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Drasko

August 08, 2007, 03:01:15 PM
We've had few of these on the old board and I seem to remember there were some people interested, so here's one. Simple: I've posted 16 pictures from 16 movies and the extremely hard task is to guess the movies. No prizes but perhaps the one who guesses the most could put up the next round. (n.b. if the picture is black and white it doesn't necessarily mean that the film is also in b&w).

Here we go...

Drasko

#1
August 08, 2007, 03:02:26 PM
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Drasko

#2
August 08, 2007, 03:03:56 PM
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Drasko

#3
August 08, 2007, 03:06:03 PM
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Kullervo

#4
August 08, 2007, 03:21:41 PM Last Edit: August 08, 2007, 03:23:52 PM by Kullervo
These are tough!

1 is Aguirre
6 is... 2046 I think. It's been awhile.
9 is The Silence
11 is Being There
14 is... M? I'm not sure about this.
15 is Blade Runner
I've seen 16 but can't remember the title!

Lilas Pastia

#5
August 08, 2007, 05:03:37 PM Last Edit: August 08, 2007, 05:05:42 PM by Lilas Pastia
1 is from Aguirre
2 is from Ludwig. This is rather confusing. It's a a colour movie, but that pic is in B&W. In any case, it's the only film in which Helmut Berger and Trevor Howard can be seen together (Wagner is showing the king the plans for the Festspielhaus)
3 is a Michael caine flick, but I don't know which one.
4: beats me
5-8 are really hard. I don't know what 5, 6  and 8 are.
7 is from The Maltese Falcon (Claire Trevor with Bogey)
9 is from The Silence
10 is the Fellini sketch in Bocaccio 70 (that's  Anita Ekberg taking a comfortable pose)
11  ???
12 is Welles in his own Chimes at Midnight, one of his very best films (a great favourite too)
13 is De Sica's heartrending and best film, Umberto D
14 is M (Peter Lorre)
15 ???
16 is a most famous shot, with Robert Mitchum displaying his 'hate' and 'love' knuckles (in Laughton's Night of the Hunter), one of cinema's most horrific movies.

I'll take Kullervo's answers for 6, 11 and 15. I haven't seen them, but I'm sure 6 is indeed 2046.

Bogey

#6
August 08, 2007, 05:09:29 PM
#7: The Bogey flick I believe is In A Lonely Place and the actress is then Gloria Grahm.  At first I thought it was Dead Reckoning.  For some reason I recall him driving with a blonde in that movie as well.  :)
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

Bogey

#7
August 08, 2007, 05:11:41 PM
Quote from: Lilas Pastia on August 08, 2007, 05:03:37 PM
7 is from The Maltese Falcon (Claire Trevor with Bogey)



Probably not, as he never drove a car in Maltese Falcon, he rode in cabs.  :)
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

Novi

#8
August 08, 2007, 05:47:38 PM
Quote from: Kullervo on August 08, 2007, 03:21:41 PM

6 is... 2046 I think. It's been awhile.

I'm hopeless at films, but I recognise #6 - I think it's the one before 2046, In the Mood for Love.

Maggie Cheung is gorgeous 0:).
Durch alle Töne tönet
Im bunten Erdentraum
Ein leiser Ton gezogen
Für den der heimlich lauschet.

orbital

#9
August 09, 2007, 06:13:10 AM
is 8 Angel Heart? I don't know about those shoes, but the fan makes me think Lucifer might be in the room  >:D

Bogey

#10
August 09, 2007, 06:17:13 AM
Quote from: orbital on August 09, 2007, 06:13:10 AM
is 8 Angel Heart? I don't know about those shoes, but the fan makes me think Lucifer might be in the room  >:D

I remember needing a week or two to recover from that one....
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

orbital

#11
August 09, 2007, 06:33:57 AM
Quote from: Bogey on August 09, 2007, 06:17:13 AM
I remember needing a week or two to recover from that one....
I enjoyed it quite a bit myself. But like most movies, the second vieweing a few years later (this time on TV) failed to make a big impression. But on the big screen, for the first time, it is a real experience.

Drasko

#12
August 09, 2007, 06:54:47 AM
Excellent Gentlemen, 13 out of 16 so far.  8)

1. Werner Herzog - Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes / Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068182/
http://www.amazon.com/Aguirre-Wrath-God-Klaus-Kinski/dp/6305972761

2. Luchino Visconti - Ludwig (1972)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068883/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000FIGF0Q

6. Wong Kar Wai - Fa yeung nin wa / In the Mood for Love (2000)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118694/
http://www.amazon.com/Mood-Love-Criterion-Collection/dp/B00003CXUM

7. Nicholas Ray - In a Lonely Place (1950)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042593/
http://www.amazon.com/Lonely-Place-Humphrey-Bogart/dp/B000087F79

8. Alan Parker - Angel Heart (1987)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092563/
http://www.amazon.com/Angel-Heart-Special-Mickey-Rourke/dp/B0001US62I

