What is this film?

[Johnny Textface]

I'm pretty sure it was a kind of comedy / western from the 90's.
I seem to remember there being fairly tasty actress in it - but nobody famous.

That's all I got.

[SteveDave]

Is it Ghostbusters 2?

[Kane Jones]

I'm pretty sure it was a kind of comedy / western from the 90's.
I seem to remember there being fairly tasty actress in it - but nobody famous.

That's all I got.

City Slickers?  (Helen Slater)

[Ignatius_S]

I'm pretty sure it was a kind of comedy / western from the 90's.
I seem to remember there being fairly tasty actress in it - but nobody famous.

That's all I got.

But you must have an idea what the country of production, right? There are quite a few films from that period that fit that genre, but a fair amount weren't American.

Also, what's your definition of 'nobody famous'? Does this include character actor of note, but who aren't household name?

[Johnny Textface]

It was definitely american.

And certainly no household names in there.

I feel like it was early 90's - maybe around the time of City Slickers..

Ugh sorry so vague - my memory is shite.

[Stone Cold Jane Austen]

Any of these?

http://www.imdb.com/search/title?genres=comedy,western&release_date=1990,2000&title_type=feature

[Blumf]

Maverick - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110478/
Three Amigos - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092086/ (Martin Short isn't a woman though, but I won't judge)

[Johnny Textface]

Any of these?

http://www.imdb.com/search/title?genres=comedy,western&release_date=1990,2000&title_type=feature

No but thanks :(

Maverick - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110478/
Three Amigos - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092086/ (Martin Short isn't a woman though, but I won't judge)

And certainly no household names in there.

It wasn't a 'big' film in any way.

[Ignatius_S]

Okay, well was it something along the lines of hapless greenhorn becoming a hero?

[Johnny Textface]

Possibly but can't really remember much about it.

ugh i'll never find it!

[SavageHedgehog]

Wagon's East?
Almost Heroes?
Some other tubby comic's last film?

[Catalogue Trousers]

Silverado (Meg Kasdan)?

The Quick & The Dead (Sharon Stone) (not so obviously comedy but pretty knowingly over-the-top)?

[Dead kate moss]

Die Hard?

[surreal]

Cactus Jack

[Jumble Cashback]

The lead character didn't have some kind of sports equipment in place of a head, did they?  If so, I've heard of this one.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Cactus Jack

This also gets my vote.

[Johnny Textface]

No - maybe it was late 80's

[gmoney]

Can someone jog my memory? I'm thinking of a French film (1970s I think) set during the German occupation of France about a teenager who tries joining the resistance, is told to naff off because he's too young, so joins the Nazi police instead. It was banned in France for a while I think. There's a scene where a dead horse is moved. Come on CaB!

[Harpo Speaks]

I think it could be this gmoney:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071733/

Lacombe, Lucien (1974)

A small town in the south-west of France, summer of 1944. Having failed to join the resistance, the 18 year old Lucien Lacombe, whose father is a prisoner in Germany and whose mother dates her employer, works for the German police.

[gmoney]

That's the one! A thousand thank yous.

[Johnny Townmouse]

Nobody is gong to get this I don't think.

It was a very odd film that appeared to have little in the way of a narrative. It seemed to be Scandanavian Norse people from long ago preparing armour and making swords. From what I can remember there was little to no dialogue, just arty shots of them making this stuff, and eating, and then some of them looking into the distance.

The thing is, this film was on during the day, sometime in the afternoon, on xmas eve, xmas day or boxing day (can't remember) in 1987 or 1988. I was young enough to be confused, but old enough and conversant with art films by Derek Jarman to understand the aesthetic. But it was so fucking incongruous - the sort of thing you would see at 2am on Channel 4 in the 80s - during prime TV. Probably BBC2.

[DukeDeMondo]

I'm pretty sure it was a kind of comedy / western from the 90's.
I seem to remember there being fairly tasty actress in it - but nobody famous.

That's all I got.

Was it Even Cowgirls Get The Blues?

Not really a "Western" Western, mind. Also it does have a famous actress in it (Uma Thurman), but I dunno how famous she was then, and certainly I'd forgotten it was her what had the thumbs till I looked it up just now, over the head of this whole thing. I also had no idea Gus Van Sant directed it. Now I do.

