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Bike safety with kids getting run over by trains. That's where my mind went anyways.

I remember seeing that same video, Sausage. It actually was pretty traumatizing, it's one of the few "don't do dumb stuff" videos that I remember actually sticking with me.

Brian C wrote:I remember seeing that same video, Sausage. It actually was pretty traumatizing, it's one of the few "don't do dumb stuff" videos that I remember actually sticking with me.

I'll never forget the part in the opening vignette where the two kids are playing in the train yard and something happens that smushes the kid or something between two cars. Anyway, when the other kid brings back some adults to help, they're shining flashlights among the rows of cars when suddenly the kid's ripped and bloody hand shoots up from below frame, instantly scarring all child viewers for life.

Now that I don't remember. But the episode that you described on the train bridge is so exactly what I do remember that I'm sure I saw the same video.

Could be something else, but I'm assuming this is a film still.

Immediately recognizable as a Danish setting ("Grøn Tuborg" beer, "Prince" cigarettes, "Bacardi" rum). I don't recognize the women but it's probably 70's porn if it's from a film.

Unless it was printed and then scanned from a magazine, it's not a movie still. You can see that it was printed (and not printed very well) by the registration errors around the edges of things in the image and by the color halftone patterns throughout the image.

Whatever it is, sign me up! But since when is Bacardi rum, Danish?

Duck Duck wrote:Think 80's early 90's...
I seem to remember a movie where the hero busts in on people doing coke
through a straw and he shoves the straw up the guy's nose and kills him....

Could it be Invasion USA?
Here's a clip:

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Saw this clip a long, long time ago on Siskel & Ebert. I was still a kid, so my memory of it is fairly poor, especially since I had little knowledge of history, etc.

I think it was a film about Cuban refugees seeking asylum in the U.S. - could be very wrong about that. I have a vague recollection that a bunch of them were staying at a football field, but what I do remember better is one woman crying and a friend asking "what's wrong?" And she says "John Wayne is dead." They talk a bit, and then she mentions in passing that Elvis is apparently dead too. Her friend looks shocked and says "Elvis is dead? [pause] Damn assassins."

Mira Nair's The Perez Family.

Awesome - thanks!

A Russian/ Soviet film with child actors, made probably before 1980's. There is some runaway boys and trains, loads of trains. At the end the leading boy dies: he smashes his skull against a telephone pole as he sticks head out train window. Has anyone a name for this?

Vitali Kanevsky's "Zamri, umri, voskresni!" - (Freeze Die Come To Life)?

gosseyn wrote:Vitali Kanevsky's "Zamri, umri, voskresni!" - (Freeze Die Come To Life)?

Thanks for a very good effort. Zamri, umri, voskresni! (Freeze Die Come to Life) has never been broadcasted on my national TV, so it can not be that.

You're most probably right as in this one, the leading girl dies at the end, for obscure reasons that happen off-screen. Very beautiful but sad film.

gosseyn wrote:You're most probably right as in this one, the leading girl dies at the end, for obscure reasons that happen off-screen. Very beautiful but sad film.

If you ever get the chance, check out the wonderful, hallucinatory sequel, An Independent Life, in which she 'comes to life', with all the weirdness that suggests. To date, that's been Kanevsky's final feature. What a waste of twenty years.

I must admit, the original film description seems naggingly familiar (and I'm pretty sure I'm not just thinking of the sad end of Wayne Elsey).

In this sequel to Freeze-Die-Come to Life, our hero (Pavel Nazarov), now roughly fourteen, finds himself alive but still unable to keep out of trouble. His female chum Galia did not fare as well, but her sister (Dinara Drukarove, who played the role of Galia too) is present and develops a love/hate relationship with her sibling's friend. Complications arise when the boy is accused of stealing at school and again finds himself on the lam. Very similar to its predecessor, minus that it is filmed in color and concludes with a dose of surrealism. Winner of the 1992 Grand Jury Prize Cannes Film Festival !

This is all I could track down on the internet regarding said sequel...
It is a sad state of affair when an Grand Jury Prix Winner at the Cannes Film Festival does not even exist on readily available DVD in North America...
I will try and track it down, maybe talk with the local Cinematheque people to see if they couldn't organize a screening in the coming months.
Thanks for the heads up anyways.

If anyone could help I saw this one film in theaters years and years ago. It might even be a decade passed. Anyways it was about a therapist with personal problems and a wild array of clients including a billionaire (or some other sort of super rich signifier) who late into the film is revealed to be a charlatan. Anyways I most distinctly remember the introduction of rich client who complained about how he is rich or something with the therapist saying he couldn't possibly be that rich with the client than revealing a number that impressed the therapist greatly. The movie's probably crap, but I'm curious anyway.

Mumford?

That would be it. Thank you.

This is a film I saw as a kid on TV back in the late 60s (so I know it was made before 1970, anyway). As the TV was black and white I have no idea if the film was B/W or colour. Two scenes left a huge impression on me, which are all I remember from the film.

- a family living somewhere rural; a tornado is approaching; they all get in the shelter except the youngest daughter who realises that her cat is out there and runs out calling for it amidst howling winds and swirling debris. The father runs out after her.

- the same girl again with an older sister, walking around perilous countryside (like canyons or cliffs). For some reason, one of them slowly climbs down "over the edge" to retrieve something (either something she dropped, like a locket, or something she noticed, like a birds nest) and is trapped, unable to get back up.

Both of these scenes terrified me at the time. I'd love to see it again if anyone knows what I'm talking about....

I remember staying at a hotel about ten years ago and on television (may have been cartoon network, not sure), there was some weird animation and song that I am currently unable to track down.

All I can remember is that it was similar in style to Yellow Submarine or most other 60s animation. Adding to that - there was a large number of aliens on the moon or wherever singing some song - repeating the line "he was a spaceman, spaceman" (the second spaceman lyric was sung solo by some large green alien - in a burp voice). The song sounds like it should have been something by the Beatles or Byrds (no it wasn't Mr Spaceman to the best of my knowledge) - but I can't track it down. Any help?

Yeah, sorry for my obscure memories of the event.