Identify This Movie

[Murdoch]

A lot of them, and I'm not sure if they're all films
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine

[CJG]

Number six is The Conformist.

[rohmerin]

I will swear that Nro 6 is Bertolucci's il conformista
9th , the white ribbon?

[Dylan]

Isn't seven The Big Combo?

[antnield]

Number eight is Alex Cox's Straight to Hell.

[Murdoch]

Thanks. Seven might be Big Combo but I watched it a few weeks ago and don't remember that shot (although this one is strikingly similar). I thought it might be another Alton noir.

Any ideas on the first five would be greatly appreciated.

[bottled spider]

In Seven, the figure on the right looks like a Cossack -- he appears to be carrying a rifle on his back, and wearing one of those Russian fur hats, and his footgear looks Slavic.

[emeditz]

Two could be Pale Flower.

[carax09]

Two is almost certainly Pale Flower. Three is frustrating because I recognize the actress with the gun pointed at her, but just can't place her. Could five be Morvern Callar? It's been a while since I've seen it, but I seem to recall a shot like that toward a riverbank at night.

[kinjitsu]

Three is Death Note, and four is The Ghost Breakers

[Murdoch]

I would have never thought four was from a Bob Hope movie.

[kinjitsu]

Nor I. At first glance, I thought that was Gloria Swanson.

[Hai2u]

thanks in advance, ha

[domino harvey]

Dead Alive

[Murdoch]

I'm not sure if this is an anime film or just a drawing.

[kinjitsu]

It's from a short anime

[Murdoch]

Thanks, looks rather striking.

[domino harvey]

More like Animatonioni

[RNL]

I remember reading ages ago about a film that followed a cow as it was traded from owner to owner. I think it might've been Spanish, and I don't think it's a very old one; my guess would be late '90s.

Anybody?

[knives]

Are you sure it isn't donkey?

[RNL]

A French donkey?

No, I'm pretty sure it was a Spanish cow.

[dadaistnun]

Carnage?

[RNL]

Thank you. I wish I could say that's definitely it, but it probably is.

[zedz]

Carnages might be a red herring. As I recall, the unifying factor tying up all the different intersecting lives (that annoying arthouse staple of recent years) was the different bits and pieces of the dead bull and what happened to them, which is quite a different thing from a cow changing hands - even more so in practice than on paper, as the beast is never a 'character' in the narrative, just a plot device, but maybe this is just an effect of how RNL first heard about the film.

[colinr0380]

I agree. Carnages, as the name implies, is more about animal meat being transported after it has been killed. I wonder if you could be thinking of Julio Medem's 1992 film Vacas, a rival families saga told from the point of view of cows?

(It is also one of the few films I'm aware of, apart from Pontecorvo's Ogro about ETA which I have not yet had the chance to see, about the Basque region of Spain, its history and politics. Apart from Medem's documentary Basque Ball)