DISMANTLE WHARF

It is neither Flirt nor Amateur!
There are in fact SEVERAL other HH films featuring the dreamy MD, so I guess [mention]jamessumneriii[/mention] the game is yours to “win?”

well even though i haven't seen hal hartley films, i always TRUST the recommendations of my like-minded friends

DING DING DING!!!
Yes, it is TRUST, one of my all-time favorite Hal Hartley films.
Highly recommended for anyone who is having this uncanny time-out-of-time experience right now (I can’t be the only one?)

wait does that mean i go next well it does now k'PLAHHH

hint: it's been my favorite bridge for like 32+ years i.e. it takes place in a state bordering mississippi

K-9 is a 1989 American buddy cop action-comedy film starring James Belushi and Mel Harris.

lmao also a fan of K-9 esp but alas this movie ends more messily

ok I think enough time has passed that I can cheat…my internet sleuthing leads me to guess…The Beyond!

infopetal wrote: ↑Thu Jul 23, 2020 8:28 pm ok I think enough time has passed that I can cheat…my internet sleuthing leads me to guess…The Beyond!

TRUE THAT and sorry to leave that fallow for so long, didn't mean to slow down the game

i love into NOLA on the causeway so much: 23 miles driving like 10-12 feet off the water of lake pontchartrain. it rules

i also have an intense fascination with this stretch of italian gore-hounds making horror movies in the south circa 1978–84: the Beyond in NOLA, Zombi 4 or 5 in the bayou and shreveport, and City of the Living Dead is filmed in Savannah GA with the town standing in for a New England town with a history of witchburning

Pro: Savannah has very old architecture and very old ghost stories
Con: Savannah is maybe the LEAST NEW ENGLAND LOOKING PLACE IN AMERICA

I've always wanted to visit Savannah!

Has anyone been to Saint Augustine, Florida? It has these old Spanish colonial districts that really blew my mind when I visited last year. I always associated "colonial-times America" with the way New England looks, but St. Augustine is the "oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement in the contiguous United States" and there are buildings still standing from the 1700s. The tourist zones are full of all this ticky-tacky colonial stuff (pilgrim hats etc) which feels so weird in the intense heat of Florida. It's not a part of the country whose history I know much about but I'm sure it's gory and horrific in all the usual ways.

Un-gore-related (but Florida-related) we just watched the 1981 erotic noir thriller BODY HEAT last night, which takes place in a small Florida town and makes extensive use of spooky swamp fog and constant humidity. Everyone is sweaty all the time! Highly recommend! Kathleen Turner's DEBUT role and William Hurt in nuclear hunk mustache mode

I've been to St. Augustine! coquina!

I'm from Georgia and spent much of my childhood vacations along the coasts of Florida, Georgia (including Savannah), and South Carolina, particularly Beaufort and the nearby barrier islands, where (relevant to this thread) many films have been shot, i.e. Daughters of the Dust, The Big Chill, Full Metal Jacket, Forrest Gump, etc. my dad collects production stills from movies shot in the area, and we have been known go on family outings to visit filming locations.

only in the past few years did I realize we could take a historical walking tour of Beaufort, which is when I learned of Robert Smalls. I was just going to ask how is there not a movie about his life but then checked and found it is now slated to be with Charles Burnett attached as the director!?

(my film still for the game to come soon!)

ahh, you've got me sorted on great Wikipedia deep dives for the day!

Also I think a very sure indicator of adult maturity is the moment you realize that yes, you would actually LOVE to go on a historical walking tour

[mention]infopetal[/mention] did you ever hit up cumberland island in your georgia days? i did that with some friends like 10 years ago and it was AMAZING

iirc it was a getaway spot for the überrich in the teens and twenties but got abandoned in the great depression. the result are these amazing imploded mansions surrounded by the now wild AFFFF descendants of all the horses the rich folk left behind. wild pigs, hella spanish moss and enormous fuckin spiders. crazzzy

[mention]jamessumneriii[/mention] don't recall making it to cumberland, although possible I did when I was young! Before Times are increasingly blurry.

ok, guess the movie!

Got no idea what this movie is but Cumberland Island is amazing. Oyster tabby homes and roads of oyster shells... a living descendent of the Carnegie family running a truly romantic bed and breakfast. I heard you can volunteer to be the caretaker of an old Carnegie mansion for the summer and you just sweep out the empty and cracked indoor swimming pool.

hint #2

Dunno. Architecturally/texturally, I'm guessing London, late '70s?

I don't know either but I really love these images

Is it BABYLON?!

Just zoomed in on the second pic & saw the speaker!
If it’s not Babylon, I’ll pull a Herzog & eat my shoe.

[mention]astral hellion[/mention] you are correct!! I knew once I posted a pic with a speaker it would be a giveaway to anyone who'd seen it. (and good call [mention]yourfriendclaire[/mention], the movie was filmed in south London and released in 1980 so probably shot at the tail-end of the '70s)

https://youtu.be/t_xhN87G8bk

[mention]astral hellion[/mention]'s turn!

Wow this movie looks amazing!

Just watched Babylon this weekend because of this thread, and wow. Great fucking film. Nothing has changed in 40 years.

Is it on streaming?

[mention]yourfriendclaire[/mention] it's on criterion channel: https://www.criterionchannel.com/babylo ... lon-texted

Thank you [mention]infopetal[/mention]! I probably could've just googled it, huh? <3

why google when you can ask a friend??

this reminds me of artist Dina Kelberman's ongoing project "I'm Google"

https://dinakelberman.tumblr.com/

It's a record of her google image searches, which are based on looking at color and form in everyday objects. It's an artwork in and of itself, a research practice, and a meditation on the massive quantities of image files circulating around us every day. All done manually, though it looks like something algorithmic is involved.

It's reallllly satisfying to scroll through and I'm very excited to teach it in a class this fall.

Sorry for the delay! Glad everyone is getting so stoked on Babylon though, it’s such an incredible piece of film history.
Here’s the next one:

Aw man that's when they go to the beach in Shoplifters
What a good movie

Wow [mention]meadows[/mention] this Dina Kelberman project IS cool. Also I love an artist using Tumblr! Bring back Tumblr!

It is a visual stream of consciousness! Wow, I wanna live in that rubberized dip world. Can I just dip Everything?

Also nice catch, Clag. I forgot that they went to the beach. Love that movie.

[mention]yourfriendclaire[/mention] I think it's still on tumblr because she's been doing the project for something like 9 years! Cool to just preserve that and let it roll on.

Yes, of course it is Shoplifters!
I love this movie so deeply.
[mention]yourfriendclaire[/mention] it’s your mov(ie)!

Okay, here's mine:

IT'S THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING WOMAN!!!

Did I finally get one???

Yes!!!!

One note about the Incredible Shrinking Woman: it’s unfortunately not very good, but it IS the only film scored by the great Suzanne Ciani.

Molly, I don’t know your movie!

Wow, that's cool! I'm going to see if the soundtrack is a thing I can hear, right now!

You might know it. If not, you should. It is a good movie!

Here's another hint:

That must be Tampopo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqA-mP0MhZg

I was just describing the egg scene to someone a few days ago.

Tampopo is right! LOVE this movie. Just so awesomely creepily and yet truly erotic. The old woman in the supermarket poking her finger into all of the soft things is an absolute delight.

Marijke's turn!

I first watched Tampopo the summer between junior and senior year of high school... same summer I first watched this:

Whoa, I don't know what that is and I very much want to.