Most acclaimed or your favorite movies about life during the Great Depression or the Great Panic of 1873?
posted on Oct 2, 2008 - 16 answers
Windows Media Player and Center in Vista suck at subtitles for the old b&w foreign flicks I watch. Subtitles are white and get washed out when the picture is white. Is there a hack or some other media player which will render the subtitles better (outlined or in yellow). (FYI: subtitles for these films show up great on my Sony DVD player.)
posted on Sep 18, 2008 - 7 answers 
Where can I get Disney movies dubbed in Mandarin? [more inside]
posted on Jun 6, 2008 - 6 answers
I want to start a log of films I see, to include director, lead actors, genre, date viewed, etc, and my own review of the flick. This is for my own use only. Can anyone offer a recommendation for software to use/how to set it up in something standard like Excel so that I can search on any category but still have somewhat extensive space for my eloquent prose? Might also extend its use to books and music. I'm a mac user.
Thanks!
posted on Jun 2, 2008 - 13 answers
Amazing movies of 2008? Has there been any? What have I missed?
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posted on May 23, 2008 - 38 answers
Old movie question involving US military, China, torture, and other things. What movie was this? [more inside]
posted on May 17, 2008 - 2 answers
Are We Done Yet? was the sequel to an original film, but was weirdly also a remake of the classic Cary Grant comedy Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. Along the same lines, Ocean's Twelve was based on an unrelated script first intended as a John Woo project. Can we think of any other examples of a sequel to an original movie starting life as an unconnected film? [more inside]
posted on Apr 30, 2008 - 18 answers
A childhood memory of two science fiction films has been nagging me lately. I have just a little to go on... [more inside]
posted on Apr 17, 2008 - 11 answers
I show movies to assisted living residents at a retirement community. Movies over 90 minutes tend to be too long. I need a list of quality movies (made before 1970) that are 90 minutes long or less. Any suggestions of movies or where to find such a list?
posted on Apr 16, 2008 - 16 answers
Why are there so few living and loving mothers in Disney films? [more inside]
posted on Mar 12, 2008 - 38 answers
I'm looking for a short film I watched online of an (fictional) surveillance of an apartment, with the camera pointed for the entire length of the film at a black and white monitor in the van and the four remote feeds displaying on it. [more inside]
posted on Jan 28, 2008 - 5 answers
Help me find some great or good scifi watchables. [more inside]
posted on Jan 27, 2008 - 60 answers
If Steve Guttenburg never, ever worked again, how much money would he earn yearly? [more inside]
posted on Jan 21, 2008 - 20 answers
What are the best cinematic movie soundtracks you've ever heard? [more inside]
posted on Jan 14, 2008 - 116 answers
Is there a site that will enable me to compile a list of movies I want to see and notify me if any of them show in a configurable fairly wide area? Yahoo Movies lets me build a to-see list, but I have to laboriously plug in a bunch of zip codes for each film (because its range is very narrow). For example, I've only seen LOTR on DVD, and every once in a while a theater revives them as a special thing and I miss it. And, just generally, I'm interested in obscure indie flicks that release only sporadically, and I lack the patience to search each title every few days. Now.....if there were such a site that could do the above plus track showings of my top-predicted films at MOVIELENS, that'd be great (but way too much to hope for). FYI, movielens (movielens.umn.edu) is an awesome groupware prediction engine.
posted on Jan 4, 2008 - 7 answers
What horror films feature a mystery killer? [more inside]
posted on Jan 1, 2008 - 22 answers
What is the stringed instrument that plays the wistful tune at the beginning of the movie Unforgiven with Clint Eastwood? Mandolin? Banjo? Ukelele? I want to buy one.
posted on Dec 21, 2007 - 6 answers
After months of research, we've finally discovered the film that was shown the night my theatre opened in 1919. The question is, how would I go about finding out if there are existing prints of this movie available? [more inside]
posted on Dec 9, 2007 - 11 answers
Need help finding a movie recommendation site where the user enters several favorite movie titles, and the site returns results based on other users entering those same movie titles... [more inside]
posted on Nov 27, 2007 - 14 answers
Moving out to the country and have a hunger to watch some good old (or recent) Westerns. What are your favorites and why?
