When: 1980
What: Short (< 10 minutes) domestic slice of life, humorous
Where: KERA TV (PBS) (I do not know if this short was specific to Dallas)
Details: used as filler following the broadcast of “The Lathe of Heaven”; I don’t think there was any dialog; a man and a woman interacting; the setting for the action seemed to be very shallow – the actors had to keep sliding infornt of one another; I recall seeing the name of the male actor as being Jeffrey Tambour, but IMDB doesn’t show anything near that time that could be the short I saw, so it may be that I am mixing memories and names.
I was quite taken by this little short, with no dialogue, but I do not recall why. I am also interested to discover who played the female role.
I would love to know the title of this film I have in mind if any one can help.
When: Unknown / Possibly 1970-80’s
Where: unknown / Possibly Foreign
Who: Unknown
Comments: I almost remember it in black and white or technicolor (Not sure though) The film has very strong feeling though it has no dialogue.
Dialogue: No Dialogue
Synapses: Post-Apocalyptic world, (Unsure of the apocalyptic type i.e. nuclear, virus, ect…) two survivors forage for food, (not sure of the plot) through silent kinestetics it seems the two did not know each other before the apocalypse and had never spoken to or seen each others faces as they must wear protective gas/environmental suites. The two come across sad scenarios such as families dead in their homes. At the end of the movie one of the two tares a hole in his suite by accident and it is implied that it is known he has no chance to live any longer, the other of the two then sits down next to him and removes his gas/environmental suit (signifying their is no point to go on if alone) and also they seem to be seeing each other for the first time face to face.
Sorry so vague but I was very young and it was on some random channel on tv one afternoon about 26 years ago.
A.K.A. you might be thinking of an episode of The Twilight Zone. The episode title was Two.
It isn’t quite as you remember - no environmental suits - but similar. Post apocalyptic, two people from different sides foraging for food, mostly silent except for a short speech.
They don’t say there’s no point going on living, they say there’s no point going on fighting.
Thank you for the response, although this episode of the Twilight Zone sounds cool and I think I’ll watch it when I have some free time (it’s one I haven’t seen before) but this is not the film/show I remember.
Still trying to find it…
BBC special about 25 years ago; part videotape, part animation. Fantasy/scifi features a boy with a box with a switch that can make him small, or swift.
American animation about 35 years ago about a pair of birds…one of whom is shot, and…despite it’s mate trying to nurse it back to health…eventually dies.
The ending monologue was something like,
“There were two, now only one. Soon, there will be none.”
I watched it in the early to mid 1980’s, I think it was a mini series but it might have been a movie that I just think was watched over a three day span. Perhaps on HBO, but I’m not sure why I think that. What I do remember:
There is a boy who is sent to live with another family and they live in a mining town and he is sent to work in the mines. There is a cave in and he is trapped with group of people, including a girl. At some point they eat wood to not starve. Later they are rescued and skip forward, the girl is living in like a palace or something and the boy finds her.
It may have been set in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales…or maybe not but that’s what’s in my head.
I’ve asked about this one before: A man and a woman are in a car- I think it was a two seat sports car. There is animosity between them, but in order to get through a roadblock they pretend to be married (I think). As they’re driving away, he mutters “bitch!” to which she replys: “bastard!” This was not a recent movie, and the (relatively) strong language for its time is probably why I remember it.
Another: the bad guy is with a child in some sort of mechanical room with a big spinning wheel. I think they clack the spokes of the wheel with a stick, and tension mounts as it seems the bad guy might throw the child into the machinery.
I’ve been searching for years based on a vague memory from the early '70s…
Some short film I saw on television where a boy is walking carrying a tote bag, and some sort of animated flying monster that looks like a kite with googly eyes (could have been an actual kite with animated eyes) spies the boy, licks its chops, and dives down to attack him.
The boy hits the monster/creature with the bag, and it falls to the ground. Cut to the monster bursting into flames on the ground (which didn’t make much sense to me even as a child).
Is this an actual film? Did I dream the whole thing?
