Ronald Neame Puns

Angela, Rebecca Miller, 1995
The Bandit, Alberto Lattuada, 1946
By Way of Canarsie, Emily Packer and Lesley Steele, 2020
A Christmas Dream, Karel Zeman, 1945
Christmas Eve, Edwin L. Marin, 1947
Downhill Racer, Michael Ritchie, 1969
Family Plot, Alfred Hitchcock, 1976
The Fancy, Elisabeth Subrin, 2000
A Family Submerged, María Alché, 2018
Family Tree, Nicole Amani Magabo Kiggundu, 2020
Film About a Woman Who . . . , Yvonne Rainer, 1974**
The French Connection, William Friedkin, 1971
Frenzy, Alfred Hitchcock, 1972
Gaslight, George Cukor, 1944
Gasman, Lynne Ramsay, 1998
Girl in the Window, Luciano Emmer, 1961
The Gold Diggers, Sally Potter, 1983
The Gold of Naples, Vittorio De Sica, 1954
The Hard Stop, George Amponsah, 2015
The Headless Woman, Lucrecia Martel, 2008
High Art, Lisa Cholodenko, 1998**
Home, Ursula Meier, 2008**
I Dream You Dream of Me, Jennifer Reeder, 2018
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love, Maria Maggenti, 1995
The Innocents, Anne Fontaine, 2016
Karaoke Girl, Visra Vichit-Vadakan, 2013
Kill the Day, Lynne Ramsay, 2000
The Lawless, Joseph Losey, 1950
Lifeboat, Alfred Hitchcock, 1944
The Lights Are On, No One’s Home, Faye Ruiz, 2021
Like Flying, Peier Tracy Shen, 2020
The Little Princess, Walter Lang, 1939
The London Story, Sally Potter, 1986
Long Way North, Rémi Chayé, 2015
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over, Beth B., 2019
The Magnificent Ambersons, Orson Welles, 1942
The Maids, Christopher Miles, 1975
The Man Who Knew Too Much, Alfred Hitchcock, 1956
Marnie, Alfred Hitchcock, 1964
The Milk of Sorrow, Claudia Llosa, 2009
The Mill on the Po, Alberto Lattuada, 1949
The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Desiree Akhavan, 2018
The Music Lovers, Ken Russell, 1971
Nenette and Boni, Claire Denis, 1996
Not Black Enough, Jermaine Manigault, 2020
Personal Velocity, Rebecca Miller
Polygraph, Samira Saraya, 2020
Ratcatcher, Lynne Ramsay, 1999
Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954
The Return of the Soldier, Alan Bridges, 1982
Rope, Alfred Hitchcock, 1948
The Rose of Manila, Alex Westfall, 2020
Saboteur, Alfred Hitchcock, 1942
Scrooge, Ronald Neame, 1970
Second Coming, Debbie Tucker Green, 2014
The Second Mother, Anna Muylaert, 2015
Shadow of a Doubt, Alfred Hitchcock, 1943
Shooting Women, Alexis Krasilovsky, 2008
Sister, Ursula Meier, 2012**
Slip, Nicole Otero, 2019
Small Deaths, Lynne Ramsay, 1996
Social Butterfly, Lauren Wolk

