Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...

[cthulhu]

He was a genius and all his movies are wonderful. Kind of a sad story though that he went bankrupt producing Playtime, because he made all the costly descisions to get his vision on film, like choosing 70mm Film and a very sophisticated 6 channel sound design, not to mention the huge sets being build and he backed it up with his private money and also house i think.
Love all his movies very much the same but my order would be:

Playtime
Trafic
Mon Oncle
Jour de Fete
Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot
Parade

Would be a dream for me to see Playtime in a cinema on 70mm with the 6-channel sound.

[Ghosttrain]

I have never seen Parade....will investigate . saw Jour De Fete many years ago ....shall revisit it again..

[Ghosttrain]

Have done some research on Parade...............jury still out....however have ordered Jour De Fete on DVD...

[cthulhu]

Parade i've only seen once, it's nice and charming and has some great funny scenes in it, but for me it's not a "movie". It is a filmed circus show with Tati or Hulot as the Director in the manege or doing sketches and scenes. Worth watching but not comparable to the movies. Think you will have a great time rewatching jour de fete. It has some special energy in the acting and therefore the action, because Francois, the bicycle-postman, is a total different character than Hulot, who is more observing and subtle.

[Ghosttrain]

Thank you for your reply i think you sum up Parade perfectly and agree with everything you say,i had read about the film and from the verry little avail. i have seen on YouTube it does appear  as you say a series of sketches more than an actual film........i may have to buy it to complete the set...........

Scrub that thought ...............just checked it out on Amazon DVD @ £44.99 ......thanks but no thanks........

[Ghosttrain]

Have just watched Jour De Fete..........wonderful.......

[Master Ray]

OK, I've been trying to think of some comedy movies that are a bit 'under the radar' whether that be from being a huge box office flop, badly distributed or just terribly unfashionable and worth of reappraisal...

Firstly 'Walk Hard - The Dewey Cox Story'.  This one utterly bombed but it might be the funniest film I've seen this decade, a brilliant parody of rock biopics, taking aim at all the clichés of those films and a gag-per-minute ratio as high as anything like airplane or The Naked Gun.  Too many hilarious scenes to name but I did love the bit where 'Dewey' meets The Beatles...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g_xaVNY9P4

As opposed to that, 'Four Lions' is one of the darkest comedies imaginable yet still manages to have so many big laughs.  A British comedy about suicide bombers, big recipe for laughs, right?  And yet it isn't really political... it's just a movie about some deeply incompetent men who are handed a job and just **** it up throughout.  It's from Chris Morris (The Day Today, Brass Eye), one of my comedy heroes, and I've never seen a movie about a disturbing concept that effortlessly flips between 'chilling' and 'LOL'... and I include 'Doctor Strangelove' in that.  Here's the trailer...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew-SrlQ9tlI

My third and last choice is my very, very favourite film of all time,  'Local Hero', another UK film concerning a man from a big US oil company who is sent to buy up a whole village in Scotland to turn it into an oil refinery... and then falls in love with the place and its people and doesn't want to see it ended... I won't say any more than that before it's gets somewhat more complicated after that. It's a warm and lovely hug of a movie with some great characters, maybe not a relentless laugh-fest but with plenty of chuckles and one that'll make you feel better after watching it.  And such a brilliant soundtrack by Mark Knopfler.  Here's the trailer...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nufb3JysCgY

I'm sure I'll think of a few more soon...