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I think the red text at the top left says "Trio." I can't make out any of the blue text next to it. Perhaps "Trio" is the name of the distributor, but a Google search (using both the English spelling and the kana version "トリオ"—I'm guessing the movie is Japanese but correct me if I'm wrong) doesn't turn up anything. The image on the box looks like something out of a stop-motion film, so maybe a Rankin/Bass special?

It’s definitely not Rankin Bass. The style is different from all their movies

What movie is the still itself from?

Swift wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2021 11:43 pm What movie is the still itself from?

An Autumn's Tale (1987)

I spent a lot of time on the internet trying to find that image, with no luck. I'm reading "X ' mas Presents", so knowing now it's a Hong Kong film I'm thinking it's probably a bootleg dvd.

I also spent quite a bit of time this afternoon searching the internet to no avail (I enjoy this stuff though) The movie is set in the US too so could be American. It may not even be a movie, might just be a postcard or something of that sort. None of them actually look VHS sized.

My google impression is that it’s supposed to be a compilation VHS or Beta.

In Let Them All Talk there's a scene where Gemma Chan is talking to Lucas Hedges about a screwball farce in which a woman has a one-night stand with a man who she doesn't realize is a lowly bartender. She says the bartender is played by a famous comedian. Any guesses as to what this could be?

I remember next to nothing, so probably no point in asking, but: a couple of hours ago a film I must've seen when I was very young (presumably more than once) popped into my mind. It involved swordfighting but I can't remember when it was set or whether the characters were viking, knights, etc. They had big beards, I think? Aside from random shots (and a very dark color palette), the only scene i concretely remember is when one man killed another with a shield (I think they weren't enemies, one just really annoyed the other – his superior in command – but I could be mistaken). Probably came out somewhere in the 2000s. Ring any bells?

Hey this is a long shot, but I'm looking for this film,
I saw it at a film festival around 2008-2015 maybe and really enjoyed it, and somehow I managed to find it again afterwards and forget about it.
It's European, possibly Scandinavian and is in black and white.
It's kind of absurd dark comedy about a guys life unravelling.
In one scene, a homeless guy interrupts a family whilst they are having a meal at home. They are sat near a big window and he slams against the window possibly?
another scene takes place in a club, on the stage a noise rock/psychedelic rock band are playing (I thought Red Krayola, but I think it's a newer band, 90s possibly) and I feel like a well known singer is fronting them? I searched Nick Cave, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits but I couldn't find the film searching for credits, they could possibly just be not credited though.

Sorry: I solved it myself! Doh!: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1247696/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

I was thinking that sounded like The Temptation of St. Tony.
I really liked the opening 20 minutes of that film.
Could be a good short film on its own.
I don't recall the concert scene, but after the brilliant opening the film was kind of forgettable, imo.

Does anybody know what movie the image from the dvd cover of Eryk Rocha’s documentary Cinema Novo is from? I was watching the film last night and saw clips from it but it never said what film it was taken from. Any ideas?

westlemania wrote: Sun Feb 21, 2021 8:09 pm Does anybody know what movie the image from the dvd cover of Eryk Rocha’s documentary Cinema Novo is from? I was watching the film last night and saw clips from it but it never said what film it was taken from. Any ideas?

Carlos Diegues' Os Herdeiros.

I'm not sure if it's a movie or TV show, but I remember a U.S. production about people's limbs suddenly taking on a life of their own and trying to kill the person whose body they inhabit. I also remember it ending with a young girl's nose twitching and her slowly raising a pair of scissors to it before the screen cuts to black. Anyone know what this is? I think it would have been released/aired in the late 90s or early 2000s.

Is it Idle Hands?

Murdoch wrote: Tue Mar 09, 2021 2:23 pm I'm not sure if it's a movie or TV show, but I remember a U.S. production about people's limbs suddenly taking on a life of their own and trying to kill the person whose body they inhabit. I also remember it ending with a young girl's nose twitching and her slowly raising a pair of scissors to it before the screen cuts to black. Anyone know what this is? I think it would have been released/aired in the late 90s or early 2000s.

It's the Clive Barker adaptation portion of Quicksilver Highway, a TV movie that adapted one Stephen King short story and one Clive Barker short story

Thank you! I'll have to track that down, it's been in the back of my mind for years.

I could not think of another suitable thread for my question so hopefully it would be fine to post it here about identifying the name of the tune within the movie. Anyone would know the name of the band/solo artist and the title of this instrumental tune from this very brief clip? This is from Roman Coppola's film CQ and it is not on the CQ soundtrack album by MELLOW. It is certainly not one of the four non MELLOW tracks: "Ce Soir Je Vais Boire", "Le Responsable", "In the Cave" and "Tous En Scene." I checked IMDb for the track listing and the end credits of CQ which was of no assistance.

Someone was telling me today about this amazing sounding Indian film. The English transilation of the Farsi title is the rule. It’s a crime film about a father and son on opposite sides of the law with the film ending with the cop father killing the gangster son. It’s at the latest from the ‘80s but probably from the ‘50s or ‘60s.

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barbarella satyricon wrote: Sun May 23, 2021 2:55 amA little fiddling with an online song recognition engine pointed me here, which certainly sounds like a match.

Thanks! I did a little more searching and the instrumental also goes under the title of LONDON PARTY and SUPERMERCATO.

I've just finished watching the Criterion edition of Amy Heckerling's Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) which I have not seen since it's initial cinema release.

Funny, my only memory of the film was a scene where a counsellor berates Jennifer Jason Leigh's character for being so reckless and getting pregnant. But the scene isn't in the film. I must be confusing that scene from another teen focused film from the early 1980s. Doesn't anybody know what that film may be?

Maybe The Last American Virgin?

Spoiler

Diane Franklin's character gets pregnant, and when she goes for an abortion, the nurse gives her a stern "this didn't have to happen" speech.

Thanks Feego.

I saw only the tail end of this '70s or '80s British television play about a custodian feuding with a group of businessmen. I got the impression the custodian wasn't directly employed by the businessmen, i.e. their company rented rather than owned the building. The custodian had an office, or office-cum-living-quarters, in the basement. One detail I remember is that he had a terrarium. And he was an autodidact. I gathered that at some earlier point the businessmen had offended the caretaker with their class superiority, and he was retaliating with a campaign of passive-aggressive incompetence and pretended stupidity. His final exploit was to strand a pair of them in the elevator overnight, where they were trapped so long they ended up urinating or defecating in the corner. I think he succeeded in driving the company out of business. The denouement had one of the businessmen confronting the caretaker, and finally twigging to the fact that he was dealing with an intelligent and erudite man.

It's not Pinter, but it had some similarities to Pinter, in the quietly sinister manner of the caretaker.