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Around 2000-2002 I watched this film from the early to mid 70's on either HBO or Showtime and if I recall correctly it involved a single woman living in an apartment; perhaps underground in a big city? I distinctly remember the ending in which an intruder entered or was already present and the screen turned red and flashed in similar fashion to the psychedelic effects of the time period that one would be accustomed to in an episode of Night Gallery... for example "There Aren't Any More Macbanes". I know my description is lacking in detail but oddly enough it is all I can remember. It left an impression on me though, presumably because it was my first exposure to the effect.

I honestly can't remember any psychedelic effects (it's been decades since I saw it), but up until then I thought you were talking about the cracking thriller Wait Until Dark. Audrey Hepburn is a single (blind) woman, living alone in an (almost) underground apartment, being terrorized by thugs who hang around, unseen. The climax of the film makes excellent play of light and dark, but as I said, I can't recall any flashing.

This is probably the second best "blind woman in peril" film right behind Richard Fleischer's extremely tense See No Evil.

I'm sure there's better one than that Bond toss off.

(Actually those are the only two films I can think of where it's the premise of the entire film, though you could also do a double feature of "mute woman in peril" films: one sublime and one mediocre.)

There's also the Michael Apted film Blink, though that is a borderline case since Madeleine Stowe regaining her sight happens pretty early on!

Really really enjoy Phantom Planet. There is a ton to enjoy there-- first of all it perfectly delivers that 1950's sci-fi feel and atmosphere. I love the ambience of the of the soundtrack, the reverb on the music and sound effects especially. How could you not love that fire monster--not to mention the ships that they attack the Phantom Planet with.

Topping all off the touches this film has is the cine-nostalgia in its casting (not withstanding the extreme nervous reticence of the lead Dean Fredericks, which winds up playing well when he's on Rheton because he wants to leave so badly and get back to his base): Francis X Bushman playing Sessom (Moses?)-- this man goes all the way back to the glory days of the silent era... most notably he starred in MGM's silent version of Ben Hur as Massala... Bushman was a huge star back inna day who was paid enormous wages for his appearances. He transferred the land on which his house stood to Sid Grauman, and Grauman built his famous Chinese Theater on that very site.

Also part of the ensemble is an ageless Coleen Gray . . . well past her primest prime in films like Kiss of Death and Nightmare Alley about 15 years earlier, yet still looking dynamite at 40 years old! Wanta see her looking full blown hot watch her in the female Jekyll/Hyde bizarro Universal sci-horror oddity The Leech Woman from 1960.

Coleen is apparently still alive and hanging in there in her early nineties.

Can anyone identify this one? I remember a scene from a movie that aired on Bravo when I was in junior high (1996-98). A man is apparently going to photograph a young blind woman. She is wearing only lingerie (or something very revealing), I believe she is wearing a cowboy hat and sitting on a prop horse. Instead of taking her picture, he takes a straight razor and begins to lightly cut her exposed legs. She feels the pain, but doesn't quite realize what is happening. As she stretches her hands out to feel, he cuts her hands with the razor. Unbeknownst to the adults, a little boy has been watching (I can't remember if he's hiding in the room or looking through a keyhole or something). When he sees what the man is doing, he takes a pencil and stabs the man in the eye!

This movie was likely made in the late 80s or early 90s. There is a possibility that the man slashing the woman and the boy stabbing the man might have been different scenes (or even different movies) that have come together in my memory, but I'm pretty sure they were the same scene.

Feego wrote:Can anyone identify this one? I remember a scene from a movie that aired on Bravo when I was in junior high (1996-98). A man is apparently going to photograph a young blind woman. She is wearing only lingerie (or something very revealing), I believe she is wearing a cowboy hat and sitting on a prop horse. Instead of taking her picture, he takes a straight razor and begins to lightly cut her exposed legs. She feels the pain, but doesn't quite realize what is happening. As she stretches her hands out to feel, he cuts her hands with the razor. Unbeknownst to the adults, a little boy has been watching (I can't remember if he's hiding in the room or looking through a keyhole or something). When he sees what the man is doing, he takes a pencil and stabs the man in the eye!

This movie was likely made in the late 80s or early 90s. There is a possibility that the man slashing the woman and the boy stabbing the man might have been different scenes (or even different movies) that have come together in my memory, but I'm pretty sure they were the same scene.

That sounds an awful lot like Afraid of the Dark (1991).

I bet that's it! I can't look into it deeply now while I'm at work, but reading some cursory summaries makes believe this is the film I'm looking for. Thanks!

What's the name of the Vincent Price vehicle where a lady is standing by a grave and he looms out from behind it wearing some very unique looking sun glasses. Saw the clip in a montage reel and wondered from whence it originated.

fvs114 wrote:There is one scene i remember from a movie... maybe i saw just an insert...

main character passes by a standing woman (maybe more of them) which removes cover (outer part of her stomach) and reveals "abdominal anatomy" or maybe "fetal anatomy" view... no blood...

My associations are : The Holly Mountain and Fellinis Satyricon... but i dont remember that scene from any of those two films.

