I remember watching a movie when I was really young. I have never seen or heard of it again.
I was in a tiny town in Ontario for their SummerFest, likely late 70s, early 80s. I remember the population was about 100, and they had cotton candy and Poutine, and and art show with three quilts, so I'm sure their budget for showing a movie was $1.35.
The movie itself was a bit too complex for my young brain to really process. It's not that it was gory or adult-themed, just that it was a drama aimed for more mature audiences and I don't remember "getting" the story.
I remember a white family going to somewhere with people of color and a landscape that makes me think maybe Africa
I remember the white child befriending a black child. I remember that they were playing with a big tire, one of them got in it and rolled down a hill. It got out of control and the boy in the tire got injured.
So, that's not much to go on. Black kid, white kid, tire, maybe Africa, and I saw it probably around 1980, but who knows how old the movie was when I saw it. I don't recall it feeling "old" at the time.
Aaaannd... GO.
johndej
HalfDork
11/16/19 10:49 a.m.
Forever Young, Forever Free (also titled e'Lollipop)
We can do this in one post, yet we still can't figure out those rod/skewers things.
Appleseed said:
We can do this in one post, yet we still can't figure out those rod/skewers things.
Victorian era sounding rods. Don't look it up.
johndej said:
Forever Young, Forever Free (also titled e'Lollipop)
14 minutes! W T F. Nailed it.
Ok, here are two more that I think I asked about before a few years ago but already forget.
Two short films showed on PBS when I was a kid.
first one: Man dreams about a Tiger killing is wife and wakes up to find that a Tiger had killed his wife
second one: Crazy lady in an attic rips all the wallpaper off.
Go.
^^^^^^^^ Feels like making up ideas to find out if a movie exists
johndej
HalfDork
11/16/19 1:13 p.m.
#2 could be The yellow wallpaper? ... Got a really slow Saturday going on.
Yellow wallpaper (just FFW'd through it on Youtube) is super close to what I remember, but I specifically recall seeing him come upstairs into a very small attic; like a cape-cod type sloped ceiling... but I could be misremembering.
I also recall being stunned when someone told me the title. It was a more common story that I hadn't read. I remember being a little embarrassed not knowing the story.
Grtechguy said:
^^^^^^^^ Feels like making up ideas to find out if a movie exists
Haa... it does. But really. They're real.
If you REALLY want to find an obscure movie... This one has been bothering me for a long, long time.
My grandfather used to watch the weekend movies on a certain local UHF station when I was little. So, this would have been a not-recent movie, in the 1982-1985 timeframe. All I can remember is that it was a dubbed Asian movie (not sure if Japanese, Chinese, Korean, or other), and that there was a car driving very fast on a winding mountain road. There was a camera angle on the fender and you could clearly see the tire sidewall deflecting. There wasa a cut to a scared girl in the passenger seat gripping the driver, and she said "Faster." My grandfather laughed and said "She's scared E36 M3less and she wants him to drive faster!"
johndej
HalfDork
11/17/19 11:03 a.m.
I'll see what I can find. Also, posting this here as I'm bound to forget about it later. Watched this on a plane to Tokyo, was pretty good.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(film)
DrBoost
MegaDork
11/17/19 3:14 p.m.
I was going to go with Coming To America. I wasn't even close!!