posted on Nov 15, 2007 - 34 answers
Where are the best cinemas in Paris? [more inside]
posted on Sep 23, 2007 - 7 answers
Can anyone identify this movie? [more inside]
posted on Aug 2, 2007 - 3 answers
What is the incredibly common piece of movie trailer music that kicks in at about :54 of this trailer for No Reservations? [more inside]
posted on Jul 11, 2007 - 14 answers
As a guy with a lot of free time on his hands (Student over the summer), I want to catch up on my comedies. [more inside]
posted on Jul 2, 2007 - 47 answers
I need a Mac app that will let me search for movies and showtimes like Sherlock used to. [more inside]
posted on Jun 7, 2007 - 11 answers
Which cinematographs or televisual serials most faithfully depict the operations of police or detectives?
posted on May 29, 2007 - 25 answers
Is there an easy-to-use site that lists all movies, theatres and showtimes in NYC. Please, God, PLEASE don't say citysearch! [more inside]
posted on May 27, 2007 - 14 answers
A few years ago I saw a movie that I now remember vaguely but vividly. It was sort of an arty drama, and it might have been European. The story concerned a man and a woman vacationing(?) in a house near a beach. The man was in some sort of psychological distress, eventually culminating in some bloody self-mutilation. The title may have referenced Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" in some way, but I could be misremembering. [more inside]
posted on May 26, 2007 - 7 answers
What are some films or television shows/episodes about corporate or white-collar crime? Bonus if you have a videoclip.
posted on Mar 20, 2007 - 20 answers
(Stereotype-flouting) Math Movie Suggestions Needed for a pi-day celebration. I'm looking for movies that don't portray mathematicians as schizophrenic or otherwise deranged. [more inside]
posted on Mar 7, 2007 - 30 answers
What feature length films have Rube Goldberg machines in them? Can you think of movies that have scenes with machines/devices that are either rube goldberg machines or rube goldberg-esque?
posted on Nov 21, 2006 - 37 answers
Moviefilter: Recommend some good films set in London? [more inside]
posted on Sep 15, 2006 - 38 answers
I'm looking for theatres that show Chinese language films in the Los Angeles area. It would be great if the movies had english subtitles but it they don't I'm still interested.
posted on Aug 25, 2006 - 7 answers
I'm fascinated by changes instigated by movie/tv test audiences. Any good way to find more (or confirm internet rumors)? [more inside]
posted on Aug 14, 2006 - 16 answers
What non-fiction books or documentary films explore a subculture or lifestyle as effectively as Henry Chalfant & Tony Silver's Style Wars and Hunter S. Thompson's Hell's Angels? [more inside]
posted on Jul 26, 2006 - 42 answers
Please help me find black and white (or predominantly black and white) films MADE SINCE 1970 for an ongoing art project. [more inside]
posted on Apr 13, 2006 - 39 answers
Movies wanted to show before gigs. [more inside]
posted on Apr 10, 2006 - 31 answers
Good movies set in Paris? [more inside]
posted on Mar 20, 2006 - 43 answers
How could the film "Brazil" have been made with only $15 million? Was that amount of money thought of as exorbitant at the time of its production (1984)? [more inside]
posted on Mar 15, 2006 - 16 answers
I am looking for movies with only a few main characters and little to no secondary characters. The main characters talk alot about philosophy, or politics or love or something, anything interesting really. (more inside). This type of movie often takes place in a deserted locale for much of the film... a few people get lost on a camping trip, or stranded on an island, or they share a jail cell together.. [more inside]
posted on Feb 9, 2006 - 81 answers
I loved Hotel Rwanda. What particularly hooked me was the film's unflinching realism in showing civilization as it is slowly being encroached and oppressed by large-scale terrorism which casts a shadow of uncertainty and danger on even the most mundane routines of daily life -- a sort of real-life Night of the Living Dead. Other similar films are Salvador, Missing and The Killing Fields. I also enjoyed the recent The Constant Gardener. What else will I like? [more inside]
posted on Nov 15, 2005 - 30 answers
Anyone know of a site that offers LOCAL release dates for upcoming films? [more inside]
posted on Jul 5, 2005 - 4 answers
Which films by Alfred Hitchcock are his best?
