From wry smiles to laughs out loud, you'll be amused, amazed and
sometimes appalled at what's so funny, in films both factual and
fictional. Humour in all its forms is the thread that binds this
rich selection together.
Creature-obsessed activist Isabella Rossellini returns with a
wildly idiosyncratic and thoroughly charming documentary about the
ways in which animals invade her imagination as well as her
everyday life.
Ed Helms (The Office) stars as a stunningly naïve
small-town insurance agent headed to the 'big city' in Iowa for an
insurance convention in this riotously funny comedy. John C Reilly,
Anne Heche and Isiah Whitlock Jr (The Wire) co-star.
Phil Rosenthal, the TV producer who created the long-running hit
Everybody Loves Raymond, heads to Moscow to work on
the Russian version of his hit sitcom - with hilarious results.
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize-winner at this year's Sundance
Film Festival, a sexy Norwegian comedy that takes delight in
indiscretion and snowy romps.
Eugene prefers a life of dreams to everyday reality in
surrealist animator Jan Švankmajer's witty extension of one of his
own dreams.
Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle are the perfect odd couple as an
acerbic cop and an uptight FBI agent in this wickedly funny,
action-packed caper flick from Ireland.
Acclaimed indie director Michael Winterbottom casts British
comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as semi-fictional (and very
funny) versions of themselves on tour in England's Lake
District.
Suspenseful and very amusing satire about a hostige situation in
a Paris council flat casts a knowing, critical eye at racial and
economic tension and bureaucratic fumbling.
Paul Giamatti is at his angst-ridden best as a blundering
attorney suddenly stuck with a client's runaway grandson in the new
comedy from Tom McCarthy (The
Station Agent).