comedy &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:comedy @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:20:47 +0200 The Kentucky Fried Movie (John Landis, 1977) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-02kk <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Kentucky Fried Movie (John Landis, 1977)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 9/div div class="occasion" 11:42 A.M./div div class="img" The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)/div div class="caption" Scratched-up film stock showing an arid landscape with ISLE OF LUCY APRIL 9, 11:42 A.M. in bold red letters superimposed over it. DP: Stephen M. Katz./div div class="txt" "Moscow in flames, missiles headed toward New York. Film at eleven." ### – newscaster /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #JohnLandis #DavidZucker #JimAbrahams #JerryZucker #MarilynJoi #EvanCKim #GeorgeLazenby #DonaldSutherland #RickBaker #ForrestJAckerman #StephenMKatz #TinaLouise #comedy #MartialArts #Bruceploitation #Blaxploitation #AnthologyMovie #satire #USA #1970s ★★★★★/div /section ]]>

The Kentucky Fried Movie (John Landis, 1977)

Apr

9

11:42 A.M.

The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)

Scratched-up film stock showing an arid landscape with ISLE OF LUCY APRIL 9, 11:42 A.M. in bold red letters superimposed over it. DP: Stephen M. Katz.

“Moscow in flames, missiles headed toward New York. Film at eleven.”

– newscaster

#FilmDuJour #April #JohnLandis #DavidZucker #JimAbrahams #JerryZucker #MarilynJoi #EvanCKim #GeorgeLazenby #DonaldSutherland #RickBaker #ForrestJAckerman #StephenMKatz #TinaLouise #comedy #MartialArts #Bruceploitation #Blaxploitation #AnthologyMovie #satire #USA #1970s ★★★★★

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-02kk Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Ко то тамо пева? https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-fmjc <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Ко то тамо пева? [Ko to tamo peva / Who's Singin' Over There?] (Slobodan Šijan, 1980)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 5/div div class="occasion" 1941/div div class="img" Ко то тамо пева? (1980)/div div class="caption" A singing man plays the accordion, accompanied by a child smoking a cigarette. DP: Božidar 'Bota' Nikolić./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #SlobodanŠijan #PavleVuisić #Vojislav Kostić #BožidarBotaNikolić #drama #comedy #war #WW2 #Yugoslavia #1980s/div /section ]]>

Ко то тамо пева? [Ko to tamo peva / Who's Singin' Over There?] (Slobodan Šijan, 1980)

Apr

5

1941

Ко то тамо пева? (1980)

A singing man plays the accordion, accompanied by a child smoking a cigarette. DP: Božidar 'Bota' Nikolić.

#FilmDuJour #April #SlobodanŠijan #PavleVuisić #Vojislav Kostić #BožidarBotaNikolić #drama #comedy #war #WW2 #Yugoslavia #1980s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-fmjc Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200 April 2000 [April 1, 2000] (Wolfgang Liebeneiner, 1952) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-w3gj <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 1. April 2000 [April 1, 2000] (Wolfgang Liebeneiner, 1952)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 1/div div class="occasion" 2000/div div class="img" 1. April 2000 (1952)/div div class="caption" The President of the Global Union (Hilde Krahl) stepping out of her spaceship. DPs: Sepp Ketterer, Karl Löb & Fritz Arno Wagner./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #WolfgangLiebeneiner #HildeKrahl #JosefMeinrad #JosefFiedler #AloisMelichar #RobertStolz #SeppKetterer #KarlLöb #FritzArnoWagner #SciFi #comedy #satire #politics #Austria #1950s /div /section ]]>

1. April 2000 [April 1, 2000] (Wolfgang Liebeneiner, 1952)

Apr

1

2000

1. April 2000 (1952)

The President of the Global Union (Hilde Krahl) stepping out of her spaceship. DPs: Sepp Ketterer, Karl Löb & Fritz Arno Wagner.

