Filmbrain's Screen Capture Quiz: Round 14, Week 5

I guess Walter Huston and Ruth Chatterton aren't as recognizable as I thought. The number one guess last week was F.W. Murnau's Sunrise, which makes sense as it certainly is about a troubled marriage. However, this shot comes from William Wyler's outstanding Dodsworth, a film I had been meaning to revisit ever since reading the Self-Styled Siren's review back in 2006. Watching it again (after many, many years), I'm convinced it's one of Wyler's best, with a remarkably sophisticated, complex screenplay that beautifully avoids demonizing Chatterton as the cuckolding wife. With screenwriters on strike, perhaps they should use some of their down time and learn some lessons from the past. I saw Southland Tales today, the Richard Kelly film that's been stuck in limbo since its debut at the 2006 Cannes film festival. I honestly don't know what to think about it. It's been on my mind all day, which I guess is a good thing, but I'm going to need a bit longer to digest it all. One outcome of the screening is that I've had Blur's Tender on repeat for most of the night. (I had forgotten what a damn great song that is!) After last week's stumper, I decided to go easy this time around. Failure to get this one will have me questioning your commitment to the weekly screen capture quiz. Name the film. Submit your answers to this address. Good luck!

Comments

[Karina]

I feel much the same about SOUTHLAND. I think I was laughing *at* it while I was watching it, but now I have this urge to talk about it constantly. If nothing else, that line about pimps and suicide is the new, "I'm a fiend for mojitos."

[David Lowery]

I didn't know anyone else appreciated "I'm a fiend for mojitos!"

And Tender is the best Blur song ever. That's one point in favor of seeing Southland Tales (not that I won't see it -- I'm just not really looking forward to it).

[tully]

"I'm a fiend for mojitos" might very well be my favorite worst line of the decade, though the weird guy screaming, "I'm a mack daddy pimp!" in RUNNING SCARED is also up there. In all honestly, I don't think a week goes by when i don't reference Bozo Farrell's delivery of that glorious line.

[Glenn Kenny]

"Dodsworth" is a one-film refutation of Andrew Sarris' underrating of Wyler. But that "pimp" line in "Southland Tales" is very sad. To pick up a thread from Kevin Smith's "Clerks II," just who is Richard Kelly, um, reclaiming the term "pimp" for?