posted on Apr 23, 2005 - 38 answers
Years ago on atomfilms.com, I watched a little movie that I'd like to find again online. I think it was claymation. It depicted a depressed factory worker who invented some physical, manufacturable form of Happiness. He was happy with his invention for a time, sharing it with friends, but eventually started his own factory making his new Happiness to become rich, at which point he became depressed again. [more inside]
posted on Mar 1, 2005 - 7 answers
Ever notice how films from a few decades back (say, the early 70s and before) have all the credits before the film starts? And that newer films put all the credits at the end, except for maybe the title and the stars? When did that switch over start, who started it, and why? Obviously it looks better at the end cause we can all leave the theatre, but why was the decision suddenly made to switch it?
posted on Feb 24, 2005 - 26 answers
I'm making a documentary/mockumentry in old newsreel style, and I'm looking for old cheeseball educational film/newsreel music to use as a background soundtrack. Hints? Links? Free would be nice...Cheap OK.
posted on Feb 12, 2005 - 7 answers
Help us Find That Flick! It's a scary movie from the 1970s that may in fact have been a TV pilot for a show called "Ghost Story." (Open the creaking door, come inside...)
posted on Jan 31, 2005 - 6 answers
In movies and on TV, why does a phone go to dial tone after someone hangs up? Is there a phone system somewhere that really does that?
posted on Jan 16, 2005 - 22 answers
SubtitlesFilter: I'm an admirer of the films of Theo Angelopoulos, but his films have always been hard to get hold of. Recently, I managed to acquire a complete set of DVDs, having bought the things as soon as I saw them. The only problem is, they're subtitled in Japanese. I've tried searching for english subtitles on the internet, but to no avail. Short of learning to speak Greek or read Japanese, is there anything else I could do?
posted on Jan 14, 2005 - 2 answers
WWIIMovieFilter: I was talking to my grandfather, who was a paratrooper who particpated in the Normandy invasion, about war movies. He mentioned how unrealistic he found movies like Saving Private Ryan and that he had only ever seen one movie that he found truly illustrated the realities of his experience. [MI]
posted on Dec 4, 2004 - 10 answers
HalloweenFilter: What are some good movies for a halloween party? Scary, Silly, you name it.
posted on Oct 31, 2004 - 17 answers
AskMovieSpoilerFilter - So a while ago I was watching the excellent "The Color of Money" and I can't figure out exactly why the Tom Cruise character was so pissed at the Paul Newman character at the very end. [spoiler] Did Fast Eddie throw his match because he had been payed off to do so? Presumably simply resigning a match would arouse suspicions if that were the case. Or did he do it to avoid playing Tom Cruise in a tournament? I can't find a precis anywhere on the net that goes into that level of detail...
posted on Oct 26, 2004 - 7 answers
When I read about the movie Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, I found that Kerry Conran, the creator of the movie, had gotten Gwyneth Paltrow to agree to be cast based on a short film he'd made to sell the concept. Does anyone have a link to the original short online?
posted on Oct 10, 2004 - 4 answers
I'm organising a regular movie evening and was wanting a fancy menu system that would look like this...
posted on Sep 27, 2004 - 6 answers
Best scenes ever from films? A caveat inside ...
posted on Sep 21, 2004 - 58 answers
War Movies: I'm looking for any good movies about World War II, specifically to do with civilian life (rather than military actions.) I've seen Au Revoir Les Enfants and The Diary of Anne Frank - can you suggest any others you've enjoyed?
posted on Sep 16, 2004 - 35 answers
My sister once took a film course where she learned that each film in the Alien trilogy (not including the 4th one) is supposed to represent some kind of cultural anxiety. [more inside]
posted on Sep 10, 2004 - 23 answers
Is there a website compiling framegrabs of computer screens in feature films? In other words, a photo gallery including Jeff Goldblum's Mac virus from Independence Day, Matthew Broderick's terminal in Wargames, the 3D filesystem in Jurassic Park, Scotty's "transparent aluminum" GUI in Star Trek IV, and so on.