9. Ingmar Bergman - Tystnaden / The Silence (1963)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057611/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silence-Ingrid-Thulin/dp/B00005RZQJ

10. Federico Fellini - Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio / Temptations of Dr. Antonio (Boccaccio '70) (1962)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055805/
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00080OB9I

11. Hal Ashby - Being There (1979)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078841/
http://www.amazon.com/Being-There-Ruth-Attaway/dp/B000056WRD

12. Orson Welles - Campanadas a medianoche / Chimes at Midnight (1965)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059012/
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007X6KM2
(because of some strange copyright issues DVD is available only from Brasil)

13. Vittorio De Sica - Umberto D. (1952)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045274/
http://www.amazon.com/Umberto-Criterion-Collection-Carlo-Battisti/dp/B00009ME9Z

14. Fritz Lang - M (1931)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022100/
http://www.amazon.com/Criterion-Collection-Special-Gerhard-Bienert/dp/B00065GX64

15. Ridley Scott - Blade Runner (1982)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/
http://www.amazon.com/Blade-Runner-Five-Disc-Ultimate-Collectors/dp/B000K15VSA

16. Charles Laughton - The Night of the Hunter (1955)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048424/
http://www.amazon.com/Night-Hunter-Robert-Mitchum/dp/B000035P5R

Drasko

#13
August 09, 2007, 06:55:45 AM
Here are some hints for the rest.

3. Yes, it is Michael Caine and at his very best imo, while one famous british playwright plays a vilain. Caine also played smaller role in 30 years later Hollywood remake of the same film (which was utterly awful, as expected).

4. Is one of the very best British films of the 90s. Actor in leading role (the one in the picture) also starred in few Harry Potters I believe. Film is in color. Won best Director and Actor at Cannes.

5. Shakespeare.

orbital

#14
August 09, 2007, 07:10:20 AM
I was just about to guess Get Carter for #3.

Drasko

#15
August 09, 2007, 12:20:37 PM
Quote from: orbital on August 09, 2007, 07:10:20 AM
I was just about to guess Get Carter for #3.

Yes, of course. I'm very fond of that one, perfect cross (for me, that is) between Boorman's Point Blank and Antonioni's Il Deserto Rosso (and I enjoy it more than any of these).

3. Mike Hodges - Get Carter (1971)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067128/
http://www.amazon.com/Get-Carter-Michael-Caine/dp/0790750716

Not to drag this too long, I'll reveal the last two tomorrow if nobody guesses by then.

Robert

#16
August 09, 2007, 12:37:51 PM
Quote from: Drasko on August 09, 2007, 12:20:37 PM
Yes, of course. I'm very fond of that one, perfect cross (for me, that is) between Boorman's Point Blank and Antonioni's Il Deserto Rosso (and I enjoy it more than any of these).

3. Mike Hodges - Get Carter (1971)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067128/
http://www.amazon.com/Get-Carter-Michael-Caine/dp/0790750716

Not to drag this too long, I'll reveal the last two tomorrow if nobody guesses by then.
Im not really good with movies the only two I knew were The silence (I watch a lot of Bergman), and Night of the Hunter....Tonight I am going to watch Through a glass darkly. I watched the Silence on Monday, and Scenes from a Marriage on Tues and Wed. Next week I am planning on Autumn Sonata and Fanny and Alexander...(I take them out from the library..I hope they are available, There just seems not many people into Bergman in this tiny city.. so they are usually available...)

sidoze

#17
August 09, 2007, 12:41:44 PM
Quote from: Lilas Pastia on August 08, 2007, 05:03:37 PM
16 is a most famous shot, with Robert Mitchum displaying his 'hate' and 'love' knuckles (in Laughton's Night of the Hunter), one of cinema's most horrific movies.

One of cinema's most horrific movies? Most horrifically AWFUL movies maybe. I honestly thought this one of the biggest pieces of CRAP I'd ever experienced (and I include all forms of media and art here). Truly terribly cinema.

Kullervo

#18
August 09, 2007, 12:52:14 PM
Quote from: sidoze on August 09, 2007, 12:41:44 PM
One of cinema's most horrific movies? Most horrifically AWFUL movies maybe. I honestly thought this one of the biggest pieces of CRAP I'd ever experienced (and I include all forms of media and art here). Truly terribly cinema.

Clearly you haven't seen I Heart Huckabees.

sidoze

#19
August 09, 2007, 02:51:55 PM Last Edit: August 09, 2007, 02:53:34 PM by sidoze
Quote from: Kullervo on August 09, 2007, 12:52:14 PM
Clearly you haven't seen I Heart Huckabees.

No I haven't, but this is something else entirely. Night of the Hunter is an acknowledged classic. I think it has something of a cult following. When I started watching it I first thought it was a spoof. I can't even believe it had any merit back in the '50s. Complete waste of time, though I'm happy with the feeling of anger at having wasted time watching it as at least I know it's total and utter garbage. That's my reaction anyway.
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