Identify This Movie

[knives]

I don't remember the western, but the scene is influenced by a similar one from Reflections in a Golden Eye.

[The Elegant Dandy Fop]

First one's Salo, and that's gotta be a record for the same scene being asked about in this thread

I've actually seen Salo but I guess my suppressed memory didn't make me want to remember than scene. Of course the scene is on YouTube. I swore it looked different in the Historie(s) du cinema, like a black and white film, but there are so many clips, I'm not surprised I got muddled. Thanks though!

He specifically mentions the western influence the way the light reflects off the guns and that the image was probably in his subconscious. I want to say the title of the western was the name of a city in the south west, but I can't remember. It looked like it was in Technicolor and it I'm pretty certain it looked like it was shot in Academy ratio.

[domino harvey]

It's been a long time since I've seen Histoire(s) but I do recall many of the clips Godard used looking like fourth generation tape dubs (sometimes, I suspect, intentionally), so no one can really be blamed for not being able to place even familiar moments.

[domino harvey]

Okay, this one's been killing me forever and for some reason it never occurred to me to ask. Way back when I was an undergrad in a world film class, we watched a brief clip from a German film, made sometime between 60-80s. It was in black and white and concerned a female photographer. The translated title concerned time and day, like the twenty hour day or something along those lines. Any clues?

[Cold Bishop]

"The All-Around Reduced Personality/Redupers" comes to mind as far as subject matter and relative popularity, all though it doesn't quite have the title you're looking for.

[antnield]

My immediate thought was Kluge's Yesterday's Girl - though I don't recall photography coming into it...

[domino harvey]

"The All-Around Reduced Personality/Redupers" comes to mind as far as subject matter and relative popularity, all though it doesn't quite have the title you're looking for.

This is it. I don't know why I misremembered the title, but Redupers definitely struck a bell of recognition (no wonder I could never find it!). Thank you so much!

Another one that's been bugging me. This is a film released in the mid to late 90s, an indie film, about a man who visits a small town in order to commit suicide and some sort of comedic complications frustrate his plans. I remember watching some of it on HBO a way back. All Google searching the plot leads me to is a Luke Wilson movie from three years ago, which is definitely not it.

[antnield]

Julian Po?

[domino harvey]

YES! God I love this board

[knives]

Let's see if miracle do happen and a third thing can come up. It's been bugging me for years, but it's an older animated film (at least 25) done in a cardboard style like early South Park or maybe The Fantastic Planet. For some reason I think the story is based around The Argonauts myth but it doesn't strictly have to do so. The most specific scene I can remember is when one of the members of the boat goes insane for some reason and attempts to murder everyone else and so they must run away.

[knives]

[HypnoHelioStaticStasis]

Looks like James Garner and Henry Thomas and bolo ties... Fire in the Sky?

Not a great film by the way, but a definite piece of late-90's-TBS-sunday-afternoon-movie-nostalgia.

[knives]

Thank you, that's it.

[ambrose]

[feckless boy]

Might be this one.

edit: I'm wrong of course, see zeroisms's post below.

[ambrose]

Might be this one.

Genuine thanks!

[zeroism]

Actually, it's this film; though, according to the furigana, the title should be pronounced 'Uruwashiki haha' (either way, it translates as 'beautiful/lovely mother'). Here's the JMDB entry. Full poster here. [Edit: if the link to the poster doesn't work in your browser, see the page of origin here.]

[feckless boy]

Actually, it's this film; though, according to the furigana, the title should be pronounced 'Uruwashiki haha' (either way, it translates as 'beautiful/lovely mother'). Here's the JMDB entry.]

Furigana FTW! I could just make out 'Uruwashiki' and went with the first one I could find in her filmography: Uruwashiki shuppatsu (1939). Nice catch, zeroism!

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[kinjitsu]

That last one has got to be this film.

[ambrose]

That last one has got to be this film.

Really genuine thanks.

[ambrose]

[kinjitsu]

If you had translated the blog where you apparently found the image, you would have discovered that the film was directed by Yasujiro Shimazu, and is titled Midori no daichi* (The Green Earth), from 1942.

*the image name should have been your first clue...