If it's a more traditional sort of Western you have in mind, then Rustlers' Rhapsody is the name of the best guess that's in me.

Failing that, maybe Sunset with Bruce Willis, although that's a whole 'nother hatful of heat-stroke altogether, really.

[kaprisky]

Nobody is gong to get this I don't think.

It was a very odd film that appeared to have little in the way of a narrative. It seemed to be Scandanavian Norse people from long ago preparing armour and making swords. From what I can remember there was little to no dialogue, just arty shots of them making this stuff, and eating, and then some of them looking into the distance.

The thing is, this film was on during the day, sometime in the afternoon, on xmas eve, xmas day or boxing day (can't remember) in 1987 or 1988. I was young enough to be confused, but old enough and conversant with art films by Derek Jarman to understand the aesthetic. But it was so fucking incongruous - the sort of thing you would see at 2am on Channel 4 in the 80s - during prime TV. Probably BBC2.

I'll take a pop at this. Is it Powaqqatsi, which had a screening on Christmas Day 1990 on BBC2 at 3.50pm? I'm not sure about the Norse people, but it fits the no dialogue/no plot description. If it had a Philip Glass score then you're laughing.
Unless you can narrow down the year/channel any further.

[monkfromhavana]

Can anyone help with this film?

There's this cook on a boat, but it turns out he's not really a cook. He never seems to do any cooking. There's a big party with tits, and loads of guests who seem to have had a bit too much to drink and so start firing off guns. A bunch of people on the ship decide to play hide 'n' seek and hide in the ships bow.
The cook finds the, lets them out, and they escort the bad guests off the ship.

Anyone?

[checkoutgirl]

I have a film stuck in my head now. It was from the 60s or 70s. In colour. Practically silent and had little or no human characters in it. All it seemed to have was various shots of landscapes in Nevada. Some shots of underground nuclear bunkers. Quite eerie and very strange. Just loads and loads of near silent shots of nuclear bases and deserts and underground lifts and stuff. It might have had a vague anti nuclear message. It was the kind of thing that Channel 4 broadcast in the late 80s/early 90s. It was like an earlier post nuclear version of Baraka.

What the fuck is this film ?

[checkoutgirl]

Can anyone help with this film?

There's this cook on a boat, but it turns out he's not really a cook. He never seems to do any cooking. There's a big party with tits, and loads of guests who seem to have had a bit too much to drink and so start firing off guns. A bunch of people on the ship decide to play hide 'n' seek and hide in the ships bow.
The cook finds the, lets them out, and they escort the bad guests off the ship.

Anyone?

Are you serious ? Was Steven Seagal in this film ? If you're not taking the piss I'd say it sounds like Under Siege. Although there are probably loads of films like the one you describe.

[monkfromhavana]

Ahhhh thanks, i'll check it out. I only caught it on the TV late one night, but I had the sound on mute and my headphones on listening to music, so I wasn't really able to follow the plot.

[Johnny Townmouse]

I'll take a pop at this. Is it Powaqqatsi, which had a screening on Christmas Day 1990 on BBC2 at 3.50pm? I'm not sure about the Norse people, but it fits the no dialogue/no plot description. If it had a Philip Glass score then you're laughing.
Unless you can narrow down the year/channel any further.

I strongly suspect it isn't this, but I'm downloading it to make sure. Thanks, I didn't even think of delving into these odd Coppola produced things. However, I think it is far more likely to be some random Scandinavian thing for kids showing them the lives of Norse warriors minus any dialogue.

[Dirty Boy]

I have a film stuck in my head now. It was from the 60s or 70s. In colour. Practically silent and had little or no human characters in it. All it seemed to have was various shots of landscapes in Nevada. Some shots of underground nuclear bunkers. Quite eerie and very strange. Just loads and loads of near silent shots of nuclear bases and deserts and underground lifts and stuff. It might have had a vague anti nuclear message. It was the kind of thing that Channel 4 broadcast in the late 80s/early 90s. It was like an earlier post nuclear version of Baraka.


What the fuck is this film ?

That sounds an awful lot like Werner Herzog's Fata Morgana

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067085/

[DukeDeMondo]

That sounds an awful lot like Werner Herzog's Fata Morgana

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067085/

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Yep,  second that.