 Avalon 1990  PG, 126 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Leo Fuchs, Eve Gordon, Elizabeth Perkins, Lou Jacobi, Joan Plowright, Aidan Quinn, Kevin Pollak, Elijah Wood
When the patriarch of a Jewish family arrives in America following World War II, he tries to bridge the gap between the modern era and the past by telling his grandchildren stories about their long-lost relatives.
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Chu Chu and the Philly Flash 1981   PG, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Lowell Rich
Cast: Alan Arkin, Carol Burnett, Jack Warden, Danny Aiello, Adam Arkin, Danny Glover, Sid Haig, Ruth Buzzi, Lou Jacobi, Vito Scotti
This film never seems to get off the ground. The story is about the misadventures of two hustlers who endure a series of misfortunes. 1 User Review
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| | One of the best comedies I've ever seen. | anonymous 06/18/2007 | | This movie stars a great variety of comedians. The diversity of personalities and their comic styles makes it possible for me to watch it over and over again. My VHS is wearing out. How I wish it was on DVD. The comedy is always in good taste, focasing on the lives of loosers just trying to get the most out of life. |
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The Diary of Anne Frank 1959  N/R, 170 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Stevens
Cast: Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters, Ed Wynn, Lou Jacobi, Richard Beymer, Gusti Huber, Diane Baker, Douglas Spencer, Charles Wagenheim, Dodie Heath, Edmund Purdom
Anne (Millie Perkins) and her parents, the Van Daans (Lou Jacobi and Shelley Winters), are Jews hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II. This is Anne's story about coming of age in an attic surrounded by the threat of immediate death. Anne wrote, "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." Shelley Winters won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Oscars were also presented for Art Direction/Set Decoration and Cinematography. The film was nominated for five other Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But... 1972 R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, John Carradine, Lou Jacobi, Louise Lasser, Anthony Quayle, Tony Randall, Lynn Redgrave, Burt Reynolds, Gene Wilder, Sidney Miller, Jack Barry, Robert Q. Lewis, Heather MacRae, Elaine Giftos
(Full title: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex * But Were Afraid To Ask) Loosely based on David Reuben's book, seven vignettes are used to showcase topics related to questions most wondered about sex.
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I.Q. 1994  PG, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Fred Schepisi
Cast: Meg Ryan, Tim Robbins, Walter Matthau, Charles Durning, Lou Jacobi, Gene Saks, Joseph Maher, Stephen Fry, Frank Whaley, Tony Shalhoub, Keene Curtis, Alice Playten, Danny Zorn, Helen Hanft
With Albert Einstein (Walter Matthau) playing Cupid, Catherine Boyd (Meg Ryan) and Ed Walters (Tim Robbins) find each other in this romantic comedy. Ed starts out as an automobile mechanic (great looks–not so great mentality), but Einstein tutors him so that he can impress mathematician Catherine. It works.
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If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium 1987  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Bob Sweeney
Cast: Claude Akins, Courteney Cox, Stephen Furst, Anna Maria Horsford, Peter Graves, Richard Moll, Doris Roberts, Lou Jacobi, David Leisure, Bruce Weitz, Faith Ford, Lou Liberatore, Kiel Martin, Tracy Nelson, David Oliver
American tourists embark on a European bus tour in this made-for-TV follow-on of the 1969 film. A wild ride is in store for the tourists as the bus driver, Mo Wyshocki (Claude Akins), sets out to save his daughter Hana (Courteney Cox) from the clutches of a circus performer.
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Irma la Douce 1963 N/R, 147 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Bruce Yarnell, Lou Jacobi, Herschel Bernardi, Hope Holiday, Joan Shawlee, Howard McNear, Cliff Osmond, James Brown
Nestor Patou (Jack Lemmon) becomes involved in protecting prostitute Irma la Douce (Shirley MacLaine) from her pimp Hippolyte (Bruce Yarnell) by posing as the impotent Lord X. Andre Previn won an Oscar for his Music; two nominations were also received, including MacLaine for Best Actress.
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A Kid for Two Farthings 1955 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Carol Reed
Cast: Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff, Joe Robinson, Jonathan Ashmore, Brenda De Banzie, Primo Carnera, Sydney Tafler, Sid James, Lou Jacobi, Irene Handl, Danny Green
Joe (Jonathan Ashmore) is a young boy who believes the story told by a tailor (David Kossoff) about captured unicorns granting wishes. Joe buys a goat with only one horn, and when good things start happening to his poor, hard-working neighbors, Joe is convinced that his goat really is a unicorn.
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Little Murders 1971 PG, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alan Arkin
Cast: Elliott Gould, Marcia Rodd, Vincent Gardenia, Elizabeth Wilson, Jon Korkes, John Randolph, Doris Roberts, Donald Sutherland, Lou Jacobi, Alan Arkin
This Jules Feiffer comedy, set in a depressing atmosphere of urban blight, features Elliott Gould as Alfred Chamberlain whose wife is murdered on their wedding night, which leads to Alfred falling into a "new" world as an assassin.
