I'm looking for sequences like the
opening credits of Delicatessen where the camera flies through a collection of objects to focus on specific tidbits of information. I'd like to see anything done in this style, not just credits sequences. Thank you!
posted by muta
on Apr 8, 2011 -
15 answers
I remember seeing part of a movie (it could have been a TV show) involving a female hospital patient killed by a man posing as a doctor. Do you know which movie this is?
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posted by cp311
on Apr 6, 2011 -
3 answers
What movie has this scene? A guy loosely holds a handkerchief/piece of paper out a car window and talks about how he likes to see how loose he can hold on to something important without losing it.
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posted by slashee
on Apr 5, 2011 -
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Here's the plot: what's the movie(s)? Character figures his/her life sucks but can not bring themselves to commit suicide, so they hire a hitman to do the job. Character finds out life is, in fact, worth living (typically falls in love) and tries to call off the hit but can't because the wheels are turning.
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posted by victors
on Apr 5, 2011 -
16 answers
What are the most underappreciated (and/or critically-acclaimed but underwatched) movies of the last decade?
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posted by killdevil
on Apr 4, 2011 -
120 answers
I am trying to find a South American or Latin American film that we watched when I was in college in the 80s. It was described by the professor as being an example of "magic realism" in film. The scene I remember was of an orchard with trees in bloom and the flowers all turned into butterflies. It was NOT an animated film. Any help greatly appreciated!
posted by cmp4Meta
on Apr 4, 2011 -
6 answers
Why, when remastering old movies, do they record new sound effects to dub over the original audio?
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posted by koolgiy
on Apr 2, 2011 -
5 answers
I would like to make a short documentary. I want it to not suck. I know nothing.
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posted by serazin
on Apr 1, 2011 -
13 answers
Asking for a friend: What should she look for in projection equipment for an outdoor movie screen?
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posted by Golfhaus
on Mar 30, 2011 -
4 answers
MovieFilter: Looking for a movie where a corporation pays a fake family to move into a neighborhood and markets various products to their neighbors via "keeping up with the Joneses"-ism.
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posted by pedmands
on Mar 27, 2011 -
3 answers
Help me remember this movie: a stereotypical 80's comedy/horror that takes place during a party in a large house. One of the rooms has a giant swimming pool where couples keep sneaking away for some privacy. There's a monster at the bottom of the pool that can use the heads of previous victims to talk to and entrap new victims. I distinctly remember the pool being warm and somewhat dirty but each successive visitor just couldn't resist.
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posted by RhymesWithToaster
on Mar 24, 2011 -
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Name-That-Movie-Filter: I saw a movie about ten years ago that had a lot of snow. And a card game where someone may have put his wife and/or child up as collateral. And a mining town, likely in the Eastern Sierra; for some reason, I associate the movie with the approximate location of the folk song "Darcy Farrow". There may have been a plot point that the guy who lost his [daughter/wife] tries to marry the child, later, or maybe his enemy does. Help?
posted by notsnot
on Mar 22, 2011 -
4 answers
Another lost movie question, but this time I know the title ... or thought I did. I'm looking for "They Swarm", a film about a swarm of huge beetles approaching a northern US island under the watch of an inexperienced young sheriff. Nothing comes up on IMDB or the internet for that title. It's not "The Swarm", the 1978 film about killer bees.
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posted by daisyk
on Mar 21, 2011 -
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Help me Identify a movie based on a fragment of it.
A mobster (somewhere in USA like NYC maybe) is in his home with his wife, and is lamenting to her that he must soon go do something or confront some people that he doesn't want to. And she says something like "you're the king of the castle, and I stick by you" or something to that affect. And that sometimes he'll have to do some things that aren't fun, but he will still have to do them.
This is a mobster movie probably from 90's or 2000's. Thanks a lot!
posted by crawltopslow
on Mar 20, 2011 -
4 answers
Help me remember/identify a movie, based on a very small fragment. All I remember is a scene where one of the characters gets so angry at somebody he is talking to on the phone that he starts running and I think the next scene he arrives at where the (I think) tele markets is at and beats the crap out him/her.
