Still didn't leave me with any desire to see Manderlay, though. Once was enough.
No freakin' kidding. Even my most die-hard Von Trier-lovin' friends found Manderlay appalling.
Hey, Jessica, do you have any interest in writing for the next High Hat? There's a lot of brilliant people here I'd love to get to write for us (especially now that Nutty has thrown down the guantlet with her fantastic article in the current issue), but the buffistae so rarely pitch for us that I figured I'd just ask directly.
No screwball comedy? No Marx Brothers? No silents -- not even Harold Lloyd hanging off the clock in Safety Last?
Does not compute.
I'd also guess that movies produced by Universal are disproportionately represented. (Synergy makes clip rights cheap!)
Eh, most published lists are amazingly stupid. Why have screwball comedies when there's Jim Carrey contorting his face?
Hey, Jessica, do you have any interest in writing for the next High Hat? There's a lot of brilliant people here I'd love to get to write for us (especially now that Nutty has thrown down the guantlet with her fantastic article in the current issue), but the buffistae so rarely pitch for us that I figured I'd just ask directly.
Um, wow! I'm incredibly honored to be asked, but I'm not much of an article-writer type person. I'm better in forums where I only have to sound clever for a few sentences at a time...
(I did point DH at your request for Altman submissions -- he wrote a really good piece a while back for an Altman blogathon, that could very easily be tweaked for publication. He's currently writing about 80-zillion other things, but I'll nudge him again to email you if he has time.)
Why have screwball comedies when there's Jim Carrey contorting his face?
Um, because comedies are supposed to be funny?
(But then, I am so not a fan of Jim Carrey.)
Shrek is rated above The Producers.
'Nuff said.
Exactly. Bless you! Not to mention
Arthur
rated above
The Producers,
and
The Wedding Singer
at #7 and
Groundhog Day
somewhere in the 30s? And no
Bringing Up Baby
or
To Be Or Not To Be
or
The Lady Eve?
I did point DH at your request for Altman submissions -- he wrote a really good piece a while back for an Altman blogathon, that could very easily be tweaked for publication. He's currently writing about 80-zillion other things, but I'll nudge him again to email you if he has time.
Thanks! That would be great. I'd love to get you to write for us, too, though. Think of it as a long post!
Um, because comedies are supposed to be funny?
Sorry, I know the Internet doesn't carry smells, but my sentence was soaked in sarcasm.
Yeah, the lack of screwballs is what gets me.
There are lots of good movies on that list. The order is just way out of whack. Basing myself on the criteria of
funny,
from their list my top 10 would be something like (in no particular order): This is Spinal Tap, The Princess Bride, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Best In Show, The Producers, Caddyshack, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Trading Places, Young Frankenstein, Stripes.
