Comedies

After falling from Hollywood stardom at the end of the Silent Era, quirky silent film comedian Harry Langdon made not only his first talking films, but also his first screen comeback with a series of eight two-reelers for comedy producer Hal Roach. This...

Serge (Serge Gainsbourg) is a hip and successful advertising film director who leaves his pregnant wife to attend the annual advertising awards festival in Venice, and enters into a passionate affair with a young British woman (Jane Birkin).

The long-awaited Charley Chase collection to debut on DVD to celebrate his 100th anniversary in film! MIGHTY LIKE A MOOSE: Selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress "One of the funniest and most endearing of all silent comedians...

Visionary Canadian auteur Guy Maddin made this, his 3rd feature, about a 19th-century mountain village where the wary residents - adult, child, and animal! Must tread carefully and speak softly lest they cause an avalanche. Sexual frenzies teem in this...

Comedian Charley Chase was a consistent box-office money and fun-maker for Producer Hal Roach during the Silent and Sound Eras. Volume One is the beginning of the first comprehensive collection of Chase's Hal Roach talkie comedies, culled from 1930-31,...

In this two-DVD collection of ten films, Harold Lloyd (Safety Last) demonstrates why he is ranked alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as slapstick cinema's preeminent funnymen. Lloyd is most famous for his aerial acrobatics, dangling from...

From the mind of award-winning director JulieTaymor (The Lion King on Broadway, Frida, Titus) comes a Shakespeare adaptation like none other, A Midsummer Night s Dream. Rich with Taymor s trade- mark creativity, this immersive and darkly poetic cinematic...

Produced in 1963 for TV syndication via Desilu, Fractured Flickers was an irreverent tribute to silent pictures and the special creation of Jay Ward and Bill Scott, the comic genius behind Rocky & Bullwinkle and many other TV cartoon characters. Using...

Charley Chase returns in Volume Two of his classic Hal Roach talkie comedies from the years 1932-1933. This was a period of transition for both the comedian and the Lot of Fun as Charley says farewell to the lovely Thelma Todd (returning for an...

Welcome to the funny and frenetic world of Charley Chase, the top box office comedian in short subjects in the mid-to-late 1920s. It's a place of mad-cap adventures and wild misunderstandings. In a series of one and two reelers at the Hal Roach Studios,...

Created by the same production team responsible for the hugely popular series Cheers, Wings has a similarly homey, familiar feel. Replacing the Boston bar is a small airport on Nantucket Island. The denizens of the bar are replaced with pilots and...

Plucky pup Reggie (Will Ferrell) thought he and his owner Doug (Will Forte) were playing an innocent game of fetch. It isn't until he meets Bug (Jamie Foxx), a streetwise stray who says only suckers have owners, that Reggie realizes his miserable master...