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The Lucky Star 1980 PG, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Max Fischer
Cast: Rod Steiger, Louise Fletcher, Lou Jacobi, Brett Marx, Helen Hughes, Yvon Dufour, Jean Gascon, Isabelle Mejias
When his parents are captured by Nazis, a young Jewish boy, David (Brett Marx), finds refuge on a Dutch farm. He loves Western films and takes on the role of a hero working against a neighboring Nazi officer, Colonel Gluck (Rod Steiger).
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The Magician of Lublin 1979  R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Menahem Golan
Cast: Alan Arkin, Louise Fletcher, Valerie Perrine, Shelley Winters, Maia Danziger, Lou Jacobi, Shaike Ophir, Lisa Whelchel, Warren Berlinger
Based on Isaac Bashevis' novel, this is the story of an early 20th-century magician, Yasha Mazur (Alan Arkin), and his efforts to better his lot in life. Not at all good.
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My Favorite Year 1982  PG, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Benjamin
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Jessica Harper, Lainie Kazan, Mark Linn-Baker, Joseph Bologna, Bill Macy, Anne DeSalvo, Basil Hoffman, Lou Jacobi, Cameron Mitchell
The year is 1952, and the TV show "The Comedy Cavalcade" is about to debut starring an aging film star. One of the show's young writers is given the job of watching over the film star and ensuring that he does not come into contact with any alcohol before showtime. This film gives an inside look at the pressures of those days when TV was "live" and anything could happen. Peter O'Toole was nominated for an Oscar. 1 User Review
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| | A fine comedy. 6 or 7 scenes are worth their weight in gold. | 1fatts 03/12/2007 | Richard Benjamin's first directing job is surprisingly assured and successful. The apocryphal story is that when Mel Brooks was the junior writer on Sid Ceaser's Your Show of Shows, the reknowned actor, womanizer and drunk, Errol Flynn, was scheduled to be the week's guest, and Mel Brooks was assigned to babysit Flynn and make sure he showed up sober. Brooks claims it never happened and, in fact, that Flynn was never on the show. Who cares! It's a great premise anyway. Peter O'toole turns in another over-the-top performance as the Flynn character, here named "Allan Swan". Those of us old enough to remember Caeser in his hayday really appreciate the take that Joseph Bologna does on the character. The scene where the young writer, Stone nee Steinberg, takes the matinee idol home to Brookyn for dinner (His aunt shows up in her wedding gown; "I only wore it once" she says in a New York Yiddish accent.) is hard to over-appreciate.
The movie lags here and there and ten or twelve minutes of tightening would have been to the good, but I'm quibbling. The cast shines; the writing is sharp; and the nod to "Your Show of Shows" brings warmth to those of us who remember when. |
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Next Stop, Greenwich Village 1976 R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Paul Mazursky
Cast: Lenny Baker, Shelley Winters, Ellen Greene, Lois Smith, Christopher Walken, Lou Jacobi, Jeff Goldblum, Antonio Fargas, Don Brenner, Mike Kellin
Written and directed by Paul Mazursky, this is a semi-autobiography about life among actors living in Greenwich Village in the 1950s.
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Roseland 1977 PG, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James Ivory
Cast: Geraldine Chaplin, Joan Copeland, Helen Gallagher, Lou Jacobi, Louise Kirtland, Lilia Skala, Christopher Walken, Teresa Wright, Conrad Janis
Set in NYC's famous Roseland Ballroom, this trilogy reveals insight into the lives of lonely people who come together for dancing and hopes of companionship.
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Song Without End 1960 N/R, 141 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: George Cukor, Charles Vidor
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Genevieve Page, Patricia Morison, Ivan Desny, Martita Hunt, Lou Jacobi, Albert Rueprecht, Marcel Dalio, Lyndon Brook, Walter Rilla, Hans Unterkircher, Alexander Davion, Erland Erlandsen, Katherine Squire
This biography of Franz Liszt takes many liberties with the facts but is still a good film with an Academy Award-winning musical score, which was played by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Womanizer Liszt (Dirk Bogarde) leaves his mistress, Countess Marie (Genevieve Page), when he falls for married Russian Princess Carolyne Wittgenstein (Capucine) who encourages him to shift from performing to composing. Although marriage is not in the future for them, Liszt becomes influenced by Carolyne's religious beliefs and does join the Church.
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| 1. Avalon (1990)
2. Chu Chu and the Philly Flash (1981)
3. The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
4. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But... (1972)
5. I.Q. (1994)
6. If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium (1987)
7. Irma la Douce (1963)
8. A Kid for Two Farthings (1955)
9. Little Murders (1971)
10. The Lucky Star (1980)
11. The Magician of Lublin (1979)
12. My Favorite Year (1982)
13. Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)
14. Roseland (1977)
15. Song Without End (1960)
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