Dimension X

Los Cronocrimenes (Timecrimes)

MrSmearkase

Indeed, well done!

JOE29

How can I make these movie screen shots so that I can participate ?

Dr Mabuse

Google VLC, download it.

Watch a DVD/Blu and hit 'shift+s' keys on keyboards to capture a frame.

Upload it to Photobucket, Imageshack, etc.

Post the link here.

Norm de Plume

If your computer has a DVD drive, download VLC Player (free). The program has a "snapshot" feature that one can set to appear on the main toolbar, which makes it especially easy to just click away as one is watching a movie. Play the movie and take snapshots. Upload those shots to a photo storage website (Imageshack and Photobucket are both excellent).
When ready to post a movie, cut-and-paste a screenshot's url to this thread between [url ][/url] tags.

Dimension X

I watched it during the Sci-Fi Challenge back in July. It makes the game a whole lot easier if you've seen the movie recently.

My first shot.

Luther Heggs

Le Magnifique?

Norm de Plume

That's a keen guess, because that does look like Belmondo standing there.

Dimension X

Nope. But you have the right decade.
The author character in this film can be seen in that shot.

Here's a shot of that character at work.

Norm de Plume

Wow, I was sure he was right, though Belmondo's hair colour is lighter than that of the man standing with his back turned. (Rubs hands together) Back to work.

Norm de Plume

To the Devil, a Daughter (1976)?

Dimension X

Well, that didn't take long. Good job.



Richard Widmark is in both of the shots I posted.

Norm de Plume

Great, thanks. I didn't have the foggiest until I put two-and-two together with the author and occult aspects, thanks to an assist from a handy little movie website called IDBM or something.

I'll have something up soon.

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I'll have to be especially vague to not tip folks off to this indelible classic, probably the most well-known movie I have personally posted. Any single image could trigger an "aha" moment.

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obscurelabel

1900????

Norm de Plume

No, but this film shares two cardinal features with that one. Edited to add: Somewhat oddly, 1900 is listed under this film's "recommendations" at IMDb.

Luther Heggs

Angela's Ashes?

Norm de Plume

No. Obscurelabia had the right decade and his guess was much closer in some ways. I'm not in a position right now to add more shots, but I will later when I get home.

This was the first "composer" credit for the man who did the film's score. He is one of my favourite film composers, and his score for this film is one of the very best in this film's "genre" (not that those subjective comments will provide much help, I imagine). I put genre in quotations because the film doesn't really belong to one genre.

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This movie was the following actor's final one. It had been over thirty years since his previous acting role. He had only 16 credits in his career, but several of them were in fairly prominent films. The actor's own house is actually used in the key opening scenes of the film.



This shot is part of a famous (some would say "infamous") montage-like sequence:

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These caps really should ring a bell or two. I'd be surprised if this movie hasn't been seen by upwards of 75% of the people viewing this thread.

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Perkinsun Dzees

Don't Look Now

Luther Heggs

Dammit, I've been taking dumbass pills.