#FilmDuJour #April #WolfgangLiebeneiner #HildeKrahl #JosefMeinrad #JosefFiedler #AloisMelichar #RobertStolz #SeppKetterer #KarlLöb #FritzArnoWagner #SciFi #comedy #satire #politics #Austria #1950s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-w3gj Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200 The Gruesome Twosome (Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1967) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-2cjp <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Gruesome Twosome (Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1967)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 27/div div class="occasion" 1967/div div class="img" The Gruesome Twosome (1967)/div div class="caption" The March 27, 1967 newspaper headlining CAMPUS PUZZLED! and GIRLS VANISH and FATE STILL A MYSTERY. It's Monday. DP: Roy Collodi./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #March #HerschellGordonLewis #ElizabethDavis #GretchenWells #ChrisMartell #LarryWellington #RoyCollodi #horror #comedy #mystery #gore #USA #1960s ★★½/div /section ]]>

The Gruesome Twosome (Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1967)

Mar

27

1967

The Gruesome Twosome (1967)

The March 27, 1967 newspaper headlining CAMPUS PUZZLED! and GIRLS VANISH and FATE STILL A MYSTERY. It's Monday. DP: Roy Collodi.

#FilmDuJour #March #HerschellGordonLewis #ElizabethDavis #GretchenWells #ChrisMartell #LarryWellington #RoyCollodi #horror #comedy #mystery #gore #USA #1960s ★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-2cjp Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0100 簪​ [Kanzashi / Ornamental Hairpin] (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-6tgz <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 簪​ [Kanzashi / Ornamental Hairpin] (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 3/div div class="occasion" melon/div div class="img" Kanzashi (1941).png)/div div class="caption" A traditional Japanese room with tatami mats. Boys at a table eat melon slices. A woman makes a phone call. The view through the window reveals a gnarly tree and a mountain in the background. DP: Suketarō Inokai./div div class="txt" &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #melons #fruit #HiroshiShimizu #MasujiIbuse #KinuyoTanaka #HirokoKawasaki #TatsuoSaitō #ChishūRyū #ShinIchiHimori #TakeshiSakamoto #TakaakiAsai #SuketarōInokai #comedy #drama #BookAdaptation #Japan #1940s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

簪​ [Kanzashi / Ornamental Hairpin] (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941)

Mar

3

melon

Kanzashi (1941)

A traditional Japanese room with tatami mats. Boys at a table eat melon slices. A woman makes a phone call. The view through the window reveals a gnarly tree and a mountain in the background. DP: Suketarō Inokai.

 

#FilmDinner #melons #fruit #HiroshiShimizu #MasujiIbuse #KinuyoTanaka #HirokoKawasaki #TatsuoSaitō #ChishūRyū #ShinIchiHimori #TakeshiSakamoto #TakaakiAsai #SuketarōInokai #comedy #drama #BookAdaptation #Japan #1940s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-6tgz Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:41:04 +0100 Even: As You and I (Roger Barlow, Harry Hay + LeRoy Robbins, 1937) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/even-as-you-and-i-1937 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Even: As You and I (Roger Barlow, Harry Hay + LeRoy Robbins, 1937)/div div class="month" Feb /div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 27/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Even: As You and I (1937)/div div class="caption" A film editor struggling with a long strip of celluloid. DP: Hy Hirsh./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #February #RogerBarlow #HarryHay #HyHirsh #LeRoyRobbins #SilentFilm #ShortFilm #surrealism #satire #comedy #USA #1930s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

Even: As You and I (Roger Barlow, Harry Hay + LeRoy Robbins, 1937)

Feb

27

Even: As You and I (1937)

A film editor struggling with a long strip of celluloid. DP: Hy Hirsh.

#FilmDuJour #February #RogerBarlow #HarryHay #HyHirsh #LeRoyRobbins #SilentFilm #ShortFilm #surrealism #satire #comedy #USA #1930s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/even-as-you-and-i-1937 Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Murders in the Zoo (A. Edward Sutherland, 1933) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/murders-in-the-zoo-1933 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Murders in the Zoo (A. Edward Sutherland, 1933)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 20/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Murders in the Zoo (1933)/div div class="caption" A couple walks into a room, only to discover a lifeless man and a headless snake. DP: Ernest Haller./div div class="txt" "You don't think I sat there all evening with an eight-foot mamba in my pocket?" ### – Eric Gorman /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #February #AEdwardSutherland #LionelAtwill #KathleenBurke #RudolphGKopp #JohnLeipold #ErnestHaller #horror #comedy #animals #PreCode #USA #1930s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

Murders in the Zoo (A. Edward Sutherland, 1933)

Feb

20

Murders in the Zoo (1933)

A couple walks into a room, only to discover a lifeless man and a headless snake. DP: Ernest Haller.

