Banner Headline
1)
Some smart person pointed out I should have a banner for The Late Show: The Late Films Blogathon, December 12th-18th. I got carried away and did several. This means we can now have a mini-quiz ~
2)
All of these images are from prominent director’s last movies. Who are the directors are what are the movies?
3)
And which do you think would make the best banner?
4)
I’m quite content to let everybody use whatever banner resonates most powerfully with their particular chakra, if chakra is the word I’m looking for. But if there’s a clear favourite, maybe that one can be the official banner, or something.
5)
On your marks, get set ~
6)
GO!
7)
Nice Christmassy feel to this last one.
shadowplay 
November 24, 2010 at 2:27 pm
I think 2) might be Huston’s The Dead and 5) Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America.
I like 3) with 5) and 7) as runners up.
November 24, 2010 at 2:31 pm
2 – THE DEAD (John Huston)
3 – TESTAMENT D’ORPHEE (Jean Cocteau) – although the face looks like Liz Taylor.
4 – LA PRISONNIERE (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
7 – EYES WIDE SHUT (Stanley Kubrick)
My own personal choice would be 6, because it looks familiar but I have no idea what it is.
November 24, 2010 at 2:37 pm
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November 24, 2010 at 2:41 pm
I saw the bottomest one yesterday. Along with LOLITA and BARRY LYNDON the greatest Kubrick films and Nicole Kidman is terrific as the only female character Kubrick really portrayed well in his films.
Anyway, the 4th one is a Clouzot film LA PRISONNIERE which you dealt with on THE FORGOTTEN once before(I haven’t seen the film but remember the still).
Second to last is the devastating final shot of Sternberg’s ANATAHAN.
Last is of course from the rather boring and trite Viennese-masqued-orgy-set-in-Saracen-themed-interiors of EYES WIDE SHUT.
November 24, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Oh my choice for banner is the ANATAHAN one.
November 24, 2010 at 2:54 pm
# is Vivement Dimanche (that’s Fanny Ardant, people.)
November 24, 2010 at 2:55 pm
3, I mean
November 24, 2010 at 2:57 pm
I;m sure I’ve seen #3, but I can’t remember from what film it is.
November 24, 2010 at 3:02 pm
Maybe 1) is Family Plot ?
November 24, 2010 at 3:19 pm
Specterman, you’re right about The Dead (“Snow is general over Ireland”) and Once Upon a Time in America. I like how you like the banners that you haven’t identified! Mystery is good.
David W, correct on 2, wrong on 3 (you’re not a Truffaut fan, as we know), correct on La Pris and EWS.
Arthur S, correct and correct, and then correct again on Anatahan.
David E, correct on Finally Sunday. Mdean, now you know! And I bet you have seen it.
Spectreman, no it’s not Family Plot. The radio mast looks incidental, but is highly significant… and the movie is quite recent.
November 24, 2010 at 3:26 pm
Yes, I had seen it about 20 years ago. Came back here to post my (correct) guess and David beat me to it.
Still like the #6 banner most.
November 24, 2010 at 3:42 pm
A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION for Number 1!
November 24, 2010 at 3:55 pm
Yay!
So, we have a vote for 3 (and 5 and 7) from Specterman.
A vote each from Arthur, Mark and David W for Anatahan — looks like that’ll be the winner. Blogathon entries can use any of these, but Anatahan becomes the official logo and the Shadowplay banner for that week unless we get a lot more votes for something else.
November 24, 2010 at 5:37 pm
Can I vote for No 2 multiple times until I’m the winner?
November 24, 2010 at 5:44 pm
Ingrid Pitt RIP.
November 24, 2010 at 5:55 pm
Fiona, no. But bribes will be accepted.
The flag is flying at half mast on Castle Dracula.
November 24, 2010 at 9:09 pm
I’d go #2, with 3 and 7 runners-up. Cuz I like the slender ones.
Recognized A Prairie Home Companion immediately… that shot really stuck with me.
Just checking how a blogathon is supposed to work… I’ve gathered a week’s worth of late films. Was I supposed to just choose one? It’s not like I have anything better to do than watch them all.
November 24, 2010 at 10:37 pm
I like !. cuz it looks like home…must be The Town That Dreaded Sundown..
and I like 2…and 5 of course
November 25, 2010 at 10:46 am
Sorry, my vote was for 5 – I read the numbers the wrong way! What is 5 anyway? The one with the weird frescoes?
November 25, 2010 at 11:43 am
That’s the Cony Island ad Robert DeNiro walks through in Once Upon a Time In America. 30 years and one scene later, he re-enters and it’s become a giant psychedelic apple.
November 25, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Brandon — use 2 by all means! For the Shadowplay banner, I’ll have to make 6 slender anyhow…
How it works: write as many posts, about as many films as you like. Send me links, and I’ll publish them here to direct traffic to your fine blog. Those writing blogathon posts should also include links back here — I’ll have a special post for that purpose.
November 25, 2010 at 1:36 pm
My vote goes for nr2!
November 25, 2010 at 2:56 pm
Ah, now the contest is getting tight!
Lovely blog, by the way! (Readers can click on Sabrina’s name to see it.)
November 25, 2010 at 5:14 pm
I do like #2.
November 25, 2010 at 8:44 pm
And number 2 climbs into first place…
November 26, 2010 at 9:16 am
Given that you live in Scotland, those Celtic crosses in a wintry landscape in number 2 would fit the bill quite well.
November 26, 2010 at 9:19 am
Oh, very well! That’s now the official banner, although all the others can and will be used also. People should use their fave for their own posts.
November 26, 2010 at 9:43 am
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December 2, 2010 at 9:15 pm
After much reflection, I think I’ll do Michael Curtiz and The Comancheros. Now to get a copy again…
December 2, 2010 at 10:55 pm
Oh, good one! I love Curtiz’s films through the 30s and 40s, haven’t seen much of his late work, apart from We’re No Angels, which I enjoyed a lot.
December 3, 2010 at 2:24 am
That’s more or less what I know of Curtiz, too; it’s going to be a bit weird to leap forward fifteen years or so from what I’ve seen, but perhaps I’ll get the chance to squeeze in one or two more of his later films before the week in question. I was just watching The Charge of the Light Brigade again – terrible history but great Hollywood fun, and I love the way he uses shadows in some of the interior scenes.
December 3, 2010 at 1:55 pm
I think he loses something in colour, and I get the impression he stiffens up a bit with age, too. But that’s all the more reason to see what can be gotten out of a later work, acknowledging any such flaws but looking past them too.