Filmbrain's Screen Capture Quiz: Round 12, Week 5

"Be Black, Baby!" Though a few late submissions came trickling in last night, I think we've broken the all-time record for fewest correct answers. In retrospect, it was a difficult shot, from a film that isn't all that popular (though it should be.) Brian De Palma's Hi, Mom! (a quasi-sequel to Greetings) is a brilliant pastiche of late 60's counterculture, with pokes at white liberals, black revolutionaries, and the burgeoning porn industry. It's a bit uneven, with sequences that border on comic genius, while others simply fall flat. Penelope Gilliatt summed it up nicely in The New Yorker; "Hi, Mom! is the ersatz form, ruled by the times." Robert De Niro is great as a Vietnam vet looking to make it big in the porn industry, and the Greenwich Village location shots (all around NYU) take me back to my childhood -- a time when Manhattan wasn't the overcrowded mall it's rapidly becoming. The Cinema Sociables double feature that De Niro takes date Judy Bishop (Jennifer Salt) to is at the wonderful Bleecker Street Cinema (R.I.P. - it's now a drug store), one of the finest art houses of its day. I saw my first Godard film there (À bout de souffle) and was there the night a crazy Christian stormed in, hoping to put a halt to a showing of Hail Mary. Those were the days... After last week's head-scratcher, I'll toss out an easy one for the fan boy (or girl) in all of us. Name the film. Submit your answers to this address. Good luck!

Comments

[filmbo]

"This guy"* got it right. And don't forget "Be Black Baby," still one of the greatest moments in De Palma's canon.

(* the two-thumb thing.)

[Peter Nellhaus]

The Bleeker Street Cinema is now a drug store? I did see a bunch of great films there. The last time was in January of 1977 before I left New York for my final time. I saw a double feature of L'Eclisse and Puzzle of a Downfall Child. I also cannot forget seeing /The Wild Bunch there and seeing a couple of guys get into a fist fight over whether or not the violence in the film was funny.