“You don't think I sat there all evening with an eight-foot mamba in my pocket?”

– Eric Gorman

#FilmDuJour #February #AEdwardSutherland #LionelAtwill #KathleenBurke #RudolphGKopp #JohnLeipold #ErnestHaller #horror #comedy #animals #PreCode #USA #1930s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/murders-in-the-zoo-1933 Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0100 The Book of Life (Hal Hartley, 1998) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-v4bs <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Book of Life (Hal Hartley, 1998)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 31/div div class="occasion" 1999/div div class="img" The Book of Life (1998)/div div class="caption" The "New York News" of December 31, 1999. The headline reads LAST DAY OF CENTURY BELIEVERS PRAY FOR END. DP: Jim Denault./div div class="txt" "It was the morning of December 31, 1999 when I returned, at last, to judge the living and the dead. Though still, and perhaps always, I had my doubts." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #December #HalHartley #MartinDonovan #PJHarvey #YoLaTengo #ThomasJayRyan #JimDenault #religion #comedy #France #NewYork #USA #1990s/div /section ]]>

The Book of Life (Hal Hartley, 1998)

Dec

31

1999

The Book of Life (1998)

The “New York News” of December 31, 1999. The headline reads LAST DAY OF CENTURY BELIEVERS PRAY FOR END. DP: Jim Denault.

“It was the morning of December 31, 1999 when I returned, at last, to judge the living and the dead. Though still, and perhaps always, I had my doubts.”

#FilmDuJour #December #HalHartley #MartinDonovan #PJHarvey #YoLaTengo #ThomasJayRyan #JimDenault #religion #comedy #France #NewYork #USA #1990s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-v4bs Wed, 31 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0100 La noche de los Inocentes [Night of the Innocents] (Arturo Sotto Díaz, 2007) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-cb1n <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" La noche de los Inocentes [Night of the Innocents] (Arturo Sotto Díaz, 2007)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 28/div div class="X" /div div class="img" La noche de los Inocentes (2007)/div div class="caption" The cast in the hospital. Lighting and stances appear theatre-like. DP: Ernesto Granado./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #December #ArturoSottoDíaz #JorgePerugorría #SílviaÁguila #YasmaniGuerrero #ErnanLopezNussa #ErnestoGranado #comedy #drama #holidays #Cuba #2000s/div /section ]]>

La noche de los Inocentes [Night of the Innocents] (Arturo Sotto Díaz, 2007)

Dec

28

La noche de los Inocentes (2007)

The cast in the hospital. Lighting and stances appear theatre-like. DP: Ernesto Granado.

#FilmDuJour #December #ArturoSottoDíaz #JorgePerugorría #SílviaÁguila #YasmaniGuerrero #ErnanLopezNussa #ErnestoGranado #comedy #drama #holidays #Cuba #2000s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-cb1n Sun, 28 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0100 The Automatic Motorist (Walter R. Booth, 1911) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-9z0s <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Automatic Motorist (Walter R. Booth, 1911)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 17/div div class="occasion" Saturnalia/div div class="img" The Automatic Motorist (1911).jpg)/div div class="caption" While on the ringed planet, they pick up a cop to save him from spear-wielding rascals, but he elopes with the planet's fairy. Look at those lovebirds on the rings of Saturn!/div div class="txt" A planet with rings for Saturnalia &nbsp; Two lovely newlyweds and their robot chauffeur take a trip to Saturn for their honeymoon, followed by a jolly ride under the sea. A remake of Booth's own The '?' Motorist from 1906. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #Saturnalia #Saturn #planets #WalterRBooth #ShortFilm #SilentFilm #comedy #fantasy #SciFi #UK #1910s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

The Automatic Motorist (Walter R. Booth, 1911)

Dec

17

Saturnalia

The Automatic Motorist (1911)

While on the ringed planet, they pick up a cop to save him from spear-wielding rascals, but he elopes with the planet's fairy. Look at those lovebirds on the rings of Saturn!

A planet with rings for Saturnalia

 

Two lovely newlyweds and their robot chauffeur take a trip to Saturn for their honeymoon, followed by a jolly ride under the sea. A remake of Booth's own The '?' Motorist from 1906.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #Saturnalia #Saturn #planets #WalterRBooth #ShortFilm #SilentFilm #comedy #fantasy #SciFi #UK #1910s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-9z0s Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:45:00 +0100