In that vein I would add "Serial" with Martin Mull. The Californians of the time didn't get it.
"Wheel of Furtune" in German, now that's funny!
We will have to disagree on this on friend, I was and am quite willing to suspend belief for a short time, and i have been a fan of the genre since I was 12YO and got all of the sideways homages to classic story lines and SF & F book covers and Christopher Foss spaceships
In Germany it's tradition to watch "Dinner For One" at New Year's Eve. It's a really hilarious sketch in English, created and performed by Freddie Frinton. For some unknown reasons barely one Englishman knows it.
"The same procedure as last year, Miss Sophie?" - "The same procedure as every year, James!"
Happy New Year!
Dinner for one
Mildly amusing
Just to give you the right impression of the hype around "Dinner For One" in Germany (and Switzerland): Nobody would ever consider to watch it another day but New Year's Eve. At this day it's broadcasted time-displaced via all 3rd programs of the ARD. Beside the "original" version there also exist a subsequently-coloured version and some dialectical versions. A few years ago someone actually wrote a dissertation about it...
My good friend Eva, who owns a little hotel at the shore, offered her guests a "Dinner For One"-menu at last New Year's Eve (including her man Sascha playing "James" and a bearskin made of polyesters lying in front of the fireplace).
The first time I watched the sketch, I wasn't very amused too. Slapstick is normally not my kind of humor. But over the years it won my heart. Not least, because it's "just" funny and harmless. In addition to it, it also has a fine human quality. James did everything to please Miss Sophie. He acted as the butler, as the four long deceased friends and last but not least as the lover of Miss Sophie. I guess she's had a nice 90th birthday.
My good friend Eva, who owns a little hotel at the shore, offered her guests a "Dinner For One"-menu at last New Year's Eve (including her man Sascha playing "James" and a bearskin made of polyesters lying in front of the fireplace).
The first time I watched the sketch, I wasn't very amused too. Slapstick is normally not my kind of humor. But over the years it won my heart. Not least, because it's "just" funny and harmless. In addition to it, it also has a fine human quality. James did everything to please Miss Sophie. He acted as the butler, as the four long deceased friends and last but not least as the lover of Miss Sophie. I guess she's had a nice 90th birthday.
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Just to give you the right impression of the hype around "Dinner For One" in Germany (and Switzerland): Nobody would ever consider to watch it another day but New Year's Eve. At this day it's broadcasted time-displaced via all 3rd programs of the ARD. Beside the "original" version there also exist a subsequently-coloured version and some dialectical versions. A few years ago someone actually wrote a dissertation about it...
My good friend Eva, who owns a little hotel at the shore, offered her guests a "Dinner For One"-menu at last New Year's Eve (including her man Sascha playing "James" and a bearskin made of polyesters lying in front of the fireplace).
The first time I watched the sketch, I wasn't very amused too. Slapstick is normally not my kind of humor. But over the years it won my heart. Not least, because it's "just" funny and harmless. In addition to it, it also has a fine human quality. James did everything to please Miss Sophie. He acted as the butler, as the four long deceased friends and last but not least as the lover of Miss Sophie. I guess she's had a nice 90th birthday.
I still dont get it, is it only funny and entertaining on New Years Eve to Gernans and Swiss folk?
I remembered a film which I really liked:
Under Milk Wood (1972)
And one other thing I remember, I looked it with my son, and rolling on the floor along of laughing:
The High Crusade (1994)
This is a Monty Python-like story
Wacky Gyuri
Under Milk Wood (1972)
And one other thing I remember, I looked it with my son, and rolling on the floor along of laughing:
The High Crusade (1994)
This is a Monty Python-like story
Wacky Gyuri
How about audiophile content?
I just watched "All Night Long" again, with Patrick McGoohan. In this Richard Attenborough plays a rich London playboy that pays jazz artistis to play at big private parties and records them on an impressive reel-to-reel setup. Highly recommended, this movie has a lot of first rate artists doing cameos.
I just watched "All Night Long" again, with Patrick McGoohan. In this Richard Attenborough plays a rich London playboy that pays jazz artistis to play at big private parties and records them on an impressive reel-to-reel setup. Highly recommended, this movie has a lot of first rate artists doing cameos.
The footage of Charles Mingus is priceless!
http://jazzcrisis.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/mingus-55-cover-folder.jpg
http://jazzcrisis.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/mingus-55-cover-folder.jpg
As we are getting ready for Summer "Mr. Hulot's Holiday" is just a wonderful movie, one which can be watched with enjoyment over and over again.
I received a copy of "Menschen am Sonntag" a couple months back, but will have to get a spare player as it has to be set to European standards. I've been unable to find one recorded for the US.
I received a copy of "Menschen am Sonntag" a couple months back, but will have to get a spare player as it has to be set to European standards. I've been unable to find one recorded for the US.
Il sorpasso by Dino Risi. "The easy life"
Il sorpasso (1962)
Everybody knows the great directors but Risi was unknown to me.
Saw this recently, great movie.
Il sorpasso (1962)
Everybody knows the great directors but Risi was unknown to me.
Saw this recently, great movie.
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