Surprised no one answered Night of the Hunter.

Merry go round (1956)- political romance movie from Hungary about a woman who falls in love with a cooperative worker even though her father is a landowner/ former petit boug from the prewar days and is on bad terms with the cooperative because they won’t give him back all his prewar farm land. The ...

Yukio Mishima in Patriotism

Fedya wrote: ↑May 2nd, 2024, 5:50 pm Your 1999 selections aren't pretentious arthouse films.

Ghost Dog certainly isn’t pretentious nor arthouse. If you want obscure pics mine would be even worse. I’d have the ‘99 film of Hyppolit on there. It is quickly becoming my favorite story.

Wreckmeister Harmonies

Next: musical mixed with a genre dissident in tone

KayFrancis wrote: ↑May 3rd, 2024, 12:04 am Double Indemnity

Next : scene in a dr's office

WC fields the Dentist

Next: scene in hot air balloon

Destroy All Monsters is terrible.

Not so fun fact: it is the lowest rated movie in the Criterion collection both on IMDB and on Letterboxd.

j.lunatic wrote: ↑May 2nd, 2024, 5:29 am

Masha wrote: ↑May 1st, 2024, 11:20 pm Next: favorite John Wayne movie that is neither a Western nor a war picture.

Baby Face

Next: A movie you wish more people here would talk about.

Hyppolit the Butler (1931)

I have tried shilling this movie a lot. It is like Hungarian Ernst Lubitsch.

Next: set in Spain

Nanook of the North

Next: film involves cannibals

King of Hearts with Sir Alan Bates (only British born in a cast of Italians and Frenchmen playing Britishers)

Next: supernatural themed movie

Fall of the House of Usher (1928)

Next: set on the moon but not a sci fi movie

ziggy6708a wrote: ↑April 28th, 2024, 10:05 pm maybe Leslie Caron
(had to work the hardest)

next: a lousy doctor

Thomas Mitchell as Doc Boone (best work you done even if you was drunk. -professional compliments always help)

Next: didn’t survive the advent of the talkie

I feel the same way, Mr 6. I saw the plot synopsis to both on the tv and they sound like crass smut. I might catch them but doubt I will like them that much.

Even though I never got a long with the guy one of my favorite "Jarrod MacDonald" threads from the "old forum" was one where he had stuff like this - modern interpretations of older movies and songs from them. He had stuff like Putting on the Ritz in the thread but this is what I...