Luther Heggs

I'll take it. I've been thinking about this movie ever since a strange and contentious thread in Music Talk. It is one of my favorites(the movie, not the thread).

Luther Heggs

Norm de Plume

Equus?

Luther Heggs

No, but this is a literary adaptation of sorts and there are thematic similarities between the two movies. These first shots have been somewhat misleading; they don't reflect the look of the film as a whole.



This film is most often associated with a particular striking image and I've tried to avoid that image in my shots.

Cosmic Bus

I've been trying to track down a clue of some sort based on that music forum comment you made, but have had no luck. My search went off on a weird Jack Palance tangent based on a post you made, and I managed to stop myself from randomly guessing that it was one of the Gor movies.

Luther Heggs

Mentioning the Music Talk thread may have been more cryptic than I had intended, but it is what made me pop in this movie again. Let's just say there is a recording artist that is on record as being a fan of this movie. In fact, the artist is mentioned on the cover of the DVD as having "championed" the movie on its North American release. Here's a more representative shot:



Two of the people in this movie play dual roles - one of them went unnoticed by me for years, even though the evidence was right there in the credits.

Luther Heggs

The first three shots are from a movie watched by our main character. Here is one of the dual roles:

Dimension X

Amarcord?

Luther Heggs

Nope. There was an unrelated recent movie with the same English title as this one. There are also a number of songs and albums with the same title.



This movie is told in three sections over thirty years.
EDIT: Oops, that should be twenty years.

Luther Heggs

This scene never fails to get to me.



I'll be out for a bit, so the third letter of first six cast members listed at IMDB gives us the code SECNIR.

starman9000

Sleepers?


No looks like that doesn't fit

obscurelabel

Sunshine (1999)? That fits a number of Luther's clues, but I have to confess I've never heard of the movie.

Whoops - forgot the letter check - that isn't it either.

Luther Heggs

Only the last third (and some aspects of the middle third) of the film is truly an adaptation, taken from a short story by a widely shoplifted author. This third of the movie was originally produced as a short, called "Foggy Night," which is not the name of the short story it was taken from. When this movie was initially released in the late '80s, it was given an English title more suggestive of said author's work.
Here again is one of the dual roles:

vasb

Crazy Love

Luther Heggs

Yes. On first viewing, I was white-knuckling the seat in front of me, hiding my eyes like George C. Scott in Hardcore. This movie still fucks me up to this day. On occasion, I have found it too painful to watch.

Norm de Plume

Oh, I have that on an old bootleg video, but haven't watched it in years. I remember the middle episode being by far the best.

vasb

vasb

Will be gone for a few hours - here are 2 more quick shots.





Made in the 90s.


For a check:
6.3 (criminally low) on imdb
6 trivia points

William Fuld

Your Friends & Neighbors

William Fuld

wildcard

kstublen

I'll take it...

chris_sc77

Funny Games?

kstublen

Yeah. But damn, that one didn't last too long.

chris_sc77

chris_sc77

Shot #2