comedy &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:comedy @settima@zirk.us Tue, 12 May 2026 11:30:53 +0200 Maratón [The Marathon] (Ivo Novák, 1968) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0f30 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Maratón [The Marathon] (Ivo Novák, 1968)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 5/div div class="occasion" 1945/div div class="img" Maratón (1968)/div div class="caption" Karla (Jana Brejchová) and Ruda (Jaromír Hanzlík). DP: Václav Hanuš./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #IvoNovák #JaromírHanzlík #JanaBrejchová #VladimírMenšík #KarelHöger #ZdeněkŠtěpánek #ZdeněkLiška #VáclavHanuš #comedy #drama #war #Czechoslovakia #1960s/div /section ]]>

Maratón [The Marathon] (Ivo Novák, 1968)

May

5

1945

Maratón (1968)

Karla (Jana Brejchová) and Ruda (Jaromír Hanzlík). DP: Václav Hanuš.

#FilmDuJour #May #IvoNovák #JaromírHanzlík #JanaBrejchová #VladimírMenšík #KarelHöger #ZdeněkŠtěpánek #ZdeněkLiška #VáclavHanuš #comedy #drama #war #Czechoslovakia #1960s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0f30 Tue, 05 May 2026 10:00:00 +0200 Japanicky [Felix the Cat in Japanicky] (Otto Messmer, 1928) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0xr7 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Japanicky [Felix the Cat in Japanicky] (Otto Messmer, 1928)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 03/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Japanicky (1928).png)/div div class="caption" A cheeky looking Felix stands in a doorway with a bamboo roller shutter. Inside the room a woman in Japanese dress sits in front of a tea bowl and pot on top of a small platform. From the ceiling hangs a (Chinese) lantern and from the wall a large scroll that reads May 3 in stereotypical Oriental lettering./div div class="txt" and May 4. &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #OttoMessmer #surrealism #ShortFilm #SilentFilm #comedy #animation #USA #1920s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Japanicky [Felix the Cat in Japanicky] (Otto Messmer, 1928)

May

03

Japanicky (1928)

A cheeky looking Felix stands in a doorway with a bamboo roller shutter. Inside the room a woman in Japanese dress sits in front of a tea bowl and pot on top of a small platform. From the ceiling hangs a (Chinese) lantern and from the wall a large scroll that reads May 3 in stereotypical Oriental lettering.

and May 4.

 

#FilmDuJour #May #OttoMessmer #surrealism #ShortFilm #SilentFilm #comedy #animation #USA #1920s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0xr7 Sun, 03 May 2026 10:00:00 +0200 重慶森林 [Chung Hing sam lam / Chungking Express] (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-k05k <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 重慶森林 [Chung Hing sam lam / Chungking Express] (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 28/div div class="occasion" 8:59/div div class="img" 重慶森林 (1994)/div div class="caption" A flipclock. It's April 28, a Friday, and 8:59 pm. DPs: Christopher Doyle & Wai Keung Lau./div div class="txt" "We broke up on April's fools day, so I took it as a joke. I'm willing to humor her for a month." ### – He Zhiwu, Cop 223 /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #WongKarWai #BrigitteLin #TonyLeungChiuWai #FayeWong #TakeshiKaneshiro #ValerieChow #PiggyChan #FrankieChan #MichaelGalasso #RoelAGarcía #ChristopherDoyle #WaiKeungLau #romance #crime #drama #comedy #HongKong #1990s/div /section ]]>

重慶森林 [Chung Hing sam lam / Chungking Express] (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994)

Apr

28

8:59

重慶森林 (1994)

A flipclock. It's April 28, a Friday, and 8:59 pm. DPs: Christopher Doyle & Wai Keung Lau.

“We broke up on April's fools day, so I took it as a joke. I'm willing to humor her for a month.”

– He Zhiwu, Cop 223

#FilmDuJour #April #WongKarWai #BrigitteLin #TonyLeungChiuWai #FayeWong #TakeshiKaneshiro #ValerieChow #PiggyChan #FrankieChan #MichaelGalasso #RoelAGarcía #ChristopherDoyle #WaiKeungLau #romance #crime #drama #comedy #HongKong #1990s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-k05k Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +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