At one point something important happens around the shed area.
Oh that could be a hundred films.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 11:58 (six years ago) link
That sounds like the importance of being earnest tbh
― eeshTrip (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 12:33 (six years ago) link
1952 adaptation
― eeshTrip (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 12:35 (six years ago) link
xps to dlThat sounds like a very rong + muddled recollection of Shadow of a Doubt imo, even though it was 40's.
― calzino, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 12:40 (six years ago) link
xpost that's absolutely Shadow of a Doubt
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 13:30 (six years ago) link
And having seen it again just recently, there's really not much wrong or muddled in there, besides the date of the film.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 13:31 (six years ago) link
I haven't seen it for a few years so it isn't as fresh in my mind, but I knew I'd nailed it!
― calzino, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 13:38 (six years ago) link
For some reason I don't think it's any of these (Ladykiller/Shadow) as neither ring familiar to me. But this is frustrating as I'm sure I made a conscious effort to watch it, like it must have been on a list of films possibly on ILX
― Fox Mulder, FYI (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 18:16 (six years ago) link
Was it British or American?
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 18:17 (six years ago) link
Where was it set? Etc.
Hey wait I'm reading the plot of Shadow of a Doubt on Wikipedia and I'm certain it's the film. How strange, I don't ever recall thinking to myself 'i will watch this film' but evidently I did. Thanks guys
― Fox Mulder, FYI (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 18:18 (six years ago) link
Anyone help this guy out?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Film#Film_about_a_dating_female_killer
'm looking for a movie title. In this film (crime) a woman killed few men. The killer appears on the dating advertisement. A detective posts and dating advertisement. He tries to find the female killer, who shoots the men in the head in the bed. This detective gets together with a blond woman. Doncsecztalk 15:53, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 16:47 (five years ago) link
there's a film that i sometimes think of despite being completely incapable of recalling what it was. i think i saw it on the sundance channel or something like that, probably about 15 years ago. it wasn't in english. the characters all lived on the water (a lake, maybe?). at one point someone knocks or throws (on purpose?) a bird cage into the water. the door to the cage is shut and the bird is inside the cage, so the bird briefly tries flying to the un-submerged section before ultimately sinking with the cage. unfortunately this is all i remember.
― dyl, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 01:03 (five years ago) link
I think I can help the guy from six months ago...That's Sea of Love, isn't it?
― clemenza, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 01:19 (five years ago) link
A clip used in Christian Marclay's "The Clock" is bugging me...
A kid is holding a wristwatch in a bathroom. He rubs it on the wall to scratch the glass. He bashes it on the rim of the toilet. He places it on the rim and stomps on it. It falls into the toilet and he flushes it. All filmed over his shoulder. I think he's wearing red and the wall is light blue.
Clip is in colour, probably 90s or 00s. Possibly European. Got a Dardenne bros. feeling from it but I could be way off.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Thursday, 22 August 2019 22:24 (four years ago) link
Pialat's L'enfance nue.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Thursday, 22 August 2019 22:38 (four years ago) link
Not sure if the above is right, but these might help you if not:
https://theclockmarclay.fandom.com/wiki/Crowdsourcing-The-Clock
https://letterboxd.com/thisisdrew/list/the-clock/
― emil.y, Thursday, 22 August 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
Nice spot, Citroen.
― Funky Isolations (jed_), Thursday, 22 August 2019 22:48 (four years ago) link
Oh yes. I've seen that movie at least three times - my memory is terrible. If the clip had shown the kid's face I would've known right away. Thanks!
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Friday, 23 August 2019 05:34 (four years ago) link
Another one from The Clock.
French, B&W, probably mid-late 60s.
Tight shot of a middle aged man and a young woman facing each other. Foregrounded, a metronome. The man starts the metronome ticking and starts asking the woman a rapid-fire series of questions about which of two prominent personages she would rather go to bed with. Some of the choices were Cassius Clay, Werner von Braun, and Georges Brassens.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, 9 September 2019 06:18 (four years ago) link
Don't know, but this list might help:
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Monday, 9 September 2019 07:39 (four years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Are_You,_Polly_Maggoo%3F
― Number None, Monday, 9 September 2019 10:45 (four years ago) link
Any silent film scholars recognise this?
hey @tcm and fellow film fans, what is this row boat scene from that I played one of my songs behind while it was on and forgot to write down the title like a year and a half ago? my google search is sad. pic.twitter.com/W0Khb431Yv— Caitlin Rose (@TheCaitlinRose) May 15, 2020
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 16 May 2020 18:39 (three years ago) link
I saw a scene when I was a kid (coming in late from a kid's cricket match, I reckon) and, for whatever reason, I can't stop thinking about it. It could be TV series/film but...
It's set in a drawing room, probably Victorian but could be Edwardian, and a woman, in dress of the period, is having a pin cushion pushed into her cheek. In my mind's eye, the colours suggest a Hammer production but that might just be nostalgia. Anyone have any idea?
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 09:36 (three years ago) link
b&w, ~60s, english. man kidnaps another man and chains him up in a disused building. later he fills a bathtub full of acid and leaves it there, obviousy meant for killing and dissolving of the kidnapped man. only the kidnappee pulls the chain and drains the acid.
features someone like dirk bogarde or terence stamp. makes me think of The Collector or one of those.
― koogs, Friday, 23 April 2021 11:16 (three years ago) link
Obsession (1949)?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsession_(1949_film)
― Alba, Friday, 23 April 2021 11:45 (three years ago) link
Shades of The Abominable Dr. Phibes, but that's in color ...
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 April 2021 12:27 (three years ago) link
Alba's pick sure looks good. Wiki link is missing the closing parenthesis, here it is again.
before getting that tab sorted, i searched for "movie man kidnapped bathtub" and got
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6f/Where_the_heart_is_poster.jpg
hmmm, close!
"movie man kidnapped bathtub acid" gets us closer to the right genre/vibe but no obvious hits. it seems like there was a real life 1940s serial killer, John Haigh, the "Acid Bath Murderer," who inspired a fair number of fictionalized accounts. ex. an episode of the radio program The Black Museum called "The Jar of Acid." apparently Hitchcock kicked around a version called Kaleidoscope.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Friday, 23 April 2021 12:54 (three years ago) link
oh, thanks alba, i may yet start thinking of you again as 'king of research' 8)
and i'm glad it turned out to be quite obscure!
yeah, there's an 'acid-bath' keyword in imdb but doesn't turn this up. in fact, imdb doesn't mention acid bath part of this at all.
― koogs, Friday, 23 April 2021 15:24 (three years ago) link
there's an "a is for acid film" from 2002 that's about Haigh that i remember watching at the time. that one does turn up in the imdb keyword search (but is far too new)
― koogs, Friday, 23 April 2021 15:25 (three years ago) link
Dante's Peak, while not exactly bathtub-based, is my go-to for such "acid cinema"
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Friday, 23 April 2021 15:37 (three years ago) link
i may yet start thinking of you again as 'king of research' 8)
I've still got it! FWIW, this took just one Google search; was probably a bit of a fluke though. The clever thing is that all Wikipedia pages about films contain the word imdb. Can't remember if I was thinking that carefully when I constructed the search. It was the 10th result for me, so only just on the first page.
― Alba, Friday, 23 April 2021 16:41 (three years ago) link
doesn't make the front page for me
duckduckgo (which i've been using recently because image search is easier) has it 3rd though.
― koogs, Friday, 23 April 2021 16:51 (three years ago) link