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May 30, 2010 by wondersinthedark

From Mr Lyre: “Look, a black cat!”

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on May 30, 2010 at 3:33 pm | Reply MovieMan0283

Ok, I have a guess. However, since I’m going right off the bat and since I won’t have the chance to put up another picture until at least tonight (as I’ll be out of the house all day) I have a request for Mr Lyre: if my guess is correct, don’t indicate it right away, and let people throw a few more out there in the interim.

That said, it’s a hunch only, as I haven’t seen the film for a while. Is this “Paris Belongs to Us”? Whatever, the source I really like this image.
on May 30, 2010 at 3:37 pm | Reply MovieMan0283

Actually, I don’t think it’s the right aspect ratio though I can’t find the tech specs on IMDb.
on May 30, 2010 at 3:38 pm | Reply MovieMan0283

And since no one else has said it here, let me be the first:

R.I.P. Hopper…
- on May 30, 2010 at 5:22 pm | Reply Mr Lyre
  
  I’ll start off by throwing in a vague hint: A Japanese remake is soon to come…
  
  We will all miss you Mr. Hopper.
  R.I.P. Hopper
  - on May 30, 2010 at 5:32 pm Bob Clark
    
    “Ghost”, perhaps? I read there’s a Japanese remake of that in the pipeline. Then again, that movie isn’t in black & white, unless that’s from a brief flash or something. There IS a cat in the movie, I recall.
    
    Seriously, though, I have no frakin’ clue.
on May 30, 2010 at 3:51 pm | Reply Sam Juliano

Aye Joel, I’ve been making my rounds at other sites expressing my condolences. We have lost a screen icon for sure, and his Frank Booth has become part of the culture. I was preparing to make mention of this sad event on the Tuesday Morning Diary.

R.I.P.
on May 30, 2010 at 3:57 pm | Reply Just Another Film Buff

I’d work on the lines of East European cinema, Czech/Slavic…
on May 30, 2010 at 4:40 pm | Reply wondersinthedark

The most important clue here is the frame. It’s 1.66 and, furthermore, though the buildings look French, I think it’s an American film, I’d say from the 1950s from the style of back-projection behind. Not sure what, but I’d go in that direction. There were very few 1.66 films made outside of the US or UK in the 1950s, it was either 1.33, 1,78 or 2.35.
- on May 30, 2010 at 5:06 pm | Reply Sam Juliano
  
  Quite an excellent deduction here Allan…….
- on May 30, 2010 at 5:27 pm | Reply Mr Lyre
  
  Wow, you got a sharp eye! But no go…
on May 31, 2010 at 1:17 am | Reply Samuel

Elevator to the Gallows
Director: Louis Malle
Cast: Jeanne Moreau

I love this film!
on May 31, 2010 at 1:36 am | Reply MovieMan0283

Elevator to the Gallows?
- on May 31, 2010 at 4:38 am | Reply Mr. Lyre
  
  CORRECT!
  How did you figure though?
  - on May 31, 2010 at 7:10 pm Samuel
    
    Louis Malle is one of my favorite directors. When this was re-released by Criterion, it was shown in an indie film fest near me. It was the first time seeing it. I as stunned. It is one of my fvorite films. I knew what it was right away. It is so odd, yet charming to see the car during that scene. No one does it like Louis Malle.
  - on May 31, 2010 at 11:12 pm MovieMan0283
    
    Ah yes! Now I can redeem myself for the shot-down-in-one-guess Sleepy Hollow pick!
    
    Elevator in the Gallows was actually one of the first films that occurred to me – with the Paris Belongs to Us, I definitely saw the background as Parisian and something about the image quality, the light and composition just shouted “late 50s, early 60s”. I couldn’t put my finger on why exactly. I also vaguely remembered some sort of black cat in the film. When Allan & you mentioned 1.66 I went to IMDb and searched the tech specs for this film and, sure enough, it was in that aspect ratio.
    
    I really liked this film, btw, though it seems to get knocked a lot. Yes, it is fundamentally a clever film, but it’s so alive with invention and atmosphere. I like Malle a lot though my favorite films of his tend to be the documentaries (that said, I have not seen many of his early New Wave flicks, like the ones that Criterion released a few years back – Fire Within, The Lovers, etc.)
  - on May 31, 2010 at 11:21 pm MovieMan0283
    
    Oops – 19 minutes too late! Sorry for the confusion…
on May 31, 2010 at 2:52 pm | Reply Sam Juliano

I just went into wordpress, to clear the comments in moderation.

It’s clear that both Samuel Wilson and Movie Man got this right, but Samuel came in with the answer 19 minutes earlier, as all can see.

So Samuel, if you’d be so kind, please send on your own screen cap to Joel at movieman0283@gmail.com. Congratulations.

And thanks so much to you “Mr. Lyre”.
- on May 31, 2010 at 11:18 pm | Reply MovieMan0283
  
  Damn: how the hell did I miss that?! Oh well, maybe next time.
- on May 31, 2010 at 11:19 pm | Reply MovieMan0283
  
  Btw, it is not Samuel Wilson but another Samuel. A lot of Sam’s around this joint (play it again…)
on May 31, 2010 at 3:25 pm | Reply David H. Schleicher

Wow – I immediately thought this was the Malle film when it first went up… but it was oh so late and I was oh so tired and I for the life of me couldn’t think of the title…and I thought, no way…I’m never right on these things so why even bother looking it up on IMDB…

—but what’s this about a remake being planned?

That can’t be good!
- on May 31, 2010 at 4:52 pm | Reply Mr. Lyre
  
  There’s a Japanese remake coming this October. The trailer looks a bit over dramatic, and there’s no Miles Davis score!
  
  I fear for the worse…
on June 8, 2010 at 6:18 pm | Reply Samuel

I love Louis Malle. The Fire Within, The Lovers, Damage, everything he does is amazing. I just emailed the new “Guess that Pic” to the person in charge. It should be up soon!