300 Nassau, Marina Lameiro, 2015
5 Card Stud, Henry Hathaway, 1968
Alone, Garrett Bradley, 2017
Álvaro, Daniel Wilson, Elizabeth Warren, Alexandra Lazarowich, and Chloe Zimmerman, 2015
America, Garrett Bradley, 2019
Angel Face, Otto Preminger, 1953
Angels Wear White, Vivian Qu, 2017
Asako I & II, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2018**
Baby Doll, Elia Kazan, 1956
Beemus, It’ll End in Tears, Lauren Wolkstein, 2016
Big Fish & Begonia, Liang Xuan and Zhang Chun, 2016
The Big Steal, Don Siegel, 1949
Black Soil, Green Grass, Daniel Patrick Carbone, 2016
Black Widow, Nunnally Johnson, 1954
Blessed Event, Roy Del Ruth, 1932
Boomerang!, Elia Kazan, 1947
Bright Star, Jane Campion, 2009**
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, George Roy Hill, 1969
Cape Fear, J. Lee Thompson, 1962
Ceremonial, Caroline Monnet, 2018
The Chalk Garden, Ronald Neame, 1964
Collective: Unconscious, Daniel Patrick Carbone, Josephine Decker, Lauren Wolkstein, Nuotama Bodomo, and Lily Baldwin, 2016
Creatura Dada, Caroline Monnet, 2016
Crossfire, Edward Dmytryk, 1947
David and Lisa, Frank Perry, 1962
Division Avenue, Anne-Katrine Hansen, Janna Kyllästinen, 2015
Don’t Go Tellin’ Your Momma, Topaz Jones and Rubberband, 2021
The Earth Is Humming, Garrett Bradley, 2018
East of Eden, Elia Kazan, 1955
Emptying the Tank, Caroline Monnet, 2018
The Enemy Below, Dick Powell, 1957
The Exiles, Kent Mackenzie, 1961
A Face in the Crowd, Elia Kazan, 1957
Five Star Final, Mervyn LeRoy, 1931
Fourteen, Dan Sallitt, 2019
The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Peter Yates, 1973
Gentleman’s Agreement, Elia Kazan, 1947
Gephyrophobia, Caroline Monnet, 2012
Ghost World, Terry Zwigoff, 2001
Girlhood, Céline Sciamma, 2014
Go Fish, Rose Troche, 1994
The Grass Is Greener, Stanley Donen, 1960
The Guitar Mongoloid, Ruben Östlund, 2004
Hale County This Morning, This Evening, RaMell Ross, 2018
Hangover Square, John Brahm, 1945
Happy Hour, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2015
His Girl Friday, Howard Hawks, 1940
Home from the Hill, Vincente Minnelli, 1960
I Wake Up Screaming, H. Bruce Humberstone, 1941
Ikwé, Caroline Monnet, 2009
Involuntary, Ruben Östlund, 2008
It Happened One Night, Frank Capra, 1934
Jazztime Tale, Michael Sporn, 1991
The Last Bread, Maria Rosa Badia, 2013
The Last Tycoon, Elia Kazan, 1976
Laura, Otto Preminger, 1944
Like, Garrett Bradley, 2016
Little Potato, Nathan M. Miller and Wes Hurley, 2017
The Lusty Men, Nicholas Ray, 1

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

2021: #176

Total reviewed for this sub: #391

TSPDT 677, highest ranking 266 in 2006; Director: David Lean; Writer: David Lean, Ronald Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Kay Walsh, Cecil McGivern, Charles Dickens (By); Watched September 27th on the original Criterion DVD release (Spine 31)

No clear box office numbers but one thing I wanted to call out.

£375,000.00 budget in 1946. That’s a £16,110,430 budget today which is pretty big for a character driven story without many special effects.

118 minutes. Without inflated actor costs that are present in modern day cinema, the bulk of a £16M (equivalent) budget back in 1946 would have gone to production costs. If spending this much was a gamble, it paid off at least in the sense that both the production design (John Bryan, Wilfred Shingleton) and camera work (Guy Green) took home academy awards that year. At least for me those awards are spot on as that’s what I was going to focus most of my review on anyways.

The story is well know, and the acting was serviceable to good from everyone, but I was glued to the screen for 2 hours because of the black and white shadow work and innovative set design. It reminded me of Night of the Hunter, Panique or even Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast in the level of creative technical achievement. Fog was a character to itself at times in Director Lean’s vision. Young Pip got lost in it and ran through at times. I found it helped the sets come to life and added an exciting dimension to a story I had read several times before.

I’m sure y’all know the story so I’ll make the synopsis brief, but a young boy from the country, Pip, has dreams beyond being a blacksmith. He wants to be a gentleman in society. He falls hard for a girl who is the adopted daughter of a wealthy recluse. The elder woman trains this young girl to be hard on Pip and to break his heart. As Pip achieves his dream of becoming a gentleman, through an anonymous donor, he achieves status but can’t shake his love for this young woman who gives him back only steely ice in return.