This one I remember being somewhere between the mid 80s and mid 90s. I wasn’t a kid then, but who’s counting? I saw it on HBO, and I don’t remember if it was an HBO original or not. I don’t remember it being movie-length. It had a sort of “Brazil”-like feel to it. You know, all normal-looking, but there’s just an ODDNESS to everything. The part I remember the most was set in a bar that had slot machines. The main character was there and also his sister. The sister was playing the slot machines and asked him for more money. The “money” was actually life time. If you gambled all your life time away, you died. He tried to get her to stop playing, but she wouldn’t. The sister lost all her life time. That’s all I remember about it. I have wondered about the name of it for years. Does anyone have an idea about this one? Those slot machines weren’t the main part of the plot. I remember them as just a side thing, but they have stuck in my memory for a long time.
That’s it! And in just 2 hours - you’re amazing! How did you find it so quickly? I swear I have looked for this thing for a couple of YEARS and no luck.
Easy, I looked at the Wiki entry for In Time, where I found this
*Many of the elements of In Time can be found in the 1987 short film The Price of Life,[16] made by Chanticleer Films. Its basic premise and storyline are so similar that In Time has been called an unacknowledged remake of the earlier film.[17] The Price of Life was a 38-minute short film (story by Stephen Tolkin and Michel Monteaux) in which a time account is physically linked to every infant at birth, with death automatic when the balance drops to zero. *
I have two with which I could use some help: I’m a dedicated bad movie buff, and I could stand to revisit these…
This one seems to happen on the Planet Of The Apes, except there aren’t any apes. We have our tribe of primitive humans who wear rags and goatskins, and live in houses stolen from Gilligan’s Island, which are easily burned when the amazon babes in fur bikinis invade. Our tribesmen call out to their god, who seems to be a kind of luchador, but he’s killed (he was faking it the whole time), and his young apprentice must go and recruit a really badass black Hercules guy and a youngish Kung Fu master to help him come back and chase off the amazons, with flame throwing tanks made of bamboo, and general badassness. Oh, and for some reason, all three seemed really accomplished at jumping UP cliffs, which they seemed to do a lot.
This one was either a TV movie, or a really bizarre wet dream. A group of your standard pretty boy actors crashlands on a jungle island somewhere, and encounters another tribe of amazons in fur bikinis. They don’t like men at first, but warm up when they realize that THESE men aren’t like the headhunters who live on a nearby island who come to kill them occasionally. It’s clinched when the headhunters show up, and are chased off by our heroes’ guns. Wowee! Life is good!
Except the women’s leader, a slightly older woman (who is still ridiculously hot, and works that fur bikini just fine) is not happy. She’s apparently upset that these men creatures will kill them all or usurp her authority or upset the status quo or something.
At one point, we find out that all these ridiculously well coiffed and impeccably made up babes in fur bikinis got here twenty years ago when ANOTHER plane crashed, and the only survivors were a six year old girl and several babies, and the six year old somehow raised a half dozen babies to stunningly seventies supermodel adulthood, in addition to knowing quite a bit about hairdressing and makeup. Seriously, no actual human woman has eyelashes like I remember these amazons having. Miracle that Handsome Dude didn’t impale his face on those eyelashes when he moves in for the woman’s first kiss, really.
Anyway, Older Woman really can’t stand all this change, and begins to plot the murder of these bad men from beyond, and I forget what happens after that.
Please note that I THINK this was a TV movie, the late seventies kind that usually has Christopher George in it. It sure felt like one. On the other hand, I can’t see this flying even on ABC in 1980, when Fred Silverman tried to put nipple bumps on everything on television. It ALSO feels like the sort of dream I might have had when I was fifteen, except that I can’t remember any nudity or sex being in it, and my dreams very seldom had the sort of poofy hair, impeccable makeup, and seventies style costumes that TV movies had during that time. It felt sort of like someone rewrote a porn film and replaced all the actual porn with… well… some rather cardboard plot. Quite a BIT of cardboard plot.
Did I dream this horrible movie, or did someone actually make it?