande+Cinema+Italiano
Greatest Italian films according to 109 critics/scholars and 50 filmmakers.
Note - this entry is just for one segment of an anthology film:
Ro.Go.Pa.G = La ricotta (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1963)
All the comedies mentioned in the filmography of the book "Film Comedy" by Geoff King, published in 2002.
"From slapstick to satire and subtle innuendo. From the grotesque to the carefully mannered. From madcap anarchy to the darkly deadpan. Film comedy comes in a wide range of forms. For as long as film has existed as an entertainment medium, so has film comedy. ... Comedy was one of the most popular formats in the early years of cinema and has remained so ever since." (from the introduction to the book)
Missing: Edward Penishands (1991)
Source: https://www.amazon.com/Film-Comedy-Geoff-King/dp/1903364353/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1402285691&sr=8-1&keywords=film+comedy
Todo el mejor cine de la historia
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Updated with 2024 winners.
Notes:
- 1948 best original screenplay was consildated together with best adapted screenplay into one category. The winner was "The Treasure of Sierra Madre", adopted from the novel of the same name.
Italian cinema has proved very popular with international audiences, and yet a surprising unfamiliarity remains regarding the rich traditions from which its most fascinating moments arose. Directory of World Cinema: Italy aims to offer a wide film and cultural study in which to situate some of Italian cinema’s key aspects, from political radicalism to opera, and from the arthouse to popular genres. Essays by leading academics about prominent genres, directors and themes provide insight into the cinema of Italy and are bolstered by reviews of significant titles. From silent spectacle to the giallo, the spaghetti western to the neorealist masterworks of Rossellini, this book offers a comprehensive historical sweep of Italian cinema that will appeal to film scholars and cinephiles alike
List import based on the book. Thematic chapters:
More information on this is also aviable on http://worldcinemadirectory.co.uk/!
The Criterion Collection is a video distribution company which specializes in licensing and selling "important classic and contemporary films" in "editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements."
This is a list of all films (main feature, extra featurette, making of, box-set meta entry, etc if it has a separate entry on trakt) released under Criterion Collection catalog, Essential Art House, Eclipse, Merchant Ivory collections etc. as DVD/BluRay. So far LaserDisc releases have not been included.
Notes to self:
Reviewed/cross-checked entries till Criterion Collection #200.
Last entry: Criterion Collection Spine #845 / Eclipse Series #44.
The list of the 100 Italian films to be saved was created with the aim to report "100 films that have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978".
source: https://goo.gl/MfIyJ5
List of Nominees and Winners
ED BEGLEY "Sweet Bird of Youth" - WINNER
VICTOR BUONO "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"
TELLY SAVALAS "Birdman of Alcatraz"
OMAR SHARIF "Lawrence of Arabia"
TERENCE STAMP "Billy Budd"
PATTY DUKE "The Miracle Worker" - WINNER
MARY BADHAM "To Kill a Mockingbird"
SHIRLEY KNIGHT "Sweet Bird of Youth"
ANGELA LANSBURY "The Manchurian Candidate"
THELMA RITTER "Birdman of Alcatraz"
"LAWRENCE OF ARABIA" Sam Spiegel, Producer - WINNER
"THE LONGEST DAY" Darryl F. Zanuck, Producer
"MEREDITH WILLSON'S THE MUSIC MAN" Morton Da Costa, Producer
"MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY" Aaron Rosenberg, Producer
"TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD" Alan J. Pakula, Producer
"LAWRENCE OF ARABIA" David Lean - WINNER
"DAVID AND LISA" Frank Perry
"DIVORCE--ITALIAN STYLE" Pietro Germi
"THE MIRACLE WORKER" Arthur Penn
"TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD" Robert Mulligan
"LAWRENCE OF ARABIA" Anne Coates - WINNER
"THE LONGEST DAY" Samuel E. Beetley
"THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE" Ferris Webster
"MEREDITH WILLSON'S THE MUSIC MAN" William Ziegler
"MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY" John McSweeney, Jr.
"SUNDAYS AND CYBELE" France - WINNER
"ELECTRA" Greece
"THE FOUR DAYS OF NAPLES" Italy
"KEEPER OF PROMISES (THE GIVEN WORD)" Brazil
"TLAYUCAN" Mexico
GREGORY PECK "To Kill a Mockingbird" - WINNER
BURT LANCASTER "Birdman of Alcatraz"
JACK LEMMON "Days of Wine and Roses"
MARCELLO MASTROIANNI "Divorce--Italian Style"
PETER O'TOOLE "Lawrence of Arabia"
ANNE BANCROFT "The Miracle Worker" - WINNER
BETTE DAVIS "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"
KATHARINE HEPBURN "Long Day's Journey into Night"
GERALDINE PAGE "Sweet Bird of Youth"
LEE REMICK "Days of Wine and Roses"
"THE HOLE" John Hubley and Faith Hubley, Producers - WINNER
"ICARUS MONTGOLFIER WRIGHT" Jules Engel, Producer
"NOW HEAR THIS" Warner Bros.