Any clue ?

thx.

I've found it at last, It's Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books (1991) :)

Wasn't there another European TV mini-series that was very similar to The Decalogue? I'm certain it came after Decalogue, and I could've sworn the title of it was something like "Weekend Tales" ???

An excellent independent video rental store near me used to have it on VHS. I rented the first tape, but never got around to seeing the rest. The internet searches I've done appear to be telling me I've got the title totally wrong! Thanks folks.

Carl West wrote:Wasn't there another European TV mini-series that was very similar to The Decalogue? I'm certain it came after Decalogue, and I could've sworn the title of it was something like "Weekend Tales" ???

An excellent independent video rental store near me used to have it on VHS. I rented the first tape, but never got around to seeing the rest. The internet searches I've done appear to be telling me I've got the title totally wrong! Thanks folks.

You were right the first time: Weekend Stories is the given English title for a series of television films by Krzysztof Zanussi.

I watched this sometime in the 1970s or 1980s, a SciFi styled film (fairly sure it was not a TV series), the scenes I can remember:

the male lead character attends a party and observes a group of party-goers excitedly displaying a new weapon that is taken out and demonstrated. The weapon is an silver colored pistol-sized device, but when fired produces a laser-beam like effect that strikes a group of trees, one of the trees explodes spectacularly like a Roman candle. I think the point of the scene was to show a modest device causing a big effect.

and

the male lead-character is interacting with a scantily clad lady who is lying down on a table, he says something like "I can't make love to you if you keep being agitated"

This is over 30+ years ago but is has been bugging me that I cannot find the movie and re-watch so I can appreciate the two scenes I can remember and how they fit into the overall story.

Be grateful if anyone can suggest some titles to investigate.

What is the name of the song from Du côté d'Orouët with the chorus "generations come and go..."? It plays over the Potemkine DVD menu as well.

I don't have a DVD of it to check, but the music was by Daevid Allen/Gong so it was likely something of theirs, I would think. No soundtrack of the film was released, so it's probably quite difficult to find the the title of that song.

jindianajonz wrote:My boss was telling me about a movie he saw somewhere around the 60's or 70's. He thinks it was a french film, and involved a guy having an affair with a dentist's wife, only to go to the dentist at the end of the film to get a tooth pulled. The dentist, knowing of the affair, pulls more teeth than are required, which supposedly will cause the rest of his teeth to slowly fall out.

Anyone know what this is?

I was talking to my boss about this again, and he thinks the film starred Jean Paul Belmondo as the guy who got is teeth pulled. Does this ring any bells? I checked a few movies on IMDB, but some of his pre-Breathless films don't have descriptions, and googling "Jean Paul Belmondo dentist" doesn't turn anything up. I'm wondering if he's just misremembering the whole thing- I assume that if it screened in the US, it couldn't have been too obscure of a film, and there should be more of a trail to follow for it.

I half suspect I already posted this with no response, but what the hey. Does anyone know of a trial movie where a woman decapitated her husband and brought the head with her on a plane. During the trial the woman says she did it to make sure he didn't grow back like in Fantasia. Thanks ahead of time.

But if it were like Fantasia, the body would sprout a new head, and the head a new body. And the two would probably dance.

I doubt the character had that level of reasoning.

jindianajonz wrote:

jindianajonz wrote:My boss was telling me about a movie he saw somewhere around the 60's or 70's. He thinks it was a french film, and involved a guy having an affair with a dentist's wife, only to go to the dentist at the end of the film to get a tooth pulled. The dentist, knowing of the affair, pulls more teeth than are required, which supposedly will cause the rest of his teeth to slowly fall out.

Anyone know what this is?

I was talking to my boss about this again, and he thinks the film starred Jean Paul Belmondo as the guy who got is teeth pulled. Does this ring any bells? I checked a few movies on IMDB, but some of his pre-Breathless films don't have descriptions, and googling "Jean Paul Belmondo dentist" doesn't turn anything up. I'm wondering if he's just misremembering the whole thing- I assume that if it screened in the US, it couldn't have been too obscure of a film, and there should be more of a trail to follow for it.

This is part of the plot of an American film called Reuben, Reuben. The protagonist's teeth start loosening after visiting the cuckholded dentist. Another dentist examines him, declares the previous work utterly incompetent and irreparable, with no option left but dentures.

Leandrusi wrote:Hi!
Im looking for the name of this movie Ive seen years ago.
It was black&white, it was ambiented in some sort of prehistoric age(?) or tribal world, I think there were no dinosaurs, but the people (or most of them) didnt speak a language but would make moars and sounds alike.
Cant remember the plot very well, but the main chars were a couple: the girl was kidnapped by some masked caveman/apelike people (the mask would have prominent teeth) leaded by some other masked (but less ape and more human) evil man. The guy offcourse goes out to search his fiancee and finally rescues her. I believe there was a scene were the girl gets tied in a tree and leaved alone (to be eaten by wild animals maybe?), then some misterious man appears behind her, wave his weapon and surprisingly to the girl, he releases her.

