Identify This Movie
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that reminds me of another possible Sophie Marceau mystery.
This movie came out '96ish, and I thought it starred Marceau, but nothing on imdb looks like it, so I'm probably wrong. Anyway, it was set and probably made in the UK, scotland I think. It was about a group of young people who go to an estate in the country to film a horror movie. They end up taking LSD and hilariousness ensues... kind of like a scottish Anniversary Party.
This movie came out '96ish, and I thought it starred Marceau, but nothing on imdb looks like it, so I'm probably wrong. Anyway, it was set and probably made in the UK, scotland I think. It was about a group of young people who go to an estate in the country to film a horror movie. They end up taking LSD and hilariousness ensues... kind of like a scottish Anniversary Party.
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That would be Loaded by Jane Campion's older sister, Anna. No Marceau, though.
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I'm trying to find out about a silent film starring (I believe,) Mary Pickford.
I know it's really famous (as it caused a scandal back in the 20's) but the only scene I'm aware of involves Ms. Pickford drinking from a communion cup at the same place her unattainable love did (she turns the chalice, even).
I saw the clip a few years ago and it has since gestated in my mind, turning into my own short film idea... I'd just like to know where I got the idea from (and possibly see the rest of the film).
I know it's really famous (as it caused a scandal back in the 20's) but the only scene I'm aware of involves Ms. Pickford drinking from a communion cup at the same place her unattainable love did (she turns the chalice, even).
I saw the clip a few years ago and it has since gestated in my mind, turning into my own short film idea... I'd just like to know where I got the idea from (and possibly see the rest of the film).
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I knew I'd seen this, but the Pickford threw me off. It was not "America's Sweetheart," but Greta Garbo in the marvelous "Flesh and the Devil."miless wrote:I'm trying to find out about a silent film starring (I believe,) Mary Pickford.
You can even see the clip here.
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I was convinced for about 2 years that it was Greta, but I began to doubt myself when I began thinking that I had seen the clip in an American Masters on Pickford. Thanks so muchjesus the mexican boi wrote:I knew I'd seen this, but the Pickford threw me off. It was not "America's Sweetheart," but Greta Garbo in the marvelous "Flesh and the Devil."
You can even see the clip here.
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I got my grandmother a DVD player and she has always talked about this old British film about a man who is told he going to die, so he goes out and spends all his money, quits his job etc. and at the end is told it was all a mistake. Can anyone identify this? I'd like to buy it for her and see it myself!
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FSimeoni wrote:I got my grandmother a DVD player and she has always talked about this old British film about a man who is told he going to die, so he goes out and spends all his money, quits his job etc. and at the end is told it was all a mistake. Can anyone identify this? I'd like to buy it for her and see it myself!
I think it's Last Holiday with Alec Guinness, made in 1950. Available inthis collection
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I saw a few minutes of a very weird American color film, may be from 70's or 80's. It's about a young American soldier that is a P.O.W in Dresden in World War II. He sees and survives the Allies bombing. Years later, he became an important American politician, may be the Crongress, Senate or Governor... and suddenly he's in the space remembering his life and the Dresden bombing.
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I remember it as forced satire (about a crumbling apartment block, i.e. The State) with lashings of groansome simple-savage-quaintly-enchanted-by-modern-technology piffle, conveyed with sub-Fellini (hell, even sub-Kusturica) eye-twinkling whimsy.dave41n wrote:The Fountain, directed by Yuri Mamin. Can't tell you anything about it though. I haven't been able to track it down.What film is the following image from and what can you tell me about the film?
Mamin's later Window to Paris (oh-so-zany Russian family discovers a magic portal to the City of Lights) trafficks in the same sort of simplistic Kulture Klash Komedy and is even more feeble.
The Fountain came out at a time when Soviet cinema was particularly dynamic (as satire, Muratova's take-no-prisoners The Asthenic Syndrome incinerates this with a glance), so it doesn't seem like a particularly great choice for that cover. The 'freedom' imagery is relevant, of course, but there are much better and more important films that could have provided strong 'freedom' images (Freeze, Die, Come to Life, Freedom Is Paradise, Repentance)