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zedz, that's it!! No clue how my fragment of a memory failed to include the fact that Lucille Ball co-starred but as soon as I investigated the title it all came back to me. Maureen O'Hara was the actress I couldn't place. Ah, relief! Thanks

A Marxist spaghetti western in which a journalist (or writer) becomes involved with a robin-hood style outlaw and his gang and slowly begins to assume power over the gang. (while espousing a quasi Nietzschean philosophy)

Sounds to me very much like Face to Face (1967). (About to get the Blu treatment from Eureka, by the way - see the Non-MoC Eureka Titles thread.)

Hello

I need help for a few pics :

The second one is Contempt (the bottom belongs to Miss Brigitte Bardot).

Number 6 is" Le Silence de la Mer", I'm pretty sure.

Is #1 perhaps a Powell/Pressburger film?

I believe #3 is Kaufman's remake of Invasion of the Bodysnatchers

#1 is Michaell Powell's (totally great) "The Edge of the World".

Isn't that Geneviève Bujold in the last capture?

Watching Secret Ceremony (great oddity) and it reminds me of this film I can't put my finger on. It's probably crap, but the story involves a writer, for movies I think, who develops a friendship with a a weirdo who essentially gets this writer's career going before locking the writer up in a house for a few weeks. It ends on a fairly generic '90s thriller note with the weirdo threatening the writer's family over the phone, but not killing them for one reason or an other.

Thank you so much for your help.
Any ideas for those remaining ?

knives wrote:Watching Secret Ceremony (great oddity) and it reminds me of this film I can't put my finger on. It's probably crap, but the story involves a writer, for movies I think, who develops a friendship with a a weirdo who essentially gets this writer's career going before locking the writer up in a house for a few weeks. It ends on a fairly generic '90s thriller note with the weirdo threatening the writer's family over the phone, but not killing them for one reason or an other.

That sounds like Where Sleeping Dogs Lie (1991), which I vaguely remember seeing on cable, but I don't remember the ending. Do they room together in a creepy mansion, and the weirdo helps a screenwriter work on his book?

BTW Secret Ceremony is awesome. I'm glad someone else likes it.

That's my piece of shit, thanks.

And yeah, Secret Ceremony really took me by surprise in how good it was.

knives wrote:That's my piece of shit, thanks.

I think I may have only caught the middle of the movie way back when on cable, and this makes me want to actually watch the whole thing. Also, it belongs in that block of 90's Sharon Stone thrillers and, as a Scissors apologist, I feel a sense of duty coming over me.

Cold Bishop wrote:Isn't that Geneviève Bujold in the last capture?

Are you sure this is Geneviève Bujold ?

???

It looks like her. Even down to her, uh, ears.

I don't know who it is, but it's not Genevieve Bujold. Sorry I can't be of more help.

is this a movie, if so, what it is titled?or from a music video?

Mr Pixies wrote:

is this a movie, if so, what it is titled?or from a music video?

I just watched that a few weeks ago. It's an experimental video/process about 45 minutes long. For the life of me I can't remember what it's called. Let me check my files.

Thanks to the members of another forum (which for various reasons should probably stay unnamed) for reminding me of the film's title. It is Zbigniew Rybczynski's The Fourth Dimension from 1988.

thank you, now i gotta find it..

Mr Pixies wrote:thank you, now i gotta find it..

It's available on this Rybczynski compilation from Microcinema.

thanks again. I watched it, I think its a really cool piece.

Back in the mid-70s I saw an "old dark house" thriller on TV which I believe dated back to the late 30s/early 40s. I seem to recall that the film involved two elderly housekeepers, a husband-and-wife, who care for a gothic mansion on the moors somewhere in the U.K. In classic fashion, they plot to scare a young heiress to death (or something to that effect) in order to claim some inheritance money for themselves. The story details didn't stay with me, but what did was the film's climax which had the husband and wife being chased out onto the moors where they both die by sinking in quicksand. I've never forgotten the image of the woman screaming as she sees the top of her husband's head sinking under the mud; the last image of the sequence is her hands grasping at air before they too disappear in the muck.

While the horrific ending is burned into my memory, not much else about this film is. Does anyone know the title?

I haven't seen it for a while, but it sounds like The Night Has Eyes (1942).

Jonathan S wrote:I haven't seen it for a while, but it sounds like The Night Has Eyes (1942).

Yes, that has to be the one. Evidently, I completely forgot about the main romantic plot between James Mason and Joyce Howard, but I remembered those two housekeepers being up to no good. I don't know if Wilfrid Lawson and Mary Clare were made up to look much older in the film, but the actors were certainly not the ages I remember them being. Then again, I was probably 11 or 12 when I saw the film and everyone over 40 seemed "elderly" to me!

Thanks so much "Jonathan S" for the quick, accurate response.