"SELF DEFENSE--FOR COWARDS" William L. Snyder, Producer
"SYMPOSIUM ON POPULAR SONGS" Walt Disney, Producer
Days Of Wine And Roses in "Days of Wine and Roses" Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer - WINNER
Love Song From Mutiny On The Bounty (Follow Me) in "Mutiny on the Bounty" Music by Bronislau Kaper; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
Song From Two For The Seesaw (Second Chance) in "Two for the Seesaw" Music by Andre Previn; Lyrics by Dory Langdon
Tender Is The Night in "Tender Is the Night" Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
Walk On The Wild Side in "Walk on the Wild Side" Music by Elmer Bernstein; Lyrics by Mack David
"THE LONGEST DAY" Jean Bourgoin, Walter Wottitz, (Henri Persin) - WINNER
"BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ" Burnett Guffey
"TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD" Russell Harlan
"TWO FOR THE SEESAW" Ted McCord
"WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?" Ernest Haller
"LAWRENCE OF ARABIA" Fred A. Young - WINNER
"GYPSY" Harry Stradling, Sr.
"HATARI!" Russell Harlan
"MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY" Robert L. Surtees
"THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM" Paul C. Vogel
"THE LONGEST DAY" Visual Effects by Robert MacDonald; Audible Effects by Jacques Maumont - WINNER
"MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY" Visual Effects by A. Arnold Gillespie; Audible Effects by Milo Lory
"TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD" Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen, Henry Bumstead; Set Decoration: Oliver Emert - WINNER
"DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES" Art Direction: Joseph Wright; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
"THE LONGEST DAY" Art Direction: Ted Haworth, Leon Barsacq, Vincent Korda; Set Decoration: Gabriel Bechir
"PERIOD OF ADJUSTMENT" Art Direction: George W. Davis, Edward Carfagno; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Dick Pefferle
"THE PIGEON THAT TOOK ROME" Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Frank R. McKelvy
"LAWRENCE OF ARABIA" Art Direction: John Box, John Stoll; Set Decoration: Dario Simoni - WINNER
"MEREDITH WILLSON'S THE MUSIC MAN" Art Direction: Paul Groesse; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
"MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY" Art Direction: George W. Davis, J. McMillan Johnson; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt
"THAT TOUCH OF MINK" Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen, Robert Clatworthy; Set Decoration: George Milo
"THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM" Art Direction: George W. Davis, Edward Carfagno; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Dick Pefferle
"DYLAN THOMAS" Jack Howells, Producer - WINNER
"THE JOHN GLENN STORY" William L. Hendricks, Producer
"THE ROAD TO THE WALL" Robert Saudek, Producer
"BLACK FOX" Louis Clyde Stoumen, Producer - WINNER
"ALVORADA (BRAZIL'S CHANGING FACE)" Hugo Niebeling, Producer
"WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?" Norma Koch - WINNER
"DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES" Don Feld
"THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE" Edith Head
"THE MIRACLE WORKER" Ruth Morley
"PHAEDRA" Denny Vachlioti
"THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM" Mary Wills - WINNER
"BON VOYAGE!" Bill Thomas
"GYPSY" Orry-Kelly
"MEREDITH WILLSON'S THE MUSIC MAN" Dorothy Jeakins
"MY GEISHA" Edith Head
Steve Broidy - WINNER
"HEUREUX ANNIVERSAIRE (HAPPY ANNIVERSARY)" Heureux Anniversaire (Happy Anniversary) - WINNER
"BIG CITY BLUES" Martina Huguenot van der Linden and Charles Huguenot van der Linden, Producers
"THE CADILLAC" Robert Clouse, Producer
"THE CLIFF DWELLERS (FORMERLY TITLED "ONE PLUS ONE")" Hayward Anderson, Producer
"PAN" Herman van der Horst, Producer
"TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD" Horton Foote - WINNER
"DAVID AND LISA" Eleanor Perry
"LAWRENCE OF ARABIA" Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson
"LOLITA" Vladimir Nabokov
"THE MIRACLE WORKER" William Gibson
"DIVORCE--ITALIAN STYLE" Ennio de Concini, Alfredo Giannetti, Pietro Germi - WINNER
"FREUD" Story by Charles Kaufman; Screenplay by Charles Kaufman, Wolfgang Reinhardt
"LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD" Alain Robbe-Grillet
"THAT TOUCH OF MINK" Stanley Shapiro, Nate Monaster
"THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY" Ingmar Bergman
"LAWRENCE OF ARABIA" Shepperton Studio Sound Department, John Cox, Sound Director - WINNER
"BON VOYAGE!" Walt Disney Studio Sound Department, Robert O. Cook, Sound Director
"MEREDITH WILLSON'S THE MUSIC MAN" Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, George R. Groves, Sound Director
"THAT TOUCH OF MINK" Universal City Studio Sound Department, Waldon O. Watson, Sound Director
"WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?" Glen Glenn Sound Department, Joseph Kelly, Sound Director
"LAWRENCE OF ARABIA" Maurice Jarre - WINNER
"FREUD" Jerry Goldsmith
"MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY" Bronislau Kaper
"TARAS BULBA" Franz Waxman
"TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD" Elmer Bernstein
"MEREDITH WILLSON'S THE MUSIC MAN" Ray Heindorf - WINNER
"BILLY ROSE'S JUMBO" George Stoll
"GIGOT" Michel Magne
"GYPSY" Frank Perkins
"THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM" Leigh Harline
Collection of additional "must-see" Danny Perry's movies, presented in the back of his "Guide for the Film Fanatic"
546 movies missing. Imported from external source.
Imported with Trakt.tv List Importer.
This list is drawn from the second edition of "The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made" (St. Martin's Griffin, $24.95), edited by Peter M. Nichols and published in 2004. For additional information about the list, read Peter M. Nichols's preface, or A. O. Scott's introduction.
BBC's The 100 Greatest Comedies of All Time
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