"Identify A Movie For Me!" Thread: Part 3D

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UNRULY_HOUSEGUEST: Jul 19, 2006; mea culpa

Apologies in advance that this is a fragment of a memory of a film, but something where someone is being observed/tracked by a chain smoker and the protagonist sees a shitload of cigarette stubs in one spot (hallway? street corner?) to indicate they've been there all night?

edit: I want to say that this was in a neo-noirish dark comedy but I really can't remember anything about the plot or setting. I'm dreading it being something I was huge on and have somehow forgotten.

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 21:19

UNRULY_HOUSEGUEST: Jul 19, 2006; mea culpa

A MIRACLE posted:

maybe... what I'm actually remembering is the making of clip, so its a bit more complicated because I haven't seen the actual movie lol. I remember the architecture being distinctly mediterranean and it being daylight and outside

that's a really cool sequence though

I could be way off, but perhaps I Am Cuba? The architecture could read as Mediterranean and there's a couple of acclaimed building-scaling shots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOLVm_9UcRw&t=171s - opening scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCdahJlwTG0 - funeral tracking

# ¿ Apr 1, 2021 22:28

UNRULY_HOUSEGUEST: Jul 19, 2006; mea culpa

The Demilich posted:

This is going to be a weird one.
When I was a tiny Demilich in the early 90's, I remember seeing a horrific scene on my grandpa's television.

The scene took place in a hospital, with two people side by side in the room each laying in their respective hospital beds. The camera zooms in on one of the individuals whose mouth opens and this kind of long/gross creature slowly crawls out of the person's mouth. This long creature then reaches across the gap between the beds with its body, and then crawls up and enters the other patients mouth and continues on down the person's throat until it was fully inside the patient.

Anyone have any guesses what this might be from?

This thing definitely happens in a scene in The Hidden from 1987 (good film that's otherwise more fun than horrific) - not sure it matches shot for shot, but that could just be how childhood memory works

# ¿ Mar 1, 2022 12:25

UNRULY_HOUSEGUEST: Jul 19, 2006; mea culpa

Gertrude Perkins posted:

Can someone help me find a documentary? Watched it about 8-9 years ago in media studies undergrad. Made in the late 00s I think. Called Mediocracy or Media-ocracy or something like that. It's (at least partially) about the Italian news and entertainment media, Silvio Berlusconi, and Italian attitudes toward gender roles. There was a recurring motif of gloved hands shuffling playing cards with media logos on them, I think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videocracy_(film)

# ¿ Sep 27, 2022 00:33

UNRULY_HOUSEGUEST: Jul 19, 2006; mea culpa

trevorreznik posted:

I'm vaguely recalling a movie from the 60s-70s where a spy is on the run from his own government, and at some point has to go to a physical telephone interchange building and is rewiring the physical wires to eavesdrop/sabotage/do something else.

I thought it was Three Days of the Condor, but it isn't. Any ideas?

I don't like to second guess but are you 100% sure it's not Three Days of the Condor? Because there absolutely is a scene like you're describing in it:

# ¿ Dec 18, 2023 21:05

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