I don’t really know what the big point is to Great Expectations. Maybe the power of early memories or the intoxicating ability of an early crush or perhaps the focus is more on Miss Havisham and the perils of never taking a risk and ending up bitter. I also don’t think it matters to enjoy this film. The angles created in the set design and camera work are unique in histor

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Buenosdillas

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

Want to share a movie I love with y'all: HOPSCOTCH (1980)

Matthau might be my favorite actor in history and HOPSCOTCH is pure joy, part cynicism and part dogged humanity that Matthau exemplified. He plays a CIA agent who knows where all the bodies are buried and goes rogue basically just to fuck with arrogant boss Ned Beatty (who is terrifically steely; he reminds me of Philip Seymour Hoffman here). He meets up with part-time fling Glenda Jackson and out-smartass each other. Matthau is so much smarter than all the CIA goons, and threatens to expose all his secrets in his biography. The best parts have Matthau reacting to or humming Mozart, who he loves: Matthau was apparently an Opera expert.

It was directed by Ronald Neame of THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE and THE TOWERING INFERNO, and here he just nails the globehopping comic spirit.

Glenn Kenny wrote about it here, and I really love his review: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4830-walter-matthau-sings-and-other-delights-of-hopscotch

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You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

Why

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

Nothing, it just waved

Him: I can explain everything!

(It's his best joke yet I think)

Bob

So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."

Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.

Just to clarify, 12345678

Looks like this is going to be a great month for Hitchcock fans.

Angela, Rebecca Miller, 1995

The Bandit, Alberto Lattuada, 1946

By Way of Canarsie, Emily Packer and Lesley Steele, 2020

A Christmas Dream, Karel Zeman, 1945

Christmas Eve, Edwin L. Marin, 1947

Downhill Racer, Michael Ritchie, 1969

Family Plot, Alfred Hitchcock, 1976

The Fancy, Elisabeth Subrin, 2000

A Family Submerged, María Alché, 2018

Family Tree, Nicole Amani Magabo Kiggundu, 2020

Film About a Woman Who . . . , Yvonne Rainer, 1974

The French Connection, William Friedkin, 1971

Frenzy, Alfred Hitchcock, 1972

Gaslight, George Cukor, 1944

Gasman, Lynne Ramsay, 1998

Girl in the Window, Luciano Emmer, 1961

The Gold Diggers, Sally Potter, 1983

The Gold of Naples, Vittorio De Sica, 1954

The Hard Stop, George Amponsah, 2015

The Headless Woman, Lucrecia Martel, 2008

High Art, Lisa Cholodenko, 1998**

Home, Ursula Meier, 2008**

I Dream You Dream of Me, Jennifer Reeder, 2018

The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love, Maria Maggenti, 1995

The Innocents, Anne Fontaine, 2016

Karaoke Girl, Visra Vichit-Vadakan, 2013

Kill the Day, Lynne Ramsay, 2000

The Lawless, Joseph Losey, 1950

Lifeboat, Alfred Hitchcock, 1944

The Lights Are On, No One’s Home, Faye Ruiz, 2021

Like Flying, Peier Tracy Shen, 2020

The Little Princess, Walter Lang, 1939

The London Story, Sally Potter, 1986

Long Way North, Rémi Chayé, 2015

Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over, Beth B., 2019

The Magnificent Ambersons, Orson Welles, 1942

The Maids, Christopher Miles, 1975

The Man Who Knew Too Much, Alfred Hitchcock, 1956

Marnie, Alfred Hitchcock, 1964

The Milk of Sorrow, Claudia Llosa, 2009

The Mill on the Po, Alberto Lattuada, 1949

The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Desiree Akhavan, 2018

The Music Lovers, Ken Russell, 1971

Nenette and Boni, Claire Denis, 1996

Not Black Enough, Jermaine Manigault, 2020

Personal Velocity, Rebecca Miller

Polygraph, Samira Saraya, 2020

Ratcatcher, Lynne Ramsay, 1999

Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954

The Return of the Soldier, Alan Bridges, 1982

Rope, Alfred Hitchcock, 1948

The Rose of Manila, Alex Westfall, 2020

Saboteur, Alfred Hitchcock, 1942

Scrooge, Ronald Neame, 1970

Second Coming, Debbie Tucker Green, 2014

The Second Mother, Anna Muylaert, 2015

Shadow of a Doubt, Alfred Hitchcock, 1943

Shooting Women, Alexis Krasilovsky, 200