What are some famous/infamous examples of actors getting so into character that they either have trouble getting out of character or the experience does some long-term psychological damage? [more inside]
posted on Jul 15, 2008 - 47 answers
What is the font used for the title in this poster for Being John Malkovich? Details are welcome - light, bold, etc. Thanks.
posted on May 7, 2008 - 8 answers 
Where can I get the best subtitles for My Neighbour Totoro? [more inside]
posted on Apr 4, 2008 - 16 answers
Old Movie Filter: This is the question I joined MeFi to ask. I remember seeing a movie, on actual reels, when I was about seven at school. It has haunted me for the last twenty-two years. [more inside]
posted on Mar 18, 2008 - 17 answers
I know there is a movie version of The Stranger (l'Etranger), where can I order it online?
Also, is it any good, if you've seen it?
posted on Mar 14, 2008 - 3 answers
Has anyone ever attempted to estimate the total number of films made in Hollywood that we today consider film noir? What about other long-lived genres of the high era of the silver screen? [more inside]
posted on Jan 24, 2008 - 6 answers
SPECIFIC, SPOILER FILLED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MOVIE "Cloverfield". If you haven't seen it and don't want to know details, ignore this thread. [more inside]
posted on Jan 21, 2008 - 39 answers
What films have the best prologues? [more inside]
posted on Dec 25, 2007 - 41 answers
I seek recommendations for foreign language films which feature extensive narration or otherwise crisp, clear, lovely dialogue. [more inside]
posted on Dec 17, 2007 - 21 answers
Two related questions about North Korea: (1) Can anyone point me to a distributor, collector, or other source of North Korean films, either on DVD/VHS or (ideally) on film? (2) How would I go about directing a letter there? [more inside]
posted on Oct 22, 2007 - 7 answers
Who are some people in the film industry I should be looking for in regards to Director of Photography vs. Film Editor? I've already watched movies specifically for the actors and directors. [more inside]
posted on Sep 26, 2007 - 27 answers
Where are the best cinemas in Paris? [more inside]
posted on Sep 23, 2007 - 7 answers
What is the earliest generally-accepted use in commercial cinema of the following three shots: a lens-based zoom, in or out; a traveling shot using a dolly to follow a scene's protagonist (as in moving from room to room laterally); and a traveling shot using a dolly to effectively create a zoom, in which the framing of the protagonist becomes tighter as a result of a shorter distance to the subject? [more inside]
posted on Sep 18, 2007 - 5 answers
May I trouble someone in the U.K. to search the BFI download page and store, and tell me if they offer Project Apollo: Manned Flight to the Moon for sale or download? The site doesn't permit access to those pages from the U.S. I'm not looking to commit some kind of international copyright conspiracy; I just really want to see that movie. [more inside]
posted on Aug 1, 2007 - 5 answers
Recommend me a film with a theme centering around a social justice issue. Preferably fictitious, or at least not a documentary (sorry Michael Moore fans). I realize that "social justice" is a loosely-defined term; basically, if the screenwriter is trying to make a point about a social justice issue, it's fair game. An archetypal example would be The Constant Gardener, but also acceptable would be movies along the lines of American History X, Crash, Children of Men or Gattaca. Thanks, green!
posted on Jul 24, 2007 - 46 answers
In light of the horrendously awful "I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry," are there any GOOD (i.e. both funny and non-homophobic) comedies about straight people either having to pretend they're gay or, more generally, about straight people slowly but surely letting go of their prejudices towards LGBT people? [more inside]
posted on Jul 19, 2007 - 43 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
Oh man, I am a sucker for old romances. Your film recommendations, please? [more inside]
posted on Apr 15, 2007 - 48 answers
OldMovieFilter: I'm trying to find a movie I saw a while back. It was from either the 1940's or 1950's. It was about three women trying to make it in a new city... [more inside]
posted on Feb 9, 2007 - 4 answers
Can you help identify this split-screen movie? It's from at least 8 years ago, featuring a man, his wife/girlfriend, and their baby. Detailed description inside. [more inside]
posted on Jan 11, 2007 - 2 answers
Why is the CGI in Jurassic Park so good? Despite being nearly fifteen years old, it's no worse than that in The Lord of the Rings and King Kong, and certainly better than the recent Star Wars movies. [more inside]
posted on Jan 4, 2007 - 29 answers
How do I analyze the film "the rules of the game"? [more inside]
posted on Oct 19, 2006 - 14 answers
Do you know this classic Russian (Soviet?) film? [more inside]
posted on Jul 3, 2006 - 11 answers
Please point me towards new trends in cinema, with an emphasis on narrative stuff. [more inside]
posted on Jun 24, 2006 - 16 answers
Help me find a the typeface used in The Cabinet of Dr Caligari. [more inside]
posted on May 18, 2006 - 5 answers
Recommend some quality, crowd-pleasing films [more inside]
posted on May 7, 2006 - 21 answers
What is the name of this movie containing split screens? [more inside]
posted on Apr 29, 2006 - 11 answers
MovieFilter: Help me find films about revenge. [more inside]
posted on Mar 30, 2006 - 66 answers
Post-Matrix films?
