Film Quotes.....but what's the film???

[Ken Malone]

a guess

The Horse Whisperer?

[Ed Swindell]

nope, a frayed knot.

The clues are reasonably direct and not too cryptic. It's easiest to guess through who's in it and who directed it.

[Ken Malone]

Robot Stories ???

The Safety of Objects??

[Ed Swindell]

Explain your workings...

you remember school, you don't get marks for just the right answer

[Ken Malone]

Not difficult to guess that both are still guesses. Only real correlation is that both comprise a four segment narrative sequence of themed vignettes No idea what Sam Gamgee's favourite animal is (other than Bill the Pony)

[Ed Swindell]

well guesses they may be but one's right. And for sams favourite animal, you need to think of either early in ROTK or late in TTT

[Ken Malone]

right - this is like a cryptic crossword clue.

Well I guess on balance it's more likely to be Rose Troche's Safety of Objects

Elements
- 'Go Fish'
four vignettes
- comatose kid

I still don't get the Gamgee bit though -- Shelob??? nah surely not. I mentioned Bill earlier.

Working in the dark - don't know the film - seems worth watching though

So all in all Dr Watson I deduce The Safety of Objects

[Ed Swindell]

Safety of Objects it was. The clues decoded below:

The stories from homes [The book was written by AM Homes] , four of them [The four families], and features sam gamgees favourite animal [Sam's favourite animal was the oliphant, and the film stars Timothy Olyphant], as well a mother who's very close [Glenn Close plays the Mother] to her comatose son from down the creek [Josh Jackson who plays the comatose son also played pacey in Dawson's Creek] where the director goes fishing [Rose Troche director of safety of objects and the critically acclaimed Go Fish].

Your turn!

[Ken Malone]

very well done. I'm pleased I even got half of it. Better do a sweetie for ya! Keep 'em peeled

[Ken Malone]

Director A, assisted by Directors B and C, cast Director D - who 'wanted to be an ordinary parish priest' in the role of a man of Brabant.

Name the directors and the film which unites them all

[Andrew Milne]

Thought I'd got this cracked. The film would be Yume based on –
Director D – Martin Scorsese – Line from The Last Temptation of Christ and he played Vincent Van Gogh in Yume who was born near Brabant.
Director A - Akira Kurosawa
Director B - Ishirô Honda
Struggling for director C though!

Also Known As:
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
Dreams
I Saw a Dream Like This
Konna yume wo mita
Such Dreams I Have Dreamed (Japan: English title)

[Ken Malone]

Well done Andrew



Same as me - right film but not quite right in deconstruction.

Director B is George Lucas
Director C is Stephen Speilberg
(they both collaborated with Akira on this strange and beautiful movie).

Anyone who hasn't seen it is due a real visual treat - a bit self indulgent but if Kurosawa couldn't be self indulgent who the heck could?

Your go Andrew

[Andrew Milne]

I thought you might say that lol

I'll give it a go but apologies if it's rubbish!

[Andrew Milne]

OK well here goes! Film and director

It was a high point for the director when it was soundless on the street in a funny newer facade

Much easier to guess than to create a good one!

[Ken Malone]

I have absolutely no idea where to even start with this one!!!

[Andrew Milne]

Yes but is that your fault or mine!

[Ken Malone]

fault??????

[Andrew Milne]

Probably down to my clue being not so good I feel

[Ken Malone]

Do you want to give a bit more info...clues?

[Andrew Milne]

Here's a couple of extra clues.

It’s characters include a Slater, a Trotter and a rice pudding.

Its 1980 remake saw a cast member who was in The Mob. Another used to live in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia with his very large family.