Great Films and their Great Images

Comedy

The Devil’s Eye

"Satan has a sore eye. It may be a sty. Either he
has been in a draft - which is unthinkable in
hell - or something alarming has happened on earth."
- The Actor
01 (17)

Dir: Ingmar Bergman

DoP: Gunnar Fischer

Year: 1960

Country: Sweden

Language: Swedish

Genre: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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Brave

"There are those who say fate is something beyond our command.
That destiny is not our own, but I know better. Our fate lives
within us, you only have to be brave enough to see it."
- Princess Merida
01 (12)
Dir: Mark Andrews 
& Brenda Chapman
Year: 2012
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Animation | Adventure 
| Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:!

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The Jungle Book

"When you find out you can live without it /
And go along not thinking about it /
I'll tell you something true /
The bare necessities of life will come to you."
- Baloo
01 (18)Dir: Wolfgang Reitherman

Animator: Ollie Johnston

Year: 1967

Country: USA

Language: English

Genre: Animation | Adventure 
| Comedy | Family | Musical

Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.75:1

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Frau Im Mond (Woman in the Moon)

""Never" does not exist for the human mind... only "Not yet.""
- The Author
01 (57)

Dir: Fritz Lang

DoP: Curt Courant

Year: 1929

Country: Germany

Language: German | Silent

Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

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Smiles of a Summer Night

"And then the summer night smiled for the third time."
- Petra the Maid

"For the sad, the depressed, the sleepless,
the confused, the frightened, the lonely."
- Frid the Groom
01 (36)

Dir: Ingmar Bergman

DoP: Gunnar Fischer

Year: 1955

Country: Sweden

Language: Swedish

Genre: Comedy | Romance

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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That Obscure Object of Desire

"My Conchita..."
- Mathieu
01 (3)
Dir: Luis Buñuel

DoP: Edmond Richard

Year: 1977

Country: France | Spain

Language: French | Spanish

Genre: Comedy | Drama

Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

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Maps to the Stars

"On the stairs of Death I write your name, Liberty."
- Agatha Weiss
01 (60)Dir: David Cronenberg

DoP: Peter Suschitzky

Year: 2014

Country: Canada | Germany 
| France | USA
Language: English

Genre: Comedy | Drama

Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

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Confidentially Yours

"Everything I've done was for women. I like to
look at them and to touch them.I enjoy giving them
pleasure. Women are magic, so I became a magician."
- Maitre Clement
01 (60)
Dir: François Truffaut

DoP: Néstor Almendros

Year: 1983

Country: France

Language: French

Genre: Comedy | Crime 
| Mystery | Thriller
Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

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Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

"People, they love blood. They love action. Not this talky, depressing, philosophical bullshit."
- Riggan (as Birdman)
01 (45)Dir: Alejandro González Iñárritu

DoP: Emmanuel Lubezki
Year: 2014

Country: USA

Language: English

Genre: Comedy | Drama

Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

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The Brothers Bloom

"There is no such thing as an unwritten life, only a badly written one."
- Penelope Stamp
01 (48)Dir: Rian Johnson
DoP: Steve Yedlin
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Language: English | Czech 
| French | Japanese
Genre: Adventure | Comedy 
| Drama | Romance
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

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Another Year

"Young people, young people. Everything's for young people. Those
bars, you know, they're full of young people shouting about nothing."
- Ken
01 (29)
Dir: Mike Leigh
DoP: Dick Pope
Year: 2010
Country: UK
Language: English
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

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Some Like It Hot

"Nobody's Perfect"
- Osgood Fielding III
01 (4)
Dir: Billy Wilder

DoP: Charles Lang

Year: 1959

Country: USA

Language: English

Genre: Comedy | Crime | Romance

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

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Time Bandits

"If I were creating the world I wouldn't mess about with butterflies and
daffodils. I would have started with lasers, eight o'clock, Day One!"
- Evil
01 (43)Dir: Terry Gilliam

DoP: Peter Biziou

Year: 1981

Country: UK

Language: English

Genre: Adventure | Comedy 
| Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

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Night on Earth

"Are you sure you know where you are?"
- Mika
01 (54)Dir: Jim Jarmusch

DoP: Frederick Elmes

Year: 1991

Country: France | UK | Germany 
| USA | Japan
Language: English | German 
| Finnish | Italian | French
Genre: Comedy | Drama

Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

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About Schmidt

"Relatively soon, I will die. Maybe in 20 years, maybe tomorrow,
it doesn't matter. Once I am dead and everyone who knew me dies
too, it will be as though I never existed. What difference has
my life made to anyone. None that I can think of. None at all."
- Warren Schmidt
01 (41)Dir: Alexander Payne

DoP: James Glennon

Year: 2002

Country: USA

Language: English

Genre: Comedy | Drama

Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

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10

"You better take it easy. Pain pills and alcohol don't mix."
- Police Officer

"You could've fooled me."
- George Webber
01 (43)
Dir: Blake Edwards
DoP: Frank Stanley
Year: 1979
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Comedy | Romance
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

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The Fortune Cookie

"You can fool all of the people some of the time, you
can even fool some of the people all of the time, but
you can't fool all of the people all of the time!"
- Harry Hinkle
01 (12)
Dir: Billy Wilder
DoP: Joseph LaShelle
Year: 1966
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Color: Black & White
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

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Stardust Memories

"You can't control life. It doesn't wind up perfectly. Only-only art you can
control. Art and masturbation. Two areas in which I am an absolute expert."
- Sandy Bates
01 (36)Dir: Woody Allen

DoP: Gordon Willis

Year: 1980

Country: USA

Language: English | French 
| Persian
Genre: Comedy | Drama

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

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The Wolf of Wall Street

"Let me tell you something. There's no nobility in poverty. I've been a
poor man, and I've been a rich man. And I choose rich every fucking time."
- Jordan Belfort
01 (35)
Dir: Martin Scorsese
DoP: Rodrigo Prieto
Year: 2013
Country: USA
Language: English | Frecnh
Genre: Biography | Comedy | Crime 
| Drama
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

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The Suitor

"You still won't marry me?"
- Pierre
01 (9)
Dir: Pierre Étaix

DoP: Pierre Levent

Year: 1962

Country: France

Language: French

Genre: Comedy

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

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Topsy-Turvy

"Can we do that line again please, Barrington, and this time try it in English."
- Gilbert
01 (41)Dir: Mike Leigh

DoP: Dick Pope

Year: 1999

Country: UK | USA

Language: English | French 
| German | Italian | Japanese
Genre: Biography | Comedy 
| Drama | Music | Musical
Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

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Magic in the Moonlight

"When the heart rules the head, disaster follows."
- Stanley
01 (37)
Dir: Woody Allen
DoP: Darius Khondji
Year: 2014
Country: USA | UK
Language: English
Genre: Comedy | Romance
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

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Mr. Hulot’s Holiday

"H-U-L-O-T."
- Mr. Hulot
01 (58)

Dir: Jacques Tati

DoP: Jacques Mercanton & Jean Mousselle

Year: 1953

Country: France

Language: French | German | English

Genre: Comedy

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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City of Women

""A house without a woman", they say in my parts, "is 
like the Sea without a Siren". Don't you agree with me?"
- Old Lady
01 (11)Dir: Federico Fellini

DoP: Giuseppe Rotunno

Year: 1980

Country: Italy | France

Language: Italian

Genre: Comedy | Drama

Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

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