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posted on Mar 9, 2006 - 47 answers
What is the name of this Australian film? [more inside]
posted on Mar 5, 2006 - 4 answers
Where can I watch, or listen to, the Academy Awards live on the internet? [more inside]
posted on Mar 3, 2006 - 3 answers
I'm trying to figure out what this murderous-fembot movie was. [more inside]
posted on Feb 9, 2006 - 8 answers
In the original 1978 Superman movie Lex Luther plans to split apart the San Andreas fault-line using Nuclear armaments - the resulting explosion destined to send the entire Californian coastline and its inhabitants to murky ocean depths.
How much explosive force would be needed to cause any such kind of earthquake? And, using the San Andreas fault as a model, could Lex Luther's diabolic plan have any degree of success? [more inside]Please help me identify this short film. I saw it on PBS about 15 years ago. It involved a society where time was literally money, and this time was linked directly to your lifespan. [more inside]
posted on Nov 26, 2005 - 5 answers
Help me improve my film-watching skills... [more inside]
posted on Nov 5, 2005 - 38 answers
Having exhausted the English-language scene, I'm wondering what foreign directors have catalogs worth going through. I've already taken a look at the works of Pedro Almodovar and Wong Kar Wai, and would love to know who else has earned the respect of Mefi cinephiles. Limit your answer to directors whose catalog is in bulk created after 1970, please.
posted on Aug 27, 2005 - 39 answers
Name that Creepy Short Film: A woman starts to pull a hair out of a sink... [more inside]
posted on May 17, 2005 - 3 answers
Another lost movie. Last seen 1973 in Europe, presumably made that year or slightly earlier (it may never have reached America). Setting: Britain (mostly London?) Pre WWI and just after. Cast: Attractive, British, youthful. No big names that I recall. General themes: I think- women's rights, problems of romance & politics, the pity of war. Two scenes vividly remembered: Young man appreciatively watching a woman on stage, she singing con brio "Votes for women, votes for women, la de da de da da dee!" Final scene young woman sitting in an art gallery post WW1 watching with emotion some "modern" art. I think her young man has died in the war. Scenes less well remembered (VERY POSSIBLY misremembered) generic love scene, generic romantic argument, suffragettes being run in by the police, young man getting a fleeing suffragette out of the way.
A UK production, more art house than mass release, but wonderful atmosphere, which is probably why it sticks in my mind all these years later.
posted on Apr 30, 2005 - 6 answers
Two directors whose work I greatly admire, François Girard and Whit Stillman, have been MIA for quite some time. Can someone tell me where either has been, what they've been doing since their last films and what their future plans are? I've heard whispers and seen snippets online, but am hoping some industry-savvy MeFi-ite can provide something more substantial. Is this a case of lack of profitability completely trumping quality and forcing these two out of the director's chair?
posted on Apr 20, 2005 - 4 answers
ZombieFilter: I have recently developed an interest in zombie movies. I'm having trouble finding a good list though; can anyone recommend some new ones I haven't seen yet? Preferably North American releases but any foreign suggestions are welcome too. [+]
posted on Feb 14, 2005 - 38 answers
Film Double Bill Suggestions. I'm putting together a season of double bills of great films. The double bills could be linked by actor, director, cinematographer, editor or genre, or they could be linked thematically - 2 films about childhood/set on a runaway train/sharing a common influence and so on. Anything goes, although both films must appeal to a broad audience, and should be generally recognisable as 'classics' of their type. What 2 films have you always wanted to see together?
posted on Dec 21, 2004 - 57 answers
Torontonians: Where can you rent art films on VHS these days? Generally Bay St. Video covers all my rental needs, but they only rent DVDs now, which is great for movies that are available on DVD, but less great for those that aren't. (+)
posted on Dec 7, 2004 - 14 answers
I'm trying to find the title of a movie about a child dying of cancer who's father gives him a wish (More inside)
posted on Dec 5, 2004 - 4 answers
It's obscure-songs-from-French-movies time! The film "Cléo de 5 à 7" has a haunting tune sung by Cleo about halfway through called "Without You", which I cannot elaborate on much further except that some of the lyrics are about an empty house and (I think) the wind blowing through it. Since the soundtrack does not seem to exist any longer, is there any way I can get my hands on it anymore? Has someone in subsequent years covered it?
posted on Nov 3, 2004 - 4 answers
A number of years ago (8? 10?) there was a relatively low budget movie version of The Fantastic Four made, only to be bought up, and never shown the light of day, awaiting a big-budget production in the future.
Has anyone stumbled across information of this aborted project, and does anyone know where some video of it exists (in a digital format)?
posted on Jul 2, 2004 - 7 answers
MovieFilter? - When a film shows a couple kissing, she often lifts her left leg up to make a right angle at the knee. Why? Does anyone actually do this in real life? Part of me expects it originally had some kind of euphamistic purpose, but my limited googling skills tell me nothing. Thoughts?
posted on Jun 16, 2004 - 9 answers
What are some good Korean movies? [more inside]
posted on Jan 10, 2004 - 16 answers
