What's your favorite funny film of all-time? Yes, we'd like to know and we're conducting a survey to find out. If you just want to vote, and skip the rest of the post, just scroll down the page and click on the link to take the survey. Tow questions; it's fast, it's easy, it's free and it's fun!
There are lots of best lists out there ranking films by genre. The National Film Preservation Foundation is just one place you can find a list of films considered to be tops. The NFPF is a non-profit organization started by Congress to preserve unparalleled American Films. Each year the foundation selects 25 films that are at least 10 years old to be preserved at the Library of Congress. The preserved films are listed in The National Film Registry. I wondered what comedy films, produced from from 1950 to the present, were included in this registry. An easy way to sort the list was to do a search at International Movie Database (IMDB), my absolute favorite place for all things to do with movies. I've mentioned this database before but it never hurts to repeat it.
I did a power search for the best comedy film included in the National Film Registry from 1960 to the present and came up with this list.
American Graffiti (1973)
Annie Hall (1977)
Apartment, The (1960)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
...aka Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Graduate, The
Harold and Maude
Hospital, The (1971)
MASH (1970)
Producers, The (1968)
Tootsie (1982)
I was surprised to find that the library only owns Harold and Maude, The Graduate and Annie Hall on DVD.
So here's my proposal...
Take the survey (2 questions) and the library will buy at least two new dvd's; the top voted movie from The National Film Registry List and the favorite laugh out loud funny film (not owned) that receives the most votes by responders.
Click here to take survey
The voting closes at 9PM, Sunday, November 30th and results will be reported Monday, December 1st. One vote per person. Tell all your friends!