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I don't remember the western, but the scene is influenced by a similar one from Reflections in a Golden Eye.

domino harvey wrote:First one's Salo, and that's gotta be a record for the same scene being asked about in this thread

I've actually seen Salo but I guess my suppressed memory didn't make me want to remember than scene. Of course the scene is on YouTube. I swore it looked different in the Historie(s) du cinema, like a black and white film, but there are so many clips, I'm not surprised I got muddled. Thanks though!

He specifically mentions the western influence the way the light reflects off the guns and that the image was probably in his subconscious. I want to say the title of the western was the name of a city in the south west, but I can't remember. It looked like it was in Technicolor and it I'm pretty certain it looked like it was shot in Academy ratio.

It's been a long time since I've seen Histoire(s) but I do recall many of the clips Godard used looking like fourth generation tape dubs (sometimes, I suspect, intentionally), so no one can really be blamed for not being able to place even familiar moments.

Okay, this one's been killing me forever and for some reason it never occurred to me to ask. Way back when I was an undergrad in a world film class, we watched a brief clip from a German film, made sometime between 60-80s. It was in black and white and concerned a female photographer. The translated title concerned time and day, like the twenty hour day or something along those lines. Any clues?

"The All-Around Reduced Personality/Redupers" comes to mind as far as subject matter and relative popularity, all though it doesn't quite have the title you're looking for.

My immediate thought was Kluge's Yesterday's Girl - though I don't recall photography coming into it...

Cold Bishop wrote:"The All-Around Reduced Personality/Redupers" comes to mind as far as subject matter and relative popularity, all though it doesn't quite have the title you're looking for.

This is it. I don't know why I misremembered the title, but Redupers definitely struck a bell of recognition (no wonder I could never find it!). Thank you so much!

Another one that's been bugging me. This is a film released in the mid to late 90s, an indie film, about a man who visits a small town in order to commit suicide and some sort of comedic complications frustrate his plans. I remember watching some of it on HBO a way back. All Google searching the plot leads me to is a Luke Wilson movie from three years ago, which is definitely not it.

Julian Po?

YES! God I love this board

Let's see if miracle do happen and a third thing can come up. It's been bugging me for years, but it's an older animated film (at least 25) done in a cardboard style like early South Park or maybe The Fantastic Planet. For some reason I think the story is based around The Argonauts myth but it doesn't strictly have to do so. The most specific scene I can remember is when one of the members of the boat goes insane for some reason and attempts to murder everyone else and so they must run away.

Looks like James Garner and Henry Thomas and bolo ties... Fire in the Sky?

Not a great film by the way, but a definite piece of late-90's-TBS-sunday-afternoon-movie-nostalgia.

Thank you, that's it.

Might be this one.

edit: I'm wrong of course, see zeroisms's post below.

feckless boy wrote:Might be this one.

Genuine thanks!

Actually, it's this film; though, according to the furigana, the title should be pronounced 'Uruwashiki haha' (either way, it translates as 'beautiful/lovely mother'). Here's the JMDB entry. Full poster here. [Edit: if the link to the poster doesn't work in your browser, see the page of origin here.]

zeroism wrote:Actually, it's this film; though, according to the furigana, the title should be pronounced 'Uruwashiki haha' (either way, it translates as 'beautiful/lovely mother'). Here's the JMDB entry.]

Furigana FTW! I could just make out 'Uruwashiki' and went with the first one I could find in her filmography: Uruwashiki shuppatsu (1939). Nice catch, zeroism!

That last one has got to be this film.

kinjitsu wrote:That last one has got to be this film.

Really genuine thanks.

If you had translated the blog where you apparently found the image, you would have discovered that the film was directed by Yasujiro Shimazu, and is titled Midori no daichi* (The Green Earth), from 1942.

*the image name should have been your first clue...