Comments on: Name this movie.

Question: Name this movie.

Reggie Digest — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:17:57 -0800

What the heck was that movie I saw on TV a long time ago?

There was this guy, around age 20-25, an aspiring filmmaker. It was the swingin' 60's. (Maybe early 70's?) There was a scene where he goes to a nightclub an there's a band playing and there's a psychedelic oil projection on all the walls. There's a scene where he films a chubby naked girl crawling around his apartment. What was it? IMDB is no help.

It's driving me crazy!

By: lhall

lhall — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:23:19 -0800

The first thing I thought of was Midnight Cowboy. It's been a while since I've seen it but there was a weird psychedelic party and I seem to remember someone filming.

By: Reggie Digest

Reggie Digest — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:25:35 -0800

Nope. I don't think there were any big stars in it.

By: Reggie Digest

Reggie Digest — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:27:31 -0800

(Although, yeah, the psychedelic party scene was similar, but much more low-key, i.e. just a backdrop.)

By: lhall

lhall — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:29:12 -0800

Screencap gallery for Midnight Cowboy...definitely filming, but no naked girls that I can tell (although there's one in the scene immediately following this one).

By: lhall

lhall — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:29:56 -0800

Oops, posted that without previewing...I'll keep looking!

By: LobsterMitten

LobsterMitten — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:33:15 -0800

Do you know:
Was it a made-for-TV movie or a theatrical movie being shown on TV?
Was it made in the late 60s/early 70s, or did it just depict that time?

By: Reggie Digest

Reggie Digest — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:34:37 -0800

You're definitely on the right track, though. Same sort of audience, same period. It might have been set in London, or San Francisco, or some other place like that, but probably New York. (Wasn't Blow Up, either.)

By: Reggie Digest

Reggie Digest — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:37:39 -0800

Pretty sure it was made in the 60's/70's. Pretty sure it was theatrical (nudity!!!).

I saw it on either Showcase or Bravo in Canada five to ten years ago, if that helps.

By: lhall

lhall — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:45:53 -0800

One of these?

By: LobsterMitten

LobsterMitten — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:46:51 -0800

Two first thoughts:
Greetings (this one is a possibility because it's an early Brian DePalma and Robert DeNiro film, so more likely to have been shown)

King, Murray

By: Reggie Digest

Reggie Digest — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:56:03 -0800

Keep trying. (See why I'm going nuts over this?)

By: LobsterMitten

LobsterMitten — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:04:46 -0800

Try IMDB power search. Put in United States or USA for country of origin, 1963-1976 for year, exclude TV movies and TV series, and then try any keywords or words in the plot description you can think of. I was trying "filmmaker", which yielded the ones I named above. Try synonyms, because it's all user-contributed so you never know how people will describe something.

By: Reggie Digest

Reggie Digest — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:14:36 -0800

Allow me to reiterate: IMDB is no help.

By: Reggie Digest

Reggie Digest — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:19:41 -0800

Also, the NY-SF-London thing is pretty tenuous. It could have been Czech, for all I know.

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:37:58 -0800

It's a long-shot, but is does sound vaguely like Blow Up

By: theora55

theora55 — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 06:46:16 -0800

I was recently reminded of the movie After Hours which has vaguely similar overtones.

By: JimN2TAW

JimN2TAW — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 06:47:37 -0800

NO ONE was chubby in Blowup!

By: iconomy

iconomy — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:19:48 -0800

About when did you see this movie? "A long time ago" isn't specific enough for me ;)

By: iconomy

iconomy — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:33:04 -0800

The time frame isn't exactly right, but could it be Du Beat E-O?

By: lhall

lhall — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:16:15 -0800

Well, I just saw that Shampoo was on TV, so I watched - no naked people at the psychedelic party.

By: TiredStarling

TiredStarling — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:29:09 -0800

I'm with fearfulsymmetry - it has to Blow Up, though that wasn't made for TV.

It's THE archetypal swingin' 60s London movie. David Hemmings is the photographer. Goes to a nightclub where the Yardbirds are playing. Later gets his camera and rolls around his studio with a couple of naked photographer groupies. "Chubby" was "in" back then.

By: Reggie Digest

Reggie Digest — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:58:31 -0800

It is absolutely, unequivocally NOT Blow Up. I've seen that a million times. This isn't is.

By: Reggie Digest

Reggie Digest — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:00:59 -0800

Ugh. "...isn't it."

By: kookywon

kookywon — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:43:28 -0800

I'm not sure if this is going to help, but all of your suggestions are pointing me to auto focus:

-aspiring filmmaker : the hogan's hero guy really gets into video recorders, makes videos for his family and starts filming amateur porn
-'swinging 60's' : takes place from the start of hogan's heroes up to when he dies (in the 70's sometime)
-club/psychodelic : he goes to nightclubs/strip clubs and plays drums after hours
-chubby naked girl crawling around : he films a chub blindfolded in the apartment and she trip over a couch and crawls around on the floor for awhile.

How long ago is 'a long time ago'?