All the people would wear loinclothes and have rudimentary weapons, the bad guys would wear masks. The girl offcourse was very pretty, she was brunette and woud wear a really sexy outfit.

Ring any bells? Thanks in advance!

Might it be Clan of the Cave Bear? (Never saw it myself).

This is my first post on this forum (I'm a lurker!). I would appreciate any help, as this one has been bugging me for years:

Movie is from the 1980s. Through some set of circumstances our protagonist (an adult male) is living with his mother. And there's a scene where he is at his office talking to a co-worker, and they have (roughly) this conversation:

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Protagonist: "Yeah, for breakfast, I had eggs, bacon, toast, ham, steak, waffles, orange juice, grapefruit, pancakes and coffee."

Co-worker: "Wow, that's a lot of food."

Protagonist: "Yeah. My Mom always says breakfast is the most important meal of the day."

**

The protagonist is a real sad-sack, and delivers the line very resignedly.

...I have very fond memories of watching this movie with my parents when I was a kid, yet can't for the life of me remember what it is! Thanks!

Can people help me identify the various films included in TCM's Silent Sunday Night montage? I've got a list below of each shot, with the ones I am certain about in red, and titles I'm not so sure about in blue.

1. Bells ringing
2. City at night – Metropolis
3. Whistle’s blowing – Metropolis
4. People walking in silhouette past door
5. Greta Garbo & John Gilbert – Flesh and the Devil
6. Man with long hair by light - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
7. Man looking through small window - Ben-Hur
8. Close-up of person opening watch
9. Close-up of pocket watch in palm of hand
10. Man looking through window at royal woman
11. Harry Langdon standing up in car - Saturday Afternoon
12. Man walking with little boy - Don Juan
13. Woman standing on boat (Clara Bow?) - It
14. John Barrymore removing cloak - Don Juan
15. Robot unveiled – Metropolis
16. Caligari unveiling somnambulist – Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
17. Man walking toward woman in front of bed - Flesh and the Devil
18. Rudolph Valentino dancing – Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
19. People on amusement park ride – Speedy
20. Louise Brooks pulling man toward her – Pandora’s Box
21. Dolly shot toward man’s hand – Flesh and the Devil
22. Louise Brooks and Francis Lederer kissing – Pandora’s Box
23. Woman putting hand to her ear
24. Lillian Gish revealing The Scarlet Letter
25. Hand reaching for knife - Don Juan
26. Whore of Babylon – Metropolis
27. Falconetti fainting – The Passion of Joan of Arc
28. Harold Lloyd spinning – Speedy
29. Buster Keaton on bed in barn – Steamboat Bill Jr.
30. Bird flying away from woman on donkey
31. Man climbing tree - The Kid Brother
32. Airplanes flying over horse-drawn carriage – The Big Parade
33. Procession in Babylon – Intolerance
34. Workers at desks – The Crowd
35. Harold Lloyd climbing building – Safety Last!
36. Harold Lloyd walking backwards - The Kid Brother
37. Balloons flying away - Speedy
38. Chaplin in hall of mirrors – The Circus
39. Giant spider on bed – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
40. Man grabbing Harold Lloyd - The Kid Brother
41. Tree falling
42. Soldiers busting through door – Ben-Hur
43. Horses racing – Ben-Hur
44. POV shot of car driving toward woman - Speedy
45. Robot – Metropolis
46. Mary Pickford surprised - The Poor Little Rich Girl
47. Lloyd on clock – Safety Last
48. Chariot race – Ben-Hur
49. Horse-drawn trolley crashing into post - Speedy
50. Man and woman on amusement park ride - It
51. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
52. Soldier dying – Ben-Hur
53. The Phantom of the Opera
54. Steamboat Bill Jr.
55. Fatty Arbuckle and feathers
56. Woman looking out window
57. Lillian Gish in The Wind
58. The Mark of Zorro
59. Woman (Mary Astor?) reaching arms out
60. Fatty Arbuckle and man in blackface?
61. Laurel and Hardy - Big Business
62. Grim reaper – Metropolis
63. Close-up of liquid poured into small vial
64. Lightning
65. Man sword fighting - Don Juan
66. Building crumbling – Ben-Hur or The Ten Commandments
67. Keaton on trolley – The Cameraman
68. Two men and robot – Metropolis
69. Man standing on table as swords are raised - Long Fliv the King
70. Keaton with cannon – The General
71. Falconetti looking up – The Passion of Joan of Arc
72. Shepherds looking at star – Ben-Hur
73. Vampire disappearing – Nosferatu
74. Man swinging toward waterfall - Our Hospitality
75. People running after car
76. Girl chasing after train – Flesh and the Devil
77. Woman chained to train track - Teddy at the Throttle
78. Chaplin and The Kid
79. Man closing book - Flesh and the Devil
80. Train on burning bridge – The General
81. Man in office – Metropolis
82. Garbo blowing out John Gilbert’s match – Flesh and the Devil
83. Chaplin in iris shot - The Circus