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This drawing is weak. I feel like Ralphie after he got his secret decoder ring.

The L knight has to mean L'amour, so maybe it goes with the skeleton: Resnais' L'amour à mort

As a paleontologist, Cary Grant had to graduate from college. The caps are a clue for Bringing Up Baby

When Hepburn and Grant are searching the grounds for Baby, they are using the moonlight to see. The moon is a clue for Bringing Up Baby

The steak clearly refers to Baby's meal. Bringing Up Baby confirmed!!!

How about The Conqueror Worm for the knight? The L shape looks coincidental to me. The clue wouldn't work if the top half of the worm's armor were lying on the ground. So I see a worm rather than an L. Also, if it this were for Lancelot du Lac, surely he'd be next to a lake rather than a river?

Ishmael wrote:How about The Conqueror Worm for the knight? The L shape looks coincidental to me. The clue wouldn't work if the top half of the worm's armor were lying on the ground. So I see a worm rather than an L. Also, if it this were for Lancelot du Lac, surely he'd be next to a lake rather than a river?

A good guess, but the Conquerer Worm doesn't seem like Criterion's kind of thing

I'm just going to list Bringing up Baby + Thin Man - and whichever gets announced first = winner.

DWK's L'Amour suggestion seems like the best one yet, though I think the skeleton is already saddled with enough clues at the moment.

Thankfully there's only a million other movies that have L'amour in the title

Amour and armor aren't even homonyms, why are so many of you suggesting a pun that only works if you misread a French word for an English one?

Ishmael wrote:How about The Conqueror Worm for the knight? The L shape looks coincidental to me. The clue wouldn't work if the top half of the worm's armor were lying on the ground. So I see a worm rather than an L. Also, if it this were for Lancelot du Lac, surely he'd be next to a lake rather than a river?

I initially thought that too; but I remembered how much Criterion liked using letters in last year's clue and disregarded it. Another one I thought of was El Cid, which was a Crtierion laserdisc title back in the day. Last I heard it was still owned by the Weinstein Company; not sure where the rights stand now.

The Color of Pomegranates

Reddit seems certain the the knight is for Nightcrawler.

True, perhaps it works better in Italian:

L'Amore (1948) - Criterion already have the rights + BFI included it on their War Trilogy set.

And some of you guys need to read the first post prior to guessing - as Pomegranates was like the first thing solved + I've been keeping track in the 1st post!

Minkin wrote:True, perhaps it works better in Italian:

And some of you guys need to read the first post prior to guessing - as Pomegranates was like the first thing solved + I've been keeping track in the 1st post!

Ah - sorry! For some reason I thought this WAS the first page... ](*,)

Edit: somehow missed the first page.

Pretty sure the skeleton is a clue for SuperTed.

Does that fact that it's a moon mean that it's going to be another Bergman Eclipse set? This makes more sense to me than the pun guess.

I thought that hat on the dog was a vinyl disc embedded in his snout. That would have been a more interesting clue than any of these.

Incredibly stupid guess: Knights are referred to as “Sir”, it’s an L, so… El sur?

theflirtydozen wrote:Does that fact that it's a moon mean that it's going to be another Bergman Eclipse set? This makes more sense to me than the pun guess.

don't really think a standard definition dvd set of minor works makes sense to pair with a 20+ film touring retrospective.

CSM126 wrote:Incredibly stupid guess: Knights are referred to as “Sir”, it’s an L, so… El sur?

Literally the best guess yet. Plus I just bought the BFI, so that much cinch it!

One pretty straightforward one (since we knew it was coming anyway): The guy pondering a photographic frame within a picture frame is Memories of Underdevelopment (1967, Gutiérrez Alea)

DeprongMori wrote:One pretty straightforward one (since we knew it was coming anyway): The guy pondering a photographic frame within a picture frame is Memories of Underdevelopment (1967, Gutiérrez Alea)

Personally, my first thought that it was a reference to the art museum scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
But apparently all the clues in the stream refer to FilmsTruck.

domino harvey wrote:

CSM126 wrote:Incredibly stupid guess: Knights are referred to as “Sir”, it’s an L, so… El sur?

Literally the best guess yet. Plus I just bought the BFI, so that much cinch it!

But the Spanish pronunciation is more like EL SEWR.

El Sewrpasso perhaps?

I see that Knight in armor and long for Lancelot du Lac but alas. I wonder if the sudden end to "Every Frame a Painting" on Youtube was because they made a deal with Filmstruck. Who knows!

Can't wait for a reviewer to complain that El Sur feels like a half a film!

McNulty wrote:El Sewrpasso perhaps?

Midnight Cowboy confirmed

swo17 wrote:

domino harvey wrote:

CSM126 wrote:Incredibly stupid guess: Knights are referred to as “Sir”, it’s an L, so… El sur?

Literally the best guess yet. Plus I just bought the BFI, so that much cinch it!

But the Spanish pronunciation is more like EL SEWR.

Yeah, but non-Spanish speakers like myself look at that and assume it sounds like sir. Or maybe it’s just me.