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posted by digividal
on Mar 19, 2011 -
5 answers
I am trying to find the name of a movie I watched on TV when I was a young kid back in the 1970s. The film was about a group of people lost in a forest after a blizzard. At one point they find a car and start shouting, "It's the professor!" But when they get to the car the people inside it are frozen to death. I'm pretty sure it was a film for adults that was being broadcast on TV or it could have been made for TV.
posted by cmp4Meta
on Mar 19, 2011 -
7 answers
Movie title filter. I need help remembering a title. In the movie, there's a scene where a group of people moved a grand piano over difficult terrain. Possibly a combination of forest (or jungle) and mountain. It might have been South America or Africa. There might have been missionaries, or a church, in the story, but I'm not sure. There might have been a building made of glass in the jungle, but I may be confusing that with another movie.
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posted by daikon
on Mar 19, 2011 -
10 answers
Identify the 80's movie (could be a TV episode): "Toys" found on the moon by astronauts are brought back to earth and turn out to open alien portals which are discovered to be the true source of unsolved "kidnappings".
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posted by white light
on Mar 14, 2011 -
1 answer
What are some impossible promises I can make for humor's sake? Snake-oil type promises? Late night informercial type promises? Or nice movie-based premises of supremacy?
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posted by arniec
on Mar 10, 2011 -
40 answers
[movie/book filter]: looking for suggestions for movies/books that are similar to amelie, like water for chocolate, antonia's line, a very long engagement.
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posted by anya32
on Mar 4, 2011 -
39 answers
Somewhat older movie, small/tiny/little people who at one point attack a woman in her car; also featured people who "travel through" the bodies of other people. Possibly 80s, maybe 90s, possibly with Meg Ryan-like actress.
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posted by davidmsc
on Mar 3, 2011 -
5 answers
Help me think of the name of a film I'm not clear about because I didn't see it: I think it came out in the 70s or 80s, and contained no dialogue because it was set around the dawn of humanity before speech developed.
posted by strangeguitars
on Feb 28, 2011 -
15 answers
I get the feeling there's a lot of movies that feature an ordinary, plucky, independent single-mom, and her son, and the male hero who enters their life and serves as a father figure of sorts for the son (Terminator 2, Witness, The Day the Earth Stood Still). Are there gender-reversed examples of this, ie, single-father + daughter + heroine? And I'm thinking more of action/adventure type stuff, and not straight dramas.
posted by TheSecretDecoderRing
on Feb 19, 2011 -
22 answers
Movie ID Filter: 2 Scottish Clans make a circle and pit a representative of their respective clans for a duel. One huge guy with a broadsword and one regular size guy with a foil. The foil guy dances around cutting the big guy to ribbons until big guy finally grabs the foil with his off hand and cleaves the other guy in two.
posted by GleepGlop
on Feb 19, 2011 -
8 answers
I vaguely recall a scene from a movie where an apartment building raises and lowers to let people off/on at the ground floor. I'm thinking it was a comedy. Does anyone know what movie this was in?
posted by itchylick
on Feb 18, 2011 -
4 answers
I saw a trailer for a movie, in about 2007-2008(?), that seemed to be shot to look like a 1970s education film/horror movie, and in the trailer it featured men and women running around an abandoned middle school as paranormal events happened, specifically file cabinets and envelopes moving around by themselves... I thought the movie was called "End of the Season" but I can't find any info on it. Can anyone help?
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posted by Enigmark
on Feb 9, 2011 -
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Can you name this movie for me? The film is a romantic drama (or comedy?) where the basic premise was a boy and a girl who were friends and sort of are meant to be together but travel along their own paths for a while until, presumably, the end when they end up happily together.
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posted by christian
on Feb 2, 2011 -
4 answers
Netflix streaming movies - What kind of load should I expect on my service (in gb) for an average movie? I have Comcast and have a pretty healthy limit, but I don't want to start pushing it.
posted by lampshade
on Feb 1, 2011 -
13 answers
Recently, I saw "I Saw the Devil" and "The Man From Nowhere" and I loved both. What are some similar Korean movies with the same level of intensity?
posted by fizzzzzzzzzzzy
on Jan 31, 2011 -
8 answers
Movie filter: Looking for a movie that came on TV (maybe the Disney channel) somewhere around '86. The only thing remembered is that there was a character who wore headphones (wooden?) that had birds on either side (or inside?)and maybe he/she was a cat or cat-like... and maybe a castle in the sky?
posted by MayNicholas
on Jan 28, 2011 -
5 answers
What would the penalty be for
publicly exhibiting a downloaded, pirated copy of a new movie? Not simply in your basement or something, but at an actual movie theater?
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posted by anonymous
on Jan 24, 2011 -
22 answers
Movies where the villain transforms into some super-creature at the end? What are some and what was the first?
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posted by arniec
on Jan 19, 2011 -
39 answers