I find it hard to believe this doesn't exist on the Internet. (If it doesn't, then I'm going to start it right away.)
posted on Aug 31, 2004 - 19 answers
Selecting things to see at the Toronto Film Fest. Here's a list of films playing at TIFF. International MeFites and film nuts: have you seen/heard anything about any of them/the directors? What should a TIFF-goer see or avoid? If you're going to the Fest, what are you seeing? Got extra tickets you want to sell? Looking for ones to buy? Lets use the thread to maximize the event. {more}
posted on Aug 28, 2004 - 15 answers
Rutger Hauer + Big Guns + Kim Cattrall Topless = Split Second, a 1992 Sci-Fi flick that is selling for too much money on Amazon. I need this flick on DVD, not VHS, and I need it for a price less than $30. I am aware that this may well be impossible, but I've exhausted all other resources. Help me, Aski-Meta Filtari; you're my only hope.
posted on Jul 28, 2004 - 14 answers
I just finished watching Jules et Jim. I really liked it, but I have a slightly spoilerish question which I will ask inside.
posted on Jul 22, 2004 - 16 answers
Does anyone remember a movie from about the 1950s (not sure, but it was black and white) that was an Indiana Jones type adventure film (but of course it was made before the Indy movies) with the following final scene:
The hero and heroine are escaping with the treasure in a hot air balloon...[MI]
posted on Jul 19, 2004 - 10 answers
I haven't found an explanation for this anywhere. Does anyone know why all of Woody Allen's films have been released on dvd in mono? Is this a creative decision by Allen or something else?
posted on May 22, 2004 - 2 answers
I'm looking for high quality, reliable (since they'll end up having my credit card number) English-language sites that sell (and ship internationally) hard-to-find Japanese, Korean, Hong Kong movies on DVD. There are so many sites that seem to do that. What do you recommend? Also, tangentially related: is there an all-English-language version of the very interesting Amazon.co.jp? My Japanese is close to non-existent thanks
posted on May 13, 2004 - 12 answers
In a moment of boredom I watched Cube 2: Hypercube on SciFi and didn't understand very much of it. Why were they all there? What was the actual point of them being there? What was the necklace all about? Why did they shoot Katie? What was she actually trying to do? My question really is: Does anyone know of any good websites where if you don't understand a film, someone else will tell you what it all meant?
posted on May 10, 2004 - 9 answers
Can anyone provide some good examples of films where new technology is depicted as being positive and beneficial. Essentially I want films that are the opposite of the "you're messing with things you don't understand - you're trying to play God!" kind.
posted on Apr 6, 2004 - 54 answers
In the recent movie School of Rock there's a scene where Jack Black's character is standing in front of a blackboard on which he's sketched out a history/taxonomy of rock music. Does anyone know how I'd go about getting a poster of this?
posted on Mar 15, 2004 - 16 answers
Are there good biopics about any of the jazz greats? Or movies focused on the jazz scene? I know there are a ton of documentaries, I'm interested in fictionalized, "shoot the legend" type stuff.
posted on Mar 3, 2004 - 11 answers
Is there anywhere I can get a list of movies released theatrically in the US for 2003? I want to put together a Top 10 list, but can't remember many movies I saw this year. (Maybe that's a sign...) I know that you can get IMDB to list movies by year, by that lists EVERYTHING, and is much too long a list to wade through.
posted on Jan 27, 2004 - 7 answers
The film Perfect Blue is very confusing. (more inside, with major spoilers)
posted on Jan 19, 2004 - 11 answers
This has been bugging me for ages. Does anyone know why Elizabeth Perkins (Tom Hanks girlfriend in 'Big') appears on screen in press room towards the end of Michael Douglas big speech in 'The American President'? Was a whole sub-plot cut from that film or am I missing some other connection?
posted on Jan 14, 2004 - 4 answers
My mother is in her late sixties, and her kids just bought her a DVD player for her most recent birthday. Now she wants to know what movies we'd recommend she'd buy or rent. [More inside.]
posted on Jan 2, 2004 - 24 answers
